We’re currently living through the era of sequels, reboots and revivals, and Johnny Depp hasn’t been immune from that. The past few years have seen Depp caught up in Pirates of the Caribbean 6 chatter and, as of right now, that project seems to be far from a sure thing. As commonplace as sequels are, though, I can’t say I was expecting to hear that one of Depp’s classic films is receiving one. Not only that, but this particular follow-up is also happening in a way that I wouldn’t have expected.

One Of Johnny Depp And Tim Burton’s Films Is Receiving A Sequel

Years ago, Johnny Depp teamed up with Tim Burton for 1999’s Sleepy Hollow, an adaptation of Washington Irving’s short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The movie may not be among Burton’s most acclaimed works or feature one of Depp’s greatest roles, but it has garnered a following. On that note, the film is now set to receive a sequel by way of a comic book published by IDW Publishing’s horror brand, IDW Dark. Per EW, Return to Sleepy Hollow is being penned by Casey Gilly, with Savanna Mayer contributing the artwork.

Sleepy Hollow centers on Ichabod Crane (Depp), a police constable who is summoned to the titular town to investigate a string of grisly decapitations. It’s there that Crane discovers the supernatural force that is the Headless Horseman and draws the romantic interest of Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci). The comic-based sequel will see Ichabod return to the town 15 years later to investigate more murders, and he’ll also reunite with Katrina, from whom he’s estranged. Casey Gilly said this about landing the gig:

I’ve honestly never had Sleepy Hollow on my bingo card as a Tim Burton movie that was in dire need of a follow-up. And, of course, what’s even more surprising is that this new chapter in the horror series is coming by way of a comic book. However, there is precedence, as other movies have been expanded upon using that medium. Even the series Batman ‘89 builds on the continuity launched by Burton’s two superhero films. Neither Burton nor Johnny Depp seem to be involved with Return, though Depp has something else in store.

Johnny Depp Is Launching A Comic Book Property Of His Own

As the sequel to his late-’90s, dark fantasy flick remains in the works, Johnny Depp is working with filmmaker Ridley Scott to develop a new IP. The pair of creatives joined forces for Hyde, a graphic novel series that’s based on Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde and will be released this Halloween. The story follows Mr. Hyde, who’s fully suppressed Dr. Jekyll and is now living in the sewers while attempting to turn others into Hydes. The titular character bears Depp’s likeness, though he’s playing coy on a live-action adaptation.

That aforementioned graphic novel will be jointly owned by the Fantastic Beasts alum, Ridley Scott and the production company Johnny Cake. With this latest business move, the actor continues to forge a professional path amid this latest chapter of his career (which he wouldn’t call a “comeback”). Still, in the aftermath of his legal issues with ex-wife Amber Heard, the veteran actor is working his way back into the industry. He’s also making a major Hollywood return with Day Drinker, his first film from a U.S. studio in several years.

I can’t help but wonder whether the Sleepy Hollow comic could spawn a live-action adaptation should it gain buzz. Theoretically, that would be another feather in Johnny Depp’s professional cap. Realistically, the chances of that happening are probably slim but, then again, the notion of this particular Tim Burton film receiving a follow-up seemed unlikely, too. Return to Sleepy Hollow will be released on October 29, and fans looking to prepare for it can stream the OG film for free on Pluto TV now.

When people think of the best Tim Burton movies, the first thing that typically pops into their minds is the unique filmmaker’s wild visual style. However, we cannot deny that his films also boast some equally trippy and amusing dialogue. See for yourself by looking back on some of the most incredible lines from the incredible filmmaker’s greatest hits.

“It’s Showtime” - Beetlejuice

Out of all the best quotes from Beetlejuice – Tim Burton's ghostly sophomore effort from 1988 – there is only one line that best defines Michael Keaton's titular bio-exorcist (actually spelled "Betelgeuse"). The announcement of his return to the land of the living after Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) says his name thrice is on par with the memorably epic delivery of The Shining's "Here's Johnny!"

"I Want To Thank My Grandma For Always Being So Good To Me, And, And For Helping Save The World And Everything" - Mars Attacks!

Out of all the crazy things that have happened in alien invasion movies, Slim Whitman’s “Indian Love Call” being used as a weapon against the Martians in 1996's Mars Attacks! is one of the most unique. Because the song's weaponizing purpose was discovered accidentally by his grandmother, Florence (Sylvia Sidney), Richie Norris (Lukas Haas) attributes Earth's survival to her in a celebratory ceremony.

"You Ever Dance With The Devil In The Pale Moonlight?" - Batman

Any argument for why Jack Nicholson remains one of the greatest Joker actors in cinematic history can be narrowed down to just one quote from the first of Tim Burton's live-action Batman movies, 1989's Batman. While the Clown Prince of Crime likes to say it to all his prey just for the way it sounds to him, it holds a special significance to Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), reigniting a lost memory of his parents' tragic murder.

"I Know You Are But What Am I?" - Pee-wee's Big Adventure

We can thank the late, great Paul Reubens and his signature iconic man-child for introducing the ultimate comeback to any insult. It never ceases to be funny no matter how many times he repeats it in a vicious back-and-forth with Francis Buxton (Mark Holton) early on Tim Burton's feature-length directorial debut, 1985's Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

"At Last! My Arm Is Complete Again!" - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

One of the best Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaborations is the 2007 cinematic adaptation of the bleak stage musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The title character of the acclaimed revenge movie (Depp) finds purpose again after years behind bars when he is reunited with his razor, which he uses to punish those who wronged him.

"I've Spent So Long In The Darkness, I'd Almost Forgotten How Beautiful The Moonlight Is" - Corpse Bride

Surprisingly, Corpse Bride – a spooky stop-motion fantasy in which the meek Victor (Johnny Depp) accidentally finds himself married to the undead Emily (Helena Bonham Carter) – is considered one of Tim Burton's most criminally overlooked films. We are inclined to agree that moments like this, in which Emily is given the opportunity to see the moon for the first time since her death, deserve far more appreciation.

"They Say When You Meet The Love Of Your Life, Time Stops, And That's True. What They Don't Tell You Is That When It Starts Again, It Moves Extra Fast To Catch Up" - Big Fish

One of the most romantic movie quotes in recent memory comes from Tim Burton's 2007 adaptation of Daniel Wallace's novel, Big Fish, when Albert FInney's Ed Bloom recalls the moment his younger self (Ewan McGregor) first laid eyes on his wife. Anyone who has found love would agree that it certainly feels like the world stops when they find it and that life seems to go by all too quickly from that point on.

"It Is Truth, But Truth Is Not Always Appearance" - Sleepy Hollow

Take a tribute to old-fashioned period horror dramas like Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow from 1999 which offers such an insightful lesson in differentiating what is real from what is illusion. Johnny Depp's Ichabod Crane demonstrates how things are not always what they seem by taking out a yarn with a card in the center bearing a picture of a bird on one side and a cage on the other. When he spins the yarn, it looks as if the bird is in the cage.

"If He Weren't Up There Now, I Don't Think It Would Be Snowing. Sometimes, You Can Still Catch Me Dancing In It" - Edward Scissorhands

Easily one of the most unique Tim Burton movies in concept alone, 1990's Edward Scissorhands is also a wondrous experience in execution for the imagination expressed in a single line like its last. Elderly Kim (Winona Ryder) explains to her granddaughter that, in their neighborhood, the snowfall is actually shrapnel from the title character's ice sculptures, which he craves with his blades for fingers.

“Well, I Attended Juilliard…” - Beetlejuice

Searching for a way to rid their house of the Deetzes, the recently deceased Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis) ask Betelguese (Michael Keaton) about his “qualifications,” to which he replies this uproarious autobiography. The full Beetlejuice quote reads, "Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen THE EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT! NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO A DEAD GUY! NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK? You think I'm qualified?"

"Play Dead... Oh, Sorry" - Corpse Bride

As a gift from Emily, Victor receives the enviable opportunity to be reunited with his long-deceased dog, Scraps, in Corpse Bride. The man becomes so caught up in this joyous event that he almost forgets his once-furry friend is a ghost when he calls out a common command.

"This Is The One. 'This' Is The One I'll Be Remembered For" - Ed Wood

One of Tim Burton's most widely acclaimed films is the Oscar-winning 1994 biopic Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp as the director of such trashy B-movies as Plan 9 from Outer Space. The filmmaker is actually referring to the 1957 alien invasion movie in this quote and he would, indeed, turn out to be correct.

"This Is What Happens When You Die...” - Beetlejuice

The full quote by Beetlejuice cast member Patrice Martinez as Miss Argentina reads, "This is what happens when you die. That is what happens when he dies. And that is what happens when they die. It's all very personal. And I'll tell you something: if I knew then what I know now...I wouldn't have had my little accident." It is the waiting room receptionist's fascinating way of explaining to Adam and Barbara how everyone's experience of the Afterlife is different, depending on the cause of death.

"...But A Kiss Can Be Even Deadlier If You Mean It" - Batman Returns

In 1992's Batman Returns, the Dark Knight (Michael Keaton) mentions mistletoe can be "deadly if you eat it," prompting this cheeky reply from Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman. One of Michael Keaton's coolest Batman moments sees this quote make a reprise during a later scene at Max Schreck's ball, when Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle quote each other's alter egos, leading them to discover their true identities.

"I Read Through That Handbook For The Recently Deceased...” - Beetlejuice

When the Maitlands ask Lydia how she is able to see their ghosts, she says that the Handbook for the Recently Deceased explains that "live people ignore the strange and unusual," and adds, "I myself am strange and unusual." There is no greater quote to associate with Winona Ryder's teen goth hero from Beetlejuice than this.

"You Wanna Get Nuts? C'Mon, Let's Get Nuts!" - Batman

Michael Keaton's willingness to have Bruce Wayne let out his dark side even when he is not in the cape and cowl is one of the essential reasons why he is one of the best live-action Batman actors of all time. Exhibit A: when he threatens the Joker in Vicki Vale's (Kim Basinger) living room with a fire poker and this unhinged call to action.

"That's The Problem. He Was Dead To Begin With" - Sleepy Hollow

In Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, while it takes a while for Johnny Depp's Ichabod Crane to realize the deadly Headless Horseman exists, he catches on to the unusual weight of the situation relatively quickly. After Young Masbath (Marc Pickering) asks if the villain is dead, Ichabod claims that it might be impossible to kill him as he is already deceased.

"My Dreams Were Taken From Me. But Now - Now I've Stolen Them From Someone Else. I Love You, Victor, But You Are Not Mine" - Corpse Bride

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is one of the most beautiful stories based on the philosophy that the best way to prove you love someone is by letting them go. Emily is genuinely smitten by the man who brought her soul back to life but, realizing that Victor is meant to be with Victoria (Emily Watson), she moves on.

"C'mon, Simone, Let's Talk About Your Big 'But'" - Pee-wee's Big Adventure

One of the most moving scenes from Pee-wee's Big Adventure also involves one of its funniest quotes. While watching the sunrise together, Simone (Diane Salinger) tells Pee-wee about her dream to live in Paris, which he urges her to follow despite what her jealous boyfriend, Andy, says. She replies, "I know you're right, Pee-wee, but..." at which point he cuts her off, encouraging her to discuss her "big but," which an eavesdropping Andy misinterprets as them getting intimate.

"If You Don't Let Me Gut Out This House And Make It My Own, I Will Go Insane AND I WILL TAKE YOU WITH ME!" - Beetlejuice

In a movie filled with grotesque ghouls and sandworms from Saturn, the most uproarious scenes in Beetlejuice are truly owned by Schitt’s Creek cast member Catherine O’Hara as Delia Deetz. The film introduces her unusual artistic taste and iron-fisted approach to preserving it early on when pleading with her husband, Charles (Jeffrey Jones), to let her change the Maitlands' home to her liking.

"Guess It Wasn't The Dove" - Mars Attacks!

In Mars Attacks!, the Martians kill all of Congress, prompting First Daughter Taffy Dale (Natalie Portman) to quip that the dove which seemingly set off the first angry attack on humanity was not the cause. They just don't like humans.

"Because He IS Batman, You Moron!" - Batman Returns

Some might say Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) from Batman Returns is one of the most overlooked Batman movie characters but he also has his moments of density. For instance, when he asks Bruce Wayne why he is dressed like the Dark Knight, Selina Kyle responds with what is easily one of the funniest Batman movie moments.

"You're Entirely Bonkers. But I'll Tell You A Secret. All The Best People Are" - Alice In Wonderland

We would attribute the success of Tim Burton's 2010 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, not just for its wondrous visuals, but for the way it serves as a source of inspiration to anyone who ever felt a little "out there." We imagine many people found encouragement in these words from Alice (Mia Wasikowska) to Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter.

“You Don't Wanna Get Mixed Up With A Guy Like Me. I'm A Loner, Dottie. A Rebel" - Pee-wee's Big Adventure

While its seems like an unlikely description for a goofy man in a red bowtie, anyone who truly understands Paul Reubens' Pee-wee knows that he is quite rebellious. Later in Pee-wee's Big Adventure, he experiences "déjà vu" when escaped convict Mickey (Judd Omen) repeats what he told Dottie (E.G. Daily) almost word for word.

"Who's The Man Behind The Bat? Maybe You Can Help Me Find The Woman Behind The Cat?" - Batman Returns

One of the things that makes Michelle Pfeiffer's performance in Batman Returns one of the all-time best Catwoman portrayals is how she makes the feline-esque thief's romance with the vigilante feel so authentic. Despite existing on opposite sides of the law, the Bat and the Cat truly complete each other.

"Visions Are Worth Fighting For. Why Spend Your Life Making Someone Else's Dreams?" - Ed Wood

At least from a creative perspective, there may not be a more inspirational quote from a Tim Burton movie than these words of wisdom from Ed Wood. Perfectly cast by Vincent D'Onofrio, Orson Welles encourages the B-movie filmmaker to hold on to his artistic integrity, no matter what the cost.

"Science Is Not Good Or Bad, Victor. But It Can Be Used Both Ways. That Is Why You Must Always Be Careful" - Frankenweenie

Based on the 1984 short film that launched Tim Burton's career, the 2012 stop-motion favorite Frankeweenie follows an ambitious young boy who attempts to resurrect his beloved dog from the dead. The complications that come from this feat are prophesied by these otherwise encouraging words from his mentor, Mr. Rzykruski (Martin Landau).

"Candy Doesn't Have To Have A Point. That's Why It's Candy" - Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

If there is any reason to like Tim Burton's 2005 adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it is Freddie Highmore's performance in the title role. The poor boy understands the purpose of sweet treats better than any of the five children chosen to tour the famed factory.

"You Know What, I Mistook Me For Somebody Else" - Batman Returns

During Bruce Wayne's funny meet cute with Selina Kyle in Batman Returns, he tries to tell Max Schreck's assistant that he meant to say he mistook her for somebody else to cover for the fact that he previously ran into her as Batman. That being said, to say that he mistook himself for somebody else is more accurate.

"A Man Tells His Stories So Many Times That He Becomes The Stories. They Live On After Him, And In That Way He Becomes Immortal" - Big Fish

Big Fish is a really a series of stories that Albert Finney's Ed Bloom recalls to his son, Will (Billy Crudup), who believes his tales are nothing more than fantasy. However, at the end of his father's life, he comes to realize that his stories, no matter how unbelievable, have contributed to his enduring legacy.

“If You Insist On Frightening People, Do It With Your Sculptures" - Beetlejuice

Talk show host Dick Cavett has an all-too-brief appearance in Beetlejuice as Delia's art agent that is made iconic by just one line following the memorable musical moment in the horror movie involving Harry Belafonte's "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)." Convinced their spontaneous possession was actually a prank, he chooses to end his professional relationship with the eccentric sculptor with this cruel burn.

"Everything In This Room Is Eatable, Even I'm Eatable! But That Is Called 'Cannibalism,' My Dear Children, And Is In Fact Frowned Upon In Most Societies" - Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

Some people criticize Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for Johnny Depp's incomprehensibly strange performance as Willy Wonka. However, we have to admit, we get a chuckle out of this version of the eccentric chocolatier, especially in how his explanation of the edible qualities of his indoor meadow goes pretty dark.

There are few novelties within the media landscape that can be more enjoyable than good crossovers. For years now, creatives have found intriguing ways to cross-pollinate properties. Said events are especially common when it comes to TV shows, and viewers have certainly been treated to some entertaining productions involving multiple series mixing it up. On that note, we’re going to talk about 32 particularly excellent small-screen mashups. 

Batman/The Green Hornet

The 1960s series Batman and The Green Hornet linked up in a few small ways during their runs, but their most prominent crossover occurred during a two-part episode of the former show. “A Piece of the Action” and “Batman’s Satisfaction” saw Gotham’s protectors forge an uneasy alliance with the Hornet and Kato, and the result was a truly action-packed hour of pulpy goodness.

Full House/Family Matters

Remember the time Family Matters’ Steve Urkel appeared on Full House? In Season 4’s “Stephanie Gets Framed,” the Urk Man traveled from Chicago to San Francisco for a science fair and ended up giving Stephanie Tanner advice regarding her new glasses. The result was a relatively sweet installment, which built a solid bridge between two of ABC’s best TGIF comedies.

The Jetsons/The Flintstones

The respective casts of Hanna-Barbera’s prehistoric and futuristic animated sitcoms finally came together in the 1987 TV movie The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones. During the special, the two groups walked a mile in each other’s shoes via time travel, and the result was a fun piece of work that could make you yell Yabba Dabba Doo!

The Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction/Green Acres

It’s no secret that CBS’ The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction and Green Acres are all set within the same fictional universe. All three shows crossed over multiple times, but the sweetest example was arguably the Hillbillies Season 7 episode “The Thanksgiving Spirit,” in which the casts of the three comedies warmly shared a meal together.

St. Elsewhere/Cheers

Both Cheers and St. Elsewhere are set in Boston, so it was only fitting that a connection was built between the two NBC shows. The crossover occurred during Season 3 of the medical drama, when several doctors visited the titular pub from one of the best sitcoms of all time. Come for the intrigue of the mashup, and stay for Rhea Perlman’s Carla Tortelli chewing out a group of medical professionals.

Diff’rent Strokes/Hello, Larry

Honestly, Hello, Larry wasn’t all that interesting on its own, but its three two-part crossovers with fellow NBC sitcom Diff’rent Strokes were solid. The final meetup between the two casts, “Thanksgiving Crossover,” was particularly enjoyable and highlighted character dynamics in fun ways.

Boy Meets World/Sabrina The Teenage Witch

Fan-favorite Sabrina the Teenage Witch star Melissa Joan Hart briefly appeared as her eponymous character during the closing tag for the Boy Meets World Season 5 episode, “The Witches of Pennbrook.” Her appearance may not be considered canon now, but it was certainly cool to see at the time. 

Scooby-Doo/Josie And The Pussycats

Throughout the two-season run of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Mystery Inc. ran into a number of notable people – both real and fictional. It was only fitting that the sleuths met up with their fellow Hanna-Barbera-birthed peers from Josie and the Pussycats. The two gangs teamed up to solve a mystery in “The Haunted Showboat,” resulting in a fun romp.

NCIS/NCIS: Los Angeles/NCIS: Hawai’i

In early 2023, NCIS’ first triple crossover debuted, bringing together characters from the mothership show as well as the Los Angeles and Hawai’i spinoffs. The shows’ respective teams joined forces to investigate the apparent suicide of a retired military official. It can be said that this Avengers-style event was well worth the wait.

Happy Days/Laverne & Shirley

Within the fictional TV universe co-created by producer Garry Marshall, Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley cross-pollinated multiple times. One of the most notable instances of that was with the two-part crossover “Shotgun Wedding,” in which Shirley and Laverne became engaged to Richie Cunningham and the Fonz to save them from arranged marriages.

The Mask: Animated Series/Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Both Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Mask: Animated Series were adapted from Jim Carrey movies, so it was only right that they both crossover. The two-part event – which was spread across both shows – was a truly wild romp that involved brain-switching shenanigans, a trip to space and more.

Friends/Mad About You

Amid all the truly strong and ridiculous Friends episodes, is the memorable two-parter, “The One with Two Parts.” The installments see Joey Tribbiani falling for Phoebe Buffay’s twin sister, Ursula, from Mad About You. The fun episodes also featured cheeky cameos from Helen Hunt and Leila Kenzle, who appeared as their MAU characters.

The Golden Girls/Empty Nest/Nurses

Three-show crossovers can be tricky, but NBC pulled off a fun one in 1991 with The Golden Girls, Empty Nest and Nurses. “Hurricane Saturday” saw the characters of the Florida-based sitcoms weathering a massive storm and humorously crossing paths as they did so.

The King Of Queens/Everybody Loves Raymond

Due to a retroactive bridge being retroactively built between them, Everybody Loves Raymond and The King of Queens crossed over multiple times throughout their runs. One of the best of those, however, is the first crossover, which occurred in the Queens Season 1 episode “Road Rayge.” It’s a funny episode that sees Doug Hefferman and Ray Barone striking up a friendship after meeting at the DMV.

Power Rangers In Space/Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation

Power in Space’s “Shell Shocked” marked the realization of a Saturday morning dream, as it saw the rangers team up with the heroes in a half shell. These iterations of the amphibious martial arts masters hailed from Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation (a show that shouldn’t have been canceled after one season). The Turtles were mind-controlled by the Rangers’ nemesis, Astronema, who uses them to take over the power team’s Megaship.

The Office (U.S.)/The Office (U.K.)

Both iterations of The Office collided when Ricky Gervais’ David Brent popped up on a Season 7 episode of the U.S. series. During that installment, he and his American counterpart, Michael Scott (Steve Carell), ran into each other. I don’t know what’s funnier: the two abrasive bosses getting along so well or Michael awkwardly telling David that Dunder Mifflin wasn’t hiring.

Supergirl/The Flash

The Arrowverse showcased a number of great team-ups over the years, but the first was a fun crossover between The Flash and Supergirl, in which the titular hero of the former show found himself in Kara Danvers’ universe. As fun as the Supes Season 1 episode is, what’s even more amazing is that this event happened before the Melissa Benoist-led show moved from CBS to The CW to join its slate of DCTV fare.

Sister, Sister/Smart Guy

Fellow shows on The WB, fan-favorite Sister, Sister and Smart Guy seemed like the right fit for a crossover, with the former sitcom hosting it. The episode saw 10-year-old prodigy T.J. Henderson being recruited to tutor twins Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell for their SATs. T.J. ultimately employed some unconventional – but effective – methods to get the job done.

The Fairly Oddparents/Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

Few cartoon crossovers can match the greatness of the three-hour-long crossovers between Nickelodeon’s The Fairly Oddparents and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Known as The Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour, the episodes saw Neutron and Timmy Turner coming into interdimensional conflict on multiple occasions. Even today, seeing characters from two of the best Nick shows of the 2000s is downright delightful.

New Girl/Brooklyn Nine-Nine

I’m not sure anyone could’ve predicted that a crossover between New Girl and Brooklyn Nine-Nine would happen, but that’s exactly what fans were treated to in 2016. This was a two-part event spread across both comedies, and it was certainly fun to see Andy Samberg’s Jake Peralta, Zooey Deschanel’s Jessica Day and more mix it up.

Luke Cage/Iron Fist

After much demand from the fans, Netflix’s Luke Cage featured a true superhero tag team between the show’s eponymous character and Danny Rand of Iron Fist. While reception to the latter show and its protagonist had been relatively underwhelming, fans loved what was done with Rand on Cage. All in all, it was a team-up worthy of the Heroes for Hire legacy.

The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air/In The House

One crossover that I’d argue is rarely talked about is the one that took place between The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and In The House. ITH’s “Dog Catchers” saw Alfonso Riberio guest star as Carlton Banks and Tatyana Ali as Ashley Banks. The story involved Carlton (inadvertently) alerting Marion Hill (LL Cool J) to the fact that friend Tiffany Warren’s (Maia Campbell) new boyfriend was two-timing her with Ashley.

The Simpsons/Futurama

“Simpsorama,” a Season 26 episode of The Simpsons, finally brought Springfield’s famous family into contact with the cast of Futurama. The Planet Express crew made their way to the present to prevent Homer and co. from causing a dire situation in the future. The crossover not only employed the kind of gags specific to both Matt Groening-produced shows but preserved the heart as well.

Scandal/How To Get Away With Murder

Kerry Washington’s Olivia Pope and Viola Davis’ Annalise Keating finally met each other when Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder crossed over. The 2018 multi-episode arc saw the crisis manager and defense attorney join forces to collaborate on a class action case. Both actresses brought their A-game for what proved to be a truly emotional story, with some poignant social commentary.

Supernatural/Scooby-Doo

I’m not sure many people envisioned Supernatural bringing in the Scooby-Doo characters upon the announcement of a crossover in 2017. However, the episode, “Scoobynatural,” ultimately received high praise from critics and fans alike. Seriously, the sight of Sam and Dean Winchester aiding Mystery Inc. in a case (set against the backdrop of one of the animated franchise’s classic episodes) was so much fun.

The X-Files/Cops

Have you ever wanted to know what it would be like if The X-Files’ Mulder and Scully’s off-kilter adventures were ever presented in a format similar to Cops’? Well, look no further than the Season 7 episode “X-Cops,” as it put the two in such a situation. The idea may have sounded wild at the time, but it proved to be highly entertaining TV.

Archer/Bob’s Burgers

It’s rare that a crossover gets wilder than the one between Bob’s Burgers and Archer, which occurred in the later show. "Fugue and Riffs" featured an amnesiac Sterling Archer waking up to discover that he’s the head of the Belcher family from Bob’s. That episode was certainly fun, especially considering that H. Jon Benjamin voiced both Archer and Bob regularly anyways.

That’s So Raven/The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody/Hannah Montana

Disney Channel gifted children of the 2000s with a real treat when the three-way TV event That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana. It brought together the casts of the hit shows That’s So Raven, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Hannah Montana for a madcap meetup that’s still beloved today.

Doctor Who/Torchwood/The Sarah Jane Adventures

Series 4 of Doctor Who ended on a high note with a two-part finale that brought the eponymous Time Lord and his allies together with characters from two spinoff series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Not only did the Who writers manage to provide plenty of crossover craziness, but they also wrapped up a number of pivotal story arcs in the process.

Generator Rex/Ben 10

It’s not often that two awesome do-gooders link up on the small screen, and Ben 10/Generator Rex: Heroes United offered a shining example of that. While it was great to see the two eponymous characters ultimately team up, it was also cool to see them come to blows upon first making contact.

Bones/Sleepy Hollow

The notion of the cast of Sleepy Hollow and Bones coming together for a two-part story sounds weird on paper, and that’s because it is. Nevertheless, it was intriguing to watch Special Agents Seeley Booth and Temperance “Bones” Brennan team up with FBI Agent Abbie Mills and Ichabod Crane to investigate a decades-old corpse on Halloween.

Arrow/The Flash/Supergirl/Batwoman/Legends Of Tomorrow

The producers behind “Crisis on Infinite Earths” did the impossible by uniting the casts of not two, three or four Arrowverse shows but all five series that were on the air at that time. What was even more impressive was that in addition to Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow and Batgirl being involved, Black Lightning’s eponymous hero was also in the mix. You’d be hard-pressed to find a small-screen crossover as massive as this one was.

Multiple actors have portrayed the character of Prof. Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies, including Richard Harris in the blockbuster franchise’s first two first installments, and Jude Law in the Fantastic Beasts prequels. However, for many fans of the fantasy series, the first face they picture when they think of the character is Sir Michael Gambon.

Unfortunately, on September 28, 2023, fans were saddened by the news that they had lost their Dumbledore when the 82-year-old Irish-English actor passed away following a bout with pneumonia. While the headmaster of Hogwarts will likely be remembered as the veteran actor’s most iconic role, there are many other great Michael Gambon movies we wanted to highlight in celebration of his career. However, the Wizarding World is where we shall start. 

The Harry Potter Movies (2004-2011) 

After a lonely, orphaned boy (Daniel Radcliffe) discovers that he is a wizard, he goes off to attends a special school for people like him, where he and his friends (Rupert Grint and Emma Watson) embark on many dangerous adventures — many of which are like to notorious criminal linked to his past.

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: In 2004, following the passing of Richard Harris, Michael Gambon joined the Harry Potter movies cast as Albus Dumbledore, delivering a performance that would come to define the character from then on, starting with Prisoner of Azkaban.

