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Everyone's second-favorite 1960s sitcom about a family of monsters living in suburbia got an all-star reboot with 2012's MOCKINGBIRD LANE! This reimagining of THE MUNSTERS stems from HANNIBAL producer Bryan Fuller, and stars Jerry O'Connell, Portia De Rossi, Charity Wakefield and Eddie Izzard as creepy creatures trying to live inconspicuously in polite society, while also occasionally...

They're creepy and they're kooky, but are they altogether  ooky? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold visit the brand new animated version of THE ADDAMS FAMILY in the latest episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, and also review the new releases PARASITE, MARY, GEMINI MAN and HIGH STRUNG FREE DANCE! Plus, Bibbs and Witney bid a fond farewell to one of the great character actors, Osca...

It's a brand new podcast on the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED network, and this one is all yours! WE'VE GOT MAIL is the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer your emails, and in this debut episode they tackle everything from mental health in movies, to bad movie subtitles, to how they'd recast CASABLANCA, to whether JOKER is the worst movie of the year! Email us...

It's GHASTLYTOBER, and all throughout the month on CANCELED TOO SOON we're reviewing spooky short-lived TV shows, as chosen by our Patreon subscribers!  First up: MISTRESS OF SUSPENSE (aka CHILLERS) a disturbing anthology series based on the works of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY author Patricia Highsmith! Anthony Perkins hosts an all-star cavalcade of British actors, bu...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are taking their movie review show CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED to its new home, right here on the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NETWORK! This week, Bibbs and Witney review the new releases JOKER, PAIN & GLORY, IN THE TALL GRASS, LUCY IN THE SKY, DOOM: ANNIHILATION, LOW TIDE and SEMPER FI, and tell you all about the future of this podcast feed.  Subscribe on Patreon  at www....

Eric Idle from MONTY PYTHON stars in American sitcom about a pair of upper class ghosts haunting the middle class family that moves into their old house! It sounds like BEETLEJUICE but it's not. It's NEARLY DEPARTED, and it lasted only six short episodes in 1989. Was this supernatural sitcom with a low-key catchy as hell theme song... CANCELED TOO SOON? We'll find out in this week'...

Celebrated sci-fi author Harlan Ellison created a show Amish people who learn they're living in outer space, in a ship containing everyone on Earth as they flee an uninhabitable Earth! It's the very ambitious and extremely cheap TV series THE STARLOST, starring Keir Dullea from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY! Harlan Ellison had his name taken off THE STARLOST and replaced with, for some reason, &#3...

It's our first cooking show! This week on CANCELED TOO SOON, internet sensation Christine McConnell gets her own Netflix series about how to make delicious, spooky desserts. But it's also a sitcom about living with adorably homicidal monsters, brought to life as charmingly creepy puppets! It's THE CURIOUS CREATIONS OF CHRISTINE MCCONNELL, and it may very well have been... CANCELED TOO...

The AMERICAN GOTHITHON concludes! The second failed TV series called AMERICAN GOTHIC aired for one season in 2016, and it stars a huge ensemble of great actors in an old-fashioned whodunnit murder mystery about one of the richest families in America. One of them is a serial killer, but who? WHO?! AMERICAN GOTHIC failed to find an audience when it premiered three years ago, but maybe, just maybe, i...

Gary Cole plays a satanic small town sheriff in AMERICAN GOTHIC, a horror series from the co-star of THE HARDY BOYS and the director of THE EVIL DEAD! Sarah Paulson and Lucas Black co-star in this creepy, kooky, sometimes very spooky series about temptation, murder, mayhem, and the ghost of the Boston Strangler. AMERICAN GOTHIC was one of the most acclaimed cult shows of the 1990s, but was it real...

The year is 2005 and severe droughts have left the world in post-apocalyptic disarray, and gangs of ROAD WARRIOR-esque bandits roam the wastelands. It's up to Perfect Tommy from BUCKAROO BANZAI, a robot played by Miguel Ferrer and, naturally, Sharon Stone to protect the world from eccentric bad guys using high-tech cars in BADLANDS 2005, directed by George Miller! How the heck did BADLANDS 200...

"Weird" Al Yankovic is one of the most popular comedy and music superstars in the world, but even he couldn't keep a kids show on the air on CBS! Yankovic starred in THE WEIRD AL SHOW as an insecure goofball living in a cave, and despite cameo appearances by Hanson, Barenaked Ladies, Patton Oswalt, John Tesh, Alex Trebek and Randy Savage, it only lasted one season. Was THE WEIRD ALL SH...

