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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 #66 - Sweet/Vicious (2016-2017)
One of the most acclaimed new shows of the 2016/2017 season was SWEET/VICIOUS, an MTV series about two college students who become vigilantes to avenge the…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #65 - Conviction (2016-2017)
You loved her when she was AGENT CARTER, but Hayley Atwell's got an even tougher job in the crime-solving procedural series CONVICTION. The former superspy now…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #64 - Emerald City (2017)
Everyone loves THE WIZARD OF OZ, so of course they made it "badass". From the minds behind shows that were canceled after only one season like SIBERIA…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #63 - Doubt, Take Two (2017)
Katherine Heigl, Elliott Gould and Laverne Cox starred in DOUBT, a legal dramedy on CBS that was canceled after only two episodes. So we reviewed it after only…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #62 - Imaginary Mary (2017)
A grown woman gets a visit from her childhood imaginary friend in DROP DEAD FRED, a movie that does the same thing as IMAGINARY MARY but a heck of a lot…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #61 - Pitch (2016)
One of the most acclaimed new shows of the 2016/2017 television season didn't make it past ten episodes. The show was PITCH, it starred Kylie Bunbury (UNDER…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #60 - Danger Theatre (1993)
Why make just one parody of a crime show when you can make THREE of them? That's the premise of DANGER THEATRE, a comedic anthology series from the director of…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #59 - Game Over (2004)
"Did you ever wonder what happens AFTER the game ends?" Welcome to GAME OVER, an animated series from the ill-fated UPN network about what video game…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #58 - You Don't Know Jack (2001)
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK was one of the most popular computer games of the 1990s, mixing subversive humor, highbrow trivia questions and fast-paced gameplay to…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #57 - The Defenders of Dynatron City (1992)
Superhero shows about defenders are nothing new. In fact, 25 years before MARVEL'S THE DEFENDERS debuted on Netflix we already had THE DEFENDERS OF DYNATRON…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #56 - Whiz Kids (1983-1984)
Hot on the heels of WARGAMES came WHIZ KIDS, a primetime television series about teenaged computer experts who hack the NSA, rob graves, find Elvis Presley…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #55 - Cliffhangers! (1979)
Why make three televisions shows when you could make one for three times the price? From the developer of THE INCREDIBLE HULK, THE BIONIC WOMAN and V comes the…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #54 - Tequila and Bonetti (1992)
He's a cop with a past. His partner is a talking dog with a flatulence problem. Together they solve murders and sex crimes in TEQUILA AND BONETTI, one of the…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #53 - The Last Precinct (1986)
Take every wacky comic relief stereotype, give them each a badge and a gun, and put them to work at the some police station and you get THE LAST PRECINCT, a…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #52 - Charlie Jade (2005)
What would you do if you could travel between three alternate realities, and all of them were kind of hard to look at? You'll find out in CHARLIE JADE, an…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #51 - Galactica 1980 (1980)
It's the exciting conclusion to our epic two-part episode! Last week we traveled across the universe with the sci-fi classic BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, and this…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #50 - Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979)
Few sci-fi television shows were more ambitious than BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, a sci-fi space epic from MANIMAL creator Glen A. Larson, whose expensive saga about…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #49 - Wonder Woman (1967), Wonder Woman (1974) and Wonder Woman (2011)
She's one of the most popular, iconic and inspirational superheroes ever created, but even though Wonder Woman has a new blockbuster movie and had a hit tv…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #48 - TerrorVision (198X)
The history of television is full of horror anthology shows like THE TWILIGHT ZONE, TALES FROM THE CRYPT and THE OUTER LIMITS, but we've never seen anything…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #47 - Journeyman (2007)
A newspaper reporter with a suspiciously expensive house goes back in time to save lives, endanger his marriage and completely ignore his day job in…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #46 - L.A. Confidential (2003)
Everybody knows L.A. CONFIDENTIAL is one of the best movies of the 1990s, and maybe even one of the best movies ever made. But not everybody remembers that…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #45 - My Mother the Car (1965-1966)
The time has finally come to review one of the most notorious television series in history: MY MOTHER THE CAR, a 1960s sitcom with the stupidest premise…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #44 - The 1st Annual Canceled Too Soon Awards
We've been sifting through television's biggest failures for one whole year, and it's time to pit all of these amazing/amazingly bad TV shows against one…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #43 - Earth 2 (1994-1995)
The 1990s were full of failed sci-fi television series, but few ever reached the heights of EARTH 2, an expensive show about colonizing an alien planet that…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #42 - The TV Wheel (1996)
After Joel Hodgson left MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, but before he rebooted MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, he invented a new form of television called THE TV…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #41 - The Master, aka Master Ninja (1984)
Fans of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 know all about MASTER NINJA, a series of "movies" starring Lee Van Cleef as an old white ninja and Timothy Van…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #40 - Doubt (2017)
There are more tv shows about lawyers than we could possibly care to count, but almost all of them lasted longer than DOUBT, a courtroom dramedy starring…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #39 - Space Rangers (1993)
The year was 1993, and STAR TREK ruled the airwaves. That was good news for Trekkies but bad news for SPACE RANGERS. When this blue collar sci-fi series…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #38 - Manimal (1983)
In the history of television, there are few shows that have a more embarrassing reputation than MANIMAL, an NBC series that ran for eight short episodes in…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #37 - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992)
The cult comedies BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE and BILL AND TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY got turned into a short-lived live-action sitcom in the early 1990s! The…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #36 - Alcatraz (2012)
