To many, Freaks and Geeks is right up there with Firefly in topping the annals of shows that were ended before their time. Joe Flaherty for the win. Comic book TV shows are all the rage now, although most of them are of the superhero variety. NBC should get the tiniest bit of credit for going out of their comfort zone to bring the world the weird and often horrific adventures of occult expert John Constantine. But they could have, you know, actually been proud of it and given it something better than a Friday night timeslot.
The show was a victim of relatively low ratings for its Sunday night timeslot, and the second season only exists because most people still involved agreed to make it for less money. Back in the early s, no one in their right mind could have expected that the sci-fi ensemble drama Star Trek would end up becoming one of the most popular fictional franchises in history, spawning movies, TV spinoffs, video games, toys and just about everything else that can be marketed.
Back then, it was just a low-rated series that drew mixed reviews from the general public, although the core Trekkie fanbase was there from the start. Just not as vocal. And so NBC shuffled its schedule around before eventually pulling the plug after Season 3.
And the rest, as they say, is a history where people have trashed NBC for making such a stupid decision. Rare is the TV series that is imaginative, weird and smart enough for adults while basically aimed at children.
It was funny, it was creepy and it developed a huge following later that NBC would have loved at the time. And it was probably going to be someone famous. Attempts were made to bring the show elsewhere, but they fell through, and we remain clueless. In this case, that seems to be none of 'em, as a month later all four of these shows have now been axed by the Peacock network. Manifest in particular was a popular program for NBC and had a second shelf life on streaming, which is why some reports indicated it might ultimately be saved from the cancellation axe.
However, talks broke down and so far that hasn't happened --though it is worth pointing out that a slew of fans and even Manifest 's EP is on the "Save Manifest" train. In its case there have also been petitions and more to save the series and it very nearly went to Peacock before efforts seemingly fizzled out.
NBC's new sci-fi series Debris was somewhat less buzzy than the other two shows, but was relatively new during the Upfronts and was seemingly given time to grow before a decision was made. Which brings us back to Good Girls. To me, the most interesting thing about the Good Girls cancellation was that the show was seemingly going to be saved in an alleged move to Netflix before that "imploded," per a THR report. Netflix has previously renewed network and cable shows like Lucifer or Longmire , but those moves seem to be rarer by the streamer now that it is pushing original content out on the regular.
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Bring back Manifest or at the very least make a movie to wrap up the show. Who cares about that. We can just watch American Ninja Warrior or Wipeout.
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