When there's murder in your suburban neighborhood, you don't call the cops! You call Dee Wallace from CUJO, Heather Langenkamp from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, Shelly Fabares from COACH and acclaimed singer Patti Austin! They're housewives who solve violent crimes, get in car chases and take a murderer's dictation in SUBURBAN BEAT! It's funny, it's clever, and it's got a...

Dana Delany and Alison Lohman lead an all-star cast of despicable billionaires in PASADENA, a sadistic and sexy soap opera created by Mike White (SCHOOL OF ROCK). When a teen debutante discovers her family covered up a murder 20 years ago, she risks everything to uncover the truth, and drudges sex scandals, financial corruption and all-new murders in the process! It's smart, it's funny, it...

SIX FEET UNDER and TRUE BLOOD producer Alan Ball has made a several hit shows out of several tricky premises, but he couldn't find a way to make HERE AND NOW last more than one season! It's an ambitious dramatic series starring Oscar-winners Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins as the parents of children from all across the world, who are all grown up and just as screwed up as mom and dad! Oh yeah...

The year was 1983, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS was being played across the country, and on Saturday nights there was only one show where you could find magic, sword fighting, invisible dragons and silly jokes: WIZARDS AND WARRIORS! It won an Emmy for Best Costume Design, but was it really... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold dive into this overlooked fantasy series to...

Everybody knows that Gene Roddenberry created STAR TREK, the utopian sci-fi series about overcoming mankind's frailties and taking our place amongst the stars. But he also created a show about orgies and demons called SPECTRE, starring Robert Culp and Oscar-winner Gig Young as paranormal investigators who get wrapped up in an occult conspiracy involving John Hurt and fetish outfits. It's o...

Just a few weeks after STAR WARS first came out, a new superhero premiered on television, and his named  wasn't  IRON MAN, but everyone thought it was! From the director of SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN came EXO-MAN, the story of a physics professor who testifies against the mob, gets attacked and paralyzed, and uses his scientific knowhow to build a terrible-looking supersuit and seek vigilante just...

William Shakespeare's ROMEO & JULIET was nothing more than a prelude to STILL STAR-CROSSED, an epic drama from SHONDALAND - the producers of GREY'S ANATOMY and SCANDAL - about what happened  after those ill-fated lovers took their own lives. If you thought the Capulets and Montagues learned a valuable lesson... you were wrong! The fighting only gets worse in STILL STAR-CROSSED, but was...

It's time to bring CHRIS CARTER MONTH to an appropriately abrupt conclusion with THE LONE GUNMEN, one of the most notorious one-season wonders in TV history. The comic relief sidekicks from THE X-FILES got their own TV series, with decent ratings and critical acclaim, with conspiracy-driven storylines that accurately predicted tech companies spying on consumers and - in the show's shocking...

A group of mismatched strangers are stuck together in the middle of the apocalypse in THE AFTER, a failed TV pilot written and directed by Chris Carter, the producer of THE X-FILES! It's a series about twisting-turning revelations and mysterious characters, kinda like LOST but... not. Despite a big budget, a big cast and a big push by Amazon, THE AFTER never made it past the pilot episode. Was...

CHRIS CARTER MONTH begins! The creator of THE X-FILES and MILLENNIUM also produced a lot of failed TV shows, and we're saluting those disappointments, starting with HARSH REALM, a sci-fi epic about a soldier tossed into a virtual reality simulation to assassinate a rogue player. It came out just a few months after THE MATRIX, so audiences were clearly interested in realms as harsh (or harsher)...

There's no better way to celebrate television's biggest failures than with a MASSIVE AWARDS SHOW!!!  This week on CANCELED TOO SOON, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold pay tribute to all the best, worst and weirdest TV shows they watched in the podcast's epic third year, from the catchiest theme songs to strangest premises, to the shows that definitely were CANCELED TOO SOON... and th...

The year was 1985, and the balls had just gone mad! MADBALLS were a successful series of toys that gave gruesome faces to spherical objects, but although they practically flew of the shelves, they didn't have their own cartoon series. But it wasn't for lack of trying! MADBALLS had not one but TWO pilot episodes, as wildly different as they could possibly be while still starring gross anthr...

Back in the 1970s, the world was a heck of a lot more bionic. That's why shows like THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and BIONIC WOMAN ruled the airwaves. In 2007, the producer of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and the co-writer of ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL teamed up to reboot BIONIC WOMAN with a new cast and a grim 'n' gritty attitude! The BIONIC WOMAN was derailed by a writer's strike, so maybe, just m...