10 TV Shows We Wish Got Another Season

It happens every year: Several TV series get unceremoniously cancelled before the creators can give us a proper conclusion. Some of these shows end after just one season, while others manage to go several seasons before being yanked off the air.

Below, we list 10 shows whose early departure stung us particularly hard. We felt we'd limit the list to 10 because... frankly, we could go on and on.

Please note that we decided not to include shows we feel, in retrospect, got a proper ending (how awesome is the Angel series finale?). Also, in some cases, we made close calls on shows that either didn't feel as strong when they ended as they did initially (we still love you, Veronica Mars) or that got a decent run and the opportunity to have a true final episode. To get one of the biggies out of the way, which we debated quite a bit in the office, we feel that Arrested Development is kind of perfect with its three wonderful seasons… though we're sure some will disagree and wanted more Bluth adventures.

This one is still so… vexing. Deadwood was a prestigious HBO series from an acclaimed creator, with a wonderful cast, firing on all cylinders. That being the case, it was baffling when word came down that the show wouldn't be back after Season 3. The "how" and "why" is a bit confusing – apparently HBO asked creator David Milch to do a shortened fourth and final season and he basically said no to those terms. As a result, the show just came to an abrupt end.

We were initially told there would be two TV movies to wrap up the story, but that never came to be. We're left with three wonderful seasons, but a tremendous and painful lack of closure on it all.

The success executive producers Judd Apatow and Paul Feig and their cast – including folks like James Franco, Seth Rogen, Busy Philipps and Jason Segal – have had since Freaks and Geeks ended, often working together again, certainly is a reminder of just how much talent NBC had bottled within one show.

That doesn't make it any less sad that we only got one season… but what an amazing season it was, so perfectly capturing the humor and angst of a group of high school kids in 1980. But how great would it have been to have gotten to follow Sam (John Francis Daley), Lindsay (Linda Cardellini) and their friends as they continued to navigate the hallways of McKinley?

Look, Terriers is still a sore subject around the IGN banana stand. The wound is still fresh. The whistley-theme song still echoes through our corridors. And while we understand the numbers behind FX's decision to cancel the show, this was one of the only seasons of TV to ever get a "10" rating from us! [Click Here to read our review!]

Now it's not like the show didn't get an ending. The main mystery of the season got wrapped up for the most part, and both Hank and Brit were left pondering the next steps of their lives. But while we would have loved to see these guys crack another case or two (and take on Neal McDonough's Ford in a bigger way), the main thing that we really didn't want to let go of were the characters themselves. We could have watched these guys eat breakfast and then sit in the car for an hour. The TV-verse still mourns the loss of these two charmingly deviant San Diego sleuths.

There's no doubt this was a tough sell for a mainstream, network audience. Pushing Daisies practically screamed "quirky," "odd" and "cult-ready" from the moment it debuted. But damn if it wasn't great in the process.

A pie-maker who can bring the dead back to life with his touch and the re-animated woman he loves, who will die (permanently this time!) if he touches her again… how could we not be charmed? The story is meant to continue in comic books, which is cool, but we miss seeing the great chemistry between Ned (Lee Pace) and Chuck (Anna Friel) and the awesome supporting cast, including Chi McBride and Kristin Chenoweth.

While it's true that Season 2 of Conchords wasn't as wry and charming as the first, it was still a hell of a good time. At least we can all take simple solace in the fact that both Bret and Jemaine chose to end the show on their own terms. Even if those terms were that it was much harder making Season 2 because they didn't use pre-existing songs like they did for Season 1 and had to write all new ones. And that Season 3 would have been just as challenging and time-consuming.

We miss the poverty-based folk musical comedy of Bret and Jemaine trying to make ends meet in New York's Lower East Side, but it may be even harder to accept that we'd never see Rhys Darby's Murray again. We've definitely got hurt feelings over this.

Continue on for Browncoats, Terminators and a damn fine cup of coffee on Page 2.