18 years later, and I'm still upset about Firefly.

Firefly's cancellation still triggers me. Police Squad is so underappreciated and thankfully Young Justice came back from the grave.

Firefly was also aired around 11pm MST when viewing times dropped. I only remember that because I snuck out of my room to watch it after my bed time when my parents had it on lol

Netflix cancelled Ozark, the OA and Sabrina and made 4 seasons of 13 Reasons Why!!

Not only did he say girls dont buy toys, he listed multiple products young girls buy. So they chose not to sell merchandise in those forms they kept going with action figures.

Firefly didn't even get one season. :Correction: They only aired eleven of the fourteen episodes they made.

Flash forward not getting renewed was heartbreaking

I'm still pissed about Firefly.

You could make an entire list on SciFy channel cancellations

Firefly...it still hurts!!!

Daybreak on Netflix was a sleeper hit for me and it was canned almost as soon as it aired but Gargoyles broke my heart as a young lad.

I wonder if the "65 episode" rule also exists at Disney, so that no show makes syndication, and , as a result, the company doesn't have to pay anyone residuals.

Wild Wild West(the TV show, not the Will Smith movie) was canceled with high ratings because congress put a hammer on "violent" TV shows.

The problem with shows funded by toy sales is that the toys are seldom as good as the shows they are based on.

Airing firefly out of order is basically sabotage. Also,almost human with Karl Urban was really good

I was always partial to The Dresden Files, i hated when that was ended prematurely.

There was an comedy on Fox called Titus, that was amazing. It got canceled because the president of Fox wanted to see a divorce happen on the show and the main character/creator decided to fight against it.

Stargate Atlantis, was meant to get a movie to tie it up but it just never happened.....

Virtually any SyFy show: Because it was a SyFy show.

Gotta add my love for Firefly. Next to Star Trek TOS, Firefly is the best sci-fi ever ever made for television. A shout out for Space: Above and Beyond as well.

I really am still sad about Constantine; although he made an appearance in LoT, it just wasn’t the same. Hope they’ll decide to pick it up soon!

The TV strike killed "The Dresdan Files." It was my favorite

I wish I lived in the dimension where Firefly didn't get cancelled....

Netflix has made some incredibly stupid decisions. Constantly airing short term shows will actually cause them viewers. If they are mini series that's fine but if they were intended to go on, the shows should have an ending.

So we can blame the Kardashians for the end of gargoyles gotcha

Firefly, Angel and Terminator: The Sarah Connor chronicles... if I ever discover a time machine I’m bringing those three back!

Farscape's set got burnt down too. R.I.P Moya.

Ugh, I remember the trial. They kept stalling to make it look good on TV. The worst part for me; however, the station would preempt the afternoon cartoons but nothing else. Even their worst rated shows for adults would be allowed to air, but not the cartoons! Stupid trial didn't need to be TV, I don't care WHO'S on trial, that needs to be kept private.

I expected Gilligan's Island to make the list...It was canceled because the CBS Presidents wife liked Gunsmoke and put it in Gilligans timeslot

After so many years everyone's still piss off about Firefly! Yeah me to :(

14 years old, and I know what Fire fly is. I saw the movie that came from it too. My little sister is named River!

OG Teen Titans got the can for the same reason as Young Justice and yes, I'm going to die mad about it.

Man I kinda forgot about Gargoyles that was a great cartoon, eff you O.J.

Firefly and dollhouse are two shows I wish we had more off. They're few shows I care about when they're over but firefly and dollhouse felt like they still had so much more to explore and so much potential. Wish Netflix or amazon would take them on for future remakes or heck even spinoffs.

I'm still pissed they canceled Angel.

OJ Simpson, we just keep finding more ways to hate him...

police squad with it's six episodes is 100% more funnier than the big bang theory

pushing daisies and in the flesh being cancelled still hurts me to this day

There were a lot of old 80's shows, like The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, Space: Above and Beyond, and even Roughnecks ended before their time.

Shows that were cancelled on a 1st season: Terra Nova (budget and production), The Secret Circle (budget), and Point Pleasant (Christians) still have me mad. I still need another season for each. They were left on huge cliffhangers. Still waiting on news of Tidelands season 2.

Gargoyles. And you have to remember as well, even in that time, having a functional TV in a child's room was rare, and with most likely those breaking news, it would still be on every channel, so it really would ruin a show.

Idk if it’s on here but Constantine: uuugghhjj yes

Firefly + Dollhouse, The pretender, All the Marvel Netflix series, Lucifer(TG Netflix picked it up), Kindred the Embraced, Poltergeist the Legacy, Warehouse 13, Rosewell, Deadwood, Jericho, Millennium, ...........there were alot of cancelled tv series that left people scratching their heads wondering why.

