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Critically Acclaimed Network
Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold host a series of ongoing shows, featuring CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED (new movie reviews), THANK GODZILLA IT'S FRIDAY, CANCELED TOO SOON, WE'VE GOT MAIL, THE IRON LIST, and more!
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Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #121 - Fred and Barney Meet The Thing (1979)
Our MARVELOUS MONTH OF MARVELS begins! Marvel movies and Marvel tv shows rule the world today, but there was a time when the comic book company struggled to…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #120 - Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-1975)
One of the greatest reporters of all time could hardly publish a word. He's KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER, he's played by Darren McGavin, and every week he…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #119 - The Elvira Show (1993)
The greatest horror movie TV host of all time, Elvira, almost had her own sitcom in the 1990s! It was called THE ELVIRA SHOW, it co-starred actors from TWIN…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #118 - Dark Shadows (1991)
The supernatural soap opera DARK SHADOWS inspired legions of cult followers, a big budget movie from Tim Burton, and a failed 1991 television reboot starring…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #117 - Nightmare Classics (1989)
Shelley Duvall ruled cable television in the 1980s, with her award-winning kids show FAERIE TALE THEATRE, which adapted classic faerie tales with all-star…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #116 - The Mayor (2017)
What happens when someone runs for public office as a publicity stunt and accidentally gets elected? You'll find out in... real life, but also in THE MAYOR, a…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #115 - Blood Drive (2017)
It's the distant future, the year 1999, and BLOOD DRIVE is a hit television series starring real life serial killers who race across the country, in cars that…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #114 - Living Biblically (2018)
A 21st century film critic decides to live his life 100% by The Bible in LIVING BIBLICALLY, a sitcom that tried to explore the complexities of Christianity in…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #113 - Will (2017)
Our SUDDENLY, LAST SEASON month begins! Every week in September we're review recently canceled television shows, and we're starting with a doozy: WILL, about a…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #112 - K-9000 (1991)
From the writer of DIE HARD, 48 HOURS and COMMANDO comes the failed TV pilot for K-9000, starring Chris Mulkey (TWIN PEAKS) as a tough cop who accidentally…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #111 - Bone Chillers (1996)
Everyone remembers GOOSEBUMPS, but let's take a moment to reflect on the popular kids horror novel series BONE CHILLERS, which inspired a one-season wonder…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #110 - Emily's Reasons Why Not (2006)
Heather Graham stars in EMILY'S REASONS WHY NOT, a heavily promoted sitcom that was going to be one of ABC's flagship TV shows in 2006... until it was…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #109 - Crazyhead (2016)
Either Amy and Raquel are mentally ill, or there really are demons possessing people in England, and they really do need to be beaten up with sticks. That's…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #108 - Voyagers! (1982-1983)
A hunky time traveler accidentally kidnaps a history-obsessed young kid and takes him on a never-ending adventure through time in VOYAGERS! The ambitious but…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #107 - Where's Rodney? (1990)
Rodney Dangerfield was one of the most beloved standup comedians in history, a master jokester whose self-deprecating persona was practically tailor-made for…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #106 - Legend (1995)
After he was MACGYVER, but before he was STARGATE SG-1, Richard Dean Anderson was a LEGEND. In this short-lived steampunk western series, Anderson played a…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #105 - Van-Pires (1997)
Everyone was trying to cash in on the MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER RANGERS boom in the late 1990s, and one of the weirdest imitators was VAN-PIRES, a live-action/CGI…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #104 - Legally Blonde (2003)
Reese Witherspoon took the world by storm in LEGALLY BLONDE, a blockbuster feel-good comedy about a Beverly Hills sorority girl, clad entirely in pink, who…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #103 - VR.5 (1995)
The year was 1995, and virtual reality was going to unlock all the mysteries of the universe. Or at least, it was going to be the subject of endless sci-fi…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #102 - Hey Vern, It's Ernest! (1988)
