THIS IS WHY I NEVER WATCH AMERICAN TV SERIES!!!

Yeah I'm UK too, I know your pain. Jericho, Pushing Daisies. All cancelled. However, they luckily were allowed to rush out an ending. Dirt, which for whatever reason was enjoyable to me, didn't get much of an ending, but luckily it didn't end on a cliffhanger.

I'm sure there are plenty more shows I haven't accounted for, but it seems a trend. If they are going to cancel a show, they should have the decency to notify them that they have 3-6 episodes left to wrap it up.

Oh, Joey too. Season 2 never even made it over here.

Personally I didn't really enjoy Season 1 of V. It moved slowly. I watched it since I was interested, but I really thought Season 2 really heated up. Thought it was the making of V, was actually excited to see it every week. Really disappointed over its cancellation. It's unfair on the viewers for the network to just cancel it on a cliffhanger. The decent thing to do would be to let them make a speedy ending. Shove 6 months later ahead of it if it has to be done in 1 episode.

I remember the Pushing Daisies ending, it was almost comical how it was done (not that I'm complaining, was thankful that they managed to cap an ending on) - started off as a normal episode, then halfway through switched to rushing through what would have taken a season in about 25 minutes.

I wouldn't hold it against the V writers to do that. I would be thankful for a conclusive ending.

As for how the ending would probably go, since I won't hold my breath to ever see one (with spoilers in case people haven't seen all of Season 2, for what it matters) - Lisa would be rescued by Joshua and Marcus, dismayed at Anna's display of human emotion. Lisa would go on to kill the imposter queen. Lisa would tell Erica what happened with Tyler sending Erica into a rage, and the human resistance along with the Vs and the rest of the 5th Column, they would imprison Anna downstairs for eternity. Probably seal it off too. Or they might skin her even. As far as Hobbes is concerned, he got the location of the woman he was looking for (yeah I know little about it) and did the whole one man army thing on who was keeping her hostage. Amy would submit to Lisa and everyone lives happily ever after. Especially Tyler who turns up since it was just a decoy to hurt Lisa.

It started out good I thought.

Some people count sheep. Doesn't work with Out_to_Kill, just gets him excited ~ John-Redcorn

BUT it had some genuinely shocking moments
Really? Name one.

& a truly evil villain.
Really? Who. If you're talking about Anna I wouldn't call her truly evil at all - she was misguided more than anything. Part of her problem is she wasn't nearly evil enough.

I curious why you think ABC should continue to invest in a show that is not giving them a decent financial return. In case you hadn't noticed TV Networks are businesses, not charities.

I really sympathize with you.

Not give the series a proper ending really shows a MASSIVE lack of respect for all the viewers who have been watching the show for the past 2 years.

ABC really deserves the low ratings it's been getting!!
And if they carry on like this, they'll get fewer and fewer people watching.

They knew their faith was hanging in the balance with "V". Why didn't they work out a proper ending and then in case they got re-commissioned work out a way to re-start it all?

This is such a cheat.

All the best TV series that have run their courses have proper ending:
West wing, Six Feel Under, Battlestar Galactica, 24 and so on...

Even Prison Break had a final 2 hours special episode to wrap things up properly, why can't they do the same for this?

On the upside, you get more episodes out of a failed US show than you get out of many successful UK shows, given the season length differences.

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The Brits seem to do it also. I reallty enjoyed BBC's Survivors and then they cancelled it.

and its not annoying when the british television shows continue the series the main cast

Skins

Being Human

Eastenders the list goes on and on.


Skins was excellent until they got an entire new cast

Smith, Firefly, Sarah Connor Chronicles, FlashForward, No Ordinary Family....all decent shows I enjoyed that basically just ended (Firefly at least got a movie eventually). Caprica would have been another, but my distaste for big network shows is such I didn't even start watching that one. Same with V.

When Breaking Bad, Weeds and Madmen finish I think ill be done with US shows, they just aren't worth the time investment. Maybe play catch up on those that have a beginning middle AND end.

What I don't understand is the short sightedness. So a network invest xx$m in a show, but it pulls in disappointing viewers (using their outdated counting method) - fair enough. So rather than invest a little more to complete the show, and try to recoup some cash in selling a COMPLETE show on DVD and bluray, they just end it and chuck it in a bin.

I find that ducks opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not i have bread.