OJ Simpson Killing Gargoyles is SO TRUE!!! I was a teenager at the time and loved the show, but remember it kept getting interrupted by the trial which I couldn't care less about. I don't remember the details, but I do know I loved the Cartoon but after it kept getting interrupted I never went back it...probably got into the habit of doing something else.

Netflix kills almost all shows at three years. Example: Santa Clarita Diet.

I've never heard of that 'Young Justice' show before now, but seeing it features Martian Manhunter, Red Tornado, and Doctor Fate, three of my favourite DC characters, I now have to find it and watch it.

DollHouse is another great Whedon show that deserved WAY more seasons.

Firefly was still the best sci fi show on television...ever.

I was sorry to see "Dead Like Me" cancelled, along with "FlashForward".

Glad Robin Hood made this list. I could deal with Marian's death but Robin's made me rage quit.

At least Firefly and Farscape eventually got movies to tie up all the loose ends and make up for the sudden end. Serenity for Firefly and The Peacekeeper Wars for Farscape.

I'm tempted to say Swamp Thing too, Warner greenlit the series as part of the DC Universe line-up, then right in the middle of production the AT&T acquisition happened which lead to a re-evaluation of all their projects, apparently the higher-ups just didn't "get" Swamp Thing so they pulled the plug on it. It's funny because the show was based on Alan Moores run, and he once said the reason he did Swamp Thing was because he liked the challenge of taking a seemingly ridiculous character & concept and writing a compelling story, and the "ridiculousness" of Swamp Thing is basically what lead to its cancellation.

Putting Firefly on Friday Night's was not the best bit of scheduling either.

Would you believe that Star Trek: Enterprise was cancelled because producer Rick Berman thought the only thing Star Trek fans wanted to see was sex? He just chose to interpret the ratings instead of SIMPLY ASK US what we wanted to see. We wanted great stories, of course, and that's what we got after the former Borg Seven of Nine was introduced in Voyager, and the ratings went up. But Berman looked at the ratings, and he thought they went up because Seven wears a skin-tight catsuit. So he promised that Archer and the crew of the Enterprise would have more sex, to which we fans collectively said WTF? Enterprise ratings went down because of this, and by the time the second season ended, Berman realized his mistake and promised better stories, but the death knell had already sounded. The Xindi story arc in the third season was great, as were the three-part storylines in the fourth, but unfortunately, nobody was watching.

American Gothic, a great thriller in the 90's, was cancelled because executives of the time didn't know how to handle and promote a show where the main character was also the bad guy / anti-hero. They also gave it the Firefly treatment, airing episodes out of order. The TV airing order was 1-8, 11, 13-16, 10, 9, 17, 20-22. Episodes 5, 12, 18 and 19 were never aired and were included on the DVD release.

Kim Possible showed it was impossible to canx Kim after 65 episodes. "Anything's possible

Still salty about "Almost Human" getting cancelled after only one season...

The 1991 primetime version of "Dark Shadows" got off to a great start- then The Gulf War happened, and NBC kept shifting episodes around because of its continuing coverage of the war. Needless to say, the ratings plummeted and it was canceled. Several years later former NBC president Warren Littlefield admitted that it WAS a mistake to cancel the show- the Gulf War got in the way of its progress. So Saddam Hussein was responsible for cancelling a reboot of a 1960s TV cult classic!

How did I know there would be a ton of Firefly comments 😂😂😂

0:30 a single tear rolling down our "eye"

I only watch Netflix for old shows. You're on borrowed time, boys

How about the fact that "Felicity" fell off because series star Keri Russell cut her famous curly locks?

Firefly will always be number one for me the best space show I had ever seen

Gargoyles was the best animated series I’ve seen as an child or an adult & I’ve watched a lot of cartoons They have Funko POP figures... ‘nuff said

Forever was great, shame it only had one season and it ended with a cliff hanger.

THANKFULLY, Young Justice came back for a third season AND WE’RE GETTING A FOURTH SEASON

Nice josh, showing off your writing and presentation chops, great list buddy

I forgot about that happening with Gargoyles. That is true. I was a big fan up to that time, and I was upset it stopped being aired, but until you reminded me of the details, it had quite slipped my mind.

"No more than 65 episodes rule for Disney, but other than a few major exceptions, all shows are over." What are the exceptions to the 65 rule?Anyone know what show titles are, or better, could you explain what the exceptions were, & why they were allowed to go beyond? Also, I F**king love firefly and serenity.

I wanted more seasons of The Secret Circle and starcrossed.