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Sleepy Hollow (1999)

A New York City constable (Johnny Depp) who has put all of his faith in science suddenly finds his beliefs challenged when he is sent to investigate a series of bizarre murders in a small town that the locals believe is the work of supernatural legend.

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: Years before becoming Dumbledore, Gambon worked with director Tim Burton on a darker literary fantasy adaptation, Sleepy Hollow, in the role Baltus Van Tassel, who becomes the leader of the titular town.

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Gosford Park (2001) 

A group of self-absorbed aristocrats question which one of them is guilty of murdering a wealthy industrialist (Gambon) while spending the weekend at his lavish estate in 1930s England. 

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: Among its stunning star-studded ensemble — which also includes the likes of Bob Balaban, Maggie Smith, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe and more — Gambon had the honor of being the victim at the center of the case in director Robert Altman’s funny, Oscar-winning take on the whodunnit genre, Gosford Park.

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Open Range (2003)

A veteran cattle herder (Robert Duvall) and his trusted ranch hand (director Kevin Costner) take on a pair of corrupt and powerful men threatening their land and their town’s freedom. 

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: In one of modern cinema’s most acclaimed western movies, Open Range, Gambon had the honor of playing one of the main villains — a violent, tyrannical rancher named Denton Baxter.

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Layer Cake (2004)

Just as he is about to enter a well-deserved early retirement, a successful drug dealer (Daniel Craig) is forced by his boss (Kennith Cranham) to search for the missing, drug-addicted daughter of a powerful crime lord (Gambon).

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: Also in 2004, Gambon gave another chilling, villainous performance opposite future James Bond actor Craig in the stylish British crime thriller Layer Cake — the directorial debut of Matthew Vaughn, whom Gambon would briefly work with again in 2017’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle.

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Being Julia (2004)

A seasoned stage actor (Academy Award nominee Annette Bening) whose married to her fellow theatre troupe leader (Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons) begins to find the satisfaction she needs while having an affair with a younger American man (Shaun Evans) in 1930s London.

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, Being Julia is charming, sexy and often hilarious period piece featuring Gambon in the admittedly smaller, but pivotal role of Jimmie Langton — the late mentor of Bening and Irons’ characters.

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The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)

For his latest marine life documentary, an eccentric oceanographer (Bill Murray) brings his wife, (Anjelica Houston), a pregnant reporter (Cate Blanchett) and a man who might his son (Owen Wilson) along for the search of a mythical creature that he claims killed his partner.

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: Also one of the best movies from writer and director Wes Anderson, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou sees Gambon adopt a new, quirkier shade of his comedic sensibilities to play the disgruntled producer of the title character’s documentaries.

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The Good Shepherd (2006)

This fictionalized depiction of the early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is seen primarily through the eyes of one of its co-creators and top covert operatives (Matt Damon). 

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: Gambon stars as a disgraced Yale poetry professor with a few other interesting secrets of his own in the loosely fact-based spy movie The Good Shepherd, which is also the second film directed by star Robert De Niro.

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Brideshead Revisited (2008)

A British military officer (Matthew Goode) falls for the sister (Hayley Atwell) of his close friend (Ben Whishsaw) during a stay at the friend’’s wealthy family’s lavish estate in World War II-era London.

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: Another prominent literary character in Gambon’s repertoire is Alexander Flyte (also referred to as “Lord Marchmain”) in this feature-length, theatrically released adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s landmark novel Brideshead Revisited from director Julian Jarrold.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

When his thieving habits begin to catch up to him, an anthropomorphic fox (George Clooney) must band together with his family and his other animal friend to fight back when the farmers he has been stealing from attack their underground home.

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: Gambon would reunite with co-writer and director Wes Anderson for this stop-motion animated adaptation of author Roald Dahl’s 1970 book Fantastic Mr. Fox, for which he lent his voice to the role of Franklin Bean — one of the three human farmers threatening the livelihood of the title character’s family.

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The King's Speech (2010)

After inheriting the English throne from his recently deceased father, King George VI (Colin Firth) enlists the help of a speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush) to help him overcome a stammer. 

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: Gambon gives a brief, but devastatingly moving performance as King George V near the end of his life in director Tom Hooper’s inspiring biographical Best Picture Oscar winner, The King’s Speech.

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The Paddington Movies (2014, 2017)

These movies depict the adventures of a spectacled bear from Peru (Ben Whishaw) with the ability to speak and a deep love for marmalade after he is found at the London train station that inspired his name by a kindly family who take him in. 

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: Gambon would reunite with his Brideshead Revisited co-star, Whishaw, to lend his voice to the role of Pastuzo — the adoptive uncle of the tile character from beloved kids movies, Paddington and its even more acclaimed sequel, Paddington 2.

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Judy (2019)

The legendary, but troubled show business veteran Judy Garland (Renée Zellweger in an Academy Award-winning performance) strikes a romance with a young musician (Finn Whitrock) and struggles to be away from her children while performing a series of concerts in the late 1960s London.

Why it is one of Michael Gambon’s best movies: Gambon stars as the well-known, Russian-born theatre impresario Bernard Delfront in Judy — director Rupert Goold’s revealing and rousing biopic set near the end of the Wizard of Oz star’s life.

Stream Judy on Amazon Prime.

The theatre-trained, Shakesperean actor’s many illustrious small screen credits should also not go unnoticed — such as his Emmy-nominated performances as Lyndon B. Johnson in HBO’s 2002 movie Path to War, and from BBC’s 2010 miniseries adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Emma. He also had a role on the harrowing Amazon Prime original series Fortitude from  2015 to 2018, and starred in PBS’s miniseries adaptation of Little Women from 2017. Fans of his — even outside of playing Dumbledore — will surely miss Sir Michael Gambon.

Do you like Tim Burton? Because I do – and apparently so do these actors. 

It's common for an actor who enjoys working with a particular director to frequently collaborate with them on movies. I could name a ton off the top of my head that I have seen appear in multiple films. There have been plenty of actors who have been in many Christopher Nolan movies. Others have appeared frequently in Wes Anderson films. Today, we will talk about the actors who have appeared in the most Tim Burton movies. 

I'll be upfront and say that most of these actors are from movies I saw as a child and grew to love even more over time, so their characters are some of my favorites ever. There are so many that I could point out that I truly loved so much, from Lydia in Beetlejuice to Johnny Depp’s starring role in Edward Scissohands and so much more. 

When I saw just how often they collaborated with Tim Burton, I was surprised. Here are the actors who've been in the most Tim Burton movies. 

Johnny Depp – 8 Movies 

First up on this list is, unsurprisingly, Johnny Depp. Out of everyone, Depp has appeared in the most films, with eight on his resume.

His movies include Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (which I just rewatched for the first time in years), Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows. 

Many of these characters have become synonymous with Depp's name, especially the titular character of Edward Scissorhands and the candy mogul from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Both of which hold a significant place in my heart. 

Helena Bonham Carter – 7 Movies

Helena Bonham Carter is only one movie behind Depp in her appearances in Tim Burton films, with seven to her name. Hers include Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows. She was also a part of the Charlie and Chocolate Factory cast and was one of the leads of the excellent stop-motion movie Corpse Bride. 

Carter was married to Tim Burton for several years, which might explain her frequent collaboration with the director. I will never forget her as the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland. It's genuinely one of the best fun adaptations out there. 

Christopher Lee – 5 Movies 

Next up on this list is Christopher Lee, who has appeared in five Tim Burton movies. These include Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows. 

Unfortunately, Lee passed away in 2015, so we won't see him in any future projects of Burton's, but he truly stood out in those roles. 

Michael Keaton – 5 Movies

Keaton is another big name from Tim Burton's movies, and he's appeared in four so far, with one planned for the future. Keaton is primarily known for his role as the titular character of Beetlejuice, a film that I honestly can't believe I was allowed to watch as a child. 

Besides that, Keaton appeared in three other films, including Dumbo, Batman and Batman Returns. His fifth Burton film will be Beetlejuice 2, where he is reprising the same role.

Michael Gough – 5 Movies

Next up on this list is Michael Gough, who has also appeared in five movies that Tim Burton has directed. These include Batman, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Alice in Wonderland. 

His best-known role from these movies is likely Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films. Michael Gough passed away in March 2011, but his parts were always the best. I doubt I'm alone thinking no one can quite beat his Alfred. 

Lisa Marie – 4 Movies

So now we move onto the part of the list where these following four actors have all been in four movies (or will appear in an upcoming film). 

The first is Lisa Marie, who has appeared in four Tim Burton films. These include Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow and Planet of the Apes, all released one year after another. Marie was also a partner of Burton's for a time, which could explain why she frequently collaborated with the director. Her most known role from Burton's films is most likely portraying Lady Crane in Sleepy Hollow.

Danny DeVito – 4 Movies 

Danny DeVito has been in four Tim Burton films. Most people probably know the actor from his time portraying The Penguin in Batman Returns, but DeVito was also in the movies Mars Attacks!, Big Fish and Dumbo. 

DeVito feels like the perfect pick for a Tim Burton movie because not only does the actor have plenty to watch if you like him, but he has played some weird characters too, which is perfect for Burton's aesthetic. Just watch him in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia – you won't be able to view DeVito the same ever again after seeing him as the native Philadelphian Frank Reynolds. 

Deep Roy – 4 Movies

Moving on, we look at Deep Roy, who also appeared in four movies of Burton's. These include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Planet of the Apes, Big Fish and Corpse Bride. 

You probably remember Roy the most for his portrayal of the Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which no one would ever forget. The actor was a great addition to that strange, but entertaining movie. 

Winona Ryder – 4 Movies

Last, but most certainly not least, we have Winona Ryder. One of Ryder's first big films was Beetlejuice, a movie that shot her into stardom for portraying Lydia. Not long after that, she went on to co-star with Depp in Edward Scissorhands, a film that led to those two co-stars dating later on. 

Ryder also held a voice role in Frankenweenie, another stop-motion movie directed by Burton. She's next set to appear in Beetlejuice 2 as her fourth Burton collaboration, where she will reprise her iconic role as Lydia – and Jenna Ortega is going to play her daughter.

With so many talented actors and actresses, it's not surprising that they have appeared in all these Tim Burton movies – and honestly, it just makes me want to go and binge of all of these. Wish me luck!

On-screen chemistry is important when it comes to any sort of on-screen pairing. Some people have it, and some don’t. Sometimes on screen chemistry gets carried off-screen, and sometimes, it very much does not. While most would agree that the stars of Fox’s Sleepy Hollow Nicole Beharie and Tom Mison had very good chemistry on screen over the course of three seasons, that apparently was very much not the case off the screen. A new book claims that the tension between them was so great that one iconic part of the series was created specifically so the two would not need to touch each other.

The new book Burn it Down by Maureen Ryan deals with the exploitative practices that exist within Hollywood at both an individual and studio level, revealing behind-the-scenes details regarding numerous TV shows and films. A new piece at THR focuses on the cult favorite series Sleepy Hollow, specifically how co-star Nicole Beharie was treated by various people involved in the production.

While fans of Sleepy Hollow loved to watch Beharie, as detective Abbie Mills, and her co-star Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane, on screen, the internet, as its way, shipped the characters hard, creating the Ichabbie moniker. It turns out that a big part of the reason that no relationship ever happened on screen is that the actors didn't want it, as they didn’t like each other. Things got so bad that it led to the creation of Crane’s overly theatrical bow so that the two stars did not have to hug each other. 

Between the on-set issues, a massive shift in the writers’ room that left only one person of color after the first season ended, changes in Sleepy Hollow's showrunner, and numerous other issues, Beharie was in what the book calls a hostile work environment. People in positions of authority allegedly told other writers, including those that had never worked with her, that they did not have a good experience working with Beharie.

The actress left Sleepy Hollow at the end of its third season. There were questions if the show would even move on from there, but a Sleepy Hollow Season 4 did happen, despite the fact that the series had always had something of a ratings struggle. A new character, played by Janina Gavankar was introduced to play opposite Ichabod Crane in the show’s fourth, and ultimately final, season. However apparently replacing Beharie had been considered as early as the pilot episode, as a conflict between co-creator Len Wiseman and Beharie led to them bringing in Lyndie Greenwood, who would portray Abbie Mills’ sister, Jenny, as a potential replacement.

Neither of the Sleepy Hollow stars made comments for the book, and showrunner Clifton Campbell denies some of the claims that are made, so this certainly may not be the entire story, but it certainly sounds like Sleepy Hollow was, at best, a difficult time for a lot of the people involved. 

Now that the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial is long behind us, I thought it was time to focus on what Johnny Depp is most known for, which is his performances. Most notably, his performances in Tim Burton movies.  

Now, we already ranked most of Tim Burton’s films, but this list isn't about that. Because honestly, Ed Wood would go at the top of a list of that nature.  

No, this is a list of Depp's actual performances in said movies. I've already done a similar list with Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, and now, I'm doing one with Burton and Depp. Let's see which performance is a cut above the rest.    

8. Dark Shadows (2012) 

Based on the soap opera of the same name, Dark Shadows sees Depp as a vampire. A very boring vampire. The plot is soap opera-y enough, and the film probably stays close to the source material, but who even cares when the movie is this boring? 

Depp playing a vampire in a Tim Burton movie seems like a match made in heaven, but everything about this movie feels so phoned in, including his performance. Sometimes, a Johnny Depp performance can save a movie, like with some of the later Pirates of the Caribbean flicks (let’s hope he can make a comeback), but not with Dark Shadows, as the only thing that screams vampire in this movie is Depp’s ultra white makeup. Yawn.    

7. Sleepy Hollow (1999) 

If this were a list ranking Burton films featuring Depp, Sleepy Hollow would go a lot higher, but as this is a list based on the actor's performances, it lands close to the bottom. It’s not that the performance is bad, per se, as he plays a competent enough police constable as this version’s Ichabod Crane. But, that’s just it. “Competent enough” does not make for a very compelling performance. 

Ichabod is indeed quirky in this film, and again, I do like the movie. But, the performance feels more like Depp doing an impersonation of a kooky Depp role, rather than a genuinely interesting portrayal of the character. In the end, it’s serviceable, sure, but nothing special, and definitely nothing particularly unique. 

6. Corpse Bride (2005)  

Corpse Bride, which sees Depp’s animated character in relationships with two women, one alive, and one dead, is another case of a movie that I would put higher on this list than some of the other flicks here. But, it’s kind of hard for me to make a case for it when the star plays a pretty one note role as Victor, who either sounds frightened, repentant, or frighteningly repentant throughout the entire movie. 

I would say that maybe he just isn’t great at voice acting, but he gave a much better, and more interesting performance in Rango. (Remember Rango?!)

But, to Corpse Bride's credit, I sometimes forget it’s even Depp (even though it looks just like him), so that’s at least a plus, since it means I’m totally engrossed in his performance.  

5. Alice In Wonderland (2010) 

Alice in Wonderland is an abysmally bad movie, and one that I don’t want to ever watch again, but I will say this: Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter is probably the only interesting thing about the entire film. 

In Depp’s portrayal, the Mad Hatter’s personality shifts quite a bit throughout the movie, making it a rather unpredictable performance. And, I don’t care what anybody says. Even though it was all CG nonsense, seeing him do the “Futterwacken” that he kept going on and on about throughout the entire film was pretty awesome, and peak Johnny Depp/Tim Burton nonsense.    

4. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005) 

I know I’m the only person on the planet who actually likes Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but one of the reasons I do is because of Johnny Depp’s bizarre performance, which is in steep contrast to Gene Wilder’s performance in the classic movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.     

Whereas Wilder’s Wonka was inviting with a bit of darkness to him, Depp’s version is childlike, and almost feels like Michael Jackson if he owned a chocolate factory. He’s cheerful, but aloof, friendly, but distant, and it’s the kind of contradiction-heavy performance that almost feels like a tightrope act. Please give this another chance, people! It’s good!  

3. Ed Wood (1994) 

As I mentioned earlier, Ed Wood is my favorite Tim Burton movie, as it just has everything going for it. It’s a history lesson, it’s fun, it’s engaging, and the acting is impeccable. But, while I do enjoy Depp’s performance as the infamous director, I have to say that this is a film where the lead role actually gets overshadowed by supporting roles, most notably by Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi, and Lisa Marie as Vampira. 

Still, that’s not to say that Johnny Depp isn’t great as the titular character. I find his quirky optimism enjoyable, and he definitely carries the movie. I think there’s a reason that he wasn’t nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards (though he was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globes for that year, which he lost), whereas Martin Landau was nominated and won Best Supporting Actor, and it’s because the performance is only serviceable. Still, for a movie this good, Depp definitely doesn’t hurt the film.  

2. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007) 

Speaking of Academy Awards, he was nominated for Best Actor (but lost) for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in this musical adaptation where he actually sings. Sweeney Todd sees Johnny Depp play a murderous barber who kills his victims only for them to be served up as meat pies to residents of London. 

He's convincing as somebody who will cut your throat, but is also charming in a way that only Depp could pull off. Plus, as I mentioned, he sings in the movie, which is no small feat, since he’s really good in the role. I honestly wanted to put Sweeney Todd at the top, just for the mere fact that he makes singing about razor blades as his friends seem convincing. But, there can only be one number one Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaboration, and, strangely enough, it also deals with knives. Or rather, scissors.   

1. Edward Scissorhands (1990) 

In a lot of ways, Edward Scissorhands is the quintessential Tim Burton movie, and also the quintessential Johnny Depp performance. It’s bizarre, full of imagination and wonder, but also deeply isolating and internal. It’s the kind of performance that you could only see one person pulling off, and that one person is Depp. 

In the film, he plays a half-finished creation, and one that isn’t quite sure if he wants to be normal, or even if normalcy really is a thing at all. He solidified himself as the kind of actor you could call upon if you wanted heartfelt, oddball performances, and honestly, I’m not sure if we’d have the Depp that we have today if not for this performance in Edward Scissorhands, so for that, we can be all thankful. 

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Fantasy movies are something I can get behind, and have been for many years. From the magical world of the Harry Potter series to the Lord of the Rings franchise, I have always adored it. However, there’s another genre within fantasy that I’ve also come to adore, and that’s dark fantasy. 

With popular movies like Pan’s Labyrinth and others that perfectly encapsulate what the genre is all about, dark fantasy is perfect for those who want a little bit more of a twist to their magic, with some sinister undertones or not-so-good characters. That’s where these picks come in handy. These are some of the best dark fantasy movies that are available to stream (or rent) right now. 

Pans Labyrinth (Netflix) 

Pan’s Labyrinth, taking place in Spain during the 1940s, tells the story of a little girl who somehow finds herself in a strange fantasy world filled with magical creatures after she and her mother move in with her stepfather. However, she finds that there is more to this world than just its whimsical side - as there is darkness as well. 

Guillermo del Toro is a master of fantasy, so it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise that one of his most well-known films is here. Everything from its storyline to its characters make Pan’s Labyrinth a movie I could watch over and over, and still never get bored. Something else I love about it is its use of practical effects. The makeup is absolutely stunning, and I’m amazed every time I see it. 

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Corpse Bride (HBO Max)

Tim Burton definitely knows how to make darker movies, and Corpse Bride is one of those. In this beautifully animated stopmotion film, we follow a young man who is nervous about marrying someone he hardly knows, so he decides to practice his wedding vows in the forest. As he places the ring on a supposed root while speaking, it's revealed that it is actually the finger of a dead woman. His words cause her to rise, and now, she is his corpse bride. 

Corpse Bride is such a fun movie, as it not only has elements that I believe younger children would enjoy, such as the animation or the music, and things that adults can love, too. The story of accepting love and moving on with life even once you’re gone is a powerful one, especially with this dark fantasy world of dancing skeletons and strange goons. 

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The Dark Crystal (Starz)

If you want a dark fantasy from way back, check out The Dark Crystal. Coming from the minds of Jim Henson and Frank Oz, the film takes place on the planet of Thra, a strange world inhabited by interesting creatures, including Jen. He is a gelfling who is tasked with finding a shard, and must use it to heal the titular crystal in order to fulfill an ancient prophecy, having to overcome obstacles such as the Skeksis, dark creatures who wish to stop him.

The premise sounds kinda strange, but hear me out when I say The Dark Crystal is worth your time. This is legit dark fantasy. While there are monsters and strange creatures, some moments really make you wonder why it was marketed as a family movie, when in reality, it's not. Henson, known for The Muppets, created something that is filled with lore, amazing designs, and fascinating puppetry, and it's something everyone who has a love for design should watch. 

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The City Of Lost Children (Amazon Prime)

In The City of Lost Children, we see a dystopian society, where a scientist is somehow unable to dream, which causes him to age quicker. Soon, he takes it upon himself to try and steal the dreams of children to stop aging, kidnapping them. However, his plans soon start to have repercussions. 

The City of Lost Children is one of those films that genuinely makes me shiver, because I hate the idea of someone literally going into my head and stealing my dreams. I may not be a child anymore, but that stuff still scares the crap out of me. What also makes this movie a fun dark fantasy is the scientist’s crew of strange creatures who live with him. Their interactions are really what sell this movie, and make it such a fun re-watch. 

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Horns (Pluto TV)

 In Horns, Daniel Radcliffe stars as a man who wakes up one morning with little horns protruding from his head, and strange powers he didn’t have before. Deciding to make the best out of a bad situation, he uses these powers to hunt down the true killer of his girlfriend (a crime he was falsely accused of) to make sure that she didn’t die in vain. 

Horns is certainly less fantasy-ish - meaning you won’t find crazy monsters or intense lore, but it’s certainly dark and has fantasy aspects that I know you would enjoy. Daniel Radcliffe pulls off the evil look, even after playing a hero for more than a decade in the Harry Potter franchise, and the rest of the cast is fantastic as well. Something I really like about it is the build-up of his powers, how he slowly starts to become even scarier over the course of the film, creating even worse situations. 

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Sleepy Hollow (Starz)

Sleepy Hollow is based on the famous legend of the same name, following a young policeman who is sent to the town to investigate the murders that have been occurring. The only issue is that this murderer seems to be headless.

I gotta say, Sleepy Hollow is such an underrated gem of a movie. I feel like no one ever really talks about how great it is as not only a dark fantasy movie, but a great horror one, as well. Johnny Depp is perfect in the lead role, along with a talented cast who sell this film. What makes this such a great dark fantasy is not only its brilliant art direction, including every scene that has the famous headless horseman, but its dark humor, too. I can’t tell you how many times I laughed during this film, and that’s thanks to its great comedic timing and fun fantasy moments. 

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A Monster Calls (Netflix)

One of the most recent entries on this list, A Monster Calls is brilliantly done. In this dark fantasy, a young boy is living with his dying mother, is bitter about the situation and wishes to escape from his nightmares. One day, after midnight, he is visited by a strange monster, who offers to tell him three stories in exchange for the boy telling the fourth. He accepts, but this takes him on a long adventure.

A Monster Calls is one of the few on this list that will make you cry. I’m not going to reveal what it’s entirely about, because I feel like its the sort of movie you should watch for yourself, but I will say that the monster is far more than any of us expected, and really takes the young protagonist on a journey that culminates in a climactic, satisfying ending.

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Beetlejuice (Pluto TV)

 Beetlejuice is a classic dark fantasy movie where a deceased couple starts to haunt their old home. When new inhabitants move in, it doesn't take long for another entity, the titular character, to try and terrify them to make them leave. But, the new owner’s daughter, Lydia, ain’t so easy to scare. 

I could go on and on and on about how much I love Beetlejuice. Not only is it a great example of what dark fantasy should look like, with fun monsters and great art direction, but the Beetlejuice cast is phenomenal. Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice? I don’t think he could have been played better. Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis are a great couple, Catherine O’Hara is amazing - heck, even Winona Ryder was brilliant as Lydia. The movie was so popular it even became a Broadway musical. 

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Crimson Peak (Netflix)

Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak follows an author, wishing to write the next big novel, who moves into an old Gothic home with her husband and his sister. Upon arrival, she finds out that there are mysteries in this old house, along with dark secrets of the past. She takes it upon herself to discover what is happening there - and what her strange visions are. 

Crimson Peak is a movie that deserved so much more attention when it initially came out. It’s not the standard dark fantasy film, but the elements that it already has (ghost, cool art design, and interesting characters) are enough for anyone to enjoy. Even the horror aspects of this movie are fantastic, making this not only a fun dark fantasy but an excellently done horror movie. 

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Legend (Amazon Rental)

Now, this is a campy fantasy movie that I adore with all my heart. Legend has one of the simplest premises ever - an evil monster wishes to cover the world in an eternal cloak of darkness by marrying a princess and killing everything that lives. However, a boy in the forest takes it upon himself to stop the monster.

It’s such a shame that Legend wasn’t that big of a hit when it first came out, because it has a lot going for it. Wonderful lore, really cool set design, an interesting story - even the casting was fantastic. The legendary Tim Curry as the Lord of Darkness is some of the best casting I think I have ever seen in a dark fantasy movie. Tom Cruise is even awesome in one of his earliest roles. There’s just something about this underappreciated film that I feel needs to be loved a little bit more. Thankfully, you can so that right now. 

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Coraline (Amazon Rental)

Last but not least, we have Coraline. This famous stopmotion film follows the titular character as she and her family move into a strange house. When she finds a hidden door and opens it one night, it reveals a mirror version of her world, where everyone loves her, except the people have buttons for eyes. However, her trips there start to grow increasingly eerie, and she realizes there is a dark past behind this fantasy realm. 

Raise your hand if Coraline terrified you as a child. *Raises hand.*

I definitely can’t be alone in thinking that Coraline had some decently scary moments, especially during the climax. However, Coraline is such a fun movie to watch that I can’t even be mad about it. From the dark fantasy world that she steps into, to the beautiful color scheme and terrifying creatures later on, this stopmotion film is stunningly dark and something that everyone who loves dark fantasy should see. 

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Fantasy is something we can all get behind, but dark fantasy is truly where it’s at. If you’re looking for your next movie to watch with your friends during movie night, maybe check out one of these. Trust me, you won’t regret it. 

I’m going to be honest with you. I don’t really watch a lot of TV. I’m more of a movie kind of guy myself. But if I do watch TV, then there’s a good chance that John Cho is on the show, since he’s one of my favorite actors. And here’s the thing. He’s the best of both worlds! Yes, I’m sure you’ve seen a few John Cho movies here or there, and some of them make this list. But when it comes to the actor, I really can’t decide what I prefer to see him as more—A movie star or a TV star. Either way, you’re guaranteed to get a quality performance.

I first saw John Cho as the guy licking the picture of Stifler’s mom in American Pie, and I thought, who is this guy? But from those humble (and horny) beginnings to being Spike Spiegel in the upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop, John Cho has consistently been surprising and engaging as an actor all throughout his career. I’m super looking forward to whatever John Cho is going to do next, but for now, here are his best performances in TV and movies, ranked.

10. Sleepy Hollow (Andy Brooks)

Sleepy Hollow was on for four seasons, but I stopped watching midway through Season 2. And do you know why? It’s because John Cho’s character, police officer, Andy Brooks, was no longer on the show in the second season. Well, that and because I kind of lost interest in the premise of Ichabod Crane solving mysteries in modern day times.

But I really did like John Cho’s character. He was haunted by the demon, Moloch, and it was fun watching him becoming one of Moloch’s accomplices. And while it wasn’t a groundbreaking performance, it sure was a very fun one. I would actually love to see John Cho do more “horror”. He’s good at it.

9. Mirai (Mr. Ota)

John Cho doesn’t have a huge role in the English dubbed version of Mirai, which is a trippy film where a young boy runs away from home and meets his baby sister as a teenager, but it’s a vital one. In this film, John Cho voices a stay-at-home father, and he sounds like a dad, as he is one in real life, which comes through in this vocal performance.

Mr. Ota is a great performance because you can hear that he’s really trying to be a good father to both of his kids, but it may not sound apparent to his eldest child. John Cho is the kind of actor who can just naturally sound like he’s trying (and failing) to keep everything under control, and it’s a real pleasure to hear him. I wish he’d do more voice work.

8. FlashForward (Demetri Noh)

Everybody talks about Firefly and Pushing Daisies—you know, shows that were cancelled way too soon—but how come I never hear anybody talking about FlashForward? The premise was about a global event where almost everybody lost consciousness and saw into the future, and the ramifications of said event. John Cho played FBI special agent, Demetri Noh, and he saw… nothing.

