Conspiracies on TV Shows

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This primetime drama centered on a post-apocalyptic uprising against the evil, freeloading town of New Bern, Kansas. It was cancelled after one season most likely due to poor ratings but brought back thanks to fan demand, then cancelled again in its second year. Though ratings were again the reported reason for cancellation, super fans claim that government officials feared viewers would take a hint from Jericho's townspeople and rise up.






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Joss Whedon's Firefly didn't last through its first season in 2002, but its diehard fan base has yet to let the cancellation go. Some, like writer David Mark Brown, believe it was the American political system that shut the cult favorite down. As Brown argues, the show's plot focused around an independent "who fights for civil liberties in order to stick it to the man by encouraging a free-trade economy based on bartering and simple living" He claims this is the "last thing either Democrats or Republicans" in power wanted.





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When Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez) and Libby (Cynthia Watros) were abruptly killed during the second season of Lost, fans were shocked. But Us Weekly had already reported that producers had wanted to kill the characters off as soon as both women were arrested for driving while intoxicated in Hawaii just 15 minutes apart. (Both plead guilty and paid small fines.) Coincidence? Or maybe it was all the island's plan.






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Did UFO Hunters hit a little too close to home? The series, which followed Bill Birnes and his team of investigators as they searched for evidence of the paranormal, was reportedly due for another season when the show was suddenly yanked from the airwaves. Some fans and even Birnes himself believe that it was the FDA and pharmaceutical companies, which saw UFO Hunters creeping in on the terrible truths about their nefarious doings, that got the show cancelled. However, there is no hard evidence of this.





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Hawthorne
Hawthorne starred the tough, sexy Jada Pinkett Smith and superstar crooner Marc Anthony -- how could it fail? Upon the show's abrupt cancellation, rumors began to bubble that it was taken off the air not because of ratings (which were decent) but because of a budding affair between the still-married Smith and Anthony, who had recently split from Jennifer Lopez. Publicists denied any affair, and the network said simply that they "decided not to order a fourth season."





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With all the posters, billboards and magazine ads that the History Channel ran in anticipation of The Kennedys, it came as quite a shock to viewers when the network pulled it. With big names like Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes and the minds behind 24, it couldn't be that the show was bad. Many believe that the more likely reason for the series' getting the axe is that it revealed major Kennedy secrets. However, a network rep told The Hollywood Reporter that, "after viewing the final product in its totality, we have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not fit for the History brand."





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TV Funhouse On SNL
In 1998, a Robert Smigel animated short titled "Conspiracy Theory Rock" aired on an episode of Saturday Night Live and was never seen again. The cartoon critique attacked not only corporate media ownership in general but also specifically mocked General Electric's ownership of NBC. SNL producer Lorne Michaels has said that it was because the short wasn't funny enough to re-air but perhaps it was because of who it wasn't funny to that mattered.





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On Nickelodeon's Blues' Clues, host Steve Burns had a compulsive habit of wearing the same khakis and green striped shirt every day in his animated home. But in the real world, Burns was falsely rumored to be struggling with and losing a much more serious addiction: heroin. When he left the show in 1999, media reports announced that Burns had died of an overdose even his mother heard the rumor. A man who resembles Burns has spoken out, claiming that the story was a hoax, and denies the drug tale, as well, saying that he was just sick of the character.






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Have you found yourself disappointed with every season of American Idol? You tirelessly vote for your favorite star only to see them cast aside by the judges but how could that be? Perhaps your votes are for naught, thanks to an organization that just loves bad singing. The Vote for The Worst website champion the atonal competitors and instructs its followers to vote for their pick-of-the-week, throwing just enough votes to turn the tide against the fan favorite.