What Were the First TV Shows Canceled Each Season?
This gallery was originally published in 2015 and has been updated for the new TV season.
They're usually not the worst (though, with a few notable exceptions, they're almost never among the best). And they aren't necessarily the most derivative or least interesting, nor are they lacking in talent. What they are, for a variety of reasons, is unwatched ... and thus extremely short-lived. We're talking about the fall TV season's first cancellations.
Like in 2016, this year's first cancelation came a bit later than normal—in early November. And, once again, it was not the season's lowest-scoring show that got the axe. How many canceled shows can you remember from past years? Find out in our brief look back at the last 18 years of television infamy ...
(2015) Intended to serve as an anthology series with each season focusing on a different era of Los Angeles history, Wicked City never made it past the first three episodes of its 1980s-set debut season. Critics panned the show as violent, stupid, sordid, and yet somehow boring, and audiences seemed to agree, dropping the program at a rapid pace after its premiere.