This haunts his character throughout the entire short-lived series (Does he die?), and we see him wrestle with this idea while still trying to uncover whether another event like this will ever happen again. His character arc is riveting, but somber, throughout. A great performance that is often overlooked.

7. Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle (Harold Lee)

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is the funniest movie I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and that’s no exaggeration. Starring alongside Kal Penn as the eponymous Harold, John Cho plays the straight man like no other. But here’s the great thing about his performance. It takes Asian stereotypes—like Harold being the investment banker who people take advantage of—and brings that man home to show us his real life—as the pot smoking dude who has the hots for his neighbor. What’s shocking is that even though it’s the year 2021, we still don’t have nearly enough movies that show Asian-Americans as just being regular people. At least not in the movie theaters anyway.

Harold and Kumar eventually became a trilogy, and this first movie set the groundwork for modern day stoner comedies. Some people may claim that Pineapple Express is the best stoner comedy of the past 20 years, but those people are wrong, and mostly because John Cho isn’t in that one.

6. The Exorcist (Andrew Kim)

The year is 2017, and unless it’s Better Call Saul, I’m not watching network TV. So why is it that in 2017, I was tuned into FOX? Well, the answer is simple. I heard John Cho was going to be on a TV version of The Exorcist, so I watched it. I didn’t watch the first season, which I heard was a direct follow-up to the original movie. But I did watch Season 2, where John Cho played a former child psychologist who ran a foster home.

Unlike Sleepy Hollow, which was meant to be fun, The Exorcist was meant to be scary. And while it wasn’t, I did love John Cho’s haunted performance as a foster parent trying to keep his family together, and struggling through a nightmare. John Cho is a definitive leading man, and it was a joy to see him in yet another horror TV show. Seriously, put this man in everything.

5. Star Trek (Hikaru Sulu)

Reboots are tricky things. Obviously, you have your set-in-place fans who will only love the original cast. But 2009’s Star Trek is that rare exception that both reveres the original series, but also does its own thing. And John Cho’s Hikaru Sulu is a great example of that.

Star Trek was always a show that was more interested in exploration than action, but 2009’s Star Trek had amazing action set pieces. John Cho played helmsman, Sulu, as the kind of man who could both pilot the Starship Enterprise, but also whip out a badass sword and save his captain in the same day. Look, I don’t even really like Star Trek (sorry!), but I loved this movie, and John Cho was a really big reason why.

4. A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas (Harold Lee)

The first Harold and Kumar is still my favorite in the trilogy, but I especially love this third entry in the series since it shows such growth in Harold’s character. At the start of the film, Harold has become responsible, as he’s given up pot, has a successful job on Wall Street, and is trying to start a family with his wife. But since this is the Harold and Kumar series, the rest of the events turn into a fever dream that involves a search for a Christmas tree, the Russian mob, and Neil Patrick Harris returning as the perpetual horndog.

And Harold, once again, grounds it all. I think John Cho’s performance is especially impressive in this sequel since we’ve seen the way he’s grown as a character, but also that he’s still the same old Harold at heart, which is a tough balancing act to walk on. Yes, Kal Penn still gets all the best lines, but the film wouldn’t even work if John Cho’s Harold wasn’t in it.

3. Selfie (Henry Higgs)

Before Searching, there was Selfie, which is actually a modern-day retelling of My Fair Lady. John Cho plays Henry Higgs (Like Henry Higgins. Get it?), and his job is to take the social media obsessed Eliza Dooley (Played by Karen Gillan), and get her off the phone and talking to actual people.

I really can’t stand romantic comedies, but I found this short-lived series super endearing. John Cho’s character was equal parts bemused by Gillan’s character as he was charmed. For somebody who detests romantic comedies as much as I do to be hoping for their characters to get together is no small feat, but John Cho pulled it off. What can’t he do?

2. Columbus (Jin Lee)

Columbus is almost meditative in nature. It’s the story of two people—Jin Lee and Casey, played by John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson, respectively—who strike up a friendship in Columbus, Indiana, where they are both stuck in town because of their ailing parents. But for a movie that is mostly just people walking around and admiring architecture, there’s so much to be said about both pursuing dreams, and what holds people back from doing such things.

John Cho delivers a quiet performance in Columbus, but it’s impossible to look away. It’s the kind of film that you want to recommend to people, but you’re afraid they might find it boring. But then they actually watch it and they thank you for it later, and John Cho’s performance is at the center of why it’s so good.

1. Searching (David Kim)

I honestly don’t think Searching would have been as good as it was if not for John Cho. The concept of locating your daughter through online searches doesn’t really feel all that novel after a movie like Unfriended, which took place almost entirely on a series of screens. But there’s something about John Cho being the single dad to a grieving daughter—while also not allowing himself to grieve—that just elevates this movie to new levels.

John Cho represents every father dealing with a child living in the tech age, but there’s also just something about John Cho being an Asian father that lends itself to a different perspective that we rarely see in Hollywood cinema today. Plus, John Cho just goes through so many different emotions that you feel his frustration and fear in every scene. I love Searching, and I don’t think I even want to watch a sequel if he’s not going to be in it.

John Cho is that rare actor who I could watch in anything. Hell, I’m still dream casting him in movies like The Shining. I doubt that will ever come to be, but if it does, then you heard it here first. As for movies not featuring my main man John Cho, make sure to check out our 2021 new movie releases.

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There was a time when Johnny Depp could pack theaters nationwide and win over the hearts of critics simply by attaching his name to a film, whether it was his own given name or Capt. Jack Sparrow, of course. The pirate legend is just one of many disguises the chameleonic Oscar nominee has hid himself under which, ironically, became his key to earning the spotlight.

The spotlight does not shine on the 57-year-old actor, producer, and musician like it once did and I would not blame him if he preferred it that way as he certainly has good reason to lately. However, regardless of what misfortune arises in his personal life, Johnny Depp is still widely celebrated as a national treasure to the industry for the fascinatingly versatile career he has led since making his acting debut in 1984 as a teenage victim of Freddy Krueger in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Much of the movie star’s brightest highlights are available to watch on most of your favorite streaming platforms. The following are just 14 of our favorite films starring Johnny Depp that can be found on that digital landscape, starting with the beginning of his dynamic alliance with one of the most bizarre visionaries in cinematic history.

Edward Scissorhands (Starz)

A kind door-to-door saleswoman discovers a lonely young man with sharp, mechanical appendages who makes an unusual impression on her neighbors in a quaint American town, seemingly set in the 1950s.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: As the title character of 1990’s Edward Scissorhands (a fairy tale, of sorts, that most definitively captures Tim Burton’s dreary, whimsical, and darkly comic style), Johnny Depp is barely recognizable under Academy Award-nominated makeup.

Stream Edward Scissorhands on Starz here.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (Amazon Prime, Tubi)

A barber returns from exile to open up a new shop in 19th Century London and plan his bloody revenge against the corrupt judge who falsely convicted him of a crime that cost him his family and life.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: Seventeen years after their first collaboration, Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton struck gold again with their Oscar-winning screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s 1979 stage show Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which may be the most graphically brutal musical you will ever see.

Stream Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street on Amazon Prime here or on Tubi here.

Sleepy Hollow (Netflix)

A scientifically progressive New York constable is assigned to investigate grisly decapitations in a village whose citizens are convinced a ghostly legend is to blame.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: Far less brutal than Sweeney Todd, but just as magnificently macabre, is Sleepy Hollow - Tim Burton’s ode to Hammer’s Victorian horror classics by way of adapting Washington Irving’s classic story, starring Johnny Depp as meek hero Ichabod Crane and a devilish Christopher Walken as the Headless Horseman.

Stream Sleepy Hollow on Netflix here.

21 Jump Street (Tubi)

Because of their youthful appearances, inner city cops are recruited into a police unit that specializes in investigating crimes at high schools or colleges by posing as students.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: Although he only appeared in the first four seasons of its five-season run, playing undercover cop Tom Hanson on 21 Jump Street from 1987 to 1990 is what made Johnny Depp a star - a debt he repaid by reprising the role in 2012 for a dazzling cameo in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s hilarious big screen adaptation.

Stream 21 Jump Street on Tubi here.

Nick Of Time (CBS All Access)

In order to save his six-year-old daughter, an accountant must commit to the task forced onto him by her kidnappers: assassinate the governor of the California.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: Set during a 90-minute period and told in that exact amount, Nick of Time is a dizzying “what if?” type of thriller from WarGames director John Badham and one of the few instances in which Johnny Depp plays an ordinary everyman facing otherwise extraordinary circumstances.

Stream Nick of Time on CBS All Access here.

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (Starz)

A young man puts all of his time into caring for his mentally challenged brother and and morbidly obese mother without a moment to spare for himself, until he meets a free-spirited woman who forces him to reconsider his priorities.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: As an ordinary everyman facing relatively ordinary circumstances in the title role of the heartbreaking 1993 rural drama What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, Johnny Depp is as great as ever, even though it was a 19-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio who earned an Oscar nomination (his first) as the disabled younger brother, Arnie.

Stream What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? on Starz here.

Benny & Joon (HBO Max)

The protective brotherly instincts of mechanic Benny (Aidan Quinn) go on high alert when his sister Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), a mentally challenged artist he has cared for since their parents’ death, meets the very odd, but charming, Sam (Johnny Depp).

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: In the same year that he made Gilbert Grape, Johnny Depp starred in Benny & Joon - another quirky drama about a working class man putting his life on hold for his disabled sibling, but this time as the free-spirited love interest (for the sister) who changes everything.

Stream Benny & Joon on HBO Max here.

Alice In Wonderland (Disney+)

In an effort to ditch her own engagement party, 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) mistakenly finds herself in magical world filled with unique creatures and eccentric personalities who all claim this is not her first visit.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: Director Tim Burton (who else, right?) has Johnny Depp act odder than ever, but still charming, as the Mad Hatter in 2010’s Alice in Wonderland - a (technically) live action continuation of the Lewis Carroll story that revives the psychedelic wonder of old school Disney movies.

Stream Alice in Wonderland on Disney+ here.

The Rum Diary (Netflix)

A freelance journalist (Johnny Depp) endures a tumultuous crusade of debauchery when he assigned to write a tourism column for a local newspaper in 1960s Puerto Rico.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: While psychedelics are also involved here, alcohol is the primary choice of escape in 2011’s The Rum Diary: a dark comedy based on the debut novel of late gonzo journalist, and friend of star Johnny Depp, Hunter S. Thompson.

Stream The Rum Diary on Netflix here.

Blow (HBO Max)

After dealing marijuana lands him in jail, an ambitious man sees a second chance in helping Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel build the first American market for cocaine.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: Playing a much more dangerous game than anything Hunter S. Thompson was George Jung, whose story is retold in the 2001 crime drama Blow, starring Johnny Depp as the infamous drug smuggler.

Stream Blow on HBO Max here.

Dead Man (HBO Max)

After tragic circumstances leave him mortally wounded and on the run from bounty hunters, a late 19th Century accountant comes across a Native American who shows him the ways of his tribe to prepare him for his imminent spiritual transition.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: The always amusing writer and director Jim Jarmusch gave Johnny Depp the chance to express is Native American ancestry onscreen in Dead Man, a fascinating Neo-noir, western hybrid shot all in black and white.

Stream Dead Man on HBO Max here.

Rango (Hulu, Amazon Prime)

A con artist chameleon assumes the role of sheriff for a lawless desert community desperate for water.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: I mentioned before that Johnny Depp has a chameleonic reputation and he literally gets to be a chameleon as the title hero of Rango: director Gore Verbinski’s Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature in 2012.

Stream Rango on Hulu here or on Amazon Prime here.

The Pirates Of The Caribbean Movies (Disney+)

Witness the swashbuckling adventures of Jack Sparrow, the drunken pirate captain of the Black Pearl who always manages to find himself in a heap of trouble, be it with the law or with the vengeful spirits of the sea.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like Them: Johnny Depp’s first time working with Gore Verbinski was on 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which earned Disney boatloads of shiny loot, Depp his first Oscar nomination, and four sequels (in counting), all of which (excluding 2011’s On Stranger Tides) are available to stream on Disney+.

Stream The Pirates of the Caribbean Movies on Disney+ here.

Tusk (Showtime)

A podcast host (Justin Long) thinks he has found his best episode yet in a Canadian veteran sailor (Michael Parks) fascinated by walruses, until he discovers firsthand the sinister depths of his obsession.

Why Johnny Depp Fans Will Like It: It’s not hard to comprehend why the extremely unsettling body horror of Tusk proved polarizing, even for the biggest fans of writer and director Kevin Smith (yes, the guy who made Clerks), but it also left audiences universally stunned and surprised to learn that the role of French-Canadian private investigator Guy Lapointe was an uncredited and unrecognizable Johnny Depp.

Stream Tusk on Showtime here.

What do you think? Are you one who does not consider yourself a fan of Tusk but would at least recommend it for Johnny Depp’s hilarious cameo, or did you enjoy everything in that film but his involvement? Let us know in the comments and be sure to check back for additional information and updates on the A-lister, as well as more of our owns recommendations of the best movies and TV shows starring your favorite celebrities available to stream, here on CinemaBlend.

Happy Halloween season! It’s officially the best time of year to revisit the best spooky movies. But I get it, sometimes it's tough to decide where to even start. These days, the libraries available to us immensely stretches the row of DVDs or VHS tapes on our shelves we used to dust off come October. There are riches of streaming services at our fingertips and so many films to explore to get into the spirit of things. Fortunately, we’ve conjured up six themed marathons to check out depending on what streaming service you prefer to stick around on.

We’ll start off light and sweet and go for advanced creeps in darkness by the end. Which marathon you pick depends on what you prefer or can handle. They can be enjoyed for an entire day of Halloween fun, or split up and viewed out throughout the month. It's up to you! Check these out:

Bag Full Of Treats Edition (Disney+)

The entry level and most family-friendly of our Halloween marathons can be found over on Disney+ of course. To start things off, pop on the classic 1952 Disney short Trick or Treat, which stars Donald Duck and his nephews on Halloween night in true tradition for the studio. Your first feature film should then be the 1998 Disney Channel original Halloweentown, an adorably Halloween-themed film about a young girl who finds out she’s a witch and ventures with her brother and sister to a place full of supernatural creatures.

Then check out the underrated Disney Channel original gem Don’t Look Under The Bed, which has a teen having her imaginary friend take on the Boogeyman, who is framing her for all his pranks in the neighborhood. Of course, you’ll have to revisit the Halloween staple with the Sanderson sisters next with Hocus Pocus next, and end your candy corn-sweet marathon with Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas. This watchlist is just six hours long. Start it over on Disney+ here.

Classic Monster Mash Edition (Peacock)

In order to appreciate the roots of the Halloween season, i.e. the horror genre and the movie monster genre, you can go over to new streaming service Peacock for this fun marathon. Start your viewing party off with 1931’s Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff, which tells the famed Mary Shelley story of the monster created from cadavers. Follow it up with 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein, also starring Boris Karloff, who is given a mate by his creator. (That movie is currently being developed as a modern remake.)

Before moving out of the ‘30s, the third feature in the monster mash edition is Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi’s version of the famous vampire. Next up, we jump forward half a century for Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, a modern spooky essential about a newly dead couple who need help from Michael Keaton’s Beetlejuice to haunt the new tenants of their home. The best way to end things is with the most seminal entry into horror, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, which is about a woman who stays in a creepy motel while on the run. This watchlist will take about eight hours over on Peacock here.

Screamin’ Slasher Edition (Shudder)

Shudder is also a fairly new streaming service, and it's completely made up of horror films, so this is a great hub to go to during Halloween time. As for this marathon, the screamin’ slasher edition is not for the faint of heart (especially compared to the past two). These are technically scary, but a fun time too. First up is 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, a zombie classic by George Romero, which should be followed up by the original Black Christmas, where a group of sorority sisters are hunted by a mysterious caller.

Then, since you’re over on Shudder, you’ll have to brave 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (I do make the rules!), the highly-disturbing story of Leatherface. For a brief segue into the modern fare, check out Haunt next, a 2019 horror flick and Shudder exclusive about a group of friends who discover a haunted house on Halloween that feeds into their fears. End this marathon with John Carpenter’s original Halloween movie, especially before Jamie Lee Curtis returns for Halloween Kills next year. Enjoy this eight-hour marathon over on Shudder here.

Corsets And Daggers Edition (Netflix)

Netflix has a huge horror selection, and of course, the highly-anticipated Haunting of Bly Manor series coming this October. The marathon I have for you here is a healthy mix of classic Halloween fun and serious horror and gore that all give off an old timey, stuck-in-a-foggy-forest vibe. To prime you is The Addams Family, a go-to 1991 Halloween movie with dark humor. Then you should go over to 1990’s The Witches, a strangely terrifying Roald Dahl adaptation (also) starring Anjelica Huston.

Then go to the depths of hell with Kate Beckinsale for the original 2003 Underworld film, which follows a vampire Death Dealer who hunts Lycans for an action-packed creepfest. Check out the Netflix original Apostle, an underseen 2018 period horror piece starring Dan Stevens about a man who tries to save his sister from an evil cult on a remote island. The final feature on this marathon is 1999’s Sleepy Hollow, an early collaboration with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp that tells the gothic story of Icabod Crane and the Headless Horseman in an entertaining and creepy way. This nine-hour marathon is over on Netflix here.

Haunted In Lockdown Edition (Amazon Prime)

Is there anything that screams horror or Halloween in 2020 then being stuck in your home with some pesky demons? Dare I say, this is the most relatable marathon for your viewing pleasure, which makes it even more frightening. We’ll start this marathon off on the more wacky end with 2019’s Crawl, a fun disaster horror film about a girl being trapped in her home with deadly alligators during a horrible hurricane. Then join a young Ryan Reynolds for 2005’s The Amityville Horror remake, which is about a newlywed couple haunted by demons.

The marathon continues with last year’s The Lighthouse, following Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as lighthouse keepers who (hilariously) drive each other insane on a remote island, as the movie also explores some deep themes. Follow that by checking out 2011’s The Cabin in the Woods, Drew Goddard’s clever and twisty thriller featuring Chris Hemsworth. The final feature here is Ari Aster’s Hereditary, a truly messed-up horror entry that examines family psychosis with unforgettable and terrifying images. This nine-hour marathon is available to stream over on Amazon Prime here

Possessed By Horror Edition (HBO Max)

The last Halloween marathon has to be the most intense and hardcore. There's ten hours of horror content here, and it's all available on HBO Max (or through your streaming HBO subscription, it's the same thing now). We’ll start soft with an ‘80s favorite, Gremlins, which is about a boy who is given a pet monster that unleashes havoc on his neighborhood. Next is 1990’s Child’s Play 2, which continues Chucky's rampage to take young Andy’s soul after his mom is taken to a psych ward and he is placed in the foster care system.

This marathon that heavily explores the terrifying idea of demon possession continues with 2009’s Orphan, which has a couple taking in a young girl who gives the kid in The Omen a run for his money. Try not to skip over one of the most horrifying horror entries to this day, 1973’s The Exorcist, which is about a mother who enlists two priests to help her possessed daughter. The marathon ends with last year’s The Shining sequel, Michael Flannagan’s Doctor Sleep, following Dan Torrance as an adult as protects from the powers he encountered at the Overlook Hotel. Check out this marathon on HBO Max here.

Enjoy your Halloween viewing! Let me know which one your checking out by voting in the poll below and stay tuned here on CinemaBlend for more movie and TV news.

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Brad Pitt could have been passed off as another one of Hollywood’s pretty faces. Yet, he’s crafted a thoughtful 30-year career that has roamed through all kinds of different projects, including the dramatic, hilarious, thought-provoking, action-packed and whimsical. Even still, the actor has had his share of roles he was looked at and ultimately rejected for and has also passed on a breadth of noteworthy movies over the years.

Oh, what could have been! Brad Pitt had the opportunity to star in a number of popular action franchises, cult classics, big-budget blockbusters and Best Picture winners, but they just weren’t meant to be for the always-busy actor. Check them out!

The Bourne Identity

Just one year after starring alongside Pitt in the first of three Ocean films, Matt Damon took on his now-iconic role as Jason Bourne. The spy-thriller is based on the novel series by Robert Ludlum followed a mysterious man suffering from amnesia who starts to piece together his past connected to a covert CIA operation. The action flick spun five films over 14 years that grossed $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office.

After initially signing on to the film, Brad Pitt had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with his film Spy Game with the now-possibly retired Robert Redford. Who knows? He might have preferred a one-and-done spy movie. Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Russell Crowe were also among those considered for Jason Bourne, so he was in good company.

Almost Famous

Cameron Crowe’s classic 2000 film based on his own teenage years as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine going on tour with rock bands in the ‘70s was originally supposed to include Brad Pitt alongside its impressive list of stars including Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand, Zooey Deschanel, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jimmy Fallon. The actor was to play the role of Russell Hammond, who Billy Crudup ended up nabbing in the final version of Almost Famous.

Cameron Crowe reportedly wrote the guitarist likely inspired by Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers specifically with Brad Pitt in mind and they worked together for months on crafting the character before Pitt said he just didn’t “get it enough to do it” and dropped out of the project.

Heathers

In 1988, Winona Ryder and Christian Slater starred in a peculiar dark comedy about a teen who teams up with a sociopath to plot the death of the cool kids destroying her good reputation in her high school. It would have been Brad Pitt’s first feature film if he’d been given the role of J.D. he did a table-read early in the film’s development.

One of the film’s producers, Denise Di Novi said she “didn't find anything extraordinary about him at all” of her initial impression of him but he has since grown into his talents. Other reports noted that they found Pitt to be “too sweet” for the dark character Slater ended up playing. The movie wasn’t a box office hit, but has become a cult favorite and inspired a rock musical and a controversial TV series.

About A Boy

One of Hugh Grant’s most endearing roles to date also almost was played by Brad Pitt. The actor apparently turned down 2002’s About a Boy because he felt the movie’s premise of an attractive man pretending to be a single father to pick up women was far-fetched. The actor still kind of made it into the movie as his face appears on the cover of an Esquire issue his almost-to-be role of Will Freeman reads in one scene.

The Oscar-nominated movie was more in the wheelhouse of Hugh Grant anyway. At the time, the British actor was on a roll, starring in successful rom-coms such as Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Four Weddings and a Funeral. Pitt never really took on the genre despite its prominence during his rise to fame.

Kick-Ass

Besides a quick cameo in Deadpool 2 as the Vanisher, Brad Pitt never took on a superhero adaptation, but he was close to playing Big Daddy in 2010’s Kick-Ass. The action-comedy poked fun at Batman with Nicolas Cage’s hilarious role, alongside a young comic book fan who decides to become a superhero despite not having powers. The film also starred both Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Evan Peters, who went on to play Quicksilver in the MCU and X-Men movies.

Brad Pitt was a producer on Kick-Ass, with his good friend Matthew Vaughn (who directed, co-wrote and produced the movie) and was considered for Big Daddy. However, he decided to work with Quentin Tarantino on Inglourious Basterds instead.

Backdraft

Ron Howard’s drama starring Kurt Russell and William Baldwin as firemen brothers with a problematic relationship may have marked a prior collaboration between Russell and Pitt, before their up-and-coming roles in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood but it wasn’t to be! Pitt, Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr. were all reportedly considered to play Brian McCaffrey, but Baldwin won out because he looked most convincingly like a relative to Russell.

The film was recognized for its use of special effects and successful in its 1991 box office numbers. The story revolves around the brothers being forced to face their problematic relationship whilst a dangerous arsonist terrorizes Chicago. It also starred Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

The Matrix

That’s right! In some alternative reality, we’d associate Brad Pitt with the name Neo instead of Keanu Reeves. This is a strange one to imagine, Reeves helped make The Matrix iconic and propelled his career into the current Keanuissance we’re living in today. Johnny Deep was reportedly the first choice for the Wachowskis, but Warner Bros. pushed for Val Kilmer or Pitt. When they both turned down the role, the studio placed young Reeves into the mix and he nabbed the gig over Depp thanks to his deep interest in the film’s concept.

The film that follows a computer hacker finds out he’s living in a simulated reality of a dystopian future, The Matrix is revered as one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time and it was a box office and cultural phenomenon when it came out in 1999.

Apollo 13

Brad Pitt was also considered for another one of Ron Howard’s hits, 1995’s Apollo 13. The docudrama based on the famous NASA mission of the same name and follows the astronauts on it played by Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon and Gary Sinise. Over 20 years later, it’s a space-set classic.

Brad Pitt was in the running to be on the mission but decided to turn it down to star in Se7en with Morgan Freeman and director David Fincher. Considering it’s still one of his most iconic roles and it likely paved the way to work with Fincher again for Fight Club, this decision fared well for the actor. Pitt will get his turn in space in the upcoming film Ad Astra.

Sleepy Hollow

Surprisingly enough, Brad Pitt has circled a few more roles with Johnny Depp, including Tim Burton’s 1999 adaptation of Sleepy Hollow. Burton and Depp are frequent collaborators, so much so that the actor has been in nearly half of the filmmaker’s movies. Depp was Burton’s first choice for the role and marked their third collaboration together.

At the insistence of Paramount, a few other talents were considered for the role of Ichabod Crane including Liam Neeson, Daniel Day-Lewis and of course Pitt. Seeing as Pitt’s potential involvement would have been bending Burton’s arm for creative freedom, I'm happy the fantasy adaptation turned out how it did.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Brad Pitt could have played Willy Wonka too! Tim Burton’s remake of Roald Dahl’s beloved story went through tons of actor before the director once again went for his trusty partner, Johnny Depp. Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Robert De Niro, Dwayne Johnson, Adam Sandler, Michael Keaton, Will Smith and Patrick Stewart were among those thought up for the mysterious candy man previously played by Gene Wilder.

However, the actor is still affiliated with the film since it was the last project under his and Jennifer Aniston’s production company Plan B Entertainment before they filed for divorce. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was only their second project and Plan B has gone on to produce a ton of other films, most recently with Vice and If Beale Street Could Talk.

American Psycho

Christian Bale’s early work is defined by his unforgettable role as Patrick Bateman in 2000’s American Psycho. Before the Batman actor carried the axe, Pitt was attached to an earlier version of the project with David Cronenberg as director and the author of the original novel penning the script. However, it never got off the ground.

Even before that, Johnny Depp (noticing a trend here?) was also set to star when Stuart Gordon was going to direct. Mary Harron ended up co-writing the script with Guinevere Turner and helming the chilling film about a banking executive who hides his psychopathic ego from his friends and co-workers.

The Shawshank Redemption

Though it wasn't a major box office success, The Shawshank Redemption is one of the highest regarded films of all time … and Brad Pitt could have had the key role of Tommy Williams back in 1994. The film based on one of Stephen King’s stories follows the heartwarming tale of two imprisoned men who bond over the years in jail. Though the film was originally a box office disappointment, it was nominated for seven Oscars.

The role of Tommy was apparently originally “intended” for Brad Pitt, but he went on to do Interview with a Vampire that year instead. He got his chance to work with Morgan Freeman a year later in Se7en and gave Gil Bellows his most memorable role to date.

The Departed

Originally, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise were supposed to co-star as Colin Sullivan and Billy Costigan in Martin Scorsese’s 2006 crime drama about Boston cops. However, both ended up dropping out and Matt Damon took Pitt’s role and Leonardo DiCaprio nabbedCruise’s.

It marks yet another role Damon took over for Pitt as he moved to work with another auteur director, Alejandro G. Iñárritu for Babel, which earned him one of five of his Golden Globe nominations. DiCaprio’s involvement also continued an ongoing collaboration with Scorsese. He’d just starred in The Aviator and would later work with him for two more projects and counting.

Titanic

Lastly, Brad Pitt could have starred in one of the highest-grossing and praised films of all time, James Cameron’s Titanic. He along with Tom Cruise, Macaulay Culkin, Ethan Hawke and Matthew McConaughey were considered for the role of Jack, but ended up losing out to Leonardo DiCaprio who is now-iconic for the role.

James Cameron has said that when Leo came in for an interview, he noticed every woman in the building had come to the meeting, including the accountant and female guard. That’s how he knew it had to be DiCaprio as the heartthrob involved in one of the most heartbreaking projects in cinema.

