Manifest Is The Hottest Thing On Netflix (And 12 Other Shows That Were Canceled Too Soon)
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Netflix users are begging the service to fund another season of streaming-fave Manifest after NBC axed the show. Here are 13 TV shows that fans swear ended too soon.
![Perhaps America wasn't quite ready to PARTY DOWN GRACKED.COM Despite a cast of future stars like Jane Lynch, Lizzy Caplan and Adam Scott, the Starz sitcom suffered from low ratings. Its cult status among fans is about to be rewarded- the show is being brought back for a six-episode limited series. Paging Steve Guttenberg.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/3/785713.jpg)
![Trekkies -- Trekkers? got the last laugh STAR TREK CRACKED.COM Time slot hell and reduced budgets sealed the low-rated Star Trek's fate. But the show rose from the ashes -- first in syndication, then at fan conventions, and finally in a popular film franchise. With nine Star Trek series and counting, the nerds got their revenge.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/5/785715.jpg)
![Judd Apatow had a chance to make more FREAKS AND GEEKS CRACKED COM NBC pulled the plug after one 18-episode season - but there could have been more! MTV offered to produce a second season, but at a much lower budget. Apatow turned down the opportunity because we all decided we didn't want to do a weaker version of the show.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/4/785714.jpg)
![Nathan Fillion has had enough FIREFLY CRACKED.COM But at least fans got a movie! After a season of the show and the film Serenity, diehard Firefly-heads keep begging for more. Enough is enough, Fillion said on a convention panel celebrating the show. How can everything not be enough?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/1/785711.jpg)
![Fans are trying to rescue MANIFEST CRACKED.COM After NBC canceled the sci-fi mystery, viewers took to Netflix to save the show. Manifest has spent weeks as the service's top-streamed show -- will it be enough to get Netflix to fund a fourth season?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/0/785710.jpg)
![What If ABC didn't cancel AGENT CARTER CRACKED.COM Agent Carter topped Digital Spy's 'TV Show You'll Miss Most' poll. Marvel didn't want it to end, says Hayley Atwell. Fans loved her. They should get their Carter fix when an animated version shows up on Marvel's new What If? series.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/2/785712.jpg)
![Fans crowd-funded more VERONICA MARS CRACKED.COM It was a big deal in the early 2010s when the show's creator raised $2 million to make a Veronica Mars movie - on Kickstarter. The previous record at the time was $900,000, but Mars reached its goal in only 12 hours.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/1/785721.jpg)
![Netflix spent big dollars on THE OA CRACKED.COM And that was the problem. Netflix has a cost-to-viewers ratio that determines whether or not shows get renewed. Even with a core group of hardcore fans, The OA didn't have enough viewers to justify its pricey sci-fi budget.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/7/785717.jpg)
![Rob Lowe was furious about THE GRINDER CRACKED.COM The notion of a show as acclaimed, as original wouldn't have a home anywhere on television, it seems a little outrageous, complained Lowe. That it doesn't have a home on network television tells you all you need to know about network television.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/0/785720.jpg)
![Sorkin decided to call it a SPORTS NIGHT CRACKED.COM Ratings were low, but a passionate fan base meant several cable outlets were willing to pick up Sports Night for a third season. Show creator Aaron Sorkin considered it before deciding to move on to a little show he called The West Wing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/9/785709.jpg)
![Claire Danes was done living MY SO-CALLED LIFE CRACKED.COM ABC was already on the fence about renewing Life, but Danes and her parents sealed the deal when they told producers she wasn't coming back. The decision was disappointing to the show's creators, but Danes was ready to start her so-called movie career.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/6/785716.jpg)
![Fox wasn't ready for the weirdness of GET A LIFE CRACKED.com Executives couldn't wait to get the aggressively obnoxious sitcom off the air. Too bad because Season 3 sounded amazing: Elliott would have become a homeless drifter traveling from town to town. Everyone's life he touched would become a little worse.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/8/785718.jpg)
![Apatow went back to school with UNDECLARED CRACKED.COM When Undeclared got canceled, Apatow sent a framed, glowing review to the executive who axed the show. He included a note that can't be reprinted here, but it included references to unpleasant acts and multiple orifices.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/9/785719.jpg)