Many a TV series is killed mid-season because the TV company decides it's not doing well enough. Firefly fans will moan at Fox. I, personally, thought Threshold should have had a better chance. Sometimes a complete season is made, but never returns... and sometimes the story needs to be continued via made-for-TV movies (eg Alien Nation).
And sometimes you have to wonder just just WTF people were thinking. One of the bonus features on the "Sliders Season 3" disks was "Cleopatra 2525"; the first episode from 2000. WTF? The premiss of the story appears to be that an exotic dancer ("OK, a stripper") goes for a boob job in 2001, but something goes wrong so she's cryo-frozen until the year 2525 where the world has been taken over by evil alien robots and she teams up with two other big-boobed women (warriers), to fight for mankinds freedom. The level of depth shown in the opening episode can be measured in microns. Each episode is 30 minutes long (including ad-breaks) and it went for 2 seasons of 14 episodes.
Whuh?!
How the hell can 2 seasons of something as tripe as that be made, but Firely or Threshold be cancelled mid-season and Alien Nation after one season? Yeesh, even Earth 2 (the other bonus programme on the disk) deserved better than Cleopatra 2525 but it was cancelled after 1 season (despite a lot of potential, it failed to engage me when it was broadcast in the UK).
Sometimes you have to wonder what TV execs are smoking... and is it legal?!
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