There are so many Brad Pitt movies that didn’t pan out! Even still and without these roles, the actor has built an illustrious career. Which of these roles would you have liked to see Brad Pitt take on? Let us know in the comments below!

Family Guy has long been known for its offbeat and random humor, so it's no surprise that the brilliance behind some of its jokes isn't always fully appreciated when they're crafted. One such example is the animated comedy's recent head-scratcher aimed at the cancelled Fox series Sleepy Hollow, and it apparently took some elbow grease to get it included in "Trump Guy."

The joke made the left-field comment that Sleepy Hollow star Tom Mison's closed captioning was crafted by angry stenographers, and executive producer Rich Appel said it took a bit of leg work to keep the gag from the cutting room floor.

The 30-second clip taken from the Sleepy Hollow pilot featured non-sequitur captions like the nonsense language seen above, and statements such as "I like poop," as opposed to Ichabod's actual dialogue. While Rich Appel and Family Guy writers had faith in the joke, there were outside forces who believed the joke was too random even by the show's standards.

Ultimately the staff won out, and the oddly-specific gag made it to air. Rich Appel doesn't mention that Fox's objection was wholly tied to things still being sticky about Sleepy Hollow's cancellation, but that could possibly played into those discussions. Of course, Fox's various animated comedies would all be gone if they faced the harshest punishments for taking shots at the network.

So, who was the mastermind behind this deep-cut joke featured in Family Guy Season 17? Rich Appel revealed to TVLine that the cutaway joke, as well as a good chunk of the show's general off-the-wall references and jabs, are credited to the author of the episode.

Patrick Meighan's appreciation for lesser-celebrated Fox shows may be rooted in his background, as his former writing credits include a staff writer position on the 2002 sitcom Titus. Three years later, he joined the Family Guy crew and has been a fixture on the program ever since. As long as Meighan's in the picture, it seems as though the show's odd and random references won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

Family Guy is all new with Season 17 episodes airing on Fox every Sunday night at 8:00 p.m. ET. Keep tabs on what new shows are premiering in 2019 and what old favorites are returning by heading over to our midseason premiere guide.

Well, the 2017 television year is almost at a close, and, just like every year prior, there were a wide variety of shows that didn't make it out alive. In some cases news that these programs would be ending in 2017 had been announced ahead of time, but, more likely, the shows were either pulled from the schedule never to return or cut loose after whatever season they were on ended. Just because there are more TV shows than ever doesn't mean that all of those shows are extremely successful and capable of lasting until the end of time. (What show is, really, besides The Simpsons and 60 Minutes?) So, let's take a (long) look at everything that's been cancelled or ended as previously announced so far this year, shall we?

Sense8 (Netflix) - Cancelled in June, Ending in 2018

Easily one of the most controversial TV cancellations in 2017, Sense8's first fate-changing announcement pissed off just about everyone within the show's limited-but-steadfast fanbase. The globe-trotting sci-fi drama told a complex and intriguing tale of connection and acceptance that spoke to societal groups that don't often get main-character recognition on TV. And after almost a full month of fan backlash, Netflix announced that Sense8 would get the chance to deliver a proper sendoff with a two-hour "movie" finale to be aired in 2018. It's amazing what TV fans can do sometimes.

Blood Drive (Syfy) - Cancelled in September

One of the craziest shows on TV in 2017, this grindhouse throwback was well-received by fans, although it didn't gain the largest viewership during its single season. Syfy decided to cancel the series before its first season had finished airing, and creator James Roland announced the sad news on the night of the Season 1 finale.

@midnight (Comedy Central) - Ended in August

One of roughly 200,000 shows that Chris Hardwick has hosted in the past few years, @midnight was a game show where the results of the competition were less important than the joke-hemorrhaging hashtags that fans would frequently use after each airing. (Or the spoilers that Robert Kirkman would blurt out.) After 4 seasons, the comedian-filled series met its fate after Hardwick and Comedy Central mutually agreed to call it quits, with Episode 600 being its final one.

The Odd Couple (CBS) - Cancelled in May

Marking the seventh time Neil Simon's play was adapted for screens big or small, CBS' The Odd Couple is the most successful TV show that Matthew Perry has been a part of in his post-Friends career. But this sitcom didn't get either the critical attention or the viewership that Friends did even in its worst seasons, and CBS evicted the well-cast series after three seasons. Though not before keeping fans waiting with bated breath to get an official decision.

Regular Show (Cartoon Network) - Cancelled in 2016, Ended in January

One of the best buddy cartoons to ever get created -- yeah-yuh! -- Regular Show lasted for eight oddity-filled seasons, with Cartoon Network deciding last year to cancel the series, with the then-unaired Season 8 serving as its swan song. It was quite a space-faring way to cap the series off, too, with the super-sized finale ("A Regular Epic Final Battle") airing back in January, complete with Robert Englund reprising the role of Anti-Pops.

The Carmichael Show (NBC) - Cancelled In June

Co-created by and starring comedian Jerrod Carmichael, NBC's sitcom The Carmichael Show had quite an eventful run in its three seasons. The series often tackled societal issues in successful ways, and even though it was a hit with critics, there was obvious tension between Carmichael and some at NBC. Things came to a head whenever the network delayed a shooting-centered episode after the tragedies in Virginia and San Francisco in June 2017. The actor wasn't pleased, and it wasn't long before he announced he was exiting the show, with his contract being up. NBC cancelled the show soon after.

Doubt (CBS) - Cancelled in February

Following her controversial exit from Grey's Anatomy, actress Katherine Heigl first attempted a TV comeback with the short-lived NBC political drama State of Affairs, and then jumped to CBS for the legal crime drama Doubt. Unfortunately, the latter ran for only two episodes before getting yanked off the primetime schedule and being subsequently cancelled, making it the first big broadcast network axing of the year. CBS later running the remaining 11 episodes on Saturday nights, without much fanfare involved.

Girl Meets World (Disney Channel) - Cancelled in January

Fans of the Disney Channel original comedy Girl Meets World had their hearts broken when it was announced the channel would not be moving forward with a Season 4 order. A spinoff of the popular TGIF sitcom Boy Meets World, the Disney comedy was very good about mixing former cast members into the bunch, and it had quite a vocal fanbase. However, the ratings dipped across its three seasons, and despite the fervent efforts of its creative team to find Girl Meets World a new home, the Matthews family adventures are a thing of the past.

Orphan Black (BBC America) - Ended in August

One of the more unique and engaging sci-fi dramas of the modern age, Orphan Black got five seasons to tell its complex and clone-filled story, with star Tatiana Maslany gaining a massive fandom for her distinct portrayals of all the different seestras. And rather than getting to a point where the wheels were spinning empty yarns, BBC America and Space set up Season 5 to be the final batch of episodes, giving creators John Fawcett and Graeme Manson the chance to cap things off in the best way possible, although it could have used more dance parties.

Downward Dog (ABC) - Cancelled in June

After her award-winning turn on FX's Fargo, actress Allison Tolman next flipped to a network half-hour comedy for ABC's sorta-summer series Downward Dog. But there wasn't much bluster behind its mid-May debut, and six episodes into its eight-episode run, ABC cancelled Downward Dog, which aired its last two episodes a few days later. (It was one of the rarer times where a significant section of back-to-back episodes' audience stops watching after the first one ends.) While reviews were on the "fine" side, the numbers were not on this show's side.

Bones (Fox) - Ended in March

For twelve mystery-driven seasons, Fox boasted one of the most successful primetime procedural dramas that wasn't created by Dick Wolf. And though ratings drooped in later years, Bones never lost steam with its more dedicated fanbase who never tired of watching Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz being cutesy together while solving bone-related crimes. Fox decided that Season 12 would be the final one, and that shortened batch of episodes culminated in a crazy finale that ended on a heartwarming note. And for what it's worth, Boreanaz is not interested in any future Bones reunions.

Halt and Catch Fire (AMC) - Ending

It's not easy to think about any TV shows that covered the same kind of storylines as Halt and Catch Fire, which centered on the boom of personal computers in the 1980s, as well as the early days of the World Wide Web. (Along with various forms of personal drama, of course.) Halt and Catch Fire only seemed to build upon its already solid acclaim from season to season, though low ratings eventually sealed its fate, with AMC's Season 4 renewal coming with the caveat that it was the final season. And it was arguably the most well-received season of the bunch, too.

24: Legacy (Fox) - Cancelled in June

One of the more highly anticipated TV spinoffs in recent years, Fox tried to revive its hugely successful action drama 24 without the presence of leading man Keifer Sutherland as Jack Bauer. The results were enjoyable, but 24: Legacy wasn't on par with the franchise's best years, and it only takes a cursory look at the ratings decline to figure out that viewers weren't so keen to find out how Corey Hawkins' Eric Carter and others saved the day. And, though it seemed like the series might live on in an altered format, Fox called it quits after one season.

Bates Motel (A&E) - Ended in April

While Bates Motel initially seemed like a strange idea for a series, since Norman Bates isn't your everyday primetime TV character, the drama was highly acclaimed during its five-season run. Because it wasn't exactly a story that necessarily stretched across a massive timeline, the creative team initially had a five-season plan for Bates Motel, which A&E was happy to comply with. And it was mutually decided that the deadly drama was good to end after Season 5.

The Strain (FX) - Ended in September

Based on the three novels co-authored by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, The Strain managed to stretch out the central tale of Humans vs. Strigoi for four blood-soaked seasons. That was a good sign of FX's faith in the horror drama, since viewership for The Strain fell off dramatically in its later seasons. But the channel did give the creative team the chance to end things with a purpose by announcing the show would end on Season 4.

Dr. Ken (ABC) - Cancelled in May

Dr. Ken may have not exactly been a ratings winner for ABC during its two seasons on the network, but it did bring in surprisingly decent and consistent numbers for a show that aired on the dreaded Friday night of the schedule. The Ken Jeong comedy, which focused on the former actual doctor mining that profession for laughs, had numbers that were just good enough for Fridays, that is, until May when ABC decided to cut the show loose. At least Dr. Ken was able to bring on Community creator Dan Harmon for an awesomely meta cameo in (what turned out to be) the series finale.

Son of Zorn (Fox) - Cancelled in May

Fox likely had high hopes for Son of Zorn, as it came from Lego Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller and was the first show they produced after their success with the network's The Last Man on Earth. The half-live-action, half-animated comedy about a barbarian from a mythical land who moves to Orange County, California got great debut numbers, but lost viewers in droves afterwards. When the Season 1 finale drew only 1.5 million people, it was almost a given that the network would get out of the Zorn business, and Fox didn't waste much time doing exactly that.

Review (Comedy Central) - Ended in March

Shows that end after the third season are typically cut down in their prime by a cruel network, but in the case of Review, the decision to end with a truncated Season 3 came from the joint desire of creator/star/producer Andy Daly and Comedy Central. The show, which focused on a professional critic who reviewed real life experiences, was much loved by critics, but audiences never really found the show, with Season 2 numbers dipping to an average of 258,000 viewers.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Nickelodeon) - Ending in November

Everyone's favorite Ninja Turtles have been a TV staple since the 1980s, so it was no surprise when Nickelodeon brought them back with the CG animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series in 2012. What was a surprise was the announcement in March that the show would be ending with its fifth season, and that the network had already replaced the show with yet another version of the same story. The current Ninja Turtles series will wrap up with a slightly shortened Season 5 run this November, and fall of 2018 will see the debut of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Underground (WGN America) - Cancelled in May

Here's a case of simple bad timing leading to the cancellation of a series. While Underground had solid ratings and good buzz along with notable critical praise for its two seasons on WGN America, the show was dropped as part of a move in a different direction for the network. And, that move came along because WGN's parent company, Tribune Media, was bought by Sinclair Broadcast Group just weeks before the cancellation. According to Sinclair's CEO, the ratings for WGN's shows didn't justify what the network was spending on them, and so, Underground was cut loose.

Episodes (Showtime) - Ended in October

After four seasons of watching Matt LeBlanc play, well, Matt LeBlanc, in the send-up of Hollywood that was Episodes, Showtime and the creators of the comedy decided that their story was told. The series was praised by critics and netted 10 Emmy nominations during its time on the air, and also a Golden Globe win for Matt LeBlanc in 2012. Season 5 of Episodes debuted in August and the series wrapped its run in early October.

2 Broke Girls (CBS) - Cancelled in May

Most cancellations come down to either money or ratings, and in the case of the CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls, both factors seem to have been in play. By the time Season 6 came to an end in April, the ratings were nothing to write home about, with only 5.62 million viewers tuning in on average. Those numbers, coupled with the fact that CBS had to foot the bill for production on the show without seeing any of the syndication profits, probably led to the cancellation.

The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News) - Cancelled in April

After reports came out that host Bill O'Reilly had paid five women to keep quiet about allegations of sexual harassment, the ratings for The O'Reilly Factor went up by about 20 percent. But, then, O'Reilly went on vacation, and with the bigwigs at Fox likely really, really tired of all the allegations of sexual misconduct coming to light in recent months, they decided not to welcome the host back from his time off and gave Tucker Carlson his spot. O'Reilly's ousting brought an end to his time with the network, where he'd been a mainstay since 1996.

The Mindy Project (Hulu) - Ending in November

Following the end of The Office on NBC, star Mindy Kaling jumped to Fox for the silly-yet-still-emotional comedy The Mindy Project, which lasted three seasons before Fox cancelled it. Streaming service Hulu stepped in to save the day, and after three additional seasons of Mindy's complicated love-life and work-life, The Mindy Project is saying goodbye once again, this time for good. Hulu made the announcement whenever Season 6 was ordered, so Kaling and her creative team had ample time to figure out how Mindy's story will wrap up.

Black Sails (Starz) - Ended in April

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is one of the most beloved books of all time, and its timeless story got expanded in a big way for Black Sails, a swashbuckling drama that appeared to have a bottomless budget at Starz. After three seasons of high seas drama, Starz put in a renewal for Season 4 and simultaneously announced Black Sails would end after that batch of episodes. Bittersweet for the show's dedicated (if not enormous) fanbase, but at least its ending was pre-planned and intentional.

Salem (WGN America) - Cancelled in 2016, Ended in January

Back in 2014, WGN America decided to get into the scripted programming game in a rather unintuitive way, by ordering up the supernatural period horror Salem, centering on the notorious Salem Witch Trials that took place in the 1600s. While the first season was celebrated for bringing in the channel's biggest viewership ever at the time, WGN America chose to later cancel Salem in the middle of its third season, which finished airing back in January. For what it's worth, though, Salem actually outlasted all of WGN America's other original shows, such as Manhattan and two other shows on this very list.

Last Man Standing (ABC) - Cancelled in May

One of the most contentious cancellations of 2017 happened when ABC shocked millions of fans by dropping the axe on Last Man Standing, the post-Home Improvement sitcom from comedian Tim Allen. Last Man Standing was performing about as well as a comedy could in Friday night primetime, but ABC explained the decision by saying they were shifting away from Friday night comedies in the future. Still, fans protested the choice, calling it a political decision to hurt the conservative-leaning Allen. There was a small chance the comedy could have ended up on CMT, but apparently Last Man Standing was too pricey, and so its six-season run is all we've got.

Longmire (Netflix) - Ending in November

Along with Justified, Longmire will likely long be celebrated as one of TV's best neo-westerns, telling the story of Robert Taylor's archetypical Walt Longmire and all the ups and downs of life in Absaroka County. Longmire started off as an A&E series, where it lasted for three seasons before getting cancelled there, at which point Netflix earned a lot of thankful fans' praise when it picked up Longmire for new seasons. Unfortunately, that partnership will soon be coming to an end, as Netflix's Season 6 order was coupled with the news that it would be the show's last one with the streaming giant.

Workaholics (Comedy Central) - Ended in March

Back in 2011, it's likely that not a lot of people would have expected Workaholics' trio of weed-schmoking slackers to turn the show into one of cable's longest-running comedies in recent years. And Comedy Central likely would have wanted to keep it going for even longer, but creators Adam DeVine, Anders Holms, Blake Anderson and Kyle Newacheck actually came to the decision themselves that Season 7 would be the last. As such, they got to wrap things up in a way that both kept the status quo intact, and also kept things open-ended enough for a potential return in the future.

Dark Matter (Syfy) - Cancelled in September

In the past few years, Syfy has made a dedicated effort to return to the kind of science fiction programming that it was named for, and while the futuristic space drama's weekly audience was never the most impressive, its fanbase was as faithful as they come. But after three seasons, Dark Matter was cancelled by Syfy, and co-creator Joseph Mallozzi later revealed that one of the main reasons the show got cancelled is because it was an acquisition and not a proper Syfy original series, making it less financially lucrative for the network. There are hopes that someone else will head to space with a fourth season of Dark Matter, but it hasn't happened yet.

Survivor's Remorse (Starz) - Cancelled in October

Being executive produced by an NBA superstar (LeBron James, to be exact) almost certainly helped generate buzz for Survivor's Remorse when it debuted in 2014, but the dramedy never really caught on with fans the way some of Starz other recent offerings did. The show, which followed a recent NBA recruit and his family as they adjusted to the high-rolling lifestyle his professional athlete status now allowed for, only managed to get over a million viewers once across four seasons, and, in the end, that just wasn't enough for the network. The series was cancelled just a few days before the Season 4 finale aired.

Celebrity Name Game (Syndication) - Ended in February

Game shows aren't automatic winners like they once were, even when they have big names attached as host like Craig Ferguson. The former late night talk show host (who won consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for best game show host for the first two seasons) helped guide two, two-person teams, each with a celebrity guest player, through the process of trying to guess the names of a variety of pop culture subjects like fictional characters and celebrity names. While fun, Celebrity Name Game didn't connect with viewers quite as well as FremantleMedia North America, which distributed the show internationally, had hoped and the show was cancelled during Season 3 last December.

The Vampire Diaries (The CW) - Ended in March

Seven seasons is a good, long run that those involved with any TV show would hope for, so when Vampire Diaries creator Julie Plec announced that the supernatural drama would end after its eighth season at San Diego Comic-Con in 2016, few were totally surprised. The series had lost one of its main characters when star Nina Dobrev left the show a few seasons prior, and ratings were not as strong as they had been. Before the official announcement, there had been rumors that the end was nigh, but at least an agreement between the network and the show's creative team meant that fans were able to get a real ending to a show they helped support for so many years.

Chicago Justice (NBC) - Cancelled in May

Super producer Dick Wolf is well known for his dramatic police procedurals like the many-tiered Law & Order franchise, and when he branched out into shows about first responders in Chicago with Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med, it only made sense to keep the train rolling with Chicago Justice. Set, obviously, in the same world as the other Chicago shows (and Law & Order, for that matter), the series followed the team of investigators and lawyers behind the Special Prosecutions Bureau who sought to bring perpetrators of the city's most attention grabbing cases to justice. While not a ratings or critical failure, Season 1 of Chicago Justice was middling, at best, in both respects, so it does make some sense that NBC would want to cut ties with the show before things went from so-so to out right bad.

Imaginary Mary (ABC) - Cancelled in May

Imaginary Mary had quite a few good things working for it when it came together at ABC. It was co-created by former Just Shoot Me! writer/producer and Community producer David Guarascio, The Goldbergs creator Adam F. Goldberg and Feast (short film) writer/director Patrick Osborne. With obvious similarities to Drop Dead Fred, It starred Jenna Elfman as a woman reconnecting with her imaginary friend from childhood, Mary, as voiced by Rachel Dratch. But the final product was less than ideal, and ABC seemed to know it, delaying the project and slicing its episode order before its debut -- which was supposedly tied to animation issues -- and Imaginary Mary was cancelled after seven of its nine episodes aired.

Baby Daddy (Freeform) - Cancelled in May

As the longest-running comedy on Freeform, it seems that Baby Daddy was another casualty of changing network tides when the series was cancelled just a few days before the Season 6 finale. The half-hour, which focused on a young man who raises the baby left on his doorstep after a one night stand, began before the network rebranded from ABC Family to Freeform and also predated the current network president. There are rumors that the network was all but guaranteed to extend the sixth season by a few episodes, but suddenly decided not to when the college-set Black-ish spinoff became a possibility for Freeform, which led to the cancellation. At least creator Dan Berendsen knew the show was on the bubble, and was able to craft a Season 6 ender that wrapped up the story nicely.

Playing House (USA) - Cancelled in October

Created by co-stars Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, the USA comedy Playing House was based in part on the duo's friendship, making their respective characters Maggie and Emma all the more natural onscreen as their lives are changed through raising Maggie's newborn baby together. Season 3, which even incorporated St. Clair's real-life breast cancer diagnosis into its story, saw the overall viewership continue dipping, and it was in October that Parham and St. Clair delivered a gracious video message to fans that USA had cancelled the expertly cast show.

Sleepy Hollow (Fox) - Cancelled in May

Well, here's a cancellation that was hardly a surprise. After a standout Season 1 that grabbed critics and viewers alike, each successive season of Sleepy Hollow became more frustrating for audiences and the ratings reflected that. When series star Nichole Beharie abandoned ship at the end of Season 3, it was a bit of a shock to see Sleepy Hollow renewed. The supernatural drama tried to rebuild itself with new cast members and a new setting for Season 4, but fans weren't happy to be without the core team that made the show so strong in the beginning. Add to that the fact that Fox shuttled the show to Friday nights, and it was almost a given that Season 5 would never happen.

The Mist (Spike) - Cancelled in September

Stephen King's name was everywhere in 2017, from IT's massive success to Netflix's pair of features to Mr. Mercedes to his actual book release. But not everything was hunky dory for King adaptations, and Spike's markedly different-from-the-novella horror drama The Mist was even less successful than The Dark Tower. The series, developed by famed Danish TV creator Christian Torpe, brought modern social issues to the monster-filled narrative, but without the kind of nuance necessary to keep audiences invested in seeing what happened next. Low ratings, coupled with a retooled view on scripted programming at Spike (soon to be Paramount Network), led to The Mist getting sent out into the foggy yonder after Season 1 was completed.

Frequency (The CW) - Cancelled in May

Some film-to-TV remakes do well, while others don't. Perhaps if the creative team behind Frequency could have been able to talk to someone in the future via ham radio, it would have known that recreating this emotional family drama wouldn't have resulted in a huge success for The CW. Starring Peyton List and Riley Smith as daughter and father detectives communicating across two different timelines, Frequency never managed to build up a very sizable audience across its 13-episode run, and it was cancelled a few months after Season 1 was completed. Thankfully, The CW did release an epilogue video sharing characters' fates, which is something more cancelled shows should get to do.

Samurai Jack (Cartoon Network) - Ended in May

Back in 2004, the beloved Cartoon Network series Samurai Jack came to a close without actually wrapping its storyline up, and fans seethed for 13 years before creator Genndy Tartakovsky was able to return and conclude the action--packed tale with a fifth season that struck a more adult chord than what some might have expected. Makes sense, considering the original fans were all 13 years older, and because the show actually got shifted to the Adult Swim programming block. While the revived storyline might not have pleased everyone, most fans thought the samurai saga's finale chapter was well worth the wait.

Turn: Washington's Spies (AMC) - Ended in August

Along with having one of the more awkward names of any prestige TV drama, Turn: Washington's Spies also provided viewers with one of the more in-depth quasi-fictional takes on the American Revolution ever to hit the small screen. And though the first season was a decent hit for AMC, the viewership took a relatively steep dive in Season 2 and beyond, which likely played into the network's decision to announce the show's end was coming after its fourth season. For what it's worth, Season 4 actually gave Turn: Washington's Spies a decent enough boost in its weekly viewership. Not enough to reverse the decision to end it, but still.

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (CBS) - Ended in May

Well, it would seem the folks behind Criminal Minds might always have a much harder time launching a successful franchise of their property compared with those behind NCIS and CSI. Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders was the second spinoff to be cancelled for low ratings, with sister show Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior being cancelled in 2011 after one 13 episode season. Much like with that series, Beyond Borders was axed due to low ratings. In Season 2, the Gary Sinise starrer, which focused on an FBI team that helped Americans who get into big trouble abroad, only averaged 5 million weekly viewers and a 0.8 rating, and that was down 28 and 33 percent from Season 1. Those numbers were enough for CBS to say goodbye to the show just a few days before the Season 2 finale aired.

Emerald City (NBC) - Cancelled in May

Following the yellow brick road didn't turn out too well for NBC's modernized Wizard of Oz reboot, Emerald City. Even though the dark take on the story did have some fans when it debuted in January, not all of them stuck around for the entire 10-episode run. The premiere had an already-not-impressive viewership of 4.9 million, and by the time the show wrapped, numbers were down to 2.9 million, so the network decided to cut its losses.

The Blacklist Redemption (NBC) - Cancelled in May

The Blacklist has been a solid winner for NBC since it debuted in 2013, so it makes sense that the network would be interested in franchising the property with another installment. The Blacklist: Redemption, which hit the small screen early this year during the hiatus of its mothership series, didn't quite fulfill the promise, however, and the show was let go after its eight-episode freshman season. If nothing else, at least that meant actor Ryan Eggold could return to the flagship series.

Vice Principals (HBO) - Ending in November

In a very rare situation, when Danny McBride and Jody Hill were putting together Vice Principals, they decided that two seasons of comedic and sometimes tragic madness and mayhem would be all they'd need to tell the story of two high school vice principals vying for the top spot at the school. HBO was totally on board, and, in an effort to stay on track with their vision, both seasons were filmed back to back. You can expect the series finale to hit HBO on November 12.

The Catch (ABC) - Cancelled in May

Everyone knows by now that ShondaLand shows like Grey's Anatomy and Scandal tend to rule the airwaves, but The Catch wasn't so lucky. After a pretty solid Season 1, ratings began to fall off in Season 2, which tried to take the story in a different tonal direction. Eventually, the drama about ex-lovers involved in a messy game of fraud and deceit came to a close with its Season 2 finale.

Kingdom (Audience Network) - Cancelled in April

After debuting in 2014 to solid reviews and holding on to a dedicated group of viewers through two seasons, Kingdom was cancelled almost two months before its third season was set to premiere. The drama, which starred Frank Grillo, Nick Jonas and Jonathan Tucker, and focused on a retired MMA fighter training his sons to keep the family legacy going, finished the 10-episode run of Season 3 on August 2.

Grimm (NBC) - Ended in April

For five seasons Grimm was the little supernatural show that could on Friday nights for NBC. The series had a very committed fanbase, and when it was announced last year that the episode order for Season 6 would be cut down to 13 from 22, those fans began to panic. Sure enough, just a few months later it was announced that Season 6 would be the show's last go-round with crazy, fairy tale villains. Luckily for fans, Grimm was able to bring everything full circle in the finale.

Will (TNT) - Cancelled in September

Well, TNT tried to give us a very different view of William Shakespeare with its punk rock origin story Will, but it looks like the effort didn't really pay off. The 10-episode outing of Season 1, which began in July, barely made an impact on summer TV and the show was only able to average 697,000 total viewers, which simply wasn't good enough for the network to give Will a second shot.

Powerless (NBC) - Cancelled in May

Comic fans were super excited when it was announced that DC was planning a comedy about how its various heroes and villains impacted the lives of regular folk. But, when NBC debuted Powerless at mid-season early this year, the show was only able to garner middling viewership, and numbers from the premiere to the second episode dropped 19 percent. A little over two months into its freshman run, Powerless was pulled from the schedule and then quietly cancelled about a month later.

Conviction (ABC) - Cancelled in March

While networks are never excited to talk about failures, Conviction's cancellation is a study in extremes when it comes to such things. The legal drama hit ABC in October 2016 to basically abysmal numbers and continued dropping as the weeks went on. In December, ABC announced that it wouldn't be adding to the initial 13-episode order, which was hardly unexpected, and when the final installment aired the network proceeded to simply not say anything about it being cancelled at all. But, once it was announced that series stars Haley Atwell and Emily Kinney had signed on to new projects, it was pretty clear that Conviction had been sent to the big TV prison in the sky.

Rosewood (Fox) - Cancelled in May

Rosewood started off with a pretty solid audience when it hit Fox two seasons ago, and even though Season 1 viewership went from 7.5 million to 3.5 million, the show's rating in the key demo of 18 to 49-year-olds mostly stayed above 1.0, which gave the network enough confidence to order Season 2. Unfortunately, the second season never reached those heights, and Fox cut the crime procedural from its lineup less than two weeks after the season wrapped.