Fifty years ago, hundreds of Alcatraz inmates disappeared. Now, the most notorious criminals in American history are loose in San Francisco, where a tough cop…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #35 - Police Squad! (1982)
David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker took the comedy world by storm with AIRPLANE! in 1980, and two years later they brought their rapid-fire signature…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #34 - X-Men (1989)
They're some of the most popular superheroes ever created, but before a hit animated series and blockbuster film franchise turned the X-Men into a household…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #33 - Point Pleasant (2005)
After BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER got canceled, fans found a new destination for teen supernatural horror: POINT PLEASANT, a soap opera about the antichrist…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #32 - Dragon Half (1993)
You know SAILOR MOON, COWBOY BEBOP and NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, but do you recall the most culty anime series of all? It was called DRAGON HALF, its four…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #31 - Casablanca (1983)
You must remember this: a kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh, and nothing is sacred in Hollywood. Even the classic drama CASABLANCA became a…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #30 - The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage (1991)
It's one of the weirdest shows in the history of television, about a hero based explicitly on Donald Trump, who buys a haunted mansion in the Caribbean and…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #29 - The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy, aka The Osiris Chronicles (1998)
What happens when you get the director of GREMLINS and the author of THE ALIENIST together? You get a STAR TREK knockoff called THE OSIRIS CHRONICLES, about a…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #28 - Rubicon (2010)
Not every AMC series is as successful as MAD MEN, BREAKING BAD and THE WALKING DEAD. Case in point: RUBICON, an ambitious espionage series starring James Badge…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #27 - Of Kings and Prophets (2016)
The success of HBO's GAME OF THRONES has led to a lot of expensive, epic, violent and sex-filled television shows, but none were less successful than OF KINGS…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #26 - Beyond Westworld (1980)
Before there was HBO's WESTWORLD, and after there was Michael Crichton's WESTWORLD, there was the short-lived television series BEYOND WESTWORLD. Jim McMullan…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #25 - Baffled! (1973)
What did Leonard Nimoy do after the STAR TREK television series but before the STAR TREK movies? He was BAFFLED! It's a feature-length pilot for an NBC mystery…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #24 - Profit (1996)
It's one of the most infamous shows in TV history, a series that only lasted four episodes in 1996 before ratings and controversy shut it down. It's PROFIT, a…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #23 - Young MacGyver (2003)
The old MACGYVER ran for seven seasons and two tv movies. The new MACGYVER is one of the biggest hits of the 2016 television season. But between those two…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #22 - Guilt (2016)
An Irish prostitute has been found murdered, and the Russian mafia, the prince of England, a mentally unstable tailor and Billy Zane are somehow involved. When…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #21 - Doctor Strange (1978)
Before the Marvel Studios movies you know and love, there were a lot of Marvel superhero movies that nobody remembers. Case in point: DOCTOR STRANGE, a 1978…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #20 - Sam & Max: Freelance Police!!! (1997-1998)
Sam and Max are a dog and a rabbity thing. They are freelance police. And they are completely insane. The award-winning comic strip by Steve Purcell became a…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #19 - Tales from the Far Side (1994)
In the 1980s and 1990s, Gary Larson's THE FAR SIDE was one of the most popular comic strips in the world, selling books and calendars and infiltrating the pop…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #18 - Nightmare Cafe (1992)
Wes Craven, the master of horror, was famous for creating classic horror movies like A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, SCREAM and THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. He was…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #17 - Cry Baby Lane (2000)
It's not just a film, it's a legend. In the year 2000, the feature-length Halloween special CRY BABY LANE debuted on Nickelodeon and was immediately pulled off…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #16 - Dracula: The Series (1990-1991)
Why was there never a LOST BOYS or MONSTER SQUAD television series? It's probably because DRACULA: THE SERIES had it covered. This one season wonder co-starred…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #15 - The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (1979)
The witch is going on strike unless her demands are met in THE HALLOWEEN THAT ALMOST WASN'T, a.k.a. THE NIGHT DRACULA SAVED THE WORLD, an award-winning holiday…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #14 - On the Air (1992)
One year after the cancelation of TWIN PEAKS, the incredible team of David Lynch and Mark Frost got back together for a television series that didn't take…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #13 - The Incredible Crash Dummies (1993)
They were created to convince kids to wear their seat belts, but they wound up making car crashes look freakin' awesome. They were THE INCREDIBLE CRASH…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #12 - Vinyl (2016)
Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, and HBO. You might think that if you put them all together you'd get the best TV series ever made. Instead you got VINYL, an…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #11 - Black Bart (1975)
It was 1975, and Warner Bros. had to do SOMETHING with BLAZING SADDLES or else they'd lose the rights. Their solution: shoot four whole seasons of a sitcom…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #10 - Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos (1986)
Before there was WALKER, TEXAS RANGER, there was CHUCK NORRIS: KARATE KOMMANDOS! Back in 1986, martial arts superstar Chuck Norris hosted and starred in this…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #9 - Mann & Machine (1992)
Two years after he created LAW & ORDER, Dick Wolf co-created a sci-fi cop show about a macho detective and his sexy robot partner. MANN & MACHINE co-stars…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #8 - Birds of Prey (2002-2003)
It was a dark time - the eight years between BATMAN & ROBIN and BATMAN BEGINS - and The WB decided to fill it with the live-action superhero series BIRDS OF…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #7 - Darknet (2013)
Canada is home to unspeakable horrors in the short-lived anthology series DARKNET, about a YouTube-like website that hosts videos of real-life violence. The…