Sometimes it sucks not to be mainstream TV cattle

I watch TV very rarely. Usually I only follow it with half an eye while I am doing something on my laptop or reading a book. The only time I really sit down to watch TV is on sunday night for the weekly episodes of several series (Las Vegas, NCIS, Justice).

Now this happens to me fairly often: I find a TV series that I like and at the end of the first season I try to find out when the next season will start, only to discover that a) other people thought it stank so it was cancelled by the producer, or b) my local network thought it stank so they either cancelled it completely, or moved it to a 1 AM timeslot.

I just found out that the TV series 'Justice' was cancelled forever.

Another legal TV series 'Shark' was moved to air at 23:00 by the local network.

'Boston Legal' was discontinued by the local networks after the first season, transferred to another network, dropped, picked up again, moved to a 23:20 and now it has been a while since I saw it.

They did the same to 'Las Vegas' but fortunately that seems to have recovered a favorable status with the network power that be.

One things I really liked about Justice is that a case would be tried before the court and either lost or won, but you did not know what really happened, so you could base your opinion solely on the court case and witness statements. But at the very end of the show, you'd see the event as it had 'really' happened.

Sometimes a guilty man was found innocent, sometimes the reverse, and usually it was correct. The fact that this wasn't always the case made it interesting imo. And the cast was good as well.

It seems that very few people appreciate a TV series that contains dry wit, mockery of human nature and the need to think about the story.