Switched At Birth (Freeform) - Ended in April

After four seasons of solid ratings and positive critical reception, along with surviving the rebranding of its network from ABC Family to Freeform, it was announced early last year that Switched at Birth would end its run after Season 5. The family drama about, you guessed it, two teen girls who realized they were switched at birth, had a massive 15 month hiatus, but at least it gave the people behind the series enough time to craft a finale that would satisfy fans.

Outsiders (WGN America) - Cancelled in April

Much like Underground, behind-the-scenes changes at WGN America are what mostly led to the network's decision to cancel its Kentucky mountain folk drama, Outsiders. The show was actually one of the network's top performers, but the leadership change at WGN America led to a desire to create more "diverse" programming, so the series was cut. They could have picked a better time to do it, as the cancellation dropped just before the season's final two episodes.

The Great Indoors (CBS) - Cancelled in May

Without his dual gigs on Talk Soup and Community, actor Joel McHale was rip for another network comedy, and it came in the form of CBS' The Great Indoors. For a CBS series centered on the divide between Boomers, Gen-Xers and Millennials, The Great Indoors could have been a lot worse. Especially when it comes to the ratings. The sitcom drew in audiences far more impressive than those for many of the other cancellations on this list, and there were no huge dips anywhere. But still, after keeping hopes on the line, CBS cancelled The Great Indoors after the one season.

Pretty Little Liars (Freeform) - Ended in June

After months of speculation, it was finally announced in August 2016 that Season 7 of Pretty Little Liars would be its last. The team behind the hit series about a group of teen girls involved in a twisty web of dangerous and ever-escalating lies had simply decided that the time was right to wrap things up. The show returned with the second half of Season 7 in April, and managed to pull out a major twist in the big series finale. And what's more, the drama is already getting another spinoff with The Perfectionists.

The Real O'Neals (ABC) - Cancelled in May

With Dan Savage as one of the creative minds behind the "teenager comes out to his family" comedy, The Real O'Neals got a lot of attention for telling a story about a gay teen within a Catholic family, and it helped that the show was well-written. But problems arose in Season 2 thanks to a mini-backlash over one episode's joke about bisexuals, as well as star Noah Galvin's controversially frank interview in which he openly criticized other gay actors and gay TV characters. Had Season 2's numbers ticked upward after such situations, it probably would have lasted longer. But two months after the finale, ABC cancelled The Real O'Neals.

Uncle Grandpa (Cartoon Network) - Ended in June

The completely bizarre misadventures of Uncle Grandpa offered some weird and wonderful stories involving pro wrestling, werewolves, robots, and magic ponies. And for Cartoon Network, the animated series was pretty dependable when it came to viewership numbers. But network execs decided to pull the plug on the show in a very strange manner, announcing a "renewal" for Seasons 4 and 5, but no actual episode orders. Instead, Uncle Grandpa's previously ordered pair of 52-episode seasons were split up so that it created four separate seasons of roughly 26 episodes. And that run ended back in June, although some of the shorts were still airing into July.

Training Day (CBS) - Cancelled in May

One of the few first-year cancellations to make a memorable mark on pop culture, Training Day was not a particularly memorable film-to-TV adaptation of Antoine Fuqua's still-engaging 2001 feature. But the (unfortunate) legacy of CBS' Training Day is that it was the last big TV role for actor Bill Paxton, who passed away just four episodes into the season. The network made it clear there were no plans to recast the role, and the show wasn't doing so well that changing the story would be the ideal move. Soon after its short midseason run had wrapped, CBS cancelled Training Day outright.

Reign (The CW) - Ended in June

While a historical drama about Mary, Queen of Scots wouldn't seem like the perfect show for The CW's youthful demographic, the Adelaide Kane-starring Reign lasted for four seasons alongside the vampires, demons and superheroes elsewhere on the network. (Not that it gave a strictly accurate portrayal of history or anything.) Reign's royalty drew in impressive enough audiences during the early part of its run, but the viewership had dropped considerably for Season 3. And so, in a move most unkind, The CW announced that the show was ending right around the time the Season 4 finale was being filmed. That's cold-blooded.

The Leftovers (HBO) - Ended in June

After Lost ended, Damon Lindelof could have gone the rest of his life without attempting another heady and mystery-driven drama lacking in clearcut answers. But instead, he and novelist Tom Perotta richly and craftily adapted the latter's novel about an apocalypse-adjacent drama full of interesting characters, and it gave HBO viewers one of TV's most magical and devastating series of all time. With star turns from Justin Theroux, Carrie Coon, Amy Brenneman and more, The Leftovers delivered a starkly different season with each passing year, and all involved had come to an agreement that three seasons was a proper-enough run. That finale will forever be burned into our memories, too.

American Crime (ABC) - Cancelled in May

Created by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley, American Crime brought the anthology drama format to network television, and with a stellar stable of actors such as Regina King, Felicity Huffman, Timothy Hutton and more. But, despite a constant flow of critical hype and acclaim for each season, the viewership made sharp declines from season to season, which didn't give ABC a whole lot to be optimistic about by way of keeping the series going. And so, two weeks after its shortened third season, American Crime was cancelled.

Bloodline (Netflix) - Ended in May

With one of TV's most talented ensembles, Bloodline built itself up as a taut, secret-filled look at the unraveling of a tortured family. Perhaps unfortunately, the strength of Ben Mendelsohn's Season 1 performance couldn't be recaptured in full, and viewer feedback faltered. But months after giving Bloodline its Season 3 renewal, Netflix dealt the show and fans a double-blow by announcing it would be the last season, and that its episode order was being cut down. So the writers had ten episodes to finish delivering the rest of their five-season plan, and to say it felt rushed is to say that Kevin Rayburn made sorta bad decisions.

Making History (Fox) - Cancelled in May

Making History brought three things together that have been really popular in the last decade: Adam Pally, Leighton Meester, and time travel. It turns out, though, that particular combination isn't necessarily one that TV viewers were clamoring for. Not even with Lego Movie helmers Phil Lord and Chris Miller executive-producing things. Also starring the also-enjoyable Yassir Lester, Making History did not earn historic numbers for Fox, and it also failed to win over critics, who mostly deemed it fine enough. It was cancelled along with several others in May.

Chelsea (Netflix) - Ending In December

After a vaguely successful first season and a more enjoyable retooled second season (which still isn't finished yet at the time of this writing), Chelsea is coming to an end on Netflix, though not because the streaming giant decided to cancel it. Chelsea Handler herself decided to stop the series at the end of this year, aiming to focus on more life-affirming projects. She will still keep working with Netflix on the other projects yet to come from her overall deal with the company, but don't expect anymore talk shows in the near future.

Fashion Police (E!) - Cancelled in October

Once a weekly staple on E!, the humorously judgmental Fashion Police was seemingly inseparable from its host and lead funnywoman Joan Rivers, but after her death in 2014, Fashion Police kept on trucking, albeit in a varying format. Perhaps it shouldn't have, though, as the unscripted series became a revolving door for entering and exiting hosts such as Kathy Griffin, Kelly Osborne, Margaret Cho and more. E! made the decision to cancel Fashion Police, with the consolation prize of a finale special partly devoted to Joan Rivers.

APB (Fox) - Cancelled in May

A future-tech police drama centered on a super-rich guy who also happened to always be the smartest man in the room, APB wasn't exactly getting too far outside the box with its core concept. But it was created by Burn Notice and The Gifted's Matt Nix, and it starred Weeds' Justin Kirk and Kingdom's Natalie Martinez, so there was easily a chance it could have been easygoing popcorn TV. It wasn't quite that, though, and viewers weren't quite interested in sticking with it through its twelve-episode season, with Fox cancelling it two weeks after its finale aired.

Gypsy (Netflix) - Cancelled in August

It was a pitch that sounded quite alluring on paper: a psychosexually motivated drama in which Naomi Watts plays a therapist embracing a dual personality, with Billy Crudup as her doe-eyed husband. It seemed like there could have been hints of Mulholland Drive in creator Lisa Rubin's first big TV show. Instead, Gypsy debuted a rather slow and tedious ten episodes for its first and only season, and the result was not something that immediately made audiences clamor for more. Rather, Netflix immediately called it quits with Gypsy, cancelling the drama less than 45 days after it debuted.

Girlboss (Netflix) - Cancelled in June

Based on #Girlboss, the similarly titled autobiography from self-made success Sophia Amoruso, Netflix's adaptation Girlboss came out of the gate without much fanfare involved, starring Britt Robertson as the similarly named Sophia Marlowe. Tracking the birth and growth of the online retailer Nasty Gal, Girlboss was not well-received on the whole, which is surprising, given creator (and former 30 Rock writer/producer) Kay Cannon's success writing the Pitch Perfect screenplays. Amoruso herself did not champion the changes made to her life story, and was fine with the cancellation that came just two months after Girlboss was released.

The Night Shift (NBC) - Cancelled in October

Medical dramas are as much of a TV staple as anything else, and NBC's The Night Shift made its mark by shifting its time setting to the overnight hours, when things aren't quite so ordinary. Viewers were always nicer to The Night Shift than critics were, and those viewers ended up drifting away from T.C. & Co. over the years, and the summer drama's lowered ratings likely played a role in The Night Shift getting cancelled after four seasons. At least there weren't any massive cliffhangers left dangling.

Major Crimes (TNT) - Ending Early 2018

A spinoff of the successful Kyra Sedgwick-starring drama The Closer, Major Crimes made it through five consistent seasons on the cable network before it was announced that Season 6 would be the crime drama's final season. The creator gave a pretty sizable social media explanation about what happened, basically saying that TNT decided the show wasn't worth all it took to keep going forward, as showcased in part by a dipping budget and a Halloween night premiere for the final season.

The Get Down (Netflix) - Cancelled in May

Co-created by musical filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, Netflix's soulful throwback drama The Get Down immediately raised eyebrows with its all-encompassing subject matter and its gigantic budget. That lengthy price tag, combined with a largely mild reaction from subscribers, worked together to keep the wildly imaginative and lushly crafted series limited to its two-part eleven-episode season. As one of Netflix's relatively few cancelled series, The Get Down has the chance to find a cult audience over the years, thanks to everything its massive budget provided for it.

Man Seeking Woman (FXX) - Cancelled in April

Even for huge fans of the surreally bizarre FXX comedy Man Seeking Woman, it has to still be strange to think that the show actually got to last for three whole seasons. Created by Simon Rich and based on a collection of short stories from the author, Man Seeking Woman presented warped and often super-literal examinations of modern romance and dating, pitting Jay Baruchel in the middle of some of the most bonkers TV episodes in each season's respective year. (That penis monster will never be forgotten.) And even though the show's ratings were consistent, they weren't very noteworthy, and FXX ended the show after Season 3.

Teen Wolf (MTV) - Ended in September

Similar to how Buffy the Vampire Slayer turned a comedic film into a fan favorite TV drama, MTV's Teen Wolf brought a major tonal shift to the Michael J. Fox film from 1985. Teen Wolf and its often-changing cast were consistently beloved on social media across each of its seasons, and there was much howling at the moon to be had whenever it was revealed that MTV was ending the show following its sixth season, which aired earlier this year with several former cast members returning to the fray.

Being Mary Jane (BET) - Cancelled In October, Ending with TV Movie

By and large a huge hit for BET, Being Mary Jane got four seasons to deliver the emotionally grounded drama anchored by actress Gabrielle Union, who starred as the struggle-facing news anchor Mary Jane Paul. While the show had viewers, there were some big shifts behind the scenes in the latter years that likely caused cancellation-minded heads to prevail at the network. BET cancelled Being Mary Jane, but offered up the olive branch of a TV movie finale set to air in 2018.

No Tomorrow (The CW) - Cancelled in May

There are so many dark and dreary apocalypse-minded TV shows and movies these days, and The CW tried to change up the pace with the romantic and comedic drama No Tomorrow, based on the Brazilian series How to Enjoy the End of the World. Starring Tori Anderson and Joshua Sasse, No Tomorrow was seen as a fun and airy show by critics, but audiences at large didn't put "tuning in" on their bucket lists, and The CW cancelled it in May. Cleverly enough, the storyline got a post-cancellation epilogue that capped things off.

Incorporated (USA) - Cancelled in February

Executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Incorporated had a bit of a buzz going for it leading into its USA premiere last year. But the futuristic drama didn't manage to muster up that big of an audience for the government and bureaucracy stories that Incorporated was telling. Though the ten-episode first season actually kept up a pretty consistent viewership, with relatively few lows, it still wasn't enough to secure a second season, and USA cancelled it back in February, just over a month after the finale.

Girls (HBO) - Ended in April

If you were ever interested in reliving your messy, indecisive, sometimes independent, frequently broke and confusing twenties, then since 2012 the show to beat was HBO's Girls. The titular ladies at the center of the show were frequently hard to even like, much less love, but there was something fascinating, especially at the beginning, about watching them fail repeatedly. In January 2016, though, word came down that creator/star Lena Dunham and her team had met with HBO and convinced the network that ending after Season 6 was the best decision, which had been her wish all along.

Duck Dynasty (A&E) - Ended in March

One of the few cable reality shows to develop a marketing empire, A&E's Duck Dynasty brought superstar status to the bearded, Christian and duck-calling Robertson family in West Monroe, Louisiana. After debuting in 2012, it didn't take too long for Duck Dynasty to reach mass audiences, and its Season 4 premiere is one of the most-watched unscripted cable episodes of all time. The Robertson family's views and opinions often got them into trouble, though, and by the last couple of seasons, the viewership was back to Season 1 averages. But it was the family, and not A&E, that called it quits for Duck Dynasty.

Pure Genius (CBS) - Cancelled in May

Coming off of Parenthood, Jason Katims dove into the medical drama field for CBS' Pure Genius, which told the well-worn story of a bazillionaire, who wants to spend his money on good things like hospital technology, meeting up with a brilliant surgeon who wants to turn modern hospitals into the most efficient operations imaginable. All involved got to do their beneficial work for 13 episodes, and Pure Genius maintained a pretty solid audience and ratings throughout its non-lauded run. Yet, instead of giving the show an easy renewal, CBS had everyone waiting until May for the disappointing cancellation.

The Steve Harvey Show (Syndication) - Ended in May

Usually, when a talk show ends it's due to low ratings and it can take years for the host to get another show with their name on it. That is not the case with The Steve Harvey Show, as not only was it frequently among the top five daytime talk shows, but host Steve Harvey already has a new daytime talker in the works. It was suspected that Harvey would end his show when his contract was up with EndemolShine North America, which produced the program. The desire to plan another show similar to it likely stems from his proven ability to grab ratings, and his new deal with IMG and NBCUniversal, which will allow Harvey to film the show in Los Angeles near many of his other gigs, as opposed to filming in Chicago.

The Apprentice (NBC) - Cancelled In August

The new version of The Apprentice had an uphill battle from the very beginning, as longtime host Donald Trump departed in order to focus on his presidential campaign, and he obviously couldn't return to the hosting gig after being elected. Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped in to replace him as host, but audiences didn't respond to the revamped series. It was announced back in August that NBC had no plans to bring the series back for another cycle, celebrity-hosted or otherwise.

That's everything that's off the air or going off the air, but what about all the shows that still have yet to debut in 2017? Find out by using our fall TV premiere schedule.

We're nearing the beginning of the school year, which means it's time to grab those last couple of beach days, road trips, and barbecues before the season's out. However, there are still going to be those days when the weather's too hot, the rain's too much, or you just want an easy moment of entertainment. Which means, Netflix is going to be one of the places you head to for cinematic merriment.

We've already put together the full list of this month's incoming movies, as you can see here. But if you really want our personal favorites from the lot, this is the place to be. Eleven films struck us as big ticket winners, and you can see all of them in the following list. Prepare your queue for the following blockbusters:

The Matrix Trilogy

You can't really tell people what The Matrix is, as people ultimately have to see it for themselves. And in that respect, you really can't watch just one Matrix movie, as all three make up one massively interesting story. Some installments may pale in comparison, but ultimately, it's an epic series that deserves a full run-through. If you really need a reason for why you need to watch The Matrix in one, big marathon, we can give you two: Keanu Reeves' kung-fu, and Hugo Weaving's slow descent into madness.

The Founder

If there's one thing you can count on in the Hollywood world, it's Michael Keaton's intensity. The man brings it every time he's on the screen, and The Founder is a gem that more folks need to watch. Playing the role of Ray Kroc, the man who would be king of the McDonald's empire, the film shows his rise from a mere salesman to a cutthroat corporate raider. Come for the Keaton, stay for the strong supporting performances by Laura Dern, Nick Offerman, and John Carroll-Lynch.

Jackie Brown

Quentin Tarantino has never made a literary adaptation past his unique spin on Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. That novel, through the prism of Tarantino's love of 70's Blacksploitation films, turned into one of his best, if not little known, films: Jackie Brown. With Pam Grier playing the titular flight attendant, and co-stars like Robert DeNiro, Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda, Robert Forster, and Michael Keaton all bringing up the supporting cast, it's classic Tarantino all around with this flick. If only he'd take on another Leonard novel as a project before supposedly retiring, as this is an adaptation that really sings.

Sing

Ok, that last pun was not intended to segue into our reasons for Sing being a film you should keep on your radar. But while we're here, it'd be a total waste not to extoll the virtues of what's possibly Illumination Entertainment's best animated film. Not to mention, with the news that Taron Egerton has been cast as the new lead in the Elton John biopic, it's hard not to think that his rendition of "I'm Still Standing" didn't, at the very least, give him a competitive advantage. Rest assured, this kid's musical is one that everyone will find something to enjoy about it.

The Addams Family

It is never too late to start preparing for Halloween. With retail outlets starting to stock costumes, décor, and candy, who says you can't get into the gholish spirit long before October even becomes a going concern. This is especially true when a film like The Addams Family makes it to Netflix's streaming service, as this is a film that truly embodies the spirit of the haunted season. But even if you're patiently waiting to break out your fake spiderwebs, it's still a fun ride into the realm of dark comedy, as well as family togetherness. En garde!

Cloud Atlas

Some movies are so ambitious that they don't always connect with the audiences they seek the first time around. This sometimes leads to those sorts of films becoming punchlines, but Cloud Atlas has, over time, lost the stigma of being a short-hand gag for the excesses of Hollywood, and started turning into a cult gem that folks truly enjoy. With its unique narrative, and the ability to turn a hard to adapt book into a flowing work of art, The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer turned in a work of beauty that will only grow in influence over time.

Bad Santa

Christmas is another time of year that folks love to jump the gun on, and if you need a little yuletide cheer in August, Bad Santa is a good movie to throw onto your holiday list. Billy Bob Thornton's crustier take on the man in the red suit is one that's only become more popular as the years have moved on, and let's face it, not all Santa themed films can be cheerful. If you love misanthropic humor, and watching a guy in a Santa suit getting into some naughty business, look no further.

Innerspace

Our next two choices are a double feature of underrated Joe Dante pictures, and they're both the epitome of summer movie fun! First up is Innerspace, a sci-fi comedy/adventure that asks the question, "What if Martin Short was being piloted by Dennis Quaid?" The movie only gets more exciting when it starts to mix in corporate espionage, evil scientists, and a cowboy obsessed henchman. To the relative outsider, this may seem a bit much; but to folks who know Dante's reputation, it's an invitation for excitement.

Small Soldiers

The other end of our Dante Double Delight is Small Soldiers, a movie that's probably better remembered for its promotional tie-ins, rather than for its content. Which is a damned shame, because Joe Dante assembles members of both Spinal Tap and The Dirty Dozen to voice the adversarial toys that plot havoc on each other, as well as humanity. But it's the contrast between Tommy Lee Jones' warhawk Chip Hazard and Frank Langella's Archer that is the heart of the film. Of course, as this is a Dante picture, expect some comedy madness to make it into the mix.

Sleepy Hollow

OK, so you've watched The Addams Family, and you want another Halloween-flavored treat to enjoy. We can't blame you, which is why Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow is our idea of a good follow-up. Though you won't find as much comedy in this choice as you would with our previous recommendation, and you might want to think twice before slipping this one on in front of your more squeamish friends. Sure, there's a romance between Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp, but that's on top of a frightening looking Christopher Walken as the Headless Horseman's more headed incarnation. And, naturally, all the beheadings that happen to occur in the film. Just a friendly heads up.

Lord of War

Andrew Niccol and Nicholas Cage are talents that are so varied that you'll get either champagne or dirty pool water out of them on any given day. Lord of War is a champagne picture between the two collaborators, as it satirizes the world of arms dealing and government contracting, while at the same time showing off the darker side of the lurid dream that Cage's Yuri Orlov is living out. Equal parts funny and frightening, it's a film that's so much fun, the really harsh stuff hits all the harder when it comes home to roost.

Small screen reboots, remakes, and adaptations are a dime a dozen these days. But FOX's take on The Exorcist has handily become one of the most exciting projects of the bunch. Delivering scares and a creepy atmosphere that feels ripped straight from William Friedkin's original film, the show has managed to honor the passions of longtime fans, while also carving out its own niche in the horror genre. Much of the show's success can be traced to the sheer amount of talent associated with the series (behind the camera and in front), and now it appears that the show has found some fresh blood with the newly announced casting of Star Trek's John Cho.

FOX has officially announced that John Cho will join The Exorcist for the series' upcoming sophomore season. While we haven't seen anything from his character yet, it has been revealed that Cho will portray a character named Andrew Kim -- a former child psychologist who runs a home for at-risk foster children. As if that job doesn't seem stressful enough, Kim will eventually find his world turned upside down when one of the children in his care becomes the target of a "powerful force" beyond his comprehension.

For John Cho to make the jump to The Exorcist actually makes quite a bit of sense when we consider his history on small screen FOX projects. Specifically, the actor recently saw success portraying corrupt police officer Andy Brooks on Sleepy Hollow -- lending the sense that he definitely knows how to play in the dark and creepy atmosphere of the supernatural genre.

Small screen adaptations of film properties are nothing new (particularly on FOX), but The Exorcist has managed to set itself apart from the pack since its initial debut. One of the biggest reasons for its success has been its willingness to slowly but surely acknowledge the continuity of the original film and creative, connective tissues that honor the passions of longtime fans. With the second season of the horror series officially upon us, all eyes are on The Exorcist to continue delivering the scares -- along with some truly fantastic performances. On that note, we will just have to wait and see what John Cho can do once Andrew Kim makes his grand Exorcist debut.

The Exorcist will return to FOX for its second season on Friday, September 29 at 9 p.m. EST. For more information related to the rest of the small screen debuts slated for this summer, check out our comprehensive summer TV premiere guide and fill out your TV viewing calendars accordingly!

Well, Sleepy Hollow ended its four season run a few months ago, but if you're still dying to know what would have been in store for fans in Season 5 we now have some details. According to series star Janina Gavankar, some interesting plotlines that started in Season 4 would have continued to be explored next season. Remember the shocker that was seeing a kraken come out of a lake at the end of the season? Well, that watery beast likely would have shown back up.

In fact, Gavankar revealed that the kraken storyline would have played a huge part in the Season 5 opener, which makes a lot of sense, seeing as how Crane and Diana had only just seen the monster when the credits began to roll. So, the idea of picking the season up with Team Witness still trying to figure out what the hell a kraken is doing in the Washington D.C. area and how to kill it or send it back to the watery depths sounds like a good idea to me. It also sounds like the sirens that Jenny alluded to when she called in Crane and Diana (who were never actually seen at the end of the episode) might have been a part of the big kraken case as well. Seems like someone (or something) was determined to fill D.C. with a lot of water-based mythical baddies.

On a much bigger note, Janina Gavankar divulged, in her talk to TVLine, some potential casting news that would have been pretty major for Season 5. The producers were in the process of deciding if the adult version of Diana's daughter Molly, who went by Lara and was introduced later in Season 4, would have been a permanent member of the cast in Season 5 and an official member of Team Witness.

If you'll remember, Lara was a time-traveler from the future. This version of Molly grew up in an alternate timeline where Season 4 big bad Malcolm Dreyfuss had succeeded in conquering America, and was partially raised by Malcolm and his henchman Jobe. She went back in time to stop Malcolm from taking over the country, and ended up becoming an ally to Crane and Diana in the fight against him. Since Molly was the second Witness, when Lara showed up, the mantle was passed to her, taking the pressure off the young potential fighter of evil. The finale saw Lara leave after the team defeated Malcolm, looking to find her place in the world since the one she came from no longer existed.

As Janina Gavankar notes, it would have been really intriguing to see what would have come from having Diana work alongside her adult daughter, not to mention the dynamic that would have continued to be created between she, Lara and Molly.

Well, we're not going to see how this would have played out on Sleepy Hollow, but at least we now know enough to go and write some cool Season 5 fan fiction.

The past week or so would have been a great time to just stop caring about a whole slew of TV shows, since all the networks have been going crazy handing out cancellations to the series that apparently just haven't done what those in charge were hoping for. Some were surprising, some were predictable, and some probably shouldn't have been on TV to begin with. Below, you'll see 10 of the biggest shows that each of the big networks put on the chopping block in just this week alone. (For a more comprehensive look at the fates of everything else on TV, head to our cancellation/renewal rundowns for both network TV and cable/streaming.)

The Catch - ABC

Most networks cancel shows when they're either early in the run and earning poor ratings, or far after a season is finished, when fans and the show's cast/crew are sick with worry. But not ABC, which decided to pull the plug on the Shondaland crime caper The Catch mere hours before its Season 2 finale aired. And that finale featured all manner of backstabbings and other twists that would have led nicely into a third season. Who was the real backstabber here?

Rosewood - Fox

Never a critical darling, Fox's Rosewood likely squeaked into a Season 2 order on the strength of two things. One was the affability and charisma of its cast, with the gorgeous pairing of Morris Chestnut and Jaina Lee Ortiz leading things. The second confidence-booster Fox had was Bones' lead-in audience and their appreciation for forensics-based crime procedurals. But Rosewood's audience drooped too far, and after Bones said its big farewell, so did Rosewood.

Powerless - NBC

Recent years have provided tones of comic book-sourced programming to cheer for, though almost everything has been dramatic in nature. NBC aimed to change that with the comedy Powerless, which took a super-talented cast (that included Vanessa Hudgens and Alan Tudyk) and stuck them in a vaguely structured show that spouted out jokes that were broader than the lesser-known DC Comics hero Side Of A Barn Man. The series was pulled from NBC's schedule months before it was quietly depowered for real.

American Crime - ABC

If anyone needs the 2017 example of how critical acclaim cannot save a show from its own terrible ratings, look no further than the ABC drama American Crime, which managed to last longer than almost every other show on here. But the John Ridley-created anthology drama, with all of its incredible cast members, couldn't maintain the audience that tuned in for its first two seasons, and its most recent batch of episodes was indeed its last.

Last Man Standing - ABC

Throughout most of the '90s, comedian Tim Allen was an ABC mainstay on the sitcom Home Improvement, and the network once again gave him a home six seasons ago with another multi-camera comedy, Last Man Standing. The Friday night staple won't be living up to its name anymore, though, as it was somewhat surprisingly cancelled, though not before giving audiences quite a few fun Home Improvement reunions to enjoy. Now what will Allen's next show be?

The Blacklist: Redemption - NBC

The Blacklist took an interesting turn in Season 3 when it amped up the serialized storytelling to accompany the week-to-week tales, and it offered NBC a chance to branch out with the spinoff The Blacklist: Redemption. But that show didn't reach the heights of its predecessor's numbers and got cut, and said predecessor is also seeing viewership dips. So while the newer show got cut this year, what happens next season when Red's the only one left to take the fall?

Sleepy Hollow - Fox

If there's something that seems strange about Sleepy Hollow's cancellation, it's that it failed to happen in 2016 after killing off co-lead Abbie Mills, and before irevamping the entire storyline, from setting to characters to everything else. The show's low-end premiere ratings for Season 4 were a good sign of how many fans had lost their heads over all the major changes, and things only got worse on the way to the bonkers finale.

Timeless - NBC

Throw a rock, and you were bound to hit a time machine from one of the last TV season's many shows revolving around time travel. Timeless was arguably the rompiest of the bunch, smarter than the comedies, never as ridiculous as Legends of Tomorrow, and more fun and self-aware than the related dramas. But that doesn't mean it was perfect, and its audience base went from pretty solid to pretty flimsy across its 16-episode run. Timeless, as it were, was not.

