Every year, dozens of TV series are canceled to make room for new shows in the fall. It's a fact of life in the world of television. Not every series is a hit and some of them never even take off at all.
While we've all got our favorite shows that were taken away too soon, there are also shows that deserved to die. For a variety of reasons, these are the television series that either let us down or they were so horrendously awful that cancellation was the least they deserved. That or burning in a fire...
So here are our top ten shows we won't miss next fall.
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HUMAN TARGET
Fox has only themselves to blame for this one.
Although the first season of "Human Target" wasn't perfect, the series had a good dynamic between the star, Mark Valley as Christopher Chance and his allies, Winston (Chi McBride) and Guerrero (Jackie Earle Haley). It wasn't "24," but it was a fun show.
Then the dark days of the second season came and the network attempted to fix a series that wasn't broken. First, they added Indira Varma as Ilsa Pucci, who became Chance's new boss and his potential love interest. On the face of it, that could have worked. But Varma's inept performance and the horrible writing for her character made Pucci's scenes almost unbearable to watch. Janet Montgomery fared a little bit better as Ames, the new thief on the team. But the writers quickly showed us that couldn't give her any compelling character beats either. In fact, their "proudest" moment for Ames seems to have been when they wrote an excuse for her to strip down to her underwear and navigate some air ducts.
The entire tone of the show also shifted into much softer territory, as it actually seemed to avoid depicting Chance as the ass-kicking hero that got our attention in the first place. Not to mention the way that the theme song was needlessly replaced for a remarkably bland piece of music. And to top it all off, Fox dumped most of the episodes in December and January on different days and never allowed the series a real chance to find an audience.
Fox couldn't have killed this show more effectively if it had put an actual hit on the series.