Jim Varney was a comedy sensation, thanks to his beloved character Ernest P. Worrell, who starred in TV commercials, hit movies and - for one short season -…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #101 - Barbie and the Rockers (1987)
You know her name, you know her dolls, but you probably don't know that Barbie had her own animated series in 1987... because it only lasted two episodes. It's…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #100 - Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000)
It's the series that jumpstarted the careers of Judd Apatow, Paul Feig, Linda Cardellini, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, James Franco, Samm Levine, John Francis…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #99 - Selfie (2014)
Since the creation of CANCELED TOO SOON, one sitcom has been requested more than any other. That show is SELFIE, starring John Cho and Karen Gillan as updated…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #98 - Cop Rock (1990)
Television visionary Steven Bochco produced the iconic legal shows HILL STREET BLUES, L.A. LAW and NYPD BLUE, but he also produced one of the most notorious TV…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #97 - The 2nd Annual Canceled Too Soon Awards
We've discovered dozens of amazing (and amazingly awful) television shows over the course of the last year, and now the time has come to single out the best…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkAll The Best - The Best Picture Nominees of 1927-1928
Our quest to watch every single movie nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars begins right here, in the pilot episode for ALL THE BEST! Film critics William…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #96 - White Dwarf (1995)
When Francis Ford Coppola does sci-fi television, it gets weird. We've already talked about THE PEOPLE, and now it's time to explore the old west alien surgery…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkThe Randomizer - Desperate Housewives 6.19 "We All Deserve To Die"
The ABC television series DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES was one of the most popular shows of the early 21st century, but for one reason or another, we never watched it…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #95 - The People (1972)
Our PILOT SEASON continues with one of the weirdest footnotes in Francis Ford Coppola's career! Only two months before THE GODFATHER made him a household name…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkAverageFest - Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
Our PILOT SEASON continues with AVERAGEFEST, a brand new podcast about the hunt for the most mediocre movie ever made! And the most average movie we could…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #94 - The Robinsons: Lost in Space (2004)
Back in the 1960s, the Robinson family got LOST IN SPACE, in a classic sci-fi tv series that got better ratings than STAR TREK. 50 years later, the WB tried to…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon: The Home Game - Trump Card (1990-1991)
The year was 1990, and Donald Trump got himself a game show by taking the British series BOB'S FULL HOUSE, filming it at Trump Castle, and changing the name to…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #93 - Alexander the Great (1963/1968)
What do you get when you mix William Shatner from STAR TREK, Adam West from BATMAN, John Cassavetes from THE DIRTY DOZEN and Joseph Cotten from CITIZEN KANE?…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #92 - Almost Human (2013-2014)
Our COPS WITH ROBOT PARTNERS MONTH is coming to an end, but we've saved the best for last. ALMOST HUMAN stars Karl Urban (STAR TREK) as a human cop who isn't…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #91 - Total Recall 2070 (1999)
The sci-fi worlds of Philip K. Dick collide in TOTAL RECALL 2070, a television series that takes place in a world where the technologies of BLADE RUNNER and…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #90 - Condor (1986)
If you love Ray Wise on TWIN PEAKS, if you love cop shows, and if you love robots, then this is the series for you! It's COPS WITH ROBOT PARTNERS MONTH on…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #89 - Future Cop (1976-1978)
It's COPS WITH ROBOT PARTNERS month on CANCELED TOO SOON, and we're starting with a doozy. Oscar-winner Ernest Borgnine stars in FUTURE COP as a shabby beat…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #88 - Herbie, The Love Bug (1982)
In 1968, Disney introduced the world to HERBIE THE LOVE BUG, an anthropomorphic Volkswagen Beetle who won races, warmed hearts, and starred in six…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #87 - The Persuaders! (1971-1972)
The 1970s didn't get much funkier than THE PERSUADERS! This short-lived action/adventure series starred Roger Moore (just before he became James Bond) and Tony…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #86 - Poor Devil (1973)
