Series, you wished had lived longer

For those of you saying Firefly and Buffy/Angel Joss Whedon the creator of them has a new series starting in America at the start of 09 called Dollhouse. It stars Eliza Dushku (Faith from the Buffy series) so will be worth watching for that alone.

In Dollhouse, Dushku plays a young woman named Echo, a member of a group of people known as "Actives" or "Dolls" who volunteered for the work in the Dollhouse. They give up five years of their lives, and at the end they receive a large sum of money and no memory of anything they did for the Dollhouse. The Dolls have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas, including memory, muscle memory, skills, and language, for different assignments. They're then hired out for particular jobs, crimes, fantasies, and occasional good deeds. On missions, Actives are monitored internally (and remotely) by Handlers. In between tasks, they are mind-wiped into a child-like state and live in a futuristic dormitory/laboratory, a hidden facility nicknamed "The Dollhouse". The story follows Echo, who begins, in her mind-wiped state, to become self-aware.

Beyond Dushku's character, the show will also revolve around the people who run the mysterious "Dollhouse" and two other "Dolls", Victor and Sierra, who are friendly with Echo. Although the Actives are ostensibly volunteers, the operation is highly illegal and under constant threat from Paul Smith, a determined federal agent who has heard a rumor about the dolls on one end and an insane rogue Active on the other.
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A plot summary and a trailer damn i'm helpful.
 
Fawlty Towers and Blackadder could have gone another season each if the material was up to scratch. Other than that nothing mentioned in this thread were either rubbish or at the very least didn't finish before their time.

I quite enjoyed Jericho but the way the studio fecked around with it it was apparently dead in the water by the time they killed it.
 
101 said:
Should have done more Blackadder series if they could. Series 2 and 4 were absolutely hilarious.
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Completely agree. Blackadder without a shadow of a doubt. There were rumours that there would be a new series set in the 70's with Blackadder being a doped up rock star. Baldrick would be the drummer of the band. :lol:
 
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Good to see some fans of this on here, really loved it and wish the writers had made a few more seasons. Hopefully they'll finally make the movie thats been rumoured for ages :drool:

Recently started watching The Wire too, didnt know it had been cancelled, its up to season 5 isnt it?
 
Ivor Ballokov said:
For those of you saying Firefly and Buffy/Angel Joss Whedon the creator of them has a new series starting in America at the start of 09 called Dollhouse. It stars Eliza Dushku (Faith from the Buffy series) so will be worth watching for that alone.





A plot summary and a trailer damn i'm helpful.
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I thinks it's pretty safe to say that this will be GRRREAT television.
 
Sliders.

Earth 2 or whatever it was called, from YEARS ago, where the people were marooned on some planet or something. Used to love that when I was young.
 
UnitedRoadRed said:
+1 here

Other shows at various stages of my life that I were gutted were over:

Different Strokes
Charles in Charge
Battle of the Planets
The Fast Show
Red Dwarf
Blackadder should have had a fifth one set in either pre-WW2 England or the future
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I've just watched all 8 series's over the last few weeks.

The first five were absolutely ace.

Six was terrible, Seven was very bad but it did have its moments. It seemed like they had different writers, or they just stopped caring.

Eight was better. Though not back to its best.

Spoonov said:
Last two Red Dwarf series were shite.
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See above.
 
Angel needed another series to tie up all the lose ends. It pretty much just ended (got cancelled).

The west wing probably ended at the right time. (my favourite show ever). To see Santos (or Vinick who houd have won that election) would have been interesting but repetitive.

Firefly getting canned as soon as it did was a mental desicion. Really shocking. Glad they did the film though.

Deadwood was excellent (i have them all on DVD) and had much more to offer.

Futurama had immense potential but was shut down too soon.

Twin Peaks and American gothic were interesting, different shows.
 
cesc's_mullet said:
I've just watched all 8 series's over the last few weeks.

The first five were absolutely ace.

Six was terrible, Seven was very bad but it did have its moments. It seemed like they had different writers, or they just stopped caring.

Eight was better. Though not back to its best.



See above.
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Was shite without Chris Barry. Kochanski just wasn't funny. In fact she was about as funny as Jennifer Aniston in Friends. No.8 was full of slapstick humour.
 
Spoonov said:
Was shite without Chris Barry. Kochanski just wasn't funny. In fact she was about as funny as Jennifer Aniston in Friends. No.8 was full of slapstick humour.
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Damn right. Rimmer made the show.

The other most disappointing about the latter series’s would have to be the cat. I don’t think I laughed at any of his lines, he lost his mojo. That and the writing for him was shite.

I guess you could put it down to his, er, domestication.
 
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