Frequency - The CW

You'll rarely find a more hit-or-miss project than a TV show remake of a movie that only achieved marginal success. Sadly, there wasn't much good news to be found for The CW drama Frequency, a half-season show that ended all the way back in January, but only just got cancelled this week. If only there was some way to go back and tell ourselves at the time that there;s no use in hoping for Season 2.

Dr. Ken - ABC

Pop culture can get weird sometimes, and who can't appreciate former doctor Ken Jeong transitioning into comedic acting and eventually using his massive fame to front a sitcom where he played a doctor? ABC appreciated it for two seasons of pretty consistent, if not shockingly fantastic, ratings on the non-enviable Friday night schedule. But now Jeong will have to move onto other projects; perhaps a job teaching acting a community college?

For some good news, rather than a bunch of depressing cancellations, head to our summer TV schedule. And let us know which of these shows you'll miss the most next season.

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Well, tonight brings bad news for Sleepyheads everywhere, as it was just revealed that Fox's supernatural drama Sleepy Hollow has been cancelled and won't be back for Season 5.

The most recent season of Sleepy Hollow saw the show attempt an almost complete retooling after the Season 3 departure of series star Nichole Beharie, who decided to leave the show and was written out via her character's death in the Season 3 finale. Even though her co-star, Tom Mison, stuck around, fans were shocked to see that there would be no supernatural trickery involved in bringing her character, Abbie Mills, back from the dead. As such, the show brought on several new actors to fill the void, including Janina Gavankar as Mison's new co-star. But, the new blood on the series did nothing to stem the tide of viewers who were abandoning the show, and the ratings simply weren't enough to encourage Fox to give the show another season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Season 4 averaged 3.2 million viewers with seven days of DVR viewership accounted for, which was down a considerable amount from the average in Season 3.

The show finished its fourth season at the end of March, and fans have been awaiting word on whether or not the show would get a chance to continue, especially since the last episode brought viewers a bit of a shocker. The episode, which obviously turned out to be the series finale, saw lead protagonist Ichabod Crane sell his soul to the devil in order to help Team Witness beat the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Now, it looks like the only way we'll get to find out how Ichabod saves his immortal soul will be if we all get down to business and start writing some fan fiction.

When Sleepy Hollow premiered in the fall of 2013, it garnered an almost immediate fanbase who became committed to the show and, especially, the possibility of a romance between Abbie and Ichabod, to the point where fans nicknamed their preferred couple Ichabbie. The show was a joy to behold in that first season. It had the perfect mix of an overarching mystery, monsters of the week, sexual tension and co-star chemistry, humor and some genuinely scary moments.

After a standout Season 1, though, it was clear to even diehard fans that the creative direction of the show was lagging. And, while some stuck with Sleepy Hollow in the hopes that it would return to those former creative highs, once it was clear that Beharie and her Abbie Mills were gone for good, many felt that the heart of show had been effectively ripped out, and simply couldn't be bothered to stick around for the next phase of the drama.

Ah, Sleepyheads...Sleepy Hollow was so amazing when it was good and so disappointing when it wasn't. Now, excuse me while I bury myself in my Sleepy Hollow journal and figure out a way to undo Abbie's death just in time to help Ichabod get his soul back. Be sure to check out our summer premiere schedule and Netflix premiere guide to see what else you can catch on the small screen in the coming weeks.

Warning: Major spoilers ahead for the Season 4 finale of Sleepy Hollow. Feel free to read one of our other awesome articles until you've caught up.

Well, Sleepyheads, Sleepy Hollow Season 4 has offered up a lot of twists and turns for our favorites from Team Witness, but now another crisis has finally come to a close. We got a pretty big shocker in the final moments of the season, when it was revealed that Crane had actually sold his soul to the devil in order to help the team beat Dreyfuss, Henry and the rest of the Horsemen. I know! You might be wondering how in the hell something like that could have even come close to happening, so, buckle up while we go through the series of events that led us to that wild ending.

When the episode starts, things are already looking pretty bad. Team Witness quickly realizes that Dreyfuss, Jobe, Henry and the Horsemen are at Camp David so that Dreyfuss can get his hands on the president. The Horsemen have been set loose, and even though the president is barricaded in her bunker with guards, Headless manages (of course) to get in and takes her whole team out with one swipe. Dreyfuss then comes in and takes the president hostage. Meanwhile, Crane notes that the only way to take out the Horsemen is to kill Dreyfuss, since they are connected to him now. So, now all they need is a way to kill the newly immortal Dreyfuss. Easy peasy, right?

While researching to find a way to kill that scraggly-haired bag of evil, Jenny finds a hidden tome which ends up leading the team to a secret cache of old-as-dirt magical weapons left behind by Benjamin Banneker that will help them fight the Horsemen. Elsewhere, Lara gets the idea to use the last of her spell crystals to call up Jobe to see if he will help them, thinking that he'd be interested in getting back at Dreyfuss himself since he's cheated on the deal he made with the devil by becoming immortal. It seems like an impossible long shot, and Jobe does a lot of yelling when he faces Crane, Diana and Lara. At the end of their meeting, he tells them to go to hell, which ends up being his way of helping them out, as they realize they need to literally go visit the devil in hell to try getting what they need.

Crane and Lara adjourn to his new apartment, where she's drawn a pentagram in a circle surrounded by candles on his floor. The two step inside and began an incantation from what I'm sure is a scary old book, and after a brief interruption from Crane's cable guy (yes, really) they're engulfed in flames and off to hell. We soon realize that each of them are experiencing very different things when they first arrive. Crane sees Valley Forge in mid-winter, with frozen dead bodies strewn across the encampment, and Lara is treated to the orphanage where she grew up after Diana died. Both locations, however, do feature a giant smoldering door marked with "abandon all hope ye who enter here," though, so, at least they're both headed to the right hell, I guess.

Inside, Lara and Crane find a massive, futuristic-looking white staircase that appears to go on forever (and probably does). They hear someone singing and look over to see a man in a glass elevator who looks an awful lot like Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, but, instead of eyeglasses, his defining feature is that half of his face is cracked and burning. Yay! It's the devil, y'all!

Now, this is, obviously, the spot where Crane got himself into a bit of trouble. The devil isn't known for helping people out of the goodness of his heart, so Crane ends up exchanging his soul for a piece of the Philosopher's Stone that helped turn Dreyfuss immortal. When Diana and Crane finally face Dreyfuss at Camp David, the Stone actually weakens him enough that Diana can shoot him and he doesn't heal. He turns to Jobe for help, but the demon has realized that the devil is collecting on his contract with Dreyfuss, so he grabs him and they disappear in a ball of flame. With Dreyfuss on his way to hell, the Horsemen have all disappeared, also.

So, the day is, once again, saved. But, you ask, what about Crane? Well, he's got a scary, glowing red brand of a pentagram on his arm to remind him of his deal with the devil, which he shows to Diana near the end of the hour. When she gets angry at him for making the deal, he reveals that he's convinced he can find a way to fix it, and Diana says, "We'll fix it together." Aw, she's all in, you guys.

The bad news now, Sleepyheads, is that Sleepy Hollow has not yet been renewed for Season 5. So, at this moment, we don't know if we'll get a chance to watch Team Witness try to keep Crane's soul from the devil next season or not. Well, if Sleepy Hollow doesn't come back, it's been a long, strange trip. That's for sure.

Be sure to check out our midseason premiere guide and summer premiere guide to see what else you can watch now that Sleepy Hollow is done for the season.

Sleepy Hollow was one of the most unexpectedly compelling shows on television when it debuted back in 2013, and Orlando Jones was a big part of why it was such a fun watch. Unfortunately for his fans, Jones left the show after Season 2 in 2015, and though he's moved on to other projects since, that doesn't mean he won't entertain thoughts of a return to the Sleepy Hollow universe. Orlando Jones shared this idea for a crossover between Sleepy Hollow and The CW's Supernatural:

I can't say that I've ever thought about Orlando Jones' Sleepy Hollow police captain Frank Irving teaming up with Misha Collins' Castiel to fight the forces of evil together, but I'm on board. The two fan favorites on the same show at the same time could be pretty epic. Sure, Frank Irving is gone from Sleepy Hollow and Castiel is busy with angel issues on Supernatural, but stranger things than a crossover have come out of both series. Orlando Jones' Sleepy Hollow/Supernatural crossover pitch to TV Guide sounds like it could be awfully entertaining.

It's not a huge surprise that Orlando Jones would pitch some kind of TV event that would involve him interacting with Supernatural. Oddly enough, Jones has become a huge fan of the CW series, often live-tweeting episodes and interacting with other fans. In fact, he even started the Twitter hashtag #SuperSleepy in 2013 to come up with ideas for a Sleepy Hollow/Supernatural event, and has made appearances for the show's fan conventions. Jones has always seemed to favor the angel Castiel over either of the Winchester brothers, so it makes sense that he'd seize any opportunity for a crossover with Cas.

Of course, Orlando Jones is pretty busy with other projects on the small screen. He landed a part in the Starz adaptation of American Gods, as well as a role in the upcoming BET series Madiba, since leaving Sleepy Hollow. Even if all the stars aligned between Fox and The CW for some kind of Supernatural/Sleepy Hollow event, it might be tricky to fit it into Jones' schedule.

That said, Supernatural shows no signs of stopping any time soon. It's currently the longest-running scripted series in The CW's history with twelve seasons, and it has already been renewed for Season 13. Frank Irving may not be returning to Sleepy Hollow, which returned for Season 4 with tons of big changes, but maybe Supernatural could find a way to bring him in for a demon hunt or or two with Castiel and the Winchester boys. Honestly, it would probably be one of the most awesome and least crazy things that Supernatural has done over the years.

You can watch Orlando Jones back on TV when Madiba premieres on BET on Wednesday, February 1 at 8 p.m. ET. Supernatural airs on Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on The CW. Check out our midseason TV premiere schedule to see what else you can catch on the small screen.

Sleepy Hollow only recently returned to the schedule for a fourth season on Fox, but it wasn't so long ago that the series wasn't a shoe-in for a renewal. In fact, in the wake of a move to Friday nights and the loss of one of the show's two major leads, it seemed more likely that Hollow would get the axe than move forward. Instead, Fox has given the show another round. This doesn't mean the network expects Sleepy Hollow to reach such great heights in Season 4, though. In fact, per what Gary Newman stated at TCA this week, the network kind-of has the opposite expectations. Here's what Fox thinks about the numbers related to the new season.

Basically, Fox knows that a lot of the show's fans were probably pissed when Nicole Beharie left. The network also knows that the main demographic the show is hoping to cater to---namely the 18-49 demographic---is probably not staying home on Friday nights just to catch Ichabod Crane fighting demons. Fox expects the ratings for Sleepy Hollow to suck, which may actually end up being good news for the hardcore fans of the show.

Obviously, what we can take away from what Newman stated (via Deadline), ratings for any series are important, but some allowances can be made for shows that air in bad timeslots---like Friday nights or on Saturdays or whatever. Since Sleepy Hollow is resetting, the network is really hoping that the show will build on its ratings during Season 4. There's no answer for whether or not that will be the case at this point, however.

Honestly, I'm still really shocked that Hollow is where it is, right now. This isn't the first time Sleepy Hollow has rebooted. The show made some major changes after John Noble and Katia Winter left the show, introducing Betsy Ross and more. It was exactly that reboot that forced Fox to move the show to Friday nights in the first place, where I was again surprised that the show was renewed and would be rebooting for the 2017-2018 TV season. The new setting and characters are a nice change of pace and Ichabod Crane is one of the best characters on television, but the writing on this series has been haphazard, at best. Maybe this will be the reboot that sticks and that will allow Sleepy Hollow to move forward as the big supernatural series airing on Fridays next season. After all, it won't have to compete with either Grimm and The Vampire Diaries on Friday nights this time next year.

If you'd like to take a look at the new version of Sleepy Hollow, catch new episodes on Fox at 9 p.m. ET, on Fridays of course. To find out when other shows are coming back, you can peruse our midseason premiere schedule.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the Season 4 premiere of Sleepy Hollow. Feel free to read one of our other fabulous articles if you haven't watched yet.

Ever since Sleepy Hollow made the shocking decision to kill off Abbie Mills, the main character played by Nicole Beharie, we've been hearing about all the changes that would be happening on the show. Now that Season 4 has premiered, we can tell you exactly what the four biggest changes looked like, and, with a couple of exceptions, the show is almost unrecognizable from its first three seasons. Let's start with the biggest change, shall we?

Sleepy Hollow Doesn't Take Place In Sleepy Hollow Anymore

Isn't that a lovely photo of Ichabod Crane in front of the Lincoln Memorial? You might be wondering what he's doing in Washington, D.C., and the answer, surprisingly enough, is actually that he lives there now. I know! Sleepy Hollow has abandoned the small town that was the focus of all the action for the first three seasons of the show, and has taken the supernatural events to D.C. How did this happen, you ask? Well, you might remember at the end of Season 3 that Crane was whisked away from the cemetery that Abbie was buried in by a big black SUV filled with mysterious government officials. When Season 4 opens, he's still being held and questioned by those enigmatic individuals two weeks later. When Crane finally escapes their clutches (which was actually a relatively easy affair), he finds that he was underground in the nation's capital. By the end of the episode, with no more real ties to Sleepy Hollow and obvious supernatural forces gathering in D.C., he decides to stay in town and do what he does best: fight demons and other creepy crawlies.

There's A New Team Witness

Well, this can't help but make sense. Crane is now fighting evil in a new city, so he would have to have a new team behind him. After Crane escapes from custody, he runs almost immediately into a demonic crime scene in progress. He helps save Homeland Security Special Agent Diana Thomas (Janina Gavankar) from a demon as she tries to capture the monster that just killed her partner. After he convinces her that he can help find the demon, she takes him to Agency 355, an X-Files like government agency known as The Vault, which keeps track of unexplained phenomena. There they meet Jake Wells (Jerry MacKinnon), who handles the cataloging of weird news and information, and Alex Norwood (Rachel Melvin), who works with artifacts and machines. The duo, it turns out, are working for the very agency that George Washington started to battle the supernatural, so, naturally, they are pulled into Crane's efforts to fight the demon.

One thing that's cool about this new team, aside from the fact that Jake is a Crane superfan from his time tracking all the weird happenings in Sleepy Hollow and Alex can make bullets from pennies, is that The Vault offices will work well as a new Team Witness headquarters. The office is filled with dusty old tomes and reports of unexplained cases. Plus, it looks almost exactly like Crane's old work place back in Sleepy Hollow, complete with creepy tunnels leading away from the building and throughout downtown D.C. Way to give the audience something familiar, Sleepy Hollow.

Crane Is Fighting A Whole New Big Bad

After three seasons of supernatural baddies like Moloch and Pandora calling the evil shots and making life a living hell, Crane is now going up against a new villain, who appears, right now, to be totally human. Malcolm Dreyfuss (Jeremy Davies) is a big time businessman who's favorite pastime seems to be unleashing demons on D.C., and using generally nefarious means to continue to grow his business. He released the demon that killed Diana's partner, and since he got what he wanted out of the arrangement, an artifact that he will likely use for evil-doing, he's just fine with a little murder. Dreyfuss has a lot of money and a lot of power, along with a pretty extensive knowledge of the supernatural, which should make him a formidable foe for Team Witness during Season 4.

We Might Have Found Our New Witness

Oh, what's that? You say you thought Diana was going to be the new Witness since she's clearly Crane's new partner? Well, Sleepy Hollow had us all fooled. Toward the end of the premiere, Jenny Mills shows up to help battle the demon, and, during some down time with Crane, she reveals that she's been off looking for the clues that would lead them to the Witness who would take over for Abbie. Apparently, when one Witness dies that person's duties go to the next one in line, along with some of the soul of the dead Witness. Well, unbeknownst to everyone so far, it looks like Diana's 10-year-old daughter, Molly (Oona Yaffe), might be the next Witness. Right around the time Abbie died, she had a fainting spell and then woke up mute. She's also been, secretly, drawing very accurate pictures of Crane, even though she's never met him. So, while it's possible that this is a trick to make us think Molly is the Witness when she's not, it's more likely that she's about to join Team Witness. And, I'm sure her mom will be super enthused about all the danger she's about to be in.

You can see how all these changes work for the show when Sleepy Hollow continues, Fridays on FOX.

Anyone who has ever watched an episode of Sleepy Hollow should know that most of the reason the show has worked over the years has been because of the exciting banter between lead characters Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills. Unfortunately, at the end of Season 3, series lead Nicole Beharie left the series, effectively ending the popular partnership between Crane and Mills. The series has brought in Janina Gavankar to play opposite Tom Mison during Season 4, and the actress recently spoke out to talk about how it feels to replace such a popular TV character. Here's what she had to say:

It's always difficult to be put into a position where you are taking over for someone who was well-liked. Nicole Beharie was a key ingredient for Sleepy Hollow, and we don't know much about Janina Gavankar's new character, yet. Her characters name will be Diana, and she'll have a daughter named Molly. We also know Diana will be a special agent with Homeland Security, but that really doesn't explain any of the nuances between Diana and Ichabod Crane. Will they banter? Will they end up being pretty close as characters or will there always be distance between them? How well will Diana take to working to catch demons and other supernatural creatures? She certainly has tough shoes to fill.

Still at, least Gavankar has plenty of big shows under her belt. She's come into series before, including recurring on Arrow and in True Blood and has left a mark for the good rather than the bad on each of those shows. Obviously, taking over as a lead is a completely different beast, but from what Janina Gavankar had to say to TV Line, she seems to know exactly what is coming and is prepared for it.

It also doesn't look as if she's going to try to be anything like Abbie Mills, as she understands what that character meant to fans...

We've had months and months to think about the direction Sleepy Hollow would be going in. Our imaginations have probably run a little wild in certain circumstances, but luckily we don't have too much longer to wait to see how the show pans out. Sleepy Hollow will---finally---return to the schedule on January 6 at 9 p.m. ET, only on Fox. To find out what else is set to premiere soon, check out our midseason TV premiere schedule.

The major networks have made plenty of scheduling changes this year, which has meant some fan favorites like Scandal and Sleepy Hollow have been kept off of the schedule for midseason. Luckily, we are hitting the holidays, which means winter TV is on the way, including Season 4 of the Tom Mison-led series. Unfortunately, when the show returns, it won't feature Nicole Beharie as Abbie Mills after that character's exit. In her absence, a slew of new characters have been signed on, and you can take a first look at what the new version of the show will look like, below.

Basically, it looks like Sleepy Hollow will be going through a sort of reset. When the Fox series first hit the schedule, it was a bit enchanting thanks to being a fish-out-of-water story with supernatural beings. Ichabod Crane has clearly adjusted to life in the present day at this point, but because new characters are entering the story, they aren't familiar with the supernatural creatures and demons Crane and his team have been fighting against all along. Which is why we get some hilarious comments from the new team members including the uneducated:

Sure, they don't lady.

Part of the reason that Season 4 is going to be a reset is that the show is heading from New York State to Washington D.C. for its latest set of episodes. The bigger change, however, is going to be the show's new cast. A few months ago, we learned that Sleepy Hollow had signed on Janina Gavankar--of True Blood fame--to play Ichabod's new partner in crime-fighting, Diana. Her daughter will be played by former Masterchef Junior contestant Oona Yaffe. There will be new supernatural archives in D.C. manned by characters who will be played by Jerry MacKinnon and Rachel Melvin. Another big change is that Tom Mison looks as if he may very well be sporting a new haircut.

A few familiar faces will still be around, including Tom Mison and Lyndie Greenwood, who has played Jenny through the show's run. John Noble is also expected to make a return this season.

Sleepy Hollow has gone through a lot of tumultuous changes on Fox during its four-season run. It's a goddamn miracle---and also a testament to Tom Mison's likability---that Sleepy Hollow is still on the air, especially after it was shuffled into the Friday night death slot last season. The show has capably figured out how to reboot before, but it's biggest problem is that as soon as the show has had any sort of momentum, it has lost major characters. Hopefully, Season 4's big reboot will be the one that sticks. If not, we may be saying sayonara to Sleepy Hollow later in 2017.

Sleepy Hollow is schedule to return to Fox on Friday, January 6 at 9 p.m. ET. To find out when the rest of your favorites will be returning to the schedule, check out our midseason TV premiere list.

2016 will go down in historical infamy for many reasons, and the entertainment world was afflected by a melancholy span with far too many deaths befalling beloved artists in all walks of fame. One would think we could flock to TV for a form of escapism on that front, but safety definitely hasn't been guaranteed for small screen characters in 2016. It has been a rough one, to say the least, so join me in raising a glass in memory of the fictional souls who left us this year.

Spoilers are all over this article, given the nature of its subject matter. Tread carefully, and with your blinders on.

Hodor - Game Of Thrones

Though his limited form of self-referential speech was a punchline among fans of Game of Thrones, Hodor himself most certainly was not. The gentle giant was already the show's best personification of loyalty and selflessness over five seasons, a distinction that was driven home even more effectively when his complicated and bawl-worthy end was revealed. With perfectly depressing poetic licence, Hodor's own dying words were what cursed him, and rarely have Internet memes and fan-crafted door-stoppers worked so well to remind audiences just how damned sad we should still all be about this particular Game of Thrones tragedy.

Poussey Washington - Orange Is The New Black

A TV death that positively haunted me this year came during the tumultuous and reflective fourth season of Orange is the New Black, when fan-favorite Poussey's flashback episode culminated in her extremely tragic death. The season took cues from real life police brutality cases, coming to a head when Poussey suffocated to death beneath the weight of a distracted guard who couldn't hear her pleas for help in a moment of chaos. (Think Eric Garner, but with more grey moral area.) The pain of Poussey's easily avoidable death was bolstered by witnessing everything leading her up to her arrest.

Lexa - The 100

When Alycia Debnam-Carey's Lexa entered The 100's faction-friendly drama in Season 2, no one could have expected the uproar that would come a year and a half later after her gut-punch of a death early in Season 3. For one, she and Clarke had developed a fan-supported relationship, and her death came during a particularly rough patch for the small screen's LGBTQ community. Perhaps the backlash would have been a tad softer if her death had come by any other means beyond "stray bullet."

Glenn Rhee - The Walking Dead

This one is probably going under the radar for most of you out there who probably haven't heard of The Walking Dead. I kid, of course, since Glenn's death was one of the most talked about TV moments of the year, and fans had already been contemplating it for ages prior to Negan's arrival. The actual incident was every bit as brutal and shocking and mentally debilitating as it was in the comic books, and there probably weren't many dry eyes in the homes of viewers for the Season 7 premiere. There probably weren't any distended or bulging eyes in the crowds, either.

Laurel Lance - Arrow

Every year of adulthood has been horrible for Oliver Queen, but 2016 dug some deep notches into the vigilante's psyche. Perhaps the biggest blow to Oliver and Team Arrow was the Damien Darhk-delivered death of Laurel "Black Canary" Lance. Her murder lost some shock value thanks to the flash-forward of the grave that propelled part of Season 4, but it was no less anguishing for viewers and her loved ones . We've since seen one hallucinated Laurel, a mystery Laurel, and an Earth-2 Laurel from Katie Cassidy's Flash appearance, which also watered things down. Still, though, it was sad.

Root - Person Of Interest

The TV "death" of Person of Interest itself could be here, had I stretched the rules. But Season 5 was the CBS drama running on all cylinders, both with The Machine and the human characters. As the Samaritan narrative continued ramping up, Amy Acker's deadly hacker Root was shot by an enemy operative and died doing what she lived for: protecting Finch and The Machine. Root's death alone was damning enough, but the real emotional punch came when The Machine called in the final moments and it was Root's voice coming through the line. I'm cutting so many onions, I swear.

Henry Allen - The Flash

In true tortured superhero fashion, The Flash at first seemed like a lighthearted romp, but it's gotten progressively mourn-worthy over time. Audiences watched Barry Allen's mother Nora die multiple times in slightly different ways since the premiere, but an emotional zenith was reached in 2016 when big bad Zoom provoked Season 3's adjusted timeline by cutting short Henry Allen's time as a free man. Cisco survived a vibrating arm through the chest in Season 1, but Barry's Flashpoint reset offered no such relief. (Audiences still got actor John Wesley Shipp back as Earth-3 Jay Garrick, which is the opposite of a sad thing.)

Barb Holland - Stranger Things

No one expected Netflix's Stranger Things to become not only one of the year's most buzzworthy new shows, but also a multiple Golden Globe nominee. And even fewer people probably expected one of the biggest standout characters to be Nancy's bespectacled and sparsely used friend Barb, but the morally deft high schooler was downright revered after she presumably succumbed to The Upside Down. Everyone wants her back for Season 2, but I worry that would just set fans up for even more downward mood swings if something worse would happen. (Don't listen to me, Matt and Ross Duffer! Bring her back!)

Abbie Mills - Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow wasn't guaranteed to make it to Season 4 on Fox, since its third season hemorrhaged viewers as its new Thursday night slot shifted to Fridays mid-year. But just about nobody expected the show to preface its slate-cleaning fourth season by killing off co-lead Abbie Mills, with Nicole Beharie's tough and determined Witness sealing her own fate by sacrificing herself so that the Hidden One could be defeated. Knowing her love for Ichabod Crane, viewers' cocktails of somberness and rage were spiked when she spent her last moments soothing him with encouraging words of other Witnesses. Poor mishandled Abbie.

Angus Mhor - Outlander

Outlander doesn't follow the same time travel rules as The Flash, so there's likely zero chance of reconnecting with the Starz drama's comic relief Angus Mhor. Like the most successful character exits, Angus' was tiered in how it hit viewers. For one, his death marred what was an assured victory for the good guys in the Battle of Prestonpans. As well, internal bleeding meant he was dying for far longer than we were aware on first viewing, when our sympathy went to the injured-but-healing Rupert. Knowing Angus dies makes a second viewing all the more distressing, and it's the perhaps the most unique in that respect.

Nina Krilova - The Americans

Few shows on TV are as consistent with quality like The Americans, and the acclaimed drama pulled the now-bloodied rug out from under audiences when the imprisoned Nina was killed off in moment that came so quickly, it didn't immediately sink in that The Americans unflinchingly killed off one of its top characters. In Season 4's fourth entry, Nina is seemingly destined for sunnier days thanks to Oleg, but the works were wrenched when she was denied an appeal and subsequently executed before she could properly react to the awful news. Rarely do end credits feel so unwelcomed.

Jodi - Mom

Most folks seen in this list led their respective shows, but not Emily Osment's recurring Mom character Jodi, a recovering addict befriended and sponsored by Christy. Season 3 floored audiences when Jodi was found dead of an accidental overdose, the result of starting up a romantic relationship with an addict in early recovery. But even though Christy gave her the advice that would have saved Jodi, Christy wasn't there in Jodi's most crucial time of need, which is Mom at its dramatic best. The show returned to this emotional hook later, when the boyfriend was introduced and properly berated by Christy.

Lincoln Campbell - Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.

As seen elsewhere in here, one good way to earn yourself some tear-stained sympathy in a TV death is by putting yourself on the line to keep others safe. On Marvel's spies-and-more drama Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the martyr distinction was placed on Secret Warrior Lincoln "Sparkplug" Campbell, who made the epic decision to sacrifice himself to save love interest Daisy in the Season 3 finale. Heading out into space was noble and brave and all the rest, and the heartstrings were pulled taut when Lincoln declared his love for her after that point of no return. In space, no one can hear you sniffle.

Ziva David - NCIS

Another oddball entry for the saddest deaths of 2016, Cote de Pablo's much beloved Ziva David hadn't been a part of NCIS for years when her death came into the show's story. De Pablo chose to leave NCIS over a displeasure with how her character's stories were being handled. Her final farewell scene with Michael Weatherly's Tony Di Nozzo was a perfect moment (in certain respects), and viewers had to wait until the Season 13 finale, Weatherly's final episode, to discover that Ziva died in an attack, leaving behind a daughter she shares with Tony. This one hit us in the nostalgia center.

