We’ve been doing these discussion groups every Sunday for the last six months, but I thought I’d try something completely radical today: a non-political topic. (I figure readers will either love the diversion or hate it; I guess I’ll find out soon enough.)<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, I was among at least seven people nationwide to be deeply disappointed by the cancellation<\/a> of Arrested Development<\/a>, one of the most creative and well-written comedies I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, very few Nielsen families agreed and the show instantly joined the ranks of shows to meet an untimely demise.<\/p>\n This week’s topic: what are the best TV shows to be cancelled too soon?<\/p>\n To be sure, in most instances, shows that get cancelled are pulled because they are, well, awful. But we all know those gems that were terrific, found a small but devoted following, but were brutally yanked from network lineups anyway.<\/p>\n Firefly? Freaks and Geeks? Andy Richter Controls the Universe? Am I the only one to have been disappointed by the premature and unwarranted cancellation of quality programs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve been doing these discussion groups every Sunday for the last six months, but I thought I’d try something completely radical today: a non-political topic. (I figure readers will either love the diversion or hate it; I guess I’ll find out soon enough.) Earlier this week, I was among at least seven people nationwide to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}