Remember those times when it wasn't so easy to find out a show was cancelled? You'd sit there enjoying, say, Wolf Lake and suddenly, with no word it drops from the schedules. The only way to find out was ring the television company, usually ITV, and ask: " Can you tell me what has happened to Wolf Lake?" "Wolf what? Wolf the Gladiator do you mean? I think he is still alive." would be the reply.
But now all we do is look it up or employ our highly developed cancelled sense. That is what happened to me when I stumbled across The River. First clue, it is on Syfy, so there was a fair chance it wasn't going very far.But there was also something about the show that just seemed to stink of cancellation, even though it has a good cast Bruce Greenwood, Leslie Hope and Thomas Kretschmann. It is the story of, oh does it matter there is only eight episodes and it usually takes me that long to get to know the character names. A group of people, accompanied by a camera crew go in search of a Steve Irwin type TV star who has gone missing in the Amazon, the river not the company, it is all told through recordings, surveillance tapes and Blair Witch things like that. They come across the missing Steve Irwin bloke's boat and, like you would, release some sort of spirit. Cue mayhem and shouting and tosh talk of magic in the jungle. The show was probably cancelled because we all know it was racing into Lost territory. No one needs that again and certainly not in a boat up the Amazon.
So if you want to be confused for eight weeks for the show to just stop dead or end on a never resolved cliffhanger, I recommend you watch The River.
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