Challenge: Save Your favourite television series!

What would it take for your favorite TV series to be saved from premature cancellation?

NOTE: This does not deal with shows that ended, or were cancelled on their own accord so don't post stuff like "BSG Season 5" or anything like that

The goal of this thread is to well, save your favorite television series from, well, cancellation. You have to list the show and a possible POD that could have saved it from cancellation and make it plausible. If it involves an event happening in the real world or a important real-world event, do so.
 
Veritas: the Quest

Died because it was never fully aired....13 episodes were made but they never got to episode 4 in the US thanks to the second Gulf "War", with the timeslot given over to Bush's speech

POD is fairly obvious for this
 
Firefly

Option A: Fox doesn't hold on to the airing rights as tightly as they did IOTL, meaning that the show gets picked up the Sci-Fi Channel or UPN following its OTL cancellation by Fox.

Option B: Whedon doesn't pitch the show to Fox in the first place, meaning that it ends up either on UPN, The WB or Sci-Fi, meaning that it has a much stronger chance of survival from the get go.
 
Veritas: the Quest

Died because it was never fully aired....13 episodes were made but they never got to episode 4 in the US thanks to the second Gulf "War", with the timeslot given over to Bush's speech

POD is fairly obvious for this

Had 9/11 been averted, or had it happened but it hardened US pop culture Perot-TL style, a lot of shows might have not been axed IMO.
 
Not my favourite show, but:

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- is renewed for a third season while Dollhouse is cancelled after one season instead.
 
Dark Angel

It's renewal for a third season is confirmed and is a big hit, restoring the show's ratings and seeing a Season Four confirmed in early 2003. Season Four also does well and a fifth is also made, but after season five stars Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly move on, which ends the show in April 2005. That isn't quite the end of the story, however - most of the stars of the show are involved in James Cameron's Avatar, which leads to a Dark Angel movie in 2014, focused on a rivalry between Max (Alba) and the secretive Conclave thought beaten at the end of the fifth season, led by three dangerous femme fatales (played by Zoe Saldana, Jennifer Lawrence and Freida Pinto), one of which also has eyes on Logan (Weatherly) for herself.

OOC: I can dream. :)
 
Last Of The Summer Wine - don't know how you'd do it though since it's hard to find solid information about its cancelling.
 
Not my favourite show, but:

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- is renewed for a third season while Dollhouse is cancelled after one season instead.

I think this was cancelled because T4 didn't do too well.

But anyway, older shows I was sad to see axed:
Journeyman
Flash Forward
Detroit 187
Dark Blue
Reaper

Not sure how they could have been saved but probably better marketing -> better ratings
 

Archibald

Banned
Dark Angel

It's renewal for a third season is confirmed and is a big hit, restoring the show's ratings and seeing a Season Four confirmed in early 2003. Season Four also does well and a fifth is also made, but after season five stars Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly move on, which ends the show in April 2005. That isn't quite the end of the story, however - most of the stars of the show are involved in James Cameron's Avatar, which leads to a Dark Angel movie in 2014, focused on a rivalry between Max (Alba) and the secretive Conclave thought beaten at the end of the fifth season, led by three dangerous femme fatales (played by Zoe Saldana, Jennifer Lawrence and Freida Pinto), one of which also has eyes on Logan (Weatherly) for herself.

OOC: I can dream. :)

Excellent !

More seasons of this show

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cape_(1996_TV_series)
 
Spitting Image

The problem was that the puppets cost around £20,000 each to produce, so high production costs and not enough to poke fun at ultimately killed it off.

A more interesting political picture in the mid-late 90s would have helped. By the time Tony Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in 1994, it was obvious that Labour would win the next election by a considerable margin. I have absolutely no idea how you'd change this - perhaps have a weaker candidate like John Prescott win the leadership election instead of Blair. (I'll let one of you experts think about that one!) Maybe they could have expanded into other areas a bit more, such as sport and business.
 
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