Sammy Davis Jr. plays a demon trying to buy Jack Klugman's soul in POOR DEVIL, a TV comedy in the tradition of BEWITCHED and I DREAM OF JEANNIE with a hellish…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #85 - Steel Justice (1992)
You've never seen a show like STEEL JUSTICE. It's a live-action prime time TV pilot about an ancient immortal who searches for people who can transform stuff…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #84 - FreakyLinks (2000-2001)
Links don't get much freakier than they do in FREAKYLINKS, a short-lived horror series about Gen X journalists who investigate ghosts, monsters and dinosaurs…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #83 - The Dresden Files (2007)
He's a wizard. He's a private detective. He's kind of a schmoe. He's Harry Dresden, and he's the protagonist of THE DRESDEN FILES, a popular series of novels…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #82 - Law & Order: Los Angeles (2010-2011)
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The police, who investigate crime, and the district…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #81 - Brimstone (1998-1999)
From the creators of TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT comes a supernatural action/adventure TV series about a dead cop who teams up with the Devil to catch…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #80 - GCB, aka Good Christian Bitches (2012)
They're good. They're Christian. They are allegedly bitches. So it mades perfect sense to call this short-lived comedy series from SEX AND THE CITY producer…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #79 - Roar (1997)
Heath Ledger and Vera Farmiga got their big breaks in ROAR, a sexy teen riff on BRAVEHEART and HERCULES, about a gang of hot young Celts who do battle with an…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkC2S Christmas Special: Yule Log Commentary Track
It's an all-new CANCELED TOO SOON Christmas special, and we're celebrating the history of the televised yule log with a free, downloadable commentary track for…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #78 - Practical Magic, aka Sudbury (2004)
Most people know that Sanda Bullock and Nicole Kidman co-starred in PRACTICAL MAGIC, a very surreal supernatural comedy about a family of witches who run afoul…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #77 - Fishing With John (1991)
FISHING WITH JOHN was one of the weirdest talk shows, fishing shows, reality tv shows or shows of any other kind. The series followed composer John Lurie as he…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #76 - David Cassidy: Man Undercover (1978-1979)
The late, great David Cassidy was a tv star, a pop star, a teen heartthrob and - for one short season - a hard-boiled undercover cop infiltrating drug dealers…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #75 - Human Target (1992)
Our very special JUSTICE MONTH OF JUSTICE concludes with a superhero series that pretty much everybody forgot about: HUMAN TARGET, starring rock legend Rick…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #74 - Amethyst - Princess of Gem World (2013)
There have been a lot of tv shows based on DC superheroes, but there's never been one quite like AMETHYST - PRINCESS OF GEM WORLD! This short animated series…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #73 - Aquaman, aka Mercy Reef (2007)
SMALLVILLE was the only live-action DC superhero show in town for many years, but did you know it almost had a sister series about the adventures of AQUAMAN?…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #72 - The Flash (1990-1991)
Before there was JUSTICE LEAGUE, before there was THE FLASH, there was... THE FLASH, an expensive and ambitious live-action superhero series that emerged from…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #71 - Justice League of America (1997)
Welcome... to the JUSTICE MONTH OF JUSTICE! All this month on CANCELED TOO SOON we're reviewing failed DC superhero tv shows, and we're starting off with one…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #70 - Kindred: The Embraced (1996)
The year was 1996, and MELROSE PLACE and BEVERLY HILLS 90210 ruled the world. But for some reason the world wasn't interested in vampires yet. So it was that…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #69 - Drak Pack (1980)
Monstober continues! Remember when Dracula changed his name to "Big D" and recruited a teenaged vampire, werewolf and Frankenstein monster to become…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #68 - Monster Squad (1976)
So get this: a college student installs a computer in a wax museum and the electric vibrations bring Dracula, Frankenstein and The Wolf Man back to life…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #67 - Bates Motel (1987)
Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO is one of the most important motion pictures in history, changing the cinematic and horror landscapes and giving birth to sequels, a…