Abraham Ford - The Walking Dead

Before Glenn got to meet Lucille face to face in The Walking Dead's Season 7 premiere, Negan rhymed his way into deciding Abraham would be the member of Rick's group to pay the eternal price for all the Saviors the protagonists had killed off. The cigar-chewing badass took his first lick like a champ (following a perfectly understated farewell), and kind of got the last word in before Negan turned his entire head into a pile of red hair, red bone fragments, red cheek flaps, etc. Abraham was at a crossroads in respects to his romantic entanglements, meaning his death lives on in other characters' emotional stakes.

Fox's Sleepy Hollow is making some big changes heading into Season 4, and now it may be making the biggest yet. This weekend, the Fox series announced that a major character will be returning to Sleepy Hollow. People leave and return to shows all the time, but it's not nearly as frequent that a dead character returns to the series. That's right, Sleepy Hollow is bringing back a majorly deceased character on the series. John Noble, who played Henry Parrish aka Jeremy Crane on Sleepy Hollow, is making a comeback.

Season 4 isn't expected to hit the schedule until midseason. Right now, we don't know a ton about how the character will return, but an announcement from Fox says that when the show returns, "Crane is reminded that nothing is permanent in the world of the supernatural."

The character was killed off of the series at the end of Season 2, along with Katrina Crane. The move marked a reboot in the overall tone and structure of Sleepy Hollow, as audiences weren't particularly fond of the Katrina and Ichabod plotline. Even the actress who played Katrina, Katia Winter, wasn't really happy with the direction her character was going in. The show sort of rebooted its central storyline for Season 3 and with the death of main character Abbie Mills, the show will be changing locations and rebooting again for Season 4.

If you don't remember much about Henry Parrish, his past was always pretty complicated. Originally the son of Ichabod and Katrina Crane, Katrina sent him away, fearing for his life when her coven took interest in the baby. Unfortunately, this meant he had an unhappy childhood. The family who took him in gave him up to an orphanage, where he was beaten. The coven later caught up with him and placed him and stopped his heart, burying him. Moloch was the creature who brought him out of this state, pitting him against his parents, whom he hated. He eventually aligns himself with Katrina and recognizes Ichabod as his family, but the latter only happens after Abbie Mills fatally shot him.

The return of a dead character isn't unprecedented on Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane was resurrected at the start of the supernatural drama. Other dead characters have continued to play a role on the series after death or have been brought back into the realm of the living. I think that fans would likely be most excited if it were Abbie Mills coming back from the dead, but as the actress chose to leave the Fox drama, the resurrection of her character seems unlikely at this point.

In any event, we have a while to wait before we see how this pans out. Sleepy Hollow will return to Fox at midseason. To find out what is set to premiere this fall, check out our TV premiere schedule.

Since making his feature directorial debut in the mid-1980s, director Tim Burton has established himself, without question, as one of the most strikingly different filmmakers in Hollywood. In the last 31 years, he has established a style that is recognized around the world, from his use of Danny Elfman's music to an often large abundance of spirals and stripes. He has delivered audiences breathtaking original visions... and also a couple of stinkers. Today we are here to talk about them all.

With the arrival of Tim Burton's 18th film, Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, in theaters this weekend, we figured now would be the perfect time to present our ranking of all of the filmmaker's feature films to date. Read on to find out which titles we gave the top spots.

18. Dark Shadows

Tim Burton has gotten his groove back in recent years, but 2012's Dark Shadows definitely represents his worst work. Everything about it feels either lazy or forced, and it comes together as a slog that's feels interminable even while coming in under two hours long.

17. Alice in Wonderland

If you need any proof that success doesn't equal quality, 2010's Alice in Wonderland makes great evidence. The film is far and away Tim Burton's biggest box office hit -- accumulating over $1 billion worldwide -- but that fact will never overshadow the fact that the movie is a headache-inducing, bright and colorful mess.

16. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Mel Stuart's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a timeless children's classic that has nothing stopping it from continuing to be passed down from generation to generation. As such, Tim Burton's 2005 remake, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was wholly unnecessary from the start, and failed to stick the landing. It's true that the adaptation is a more faithful version of Roald Dahl's brilliant book in some respects, but it still can never shake its lack of raison d'etre.

15. Planet of the Apes

For what it's worth, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake from 2001 does earn a lot of points for its truly stunning makeup and prosthetics work -- courtesy of Rick Baker -- but it does stand as further evidence that the filmmaker just needs to stay away from remakes. Good as Mark Wahlberg can be, this definitely isn't his finest hour, and nothing is helped by the movie's manipulation of the original's classic ending.

14. Corpse Bride

Tim Burton's name carried weight in the stop-motion field for years thanks to his association with both The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach - but his first attempt at actually directing one of the animated films didn't exactly have the greatest results. Corpse Bride is okay -- featuring some tremendous animation and fun Danny Elfman songs - but there's not much to it. Thankfully, it wouldn't be his last time in the medium.

13. Sleepy Hollow

Filmmakers have been adapting the legend of Sleepy Hollow since the late 19th century (no joke), and in the context of that history, Tim Burton's version is... fine. Of the eight Burton/Johnny Depp collaborations, it sits as fourth best, which is entirely appropriate. It probably won't ever be considered the definitive big screen version of the tale, but it certainly has a nice collection of scares and compelling atmosphere.

12. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tim Burton would have been better off finding a lead with a better voice than Johnny Depp for his feature version of the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - but the movie basically works because it does a good job keeping to the source material. The director makes full use of the R-rating, constructing some gruesome horror bits in the process, and there's even a solid romance put together as well.

11. Big Eyes

The style of Tim Burton is distinctive to the point that you know it as soon as you see it, but 2014's Big Eyes represents the director at his most restrained. Dialing his bolder eccentricities down in favor of telling the story of another artist with equally instantly recognizable style, the result is a tight drama featuring some really fantastic turns from both Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz.

10. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

We don't yet have time to provide larger context for Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children in the larger span of Burton's work, but right now we're fully confident placing the latest work from the director in the Top 10. Part X-Men, part Harry Potter, and just a dash of Charles Dickens, the film is a legitimately fun adventure that blends a fun fantasy adventure with interesting and emotional commentary on inter-generational relationships (something we've seen in Burton's previous work, and something we'll get into much more later). Based on the book of the same name by Ransom Riggs, the material falls right into Burton's wheelhouse, and he does a fantastic job with it.

9. Frankenweenie

Remember what we were saying earlier about Tim Burton not giving up on stop-motion after Corpse Bride? Well, that wound up paying off in a big way in 2012 with Frankenweenie. The movie was released while we were still trying to get the bad taste of Dark Shadows out of our mouths, but the animated adventure earned the filmmaker a lot of points back towards his legacy. The film is in every way the director returning to his roots - not only being animated, but being a feature-length adaptation of one of his earliest shorts -- and it's legitimately a wonderful, purely-Burton tale of a boy and his dog.

8. Pee-wee's Big Adventure

In the directing of his first feature, Tim Burton hitched his star to Paul Reuben's Pee-wee Herman, and the results are just truly wonderful. Admittedly the titular character in Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a love him or hate him pop culture figure, but for those who enjoy the grown up toddler's antics, his search for his stolen bicycle is pure delight. Burton certainly got the chance to hone is artistic weirdness with the film, and its ultimate success is what led the filmmaker to get the opportunities to make the movies he really wanted to make (most of which are still to come in this ranking).

7. Batman Returns

While superhero franchises are all the rage today, sequels in the genre were troublesome back in the late 20th century -- but this is one that legitimately works. Building on the success of the first film (which we'll get to in a minute), Batman Returns is a film that time and perspective has done a lot of favors. Both Danny DeVito's Penguin and Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman are legitimately iconic big screen visions of the famed Dark Knight foes, and while the movie is not exactly the comics come to life, it is justifiably Burton's vision of Batman, and it's pretty damn entertaining.

6. Batman

People have loved Batman for decades, but Tim Burton's 1989 film created a true phenomenon surrounding the character. The blockbuster was insanely hyped leading up to its release, and it not only successfully lived up to audience expectations, but it helped transform the way that pop culture perceived the hero. It's true that a confusing amount of screentime is dedicated to Jack Nicholson's Joker over Michael Keaton's Batman/Bruce Wayne, and by modern standards its action is extremely low-key (not to mention occasionally silly), but there's no denying its incredible entertainment value and greater influence on the world of comic book movies.

5. Mars Attacks!

Inspired by the technological revolution byproduct of the Cold War as well as growing talks of rockets in space, science-fiction from the 1950s is a special and unique portion of film history that has inspired the minds of many great filmmakers. This is a list that includes Tim Burton amongst George Lucas, James Cameron, and Steven Spielberg -- and it was specifically that love that inspired Mars Attacks!: a film that ultimately works because of the legitimate passion for the material.

A loving satire that is sometimes as stupid as it is funny, the movie boasts one of the best ensembles that Tim Burton has ever put together -- featuring Jack Nicholson, Michael J. Fox, Sarah Jessica Parker, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Martin Short, and Tom Jones amongst many other -- and perfectly plays on the best 1950s sci-fi tropes. And if you're looking for an extra bit of fun with the film, try giving it a watch with the color on your TV dropped down and the contrast turned way up. You may wind up missing the glowing red and green skeletons a bit, but it just feels like the more natural presentation for the material. Give it a try and thank me later.

4. Edward Scissorhands

Much like Frankenweenie, Edward Scissorhands is a movie that has very deep roots for Tim Burton. The titular character was born in the mind of the director when he was a teenager growing up in Burbank, California, and expanded into a screenplay by Caroline Thompson the result is one of Burton's most aesthetically beautiful and exquisitely original works.

The mere image of Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands is an illustration of Tim Burton's iconic aesthetic -- fully of pointy lines and deep curls -- and nowhere else is his peculiar interest in suburbia better explored and utilized. It's an unapologetically odd film that wears every ounce of its weirdness on its sleeve, but also doesn't let it detract from its incredible heart. Furthermore, Edward Scissorhands was the first time that Burton worked with Johnny Depp, and that collaboration wound up changing the shape of the director's career -- occasionally for the worst, but primarily for the better.

3. Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice is a special film. Driven by the creative mind of a director with a particular fascination with death, it's a tremendously vibrant and imaginative adventure that builds its own universe filled with off-kilter design and characters.

Michael Keaton's performance as the titular Ghost With The Most is the true draw, with the actor putting in a wonderfully disgusting yet captivatingly charismatic turn -- and it stands out because we've truly never seen anything like it before. Really, though, everything about Beetlejuice is memorable and brilliant: from the trip through the afterlife's waiting room, to the "Banana Boat" singalong at the dinner table, to the graveyard introduction of the black-and-white-striped villain. It says everything that this was the film that Tim Burton decided he wanted to make after the great success of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and it's the first movie you point to in the discussion of the auteur's style. It's bold, scary, funny, original, and really a movie for absolutely everybody.

2. Big Fish

In case you haven't noticed the theme yet, Tim Burton is truly at his best when his heart and soul is entirely in a project, and it speaks to him on a certain personal level. With the 2004 father-son reconciliation drama Big Fish, it was a case where Tim Burton was dealing with the loss of both of his parents, who died in 2000 and 2002, respectively -- and found that the John August script very much reflected his relationship with them. It comes through absolutely, as it's unequivocally Burton's most emotional film.

Given the mold of the Southern Gothic aesthetic and the freedom that comes with blending fantasy and reality, Big Fish is arguably Tim Burton's most vibrantly beautiful film -- with images of a flower-filled meadow on a bright blue day, a town illuminated with string lights, and a man making peace with his father on his deathbed forever seared in the memory of the any movie-goer. It was an epic rebound after the unfortunate Planet of the Apes, and is his most recent truly brilliant film.

1. Ed Wood

Edward Davis Wood, Jr. was not a talented filmmaker, but there is nobody on Earth that could say that he wasn't an utterly fascinating human being. The power of his drive and passion alone makes his story notable... but then there was his crossdressing, his deep love of angora sweaters, and, again, the fact that he was an utterly terrible filmmaker.

In his 1994 film Ed Wood, Tim Burton shared the world of the Plan 9 From Outer Space director with audiences, and it's not only Burton's greatest work, but one of the greatest biopics of all time. Stranger than fiction doesn't begin to cover the tale of its central figure, but the movie succeeds both because it's laugh-out-loud hilarious and because it's downright inspiring. During his filmmaking career, Ed Wood was told dozens if not hundreds of times that he was completely incompetent, but he was a man with a dream, and would do absolutely anything to achieve it -- motivation off the charts. Brought to life with a brilliant ensemble including Johnny Depp, Martin Landau (who won the Oscar for his performance), Sarah Jessica Parker, Bill Murray, Patricia Arquette and Lisa Marie, it's Burton's true masterpiece and a perfect film.

Fox's Sleepy Hollow has been an underdog since the very beginning. It constantly has found itself on the bubble between renewal and cancellation, and after Nicole Beharie officially left the series at the end of Season 3, it seemed the death knell would probably be tolling. However, Sleepy Hollow still managed to nab a Season 4 renewal order at Fox and the network recently explained why the show earned that elusive Season 4 renewal. Here's what Fox Entertainment President David Madden had to say:

Speaking at the TCA summer press tour (via TV Line), Madden explained that it was a last minute pitch that kept Sleepy Hollow on our radars for Season 4. Obviously, because of what happened to Team Witness at the end of Season 3, any new episodes will have to come with a major upheaval in regards to the plot. If you've been keeping tabs on casting, however, you may already know a little bit about what is coming.

In regards to Season 4, so far we know that Ichabod Crane will have to find a new member of Team Witness. The series has already signed on Janina Gavankar to take on the new role. True Blood fans will likely recognize the actress as Luna, but hopefully she'll make her mark on the Fox drama this fall. Fans always particularly loved the banter between Abbie and Ichabod, so hopefully we'll get a fun rapport between Ichabod and Gavankar's Diana, as well. Some other new characters are also being included, as characters like Pandora and Betsy Ross will be out of the picture along with no more Abbie.

The interesting thing is that Sleepy Hollow has basically been revamped for most of the seasons it has been on the air. New characters had to be introduced after John Noble and Katia Winter's characters left the drama, and the same thing is happening again this season. Obviously, people really, really like what Tom Mison has done with Ichabod Crane, and the show has seemed to be a better fit in its Friday night timeslot (facing off against the likes of Grimm and The Vampire Diaries) than it ever was earlier in the week. It's hard to tell what the drama will look like without Abbie Mills' practical perspective, but I will be once again giving the series one more shot. Hopefully, this will be the reworking that takes Sleepy Hollow from a fun show that is a bit of a mess to a show that is both fun and stable.

Sleepy Hollow won't return to the schedule until midseason, but you check out what is coming up this fall with our premiere schedule.

FOX's Sleepy Hollow has made some big changes heading into Season 4. One of those will be the new villain, and now we finally know what that baddie is going to look like. And, this Big Bad isn't at all what you'd think. Actor Jeremy Davies has signed on to play the new adversary of Season 4.

The news broke today on TVLine that Jeremy Davies will be playing the villain of the new season of Sleepy Hollow. A show like this always needs to have a solid Big Bad for supernatural Witnesses Ichabod Crane and (newcomer) Diana to fight against, and from the looks of Davies above he will certainly be capable of creeping us out as a bad guy. Davies has a resume 40 credits long, and has made appearances in movies and on TV. His credits include The Wonder Years, Melrose Place, Twister, Saving Private Ryan, Helter Skelter, Lost, Constantine and the FX series Justified, which garnered him an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2012. He's also slated to appear in the rebooted Twin Peaks on Showtime.

Jeremy Davies' character, Malcolm Dreyfuss, is a super-rich tech mogul who's also outspoken and more than a little eccentric (which we all know is rich people code for wackadoo). The billionaire has been monied up to his hair folicles for quite a while, and, seeing as he's basically conquered the tech world, he's looking for new avenues to express his genius and new worlds to rule.

As viewers of Sleepy Hollow know, the series has gone all out in seasons past to bring us villains who are just plain evil, not simply morally bankrupt or cruelly ambitious, so this may be a big departure for the show. Sleepy Hollow has gone through Moloch, the Headless Horseman, Icabod's evil son and eventually evil witch wife, an old timey supernatural entity trying to take over the world with her ancient lover, and a whole host of things that go bump in the night and have plagued the town with their nefarious plans for world domination. So, to have a regular old rich dude as the main villain of the show, is, well, odd.

My guess is that this won't be the grand departure that it appears to be. How hard would it be for this Malcom Dreyfuss to actually be a demon in a clever disguise? It's much harder to take over the world if you just come stomping right on in with your horns and your claws and your fire breath; folks will know you're up to something. But, spend a few years as a tech mastermind who makes goo gobs of money and can get into all kinds of places and buy all kinds of expensive ancient things, and suddenly you have the very covert means to run stuff the way you want without any pitch forks or Witnesses trying to stop you.

Well, we can see how Jeremy Davies manages to vex Ichabod and Diana when Season 4 of Sleepy Hollow arrives at midseason on FOX.

Look, we all know that Sleepy Hollow has some big shoes to fill when it comes to giving our beloved Ichabod Crane a new partner in demon hunting. And, while none of us was prepared for the necessity of a non-Abbie Mills Witness before the end of Season 3, we now have to accept that our favorite Leftenant is gone for good. Well, we finally know who's going to be helping Crane in the fight against evil. Actress Janina Gavankar has signed on to pay Diana in Season 4.

Sleepy Hollow announced a couple of weeks ago that a new character, then named Anna, would be coming to the show in order to fill the Abbie Mills co-Witness part that the series kind of needs to keep rolling. And now, thanks to TVLine, we have a much more complete view of the character, especially since we know who will be playing the, apparently, newly named Diana. Janina Gavankar made her debut in the short film Why Is God... in 2001, and has gone on to rack up an impressive list of almost 60 credits. She's probably best known for her role as Sam's shapeshifter girlfriend Luna on the fourth and fifth seasons of True Blood, and for her recent work on NBC's The Mysteries of Laura. Gavankar has also appeared on My Boys, Stargate: Atlantis, Grey's Anatomy, The L Word, The Gates, Arrow, The Vampire Diaries and The League.

Diana is a Special Agent with Homeland Security who will end up working closely with Ichabod, which makes sense, seeing as how he was picked up by a very serious looking group of federal agents in the Season 3 finale. Diana is also an action-oriented former military officer, who happens to be a single mother, as well. She'll be filling what I can safely call the Dana Scully role on Sleepy Hollow, at least for a time, since the character will not be a believer in any of the supernatural shenanigans that take place in the show, and this will, of course, lead to some conflicts with Crane. He will appreciate her willingness to do anything for her daughter, though, and once Diana loses her partner, the two will be able to bond over that shared experience. Then, we'll find out that they share something much bigger than either of them could have imagined. Right now, the part of Diana is only a guest-starring gig.

As shocked as I was to see Abbie Mills go, I have to admit that I like where this whole Diana thing is going. While the Ichabbie relationship provided a good emotional hook for the show, if the producers weren't interested in getting the two together romantically, I'm not sure what else there would have been to do with their relationship. Abbie and Ichabod were already as close as two people could be without bumping uglies, so maybe it was best that actress Nicole Beharie decided to leave the show. It opened up some new, hopefully positive, possibilities for the narrative of Sleepy Hollow that might actually revive the creative direction of the sagging series.

Well, we can all check out Janina Gavankar's Diana when Sleepy Hollow returns to FOX at midseason.

Sleepy Hollow is officially returning to Fox for Season 4, but it looks like the drama pretty much plans to revamp itself once again. After losing Abbie Mills at the end of Season 3, Ichabod Crane is going to be on a new mission and that mission is apparently going to take him from the small town of Sleepy Hollow to a much bigger city: Washington D.C.

The move from the New York state town to the bigger city might mean the series has a nice change in pace. It was always a little bit unbelievable that such a high percentage of supernatural creatures resided in the small town, although the series did its best to explain why Sleepy Hollow was a veritable hub for supernatural beings. Still, the series is called Sleepy Hollow, so it'll be pretty strange for the show to have that moniker without actually being set anywhere near the small town.

Plus, leaving Sleepy Hollow also means that a slew of other changes will have to be made. Nicole Beharie will obviously not be back for Season 4, and over the last few months we learned Shannyn Sossaman, Nikki Reed, and Zach Appelman were also out. Yesterday, we also learned Lance Gross, who played Daniel Reynolds, and Jessica Camacho, who played Sophie Foster on the series, are also out for Season 4 despite reports last spring mentioning they should be returning. TV Line says that in the characters' place, 5 newbies will be introduced, one of which looks to be Ichabod's new partner in demon fighting.

A couple of seasons ago, Sleepy Hollow opted to cut out a lot of plotlines fans were not as excited about, including stories involving John Noble's Henry Parish and Katia Winter's Katrina Crane. Orlando Jones also left the show around that time. Fox really worked to revamp the drama for Season 3, bringing in big names like Shannyn Sossamon and Nikki Reed to fill in the gaps and promoting Appelman to a series regular. The revamp didn't exactly exceed expectations. Not only was Pandora just an OK villain, but it was weird to see Nikki Reed act as romantic interest for Crane in the past, since much of the two seasons prior had been devoted to Crane's relationship with Katrina. Perhaps another revamp was in order, but moving the show away from Sleepy Hollow still seems odd.

Sleepy Hollow was on the bubble last year in terms of cancellation and renewal and at one point Fox even opted to ship the drama to Friday nights. However, the network didn't cancel the show, and the higher ups are clearly hoping another revamp will entice fans to tune in once more. However, it seems like a strange choice to essentially shift the show to an entirely new city. I also wonder how Jenny will fit into the fold when Ichabod Crane moves to a more populous location, but I'm sure we'll learn more as filming progresses. On the bright side, perhaps moving to Washington D.C. will give Crane the chance to bump into the Bones cast on occasion.

Sleepy Hollow isn't expected to return until midseason, but you can find out when your favorite fall shows will be premiering here.

Take a cursory glance at Sleepy Hollow over the past couple of years and you wouldn't be insane for assuming that Fox and the show's producers are intentionally trying to make fans angry and/or confused. And today brings about another example, as it's been revealed characters Daniel Reynolds and Sophie Foster will not be back for Season 4 very much, if at all, as actors Lance Gross and Jessica Camacho aren't returning as series regulars.

Yes, somehow there were even more characters for Sleepy Hollow to hemorrhage as Season 4 starts coming together. As you'll no doubt recall, the third season ended with the death of Nicole Beharie's Abbie Mills, which caused some to think that a Season 4 renewal wouldn't happen. But it did, and apparently everyone thought the best decision would be to ditch just about everyone but Ichabod and to completely change up the story and location. I guess it would have been worse if it had been cancelled like so many other recent Fox shows, but that's assuming the changes will stop soon.

Lance Gross was added to Sleepy Hollow Season 3 as FBI big boy Daniel Reynolds, and not only was he Abbie's new boss, but it was also implied that they had a romantic past together. He clearly wasn't completely over her, which made some of their interactions complicated, but there won't be any interactions to complicate anymore. Considering Reynolds' tie to the story is dead, Gross is not expected to show up during Season 4 at all.

Also introduced in Season 3, Jessica Camacho's Sophie Foster is/was an FBI agent working undercover for Reynolds, as well as something of an artifact hound. The actress was promoted from Guest Star to regular cast member during the midseason hiatus, and although that achievement was obviously short-lived, TVLine reports she is expected to make one or two guest appearances in Season 4.

So we can add those two to the other characters that went away in the past season, which includes Zach Appelman's Joe Corbin (died), Nikki Reed's Betsy Ross (went back to the past) and Shannon Sossamon's Pandora (died). Understandably, Sleepy Hollow will be adding a batch of new characters for Season 4, including the recently revealed Anna, who will serve as Abbie's substitute in partnering with Crane as a witness. We will also reportedly meet Anna's 11-year-old daughter Stella, an eager research analyst named Seth and a very handy engineer named Rosa. As well, casting is currently ongoing for a male antagonist for Season 4.

Sleepy Hollow will return for its 13-episode fourth season at some point in early 2017, with production scheduled to begin in August.

Spoilers obviously.

It was a shock when Sleepy Hollow killed off a major character at the end of Season 3. It was an even bigger surprise when Fox ultimately opted to renew Sleepy Hollow after shipping the series off to the Friday night wasteland and after a major lead left the drama. Still, Hollow is certainly coming back for Season 4, with a new character set to replace Nicole Beharie's Abbie Mills. Now, we have more details about the character who is currently being cast.

Weirdly, the new character is going to be named Anna, which is a little too close to Abbie for my taste. The similarities end there, however. Anna will be a supernatural skeptic and a mother--both characteristics Abbie did not have, since she was childless and had seen monsters in the woods as a young girl. TV Line obtained the casting description which tells us a little bit more about the character's personality, including the fact that Anna will be a Secret Service agent. She'll also be tough:

Obviously, there is going to be conflict at the beginning, as Crane's entire duty in life is to be one of the witnesses mentioned in the Book of Revelation, protecting humanity from those who would wreak havoc and cause strife. The casting announcement doesn't explicitly say that this new Anna character will be the second witness, taking over for Abbie Mills, but that seems to be the direction this casting is going in. The report mentions Anna will be Crane's "partner in crime" and that she will come into conflict with her new partner. Tom Mison's Ichabod Crane has had romantic interests on the series in the past, but he doesn't usually tell the people he dates what his true function in society is. This leads us to believe she will probably be the second witness.

After Abbie's funeral at the end of last season, we did learn that Ichabod would not be alone in his witnessing duties. There must always be two witnesses and the next one in line will be called up, presumably pretty early in Season 4. I wonder if we'll get a few episodes of Crane working on his own or if the show will jump right in with the new girl during Episode 1. Only time will tell.

So far, Sleepy Hollow has yet to cast the major role, but we'll let you know as soon as the Fox series finds the right person. Hopefully it will be pretty soon. Fox has already released its fall premiere schedule, and the supernatural drama is not on it, so the show definitely has a little time before its midseason premiere. If you would like to see what Fox is premiering this fall, check out our Fall TV schedule. In addition, you can read about Nicole Beharie's departure, here.

As we head into the summer TV season, where it’s required to maintain a marked effort to find quality programming to spend one’s time with, there remains a thick sheen of disappointment from all of the lackluster season (and series) finales that are still fresh on our memories from the 2015-2016 season. We’re hoping that the June sun will allow us to sweat out those same memories so that we can learn to appreciate the simple things again.

Here are 9 recent TV finales that were pale representations of their respective series as a whole. Perhaps reliving the head-shaking moments – the deaths, the possible deaths, the characters who sadly didn’t die, etc. – all at once will allow us to forget that any of it happened. Spoilers will be shared.

The Flash

While The Flash remained fun throughout Season 2, doubling down on its bonkers comic book science fiction, it was obvious the huge problems with Zoom’s storyline probably weren’t going to be all fixed up by the time the finale aired. Indeed, this season’s big bad was at the center of both a dispiriting reveal about the masked man as well as an anticlimactic non-death, and the episode ended with Barry apparently retconning everything we’ve watched over the past two years. That final decision could lead to amazing things, sure, but it felt like a big narrative sucker-punch meant to shock rather than support what came before it.

Nashville

Nashville almost got it right for its Season 4 finale. So many characters found happy endings, such as Scarlett and Gunnar, and it seemed like the showrunners got the cancellation news early enough to craft the perfect exit. But instead of offering up the cheerful all-tied-up ending that was already filmed, Nashville put Juliette on a plane that went missing, delivering a huge cliffhanger anchored by the blind optimism that some other network or streaming service would step in to fund Season 5. Even if that works, though, the shrewd move to keep things unresolved can’t take back how pissed off fans have been since the episode aired.

Sleepy Hollow

Despite kicking things off with a fun and inventive first season, it didn’t take very long for Sleepy Hollow to drift off the rails before rocketing into space and leaving a burning pile of ashes behind it. Things reached an unpredictably infuriating apex in the Season 3 finale, during which Nicole Beharie’s Abbie Mills, one-half of the show’s core duo, sacrificed herself so that The Hidden One could be defeated. WTF, Sleepy Hollow? And then Fox inexplicably renewed the show for Season 4. But Abbie isn’t coming back, and there’s not much the show can do at this point that will reclaim the viewer interest lost over the past two uneven seasons.

