It has been announced that "Heroes" has been canceled but there is hope that it will make an appearance at movie theatres made instead. I remember that its first season debuted in the fall of 2006. I remember seeing the ads promoting it on TV before it debuted. It looked like the type of show I would try out, but I went out of town over its series premiere. By the time I got home, it had gotten a pretty successful group of fans, and it might have been possible that I would be one of those fans had I had watched the first episode. But because I didn't watch the first episode, I never had the opportunity to catch up once I started. So I have never watched a single episode. Now that "Heroes" is over, I might get started on watching the first season on home video. But there are some other things I wonder about before I do.
Sometimes, TV producers make a TV show, knowing how many episodes they're going to have altogether. They have a beginning in the first episode, and the last episode includes an ending. Or similarly, they start a series not knowing when they'll end, but then later on are given a finish date and are able to wrap things up in time for the finale.
Other times, they make TV shows hoping or subconsciously expecting that they'll last forever, so the story keeps going until the bosses abruptly cancel it. Like a season finale with a cliffhanger hoping that the cliffhanger is resolved at the next season premiere, but the bosses axe it before the season, so that the season finale turned out to be an abrupt series finale. It might work as a 3 part movies franchise instead.
I want to know of a whole bunch of examples for each of the above scenarios, and which category "Heroes" belongs in. "TV shows that ended with a resolved finale" and "TV shows with an abrupt finale without an ending." An example that I can think of of a TV series that ended abruptly was the fictional "Woody's Roundup" show from the movie Toy Story 2 (Woody and Bullseye jump over the canyon and no episode follows showing whether or not they make it). This whole mess is part of the reason why TV watching is so much less interesting for me to buy movie tickets for full-length-movie watching.
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