TV shows that did not....

[Mojooo]

....... peak in their first series in terms of quality.

Anyone know any?

I am generally thinking about TV shows that broken by by seasons of 12-24 episodes.

Having thought about all the TV shows I am have seen it is quite evidence they are usually the best at the start and slowly get worse.

Obviously there are a lot of reasons for this - most are obvious.

So the question is are there any shows that actually got better after season 1?

No spiolers though.

[Zaxxon]

Friends, but it then got crap once Ross married the English girl.
Blackadder

[captainmatt]

NCIS in my opinion. Peaked season 2 or 3 (but consistently good since then as well).

House as well maybe, jury is out on that one in my mind.

[Famous Graham]

The Wire, to a degree. S1 was excellent, S2 was ok, but then it got better again.

The West Wing was consistently brilliant across the series, albeit with the odd duff episode at various points.

The Sopranos too.

[Mojooo]

Famous Graham said:

The Wire, to a degree. S1 was excellent, S2 was ok, but then it got better again.

The West Wing was consistently brilliant across the series, albeit with the odd duff episode at various points.

The Sopranos too.

Those are my next 3 series to watch list.

I am currently on the last season of DEXTER, which has started to wane unfortunatley.

[tractorguy]

Miami Vice, Son's Of Anarchy and Frasier are one's I can think of.

[MentalSarcasm]

Supernatural, for me it peaked around season 4 (I liked the portrayal of the angels).

[papercup]

Mojooo said:

Those are my next 3 series to watch list.

I am currently on the last season of DEXTER, which has started to wane unfortunatley.

Once you watch The Wire and The West Wing, not much else will match up. Both extremely intelligent, and so well written.

[Mutley]

MASH, Once they dropped the TV version of Frank and Margaret,which took till late series 3/early 4 then it got much better

[Bullett]

Blackadder, peaked with the 4th series, first one was ok then it just got better and better.
Almost like the 1st series was a different program with the same character names.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Red Dwarf.
ST DS9.

[Spiritual_Beggar]

Oz.

Without doubt Season 4 is the highlight of the show.....though that's probably because it's the longest of the 6 seasons.



Battlestar Galactica.

Just got better and better as the story developed.

[Famous Graham]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Red Dwarf.

It certainly rose in quality (and I don't just mean the budget) over the first 3 seasons, but anything after 6 takes a massive nosedive.

[ESOG]

I would say the walking dead is one show that had immediate quality and didn't have the usual awkwardness and poor/grainy filming quality that new sitcoms initially have.

[Pints]

Dallas
LOST

[dudleybloke]

top gear. the first series of the new format was quite crap and wasnt helped by jason fat bloke dawes as a presenter.

[gjf764]

Men behaving badly, Dermot left and it moved from itv to BBC

[CommanderJameson]

The X-Files should have been cancelled after series 2.

Then we'd all be sitting around going "I wish they'd made more X-Files".

[Strangely Brown]

Mutley said:

MASH, Once they dropped the TV version of Frank and Margaret,which took till late series 3/early 4 then it got much better

Yes. Frank Burns was an exceptionally annoying character. Once he was replaced by Winchester, it improved immensely. To a certain extent, the same can be said of the arrival of Col. Potter.

The Sopranos started off quite sedately and never really got into its stride until season 2. Once there, though, the quality never dropped off at all.

Only on Season 2 of The Wire and it doesn't feel like it is made for episodes. It feels like it's one long programme broken up into episodes. Bloody good though.

Many of my favourite TV series are all cancelled after season 1 or 2.

Firefly
Life
Journeyman
Threshold
Space : Above and Beyond
Pushing Daisies
Dead Like Me

I've heard that Terriers is good and am looking forward to it. Cancelled after one season, so I have high hopes. I hope the same thing doesn't happen to Haven and Burn Notice.

Edited by Strangely Brown on Monday 15th August 07:18

[Marvindodgers]

Battlestar Galactica as has already been mentioned, just got better and better as it progressed to become the finest sci-fi tv ever made.
Babylon 5 peaked with season 3 (especially the episode Severed Dreams - which must have the greatest tv space battle ever!!). Then season 4 got better and better as the producers tried to fit in the whole of the season 5 story arc because they'd been told they had been cancelled!!