Odyssey 5 (2002)
… five space travelers … witness the destruction of the Earth; they are given the opportunity to travel to the past to identify and prevent the cataclysm.
Rubicon (2010)
… an innocent character is caught up in, and slowly unravels, a major conspiracy.
Fantastic picture quality (for me, a hi-fi geek with a JVC projector). I forget to follow the plot while admiring the cinematography.
It might not exactly fit the bill here, but ‘cancelled after one season’ is the closest example I can think of: Earth 2 (1994)
If I remember correctly (it was over 30 years ago), the last episode ended on a cliffhanger too!
Glitch
A show my partner finished production on that apparently the producers decided was “too sad” for their brand. It’s the first time either of us has been on a show that finished production (at least shooting side) and never made it. Few times we’ve started on a show and 3 weeks into prep it gets cancelled before the camera showed up.
It still might get shopped around or whatever, I don’t know how these things happen.
We got the wrong fucking murder-bot show.
Where’s The Shrike, Bradley?
One Strange Rock
Monsters of God, Set in Texas in 1867, during the Comanche Wars, the project follows two powerful ex-cavalry men, a war-hungry Colonel, and his seemingly by-the-book executive officer.
Oh that sounds good
It was a historical fiction. Basically the people living there had made peace with the natives, and things were good. Then this colonel showed up and started a war with the natives.
There was a TV adaptation of The Secret World (MMORPG) planned but there has been no news on it for ages so I guess it has been shelved or dropped.
That and Defiance were trying to capitalize on this short-lived trend of cross-media projects. They failed because along the way of trying to make both a show and an MMO at the same time, they forgot to make either of them good.
Its been a while so I could be misremembering, but it seemed like they stopped the show Defiance in favor of the game. Like I think the game came out during or right before the last season.
The Secret World was a great game. Maybe not a great MMO, but for small groups it’s one of the best ever made.
The show wasn’t terrible, from memory.
Ok it didn’t actually look good, but the web series for The 7th Guest… I’m just obsessed with all things T7G lol. Anyways here’s the trailer, have a laugh
I don’t know, it looks pretty interesting. Certainly not worse than series like Are You Afraid of the Dark, which I loved as a kid.
This question had me looking up shows I remember hearing about, only to find they had a full season and then were cancelled. Probably because I didn’t watch.
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I think they’ve tried to adapt the Mistborn trilogy (by Brandon Sanderson) a couple times but it never got off the ground.
There was a show in, probably, 1997 called “Ask Harriet”. It was basically “Tootsie” the TV series. I think only 8 episodes were produced and only 4 actually aired.
The show was pretty terrible, but Ed Asner was at the top of his game in it, so that was basically the hook for me.
As controversial as it would’ve been, I was interested in that alt-history “Confederacy” that was being looked at by D&D
Or the Metropolis reimagining planned on Apple TV.