I LOVED Gargoyles as a kid. And I'm still surprised just how few episodes there are.

As soon as I saw the Firefly pic I had to click. Still angry over that.... they need to finally bring it back

I loved Gargoyles growing up. Darn you OJ Simpson....I lived in California at the time of it all and was irritated every time I saw it ruin my TV time. Be considerate kill people during re-run season..lol JK don't kill people

Yes, discription. I can. But Netflix needs to keep their shows alive longer.

Simpson was quite a butcher. He even killed a kid's animated series. No shame.

I'm about to abandon my Netflix account for a second time because they keep cancelling the things I'm interested in.

I really do like WhatCulture so know this comes from a place of love: if y'all are going to keep working from home, a lot more of you need to get better mics, pop filters, and soundproofing. I have some pretty bad sensory sensitivity stuff and it feels like I can only make it through videos by Jules or Ash anymore because they're the only ones with decent audio.

Truth is firefly got cancelled because the executive had a personal axe to grind with Joss wendon

Worth mentioning that Young Justice was actually brought back last year (Young Justice Outsiders) and has a fourth season currently in production.

Star Trek: Enterprise was cancelled after the fourth season because Les Moonves, The CEO of CBS at the time, didn't like Star Trek. The show had decent ratings and a decent following. This is also the that was responsible for the Abomination that is the Alex Kurtzman Nu-Trek shows (Discovery and Picard), along with their iron clad 5 year unbreakable contract and was instrumental in the awful "redesign" of the Klingons into the Kling-orc's.

Don’t forget Mind Hunter!!! Netflix was building up to an amazing third season and just like that. It’s gone.

Megan Wants a Millionaire: a reality show spun-off from Bret Michael’s “Rock of Love” because one of the contestants murdered his ex.

Wow, I'll admit I watched the video just to see if you brought up Gargoyles, but I didn't expect it to be #1. Sometimes it's rare for shows like that to even be acknowledged on these lists.

Gargoyles was a favorite, I remember the OJ chase scene that was in place of the show

The main reason I canceled Netflix is because they kept canceling every show I liked.

I never heard that reason for Gargoyles before. That's kind of hilarious.

Yeah Dwayne McDuffie explained the whole animated series malarkey, apparently Cartoon Network shows, particularly adaptations, can't recoup the production costs on viewership alone, so they only adapt characters that can sell merchandise, this is why like half of DC's animated series are just Batman, and why so many other shows like Static Shock, Green Lantern and Young Justice get canned.

The funny thing is that losing the title character isn't an automatic death of a show. The 80s Robin of Sherwood swapped main character halfway through and kept going. Losing so many main characters though, yeah that'll do it.

Still salty about Daredevil being cancelled gang.

Your tv show is too much like a movie. Space: Above and Beyond This excellent sci fi show about space marines fighting aliens in the future was cancelled after only 1 season on the fox network. One story says that the movie Starship Troopers which was also being produced at fox was too similar to the show. Thus the network sabotaged the show until it was cancelled in order to prevent consumer confusion. The movie tanked at the box office anyway.

I'd have liked to see more of "Quark" and "When Things Were Rotten".

Amazing video whatculture and it’s sad that the chilling adventure of Sabrina is coming to end of its four seasons and I love see more from it, maybe Netflix can have Sabrina be on riverdale. What about stargate universe being cancelled after two seasons.

OJ killed off Gargoyles!? Why am I hearing about this now after 20+ years?

Metalocalypse, because “screw you” that’s why. Adult Swim refuses to make more even though there’s money to be made from doing so - as proven by the successful petition online -, there’s more to be made since the creators have begged them to let them make more, and even worked to broker a deal to move the show to another network in order to get a final season or film made, but Adult Swim just won’t budge, because they already make a bunch of money from re-runs. The show is still so popular that Adult Swim got the live band (which includes the creator of the show) to perform at their live event last year.

Cancelling Firefly was easilly one of the worst, the biggest of all the big misstakes ever made in the history of television.

The 80’s “Robin Hood” show (the one with the music from Clannad) killed off Robin Hood also but kept going. They just replaced him with Jason Connery’s “Robert”. (That was SUCH a great show!!!)

Firefly and Dark Matter still hurt 😭

The Gargoyles one, makes a lot of sense!

There is a reason for all of disneys tv shows staying under 65 episodes. It is called syndication. TV shows have to hit the 100 episode mark to generate enough episodes to be sold to smaller stations for rerun purposes. By keeping all their shows well below the magic syndication number of 100 they don't have to worry about their shows winding up on anything but a disney owned channel.

I may have to re-think my netflix subscription after watching this video, if i am going to get into a show only for them to cancel it then whats the point?