On Cancelled TV Shows and Broken Hearts

I bet every TV show fan out there has at least once ended up with a void in their heart almost as painful as the one when you finish a really good book and don’t want it to finish, when they come across a beloved show that ends up being cancelled just when you were starting to love it, or have loved it all along.

There are many elements that influence producers or whoever it is that does it, to cancel shows. Maybe it’s the budget, or the general audience response isn’t very good… Whatever it is, whatever they think is wrong, I’d like them to know: Someone out there will gleefully dance by the show’s gravestone, but more than one will grieve its passing.

You can’t please everyone, that’s a given. Every person who elaborates someone for public display knows it. But, one thing is not pleasing everyone, and other thing is abandoning it altogether.

It’s like writers that design a book for being a series, and then never deliver on the next books. That’s how it feels starting to watch a show that has been stated will have x seasons, and then never hear from it again, or worse, a show that doesn’t even finish its first season (I have yet to experience this, but OUCH)

Keeping a creative project like a show must take a lot of work. After all, you have to work with a lot of people.

TV Show makers, I’ll give you some advice that will save you lots of money:

PLAN. Planning can be very useful. If you know you don’t have enough money to do ten seasons, then for the love of Hershey’s, don’t tell people you’re planning on more seasons.

For writers, getting a multi-book deal isn’t something set in stone. It’s up to fate and the quality of that first book. So, I have to beg you, do what they do: An awesome job with the first season, make sure you do leave some loose ends in case the show does continue, but make it autosuficient. A season is a story in itself, so don’t make it dependent of others.

Fellow Fangirls and Fanboys,

I wish you strenght, and hope your faith in TV shows doesn’t waver. I’m sure many people not in power today have great ideas and we’ll soon be rewarded for our patience.

But for now, let’s drown our sorrows with fanfiction.

 

Best Regards,

Someone who knows crap about what goes on behind TV Shows, but knows way too much about being disappointed by them 🙂

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