★★★★★ 0/5

Axed in 2011

Farewell to Rush, Video Hits, Spicks & Specks, New Inventors, Sea Patrol, Rescue, East West 101, Oprah, United States of Tara, Big Love and more....

45
Leave a comment

Some were axed, some weren’t renewed, some decided to call it a day and some never even had a final decision (City Homicide, we’re lookin’ at you).

However you want to word it, here is a collection of shows we farewelled* in 2011:

ABC:
Spicks and Specks
Can We Help?,
New Inventors,
Collectors,
Lawn Bowls,
Art Nation,
Bed of Roses,
Hungry Beast,

SEVEN:
City Homicide,
Conviction Kitchen,
Wild Boys,

NINE:
Warnie,
Ben Elton Live from Planet Earth,
Postcards (SA),
Rescue Special Ops,
Sea Patrol,
Top Design,
Million Dollar Drop,
Between the Lines,
Kerri-Anne,

TEN:
TEN News (6:30, Late News)
Sports Tonight,
Video Hits,
Rush,
6:30 with George Negus,
AFL,

SBS:
East West 101,

PAY TV:
Hadley!,
Spirited,
Park Street,

Regional:
Hit List TV
WIN News (Tas, weekends)

USA:
My Life on the D-List,
Live to Dance,
The Event,
The Oprah Winfrey Show,


Brothers and Sisters,
Entourage,
Lie to Me,
Human Target,
No Ordinary Family,
V,
The Event,
$#*! My Dad Says,
Mad Love,
The Defenders,
Hellcats,
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,

United States of Tara,
Skins,
Camelot,
The Hard Times of R.J. Berger,
HawthoRNe,
Caprica,
The Playboy Club,
Free Agents,
Charlie’s Angels,
Hung,
Bored to Death,
How to Make It In America,
In Treatment,
The Gates,
Stargate Universe,
Big Love

UK:
Outcasts,
The Weakest Link,
Taggart,
Spooks,
Doctor Who Confidential,
The Inbetweeners,

Other:
Outrageous Fortune (NZ)
Iron Chef (Japan)

Future Unclear:
My Place (ABC)
Crownies (ABC)
At Home with Julia (ABC)
The Hamster Wheel (ABC)
The Gruen Transfer (ABC)
The Bazura Project (ABC)
The Marngrook Footy Show (ABC)
Twentysomething (ABC)
Top Gear Australia (Nine)
This is Your Life (Nine)
Four Weddings (Seven)
World’s Strictest Parents (Seven)
Kyle & Jackie O’s Night with the Stars (Seven)
The Renovators (TEN)
Good News Week (TEN)
Before the Game (TEN)
Junior MasterChef (TEN)
Ready Steady Cook (TEN)
Undercover Boss Australia (TEN)
Swift & Shift Couriers (SBS)
SLiDE (Foxtel)
Come Dine with Me Australia (Foxtel)
Terra Nova (US)
Torchwood (UK)

Still to be completed:
Medium
Smallville

*includes some shows previously axed but airing for the last time in Australia, and some axed but yet to air finales.

This post updates.

45 Responses

  1. United States of Tara was excellent.
    Spirited was too, but finished satisfactorily I think.
    Gruen & Chaser guys will no doubt be back. Love them.
    The rest – either don’t know them or couldn’t care if they’ve gone!
    P.S. Bed of Roses was just plain horrible. How it got even one season is a mystery! Shudder…

  6. I’d like to correct something about ‘Collectors’, ‘New Inventors’ and ‘Art Nation’. According to Claudia Chan Shaw (host of Collectors whom i got to meet in Brisbane recently) Collectors has not ‘officially’ been ‘axed’ by the ABC.

    It is currently on ‘hiatus’. And the word according to Kim Dalton himself (who mentioned this at a corporate function) the reasons these are on ‘hiatus’ is because they need to find the money from existing budget to keep ABC 24 going….as they get no extra money from the govt. God knows why!

    So…..if anyone wants to see these shows back, you need to write to Kim Dalton himself at the ABC in Sydney and express your disppointment and petition for these shows to come back. Apparently, he will answer you back being a public servant.

    Will this do any good? Who knows…..but i’m certainly going to give it a try…

    Cheers

  7. “Taggart” was dropped by ITV in England, however STV in Scotland have made it well known that they fully intend to continue the program. So we may still see more new episodes of Taggart in the future. Lets hope so!! 🙂

  8. I disagree that the final series of Rush was brilliant. I enjoyed it (and I Love Rush) but I think the continuing story wasn’t a good idea, even though other stories were indispersed throughout. Doing it that way didn’t encourage new viewers, and if you missed an episode or two, it was hard to catch up.

    I still think Rush was the best police series ever produced in this country, it was wonderfully done and the cast, script and acting were impeccable.

    It will be sadly missed.

  10. My 2 cents worth on some of those shows

    I will miss
    The Defenders – was good for a laugh; Spooks – Great show; Swift & Shift – 10 times better than Housos; No Ordinary Family – Good for a laugh

    Boring
    Spicks and Specs – I found it sooo boring, even RockWiz is not as good as it used to be

    Were good but went bad
    City Homicide – started of OK but after a few seasons it just killed itself; Sea Patrol – the effects were bad and the scripts got worse, should had drowned earlier; Lie to Me;
    Rush; The Event

    Just plain rubbish
    Ben Elton; Warnie; Human Target; Charlies Angels; Hung

  15. So City Homicide still might be coming back since it hasn’t been “axed”???? City Homicide was the best Aussie show on tv, I loved it. And i hate Seven for axing it. It was their fault the ratings dropped because they kept moving it around. When will they learn?

    And when CH got axed, that put Rush as the best Aussie show and now that’s gone. The final series was brilliant and the best yet. Guess i should look at that as a good thing, but it sucks that quality Aussie show get shafted too soon just because networks don’t want to invest in them. Hate you too Ten.

  22. I’m pretty sure Nine screened the final Without a Trace episodes on GEM earlier this year, and TEN has already screened the final episode of Law and Order (or at least they got very close, in the 10:30 Thursday timeslot)

    lol @ Warnie, completely forgot that “program” ever got commissioned in the first place

    I expect The Hamster Wheel will be back for a second series

    1. Adam: Rush was not renewed by TEN, but rest assured Southern Star would have happily produced another season. In any case I have qualified all of this at the top of the article as a story about shows we farewelled in 2011 .
      Craig: Spirited is not yet renewed.

  25. Wow that’s a long list.

    I thought Top Gear AU was axed given the way Nine has treated the show. Not to mention TG US has gone MIA on GO! after just a few weeks on air.

    Spirited – hasn’t this been given some life?

    Doctor Who Confidential – I’ll miss this the most.

Leave a Reply