Does anyone know exactually why the Dark Angel show was cancelled? Just wondering..

I don't think anyone knows for sure why it was cancelled. The official reason is ratings vs. expenses. Once DA was moved to Fridays' night, the ratings just didn't justified the costs, since producing the show involved high sums of money.

Unofficial theories talk about the show getting to close to reality.


I'm going to leave the thread open for everyone to give their own take on things

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Unofficial theories talk about the show getting to close to reality.
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Man, that's the one I thunk up!
Bush canned it cuz' the US had been attacked by the terrorists, and in DA the US is turned into a U-country by terrorists. Fits really neatly in time too. DA came in like 200, and the second season was shot in spring, so S3 would've started right about the time of the 9/11 attacks!
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bunch of scenes meant to be part of S3, locked in some military installation somewhere. Anyone willing to break into Area 51 and take a look?

That does sound pretty good DarkJak. But you can go first going into area 51.

I think it was just because all the good series get cancelled. And if ya haven't noticed martial art series don't last too long. DA was basically martial arts, even if it did include Scifi-ish stuff. Get my drift?

I can't believe that it was canceled. I really find that mind numbingly impossible to wrap my head around. Canceled? Really? No way! I really can't believe it. Not possible. Not on planet Earth. Maybe on the moon. Then sure, hell yeah, then I can see it being canceled. But not on my mother planet. Surely there must be some mistake. Who can I turn to to make things better again? This planet has gone bad. Everything is going downhill. I can sense the toxic death in the air. I can hardly breath. I lie on the ground, gasping for breath. I finally pass out, only to wake up on the moon, the horror of horrors. I do not have my bicycle on the moon because I'm not the kind of person who goes out and buys himself an ice cream cone full blown winter is dark and dank and I think you can relate to the heat which builds up inside my tummy and makes dark dreams come true in the sad fate of winter but that's the way the cookie crumbles and all the king's horses.

Exactly?

No, but I can hazard an educated guess for you:

Dark Angel was mismanaged by being moved from a slot it held strongly on Tuesday night to the Friday night Slot of Death, and its ratings fell.

The writers were all over the place during season 2, and with the loss of focus on the story arc came a loss of viewers willing to follow the show to a new (unannounced) time slot.

The fall in ratings was then used to justify canceling the show.

This was pretty much a reprise of the death of The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr., which was a lot cheaper to produce than Dark Angel but nowhere near as good [no matter how much I enjoyed TABC, I gotta be honest!]

You can pretty much figure that any time a network moves a show to Friday night, they're preparing to axe it. Friday night at 9: everyone who'd gone to happy hour after work isn't home yet and everyone else who's going out later is getting ready. The kids went to bed at 8pm, so the only people left to watch are the parents, so the show can't be too loud, have too hot a lead (jealousy) or require too much thought (they're tired.)

Friday nights at 9 should be the wrap of the stories in the news for the past week...