The Good Wife

The Good Wife is one of those shows that managed to maintain its core audience without doing anything too out of character to ruin its reputation among fans. That is, until the Season 7 finale, which also served as the series’ last installment. The episode, “End,” was strapped with the arguably unnecessary choice to mirror the series premiere for certain plot points, essentially taking everything away from Alicia (except for her own slap across the face) in a manner that felt far more mechanized than natural. It was a conscious choice, so it’s hard to knock creators Michelle and Robert King for sticking to their guns and not making the finale feel like a Very Special Episode as some veteran series opt to go with. But…that had to be the guns they stuck with?

Arrow

Get a group of Arrow viewers together, and some are guaranteed to insist the past two seasons have tumbled downhill in quality; the Season 4 finale, “Schism,” only managed to get more people joining that side. (Here’s one great example of that backlash.) Damien Darhk couldn’t have conceivably nuked the entire planet – minus The Flash’s reset button, anyway – so that threat carried no high stakes, and his lame-o death was coupled with the haphazard dismantling of Team Arrow. Mayor Oliver Queen does indeed have a nice ring to it in terms of where Arrow’s narrative paths can be paved, but some kind of a memory-loss arrow will need to be utilized to knock enough dust onto the Season 4 climax to keep it out of sight and out of mind.

The Walking Dead

The mack daddy of all the complaint-producing finales this season, The Walking Dead’s Season 6 capper did a huge service to the series by introducing Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s highly anticipated tyrannical antagonist Negan, but it was done in such a way that the character’s iconic comic book scene ended in a cliffhanger that left it completely up in the air who Negan killed. I’m pretty sure the moments after that episode ended saw a rise in viewers digging holes in their backyard on the vaguest off-chance they ever found themselves in a situation where they could bury showrunner Scott Gimple and creator Robert Kirkman alive. It didn’t seem likely that The Walking Dead could top the backlash from Glenn’s fakeout death, but it happened a dozen times over.

Castle

For seven-ish seasons, Castle dependably delivered twisty stories and romantic sparks that fans ate up. Season 8, however, got new showrunners and the ho-hum LokSat storyline became its live-in albatross. Season 9’s mysterious fate first fueled rage over Stana Kasic’s forced exit, and then made things calmer by signing on cast members for another year. But then the cancellation dropped, and the now-series finale was spent not-shocking anyone in wrapping up a plotline that kept the main characters apart for extended periods, and it ended by putting bullets in both of them and then offering fans an shoehorned olive branch of a seven-years-later coda that had Rick and Beckett married with kids. (Nobody wanted to run that one, either.)

The X-Files

As one of modern television’s most popular dramas, The X-Files understandably had a lot of eyes on it when it returned to Fox at the beginning of this year. The shortened season was pretty polarizing, serving largely as a six-episode medley of familiar series elements, but even the revival’s biggest flag-wavers haven’t all been able to defend the baffling finale. The hour’s overstuffed story rapidly brought in a possible global pandemic that could kill everyone, since all humans have some alien DNA, as well as the secret-cloaked return of the thought-dead Cigarette Smoking Man and that beam-of-light cliffhanger teasing Scully getting re-abducted. The complaints have not been eased by the fact that Fox and Chris Carter haven’t yet agreed on details for the show’s future.

Downton Abbey

On both sides of the pond, Downton Abbey’s sixth season was more criticized than others, with both its “season finale” angering some viewers over misguided treatment of particular characters, and its Christmas Special/series finale angering others by too-neatly tying bows on everyone’s stories. Yes, these specials are known for their cheeriness, and yes, it was great that Edith finally got her day in the sun. But Mary also got her day in Edith’s sun, and the rest of the episode was largely a revolving door of mild and often predictable post-scripts for most everyone else. It wasn’t the riot-starting ending that others on this list put forth, but it also didn’t hold a candle to the flames that lit up the show’s best years.

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Fox’s Sleepy Hollow did the unthinkable this season and killed off one of the show’s two major characters, Abbie Mills, when series star Nicole Beharie decided she wanted out of the show. The series has recently been renewed for Season 4, and now Sleepy Hollow’s remaining star, Tom Mison (Ichabod Crane) is speaking out about how Beharie’s exit has impacted him and the show.

Tom Mison spoke with The Realistic Optimist during MCM London Comic Con recently, and revealed that not only was Abbie an obviously huge part of the show, but that killing the character was a hard decision. And, it’s pretty easy to see why that would have been difficult, even if star Nicole Beharie was uninterested in being a part of the show in the future.

Sleepy Hollow is a supernatural drama that focused on Lieutenant Abbie Mills and late 1700s transplant Ichabod Crane as they served as Witnesses to all the strange goings on in Sleepy Hollow, New York and worked to stop various evil entities from wreaking permanent havoc on the small town. Abbie and Ichabod share an intense bond and a great friendship that develops over the course of the first three seasons of the show. They truly have each other’s back in some of the direst and most intimidating situations on a weekly basis, and, even when they don’t exactly come out on top, they manage to push evil back by working seamlessly together.

When Sleepy Hollow was renewed for Season 4, many people were surprised, and not just because of the middling ratings the show had received lately. The combination of Ichabod and Abbie was such a big deal to the show that fans had wanted a romantic relationship with the characters from pretty much the first episode of the series. They clearly had what was obviously a life-long connection that fueled much of the joy the show brought to the audience. This is likely why the decision to kill Abbie was such a hard one, seeing as how important to the basis of the show she was. But, with Nicole Beharie not wanting to keep her role on the show, that same importance of the character was why she had to be killed off. There was simply no way that after three years of fighting the good, tough fight against evil with Ichabod, that Abbie would simply step away from her dear friend and the challenges they constantly faced.

Tom Mison also made it clear that there was no animosity between the two actors when he noted that he liked acting with Nicole Beharie, and that he doesn’t resent her for deciding to quit the show. And, that’s good to hear, because even though we won’t get to see Ichabod and Abbie on Sleepy Hollow anymore, it would suck to know that their on-screen connection didn’t have any basis in real life. You can catch Season 4 of Sleepy Hollow when it returns at mid-season in 2017.

The 2015-2016 TV season has been pretty exciting so far, with some big dramas like Supergirl and Quantico hitting some schedule and some smaller comedies, like The Grinder and Grandfathered finding their way into people’s homes and hearts. There are some big shows returning at midseason, too, with programs like Agent Carter and Secrets and Lies finding a home on the big networks in the colder months. By this spring, the networks will make some big decisions on whether or not some of our favorites will get renewals, and for now we are keeping tabs on what shows are cancelled, which are renewed and which at least have received full season orders.

This list will stay updated as the year moves on, so we can keep tabs on what will be moving forward and what will ultimately get the axe from the big networks. Good news is listed in green and bad news is listed in red. Sometimes a show will receive a full episode order before it gets picked up for a brand new season. While that's good news, it doesn't necessarily mean that a show will be back next fall.

ABC

ABC actually had a pretty rough fall, with both Wicked City and Blood & Oil failing to find avid audiences. Luckily, some of the network's longer-running stuff is still doing well, and in March of 2016, the network renewed a ton of stuff for the 2016-2017. Here's what we know.

Black-ish Renewed in March

Blood & Oil Cancelled

Castle Cancelled on May 12

Dancing with the Stars Renewed in March

Dr. Ken Renewed on May 12

Fresh Off The Boat Renewed in March

The Goldbergs Renewed in March

Grey’s Anatomy Renewed for Season 13

How To Get Away With Murder Renewed in March

Last Man Standing Renewed in March

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.Renewed for Season 4

The Middle Renewed in March

Modern Family Renewed in March

The Muppets Cancelled on November 13

Nashville Cancelled on May 12

Once Upon A Time Renewed in March

Quantico Renewed For Season 2 on March 3

Scandal Renewed in March

Shark Tank Renewed in March

Wicked City Cancelled on November 13

MIDSEASON

Agent Carter Cancelled on May 12

American Crime Renewed on May 12

The Bachelor Renewed

The Bachelorette Renewed

The Catch Renewed on May 12

The Family Cancelled on May 12

Galavant Cancelled on May 12

Of Kings and Prophets Cancelled By ABC

The Real O’Neals Renewed on May 12

CBS

CBS has some strong performers, including The Big Bang Theory, which was renewed as part of a huge deal before TV programs even began airing this fall. However, there should be plenty of spots for new shows in the lineup next year, as The Good Wife and Mike & Molly are definitely ending. We'll let you know as soon as CBS makes its final decisions.

2 Broke Girls Renewed For Season 6

The Amazing Race Renewed For Season 29

The Big Bang Theory Renewed for Season 10

Blue Bloods Renewed For Season 7

CSI: Cyber Cancelled on March 12

Code BlackRenewed in May

Criminal Minds Renewed For Season 12

Elementary Renewed For Season 5

The Good Wife Ending this season, so basically cancelled

Hawaii Five-0 Renewed

Life in Pieces Renewed for Season 2

Limitless

Madam Secretary Renewed For Season 3

Mom Renewed For Season 4

NCIS Renewed for two more seasons in March

NCIS: Los Angeles Renewed For Season 8

NCSI: New Orleans Renewed For Season 3

The Odd Couple Renewed in May

Survivor Renewed For Season 33

Scorpion Renewed For Season 3

Supergirl Renewed, BUT MOVING TO THE CW

Undercover Boss Renewed in May

MIDSEASON

Angel From Hell cancelled

Mike & Molly cancelled Season 6 will be last

Person of Interest Cancelled by CBS

Rush Hour Cancelled by CBS, will not return for Season 2

The CW

Over the last few years, the CW has capably put together a slew of original programming that appeals to niche audiences. From comic book adaptations to the story of a girl who was accidentally artificially inseminated, we except most of the CW's lineup to stick around next year. Stuff like Reign is on slightly stickier footing.

The 100 Renewed March 11

America’s Next Top Model Cancelled, airing final season Update: Is moving to VH1

Arrow Renewed March 11

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Renewed March 11

The Flash Renewed March 11

iZombie Renewed March 11

Jane the Virgin Renewed March 11

The Originals Renewed March 11

Reign Renewed March 11

Supernatural Renewed March 11

The Vampire Diaries Renewed March 11

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

MIDSEASON

Legends of Tomorrow Renewed March 11

Containment Cancelled on May 12

(Beauty and the Beast’s final season will air this summer)

Fox

A lot of Fox's animated programming is already renewed. Recently, the network also revealed that Bones will eke it out for one more season on the network, which was a huge surprise. Will your favorite show make it? Stay tuned to find out!

Bob’s Burgers Renewed

Bones Renewed For 12th and finale season

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Renewed

Empire renewed

Family Guy Renewed

Gotham Renewed

Grandfathered Cancelled on May 12

The Grinder Cancelled On May 12

The Last Man On Earth Renewed

Masterchef Junior

Minority Report Cancelled

New Girl Renewed

Rosewood Renewed

Scream Queens Renewed In January

The Simpsons Renewed

Sleepy Hollow Renewed

MIDSEASON

American Idol Cancelled

Bordertown Cancelled on May 12

Hell’s Kitchen

Second Chance cancelled

Lucifer Renewed For Season 2

The X-Files (Probably returning for another limited series, but not next TV season)

NBC

NBC renewed a lot of programming early in the season, including fan favorites like The Blacklist and Chicago Fire. However, the network is still having trouble, with a comedy lineup that isn't super impressive. Variety show Best Time Ever also failed to stick around this season, and was cancelled by the network a while ago. Here's where NBC's shows stand:

Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris Cancelled By NBC

The Blacklist Renewed For Season 4 in December

Blindspot Renewed For Season 2 on November 9

Chicago Fire Renewed for Season 5 on November 9

Chicago P.D. Renewed for Season 4 on November 9

Grimm Renewed

Chicago Med Renewed

Heroes Reborn No Season 2, according to creative team

Law & Order: SVU Renewed

The Mysteries of Laura Cancelled in May

The Player Cancelled

Truth Be Told Episode order trimmed to 10, set already dismantled

Undateable Cancelled in May

The Voice Renewed

MIDSEASON

The Biggest Loser

Chicago Med Renewed On February 1

Shades of Blue Renewed For Season 2

Crowded Cancelled

You, Me and the Apocalypse Cancelled

The Carmichael Show Renewed in May

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Fox has announced their Fall 2016 lineup, which includes more than a few familiar titles, along with a collection of new series. Joining returners Gotham, Lucifer, Bones, Scream Queens and others, we have 24: Legacy, The Exorcist, Lethal Weapon and Son of Zorn to anticipate.

To give you an idea of what the week will look like for the network, here’s the line-up for the fall schedule… ((New shows in UPPER CASE; all times EST)

Monday

8:00-9:00 PM Gotham

9:00-10:00 PM Lucifer

Tuesday

8:00-8:30 PM Brooklyn Nine-Nine

8:30-9:00 PM New Girl

9:00-10:00 PM Scream Queens

Wednesday

8:00-9:00 PM LETHAL WEAPON

9:00-10:00 PM Empire

Thursday

8:00-9:00 PM Rosewood

9:00-10:00 PM Bones

Friday

8:00-9:00 PM Hell’s Kitchen

9:00-10:00 PM THE EXORCIST

Saturday

7:00-10:30 PM Fox Sports Saturday: Fox College Football

Sunday

7:00-7:30 PM NFL on FOX

7:30-8:00 PM The OT/ Bob’s Burgers

8:00-8:30 PM The Simpsons

8:30-9:00 PM SON OF ZORN

9:00-9:30 PM Family Guy

9:30-10:00 PM The Last Man on Earth

Midseason 2017 adds more new Fox shows to the mix, including APB, The Mick, Star and Pitch.

Monday

8:00-9:00 PM 24: LEGACY / Gotham (spring)

9:00-10:00 PM APB (new) / Lucifer (spring)

Tuesday

8:00-8:30 PM New Girl / Brooklyn Nine-Nine (spring)

8:30-9:00 PM THE MICK

9:00-10:00 PM KICKING & SCREAMING / PITCH (spring)

Wednesday

8:00-9:00 PM LETHAL WEAPON / SHOTS FIRED (spring)

9:00-10:00 PM STAR / Empire (spring)

Thursday

8:00-9:00 PM ROSEWOOD

9:00-10:00 PM PRISON BREAK

Friday

8:00-9:00 PM Masterchef Junior

9:00-10:00 PM Sleepy Hollow

Saturday

8:00-10:00 PM Fox Sports Saturday

Sunday

7:00-7:30 PM Animation Encores

7:30-8:00 PM Bob’s Burgers

8:00-8:30 PM The Simpsons

8:30-9:00 PM MAKING HISTORY

9:00-9:30 PM Family Guy

9:30-10:00 PM The Last Man on Earth

You can check out the trailers for most of the new shows next...

24:Legacy

Prison Break

Making History

The Mick

Shots Fired

APB

The Exorcist

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Lethal Weapon

Star

Son of Zorn

Sleepy Hollow is the little TV series that could. Every year, it just chugs along, bringing in just enough ratings to keep it off of the chopping block. It helps that fans really, really like Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane. It also helps that the TV series makes great use of its supernatural elements. It’s a different twist on the procedural than TV usually attempts and it has worked for the past three seasons. However, although Sleepy Hollow was renewed for a fourth season on Fox, after the death of series lead Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie), many wondered how the series could really move forward and whether or not Season 4 would be the last. Here’s what’s actually going on with Sleepy Hollow, according to Fox:

Sleepy Hollow has always been a fish-out-of-water tale that has benefitted from an interesting and adorable partnership between Abbie Mills and Ichabod Crane. Because of this, it was a huge shock when the show killed off the Abbie Mills character at the end of Season 3. Sure, Sleepy Hollow has been fond of killing off its main characters, as we’ve said goodbye to Captain Irving, Katrina Crane, Henry Parrish and many more main names over the years. However, Abbie Mills always seemed like she would be a character that would be untouchable… until she wasn’t.

At the time of Beharie’s departure, rumors were swirling around that the actress was looking for ways to get out of her contract for some time. Initially, the actress’ character was set to be killed off at midseason this year, but the plot was written in such a way that the network was able to keep the actress around for longer—whether or whether not she really wanted it. While Fox’s Dana Walden was speaking in a little bit of code in the quote above, she seems to be confirming that Nicole Beharie wanted out of her contract. While Fox tried to keep her around initially, it became clear that she wanted out and they needed to let her go. With that in mind, the network is looking to test the waters and see if Sleepy Hollow still has a little life in it sans its central partnership.

Sleepy Hollow actually did roughly the same numbers once it moved to Friday nights on Fox's schedule, so it looks like it can be more competitive on Fridays than it was as part of Fox's Thursday night lineup. We'll let you know how the new amalgamation of the show looks when it returns to the schedule this fall.

In the meantime, here's what the networks have coming up this summer.

We are reaching the end of the TV season, which means the networks are sitting down and not only figuring out which new programs will hit the schedule next year but also which programs will be cancelled, many of them before their time. There are a lot of shows that could potentially see the axe this month, but we’ve put together a list of likely candidates that will not be back for the 2016-2017 schedule. Some of these were far more painful than others to write about, and we know that each series has a slew of fans that will miss them, even if they weren’t pulling in the ratings the networks hoped they would. Without further ado, here are the 14 shows most likely to be cancelled this spring.

If you’d like to see which shows the networks have already cancelled or renewed, please check out our full network rundown.

Galavant, ABC

ABC’s Galavant has never been a huge ratings bringer. Where the niche comedy shined was in its second run on streaming services, and ABC was able to make some money back by selling Galavant to Hulu and elsewhere. However, during Season 2, the numbers dropped even further, making Galavant less appealing for advertisers. We doubt if it will return for Season 3.

Last episode viewership: .59 rating, 2.1 million total viewers

The Grinder, Fox

The Grinder has been a critical darling since it hit Fox’s schedule this fall. Fans like it, the network likes it, and yet there has been little to no traction for the Rob Lowe and Fred Savage starrer. More recent episodes have also seen a decrease in the ratings. If Fox is going to keep one of Grandfathered or The Grinder, it’s starting to look as if we may have to say goodbye to the law-oriented comedy.

Last episode viewership: .58 rating, 1.5 million total viewers

Agent Carter, ABC

Agent Carter ended on a great cliffhanger that capably set the series up for a third season. Fans seem to love Peggy Carter, as there are always quite a few blue suits and red hats on the con scene each year. However, they don’t seem to be quite so actively engaged with the TV series. Although Agent Carter airs in a cushy spot, hitting the schedule while Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is on hiatus, the show’s ratings have never been stellar and they were down in Season 2. The only way we could see a third season happening is if the Mockingbird spinoff doesn’t pan out.

Last episode viewership: .73 rating, 2.3 million total viewers

Code Black, CBS

When you compare Code Black’s ratings to most of the other shows on this list, it looks like it is crushing. However, CBS has way higher expectations—especially in terms of total viewers—than the other networks, which means Code Black has not yet been greenlighted for Season 2. The medical drama is pulling similar numbers to freshman shows Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and Supergirl, but if CBS ultimately opts to cancel one, we’re guessing it will be the older-skewing Code Black.

Last episode viewership: 1.17 rating, 6.9 million total viewers

Telenovela, NBC

As a midseason replacement series that only got 11 episodes, Telenovela didn’t do dismally. The show also had a lot going for it. It starred Eva Longoria. It was a cheeky take on the telenovela format. Unfortunately, potentially due to its timeslot or the fact that Jane the Virgin is also a cheeky take on a telenovela (in a more innovative way), Telenovela did not take off in the ratings. We doubt it’ll stick around next year.

Last episode viewership: .86 rating, 2.9 million total viewers.

Sleepy Hollow, Fox

Fox entirely revamped supernatural drama Sleepy Hollow heading into Season 3, and some of the changes worked. (We won’t get into the odd addition of Betsy Ross, etc.) Unfortunately, Fox gave Sleepy Hollow a tough timeslot on Thursday nights and then bumped the show to Fridays, where it also failed to thrive. Now that the show has killed off a major lead, it’s hard to tell what the point of another season would be. Still, Sleepy Hollow still has Tom Mison going for it, along with brand recognition. We’ll have to see how this one shakes out.

Last episode viewership (on Thursday): .8 rating, 2.8 million total viewers

Last episode viewership (on Friday): .7 rating, 2.96 million total viewers

Rush Hour, CBS

Rush Hour might as well have been cancelled before it even hit the schedule. CBS announced the series about a year ago, but kept the freshman comedy off of both its fall and winter TV schedules. Eventually, the show premiered on March 31, to little fanfare. While some shows have managed to thrive with odd premiere dates, CBS has a lot of great comedies, and this one just doesn’t stand out.

Last episode viewership: .89 rating, 4.3 million total viewers.

Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life, Fox

While Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life actually did pretty well during its first few outings on the air, the numbers rapidly dropped. Fox moved the show into pre-primetime at one point, and pulled it from the schedule at another point. Translation: Nothing is working, and it would be irresponsible to bring this show back next season. Check out the dismal numbers, below.

Last episode viewership: .44 rating, 1 million total viewers.

Bordertown, Fox

Newbie Fox comedies have had a hard go of it this season. Although shows like Last Man on Earth, New Girl and The Simpsons have all been renewed, there are quite a few freshman Fox comedies on this list. Another one of them is Bordertown, the new animated comedy that failed to live up to either ratings or critical reception. The show is actually doing worse with the 18-49 demo than Barrett Cooper. With those numbers, it’s hard to justify keeping the show around, even if it isn’t all that expensive to produce.

Last episode viewership: .43 rating. 1.15 million total viewers

You, Me And The Apocalypse, NBC

Critics really seemed to love You, Me and The Apocalypse when it first hit NBC’s schedule. For years, NBC has had some well-reviewed but under-watched comedies on the network, and Apocalypse fits right into this niche. Unfortunately, the numbers are so low, it’s difficult to see how NBC could bring this one back for a second season. Since NBC originally billed this one as a miniseries, it’s probably going to remain that way.

Last episode viewership: .57 rating, 2.79 million total viewers.

The Muppets, ABC

Leading into the season, The Muppets had great buzz and plenty of name recognition. It was one of the highest-rated comedy premieres this TV season, with almost 9 million total viewers tuning in to catch Kermit and Gonzo in action. Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there. People had visceral feelins about The Muppets. Many weren’t huge fans before or after the retooling over winter break and it’s probably about time that ABC declares this one a miss. The only saving grace The Muppets has is that its ratings average isn’t abysmal thanks to the good numbers early on.

Last episode viewership: .88 rating, 2.7 million total viewers

Heartbeat, NBC

For the life of me, I can’t understand why NBC would put out two brand new medical dramas in the same year. While Chicago Med thrived thanks to crossovers, a solid cast and all that Dick Wolf recognition, Heartbeat seemed like an afterthought. It was almost as if NBC thought, “Well just in case Med doesn’t work out, we’ll put together a second medical drama, too.” To its credit, Heartbeat is still managing a decent audience, thanks to being as much about personal drama as it is about the crisis of the moment. But very few people in the 18-49 demographic are watching it. And again, does NBC really need two medical dramas? Probably not.

Last episode viewership: .79 rating, 4.48 million total viewers

Second Chance, Fox

Second Chance, about an older man who gets a second chance at life by having his conscious implanted into a young man’s body, is probably not getting a second chance on Fox. While the network had some ratings winners this year, Second Chance had problems from the start. The network even changed the name of the show several times before finally premiering it late this year. It's not a show we expect to see back.

Last episode viewership: .54 rating, 2.08 million total viewers

CSI: Cyber, CBS

We were shocked when CBS signed on for CSI: Cyber Season 2, but we assumed the network simply wanted the CSI franchise to live on. And with all of the hullabaloo surrounding the end of CSI, I see why the network wanted to give the drama a second shot—especially since Cyber’s total viewer numbers are not dismal. However, CBS is going to need at least a few slots next fall, and we’re guessing the network will be happy to use the one currently occupied by CSI: Cyber for something else.

Last episode viewership: .97 rating, 6.3 million total viewers Obviously, there are a few more shows on the various networks that are totally on the border between cancel and renewal, like NBC’s Crowded or ABC’s The Catch, but looking into gaps in the schedule, ratings, the people involved with each show, and general acclaim, these were the best picks we could come up with. If you would like to see what shows are still potentially on the bubble, head here.

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Warning: Ahead are major spoilers for the Season 3 finale of Sleepy Hollow. Do not read on if you need to catch up!

Uh, what the hell just happened? Sleepy Hollow has always been good at churning out the season ending cliffhangers, but, you know, this is kind of ridiculous. And, since we, apparently, just lost main character Abbie Mills from the series, how is the show supposed to go on after this?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a Season 4 for Sleepy Hollow is not at all out of the question at this point. The entertainment news site also confirms that Abbie Mills is really dead, because actress Nicole Beharie has officially left the show. Showrunner Clifton Campbell also told The Hollywood Reporter that a fourth season is currently being planned for, so that if the series does, indeed, get picked up, they know what direction they want to go in.

Tonight’s Season 3 finale saw Abbie and her cohort Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) make their final bid against The Hidden One. They took Pandora’s box to the catacombs and when opened, the evil inside made a beeline for Abbie, lashing her around the neck and trying to pull her in. Ichabod and Abbie’s sister Jenny managed to stop it, but it turns out that Abbie’s soul was the only thing that could stop The Hidden One, and, by the end of the show, she had willingly sacrificed her life to Pandora’s box in order to stop him from taking over the world.

OK, seriously, what the hell just happened? Abbie and Ichabod are the heart and absolute soul of Sleepy Hollow. What will the show even look like without Abbie? One of the biggest parts of the series has been the intense bond between Team Witness, the core of which is Abbie and Ichabod, and the totally undeniable chemistry of leads Nicole Beharie and Tom Mison. A chemistry so finely tuned that nearly all Sleepyheads (yes, that’s what the fans call themselves) shipped an Ichabbie (yes, that’s the shipper’s name for the proposed duo) coupling…and they shipped it hard.

The end of Season 3 did, in fact, do a pretty good job of setting up a possible fourth season. At the end, Ichabod was visiting Abbie’s grave only to be met there by her father. As it turns out, the mysterious Papa Mills knows quite a lot about demon busting and fancy, magical artifacts, and he had some big news for Ichabod. Apparently, there always have to be two Witnesses, and when one dies their duties go to the next one in line, along with a bit of the previous Witness’ soul. Papa Mills charged Icabod with finding the next Witness before “they” do and then beat a path out of the cemetery as Icabod was surrounded by government agents.

Well, there’s no doubt that Sleepy Hollow threw a big curveball tonight. If the show is renewed for Season 4, they will certainly be heading somewhere different.

Every year, we see the same sorts of trends happening to TV shows. Programs that started high in the fall often will begin faltering after they return from hiatus. Other shows that have started low in the fall get shuffled off into new timeslots, etc. These trends might not be a great sign for any of the particular shows, but they're actually not death sentences for network TV series. It just means a show is on the bubble. And as the ratings get lower each year, leaving room for social media and other platforms to make a difference, more and more shows find themselves in the unlucky situation of being right on the bubble.

This spring, we’ve culled through all of the big TV shows on the major networks and have come up with a list of programs that are hurting in the ratings and very well may not be on the schedule when the new season kicks off. Without further ado, here are the network TV shows that are right on the bubble between cancellation and renewal. If a low-rated show is missing from this list, go ahead and assume we think it is going to be cancelled.

Sleepy Hollow, Fox

Sleepy Hollow has been a perpetual favorite on lists like these over the past couple of seasons. After a startlingly good first season, the supernatural drama took some unlikeable turns in Season 2. While things have looked up a bit in Season 3, a complete rewrite—including Betsy Ross—has changed the narrative and turned off more audiences. Things got so bad, Fox shipped the show off to Friday nights, where its last original only did a .8 rating. There’s always the chance Fox might push the show to a fourth season and additional episodes, but since Sleepy Hollow isn’t close to hitting the traditional syndication mark, now might be as good of a time as any time to say sayonara to Sleepy Hollow.

Castle, ABC

Castle has been creeping lower in the ratings as the years have worn on, but this is the first year the show has really seen bad ratings worth remarking on. Like a lot of long-running procedurals, Castle is starting to seem a little fatigued and stands out as an older program among younger, sharper network TV shows. The creative team has even written a finale that will serve as an ending should the show not get renewed. Still, fans have fond feelings for Castle and ABC may give the drama another season to wrap up its storyline, similar to what Fox is doing for the Bones cast and crew.

Grandfathered, Fox

Watching John Stamos act cool while spending time with adorable little kids has been a formula that has worked in the past. It seemed to be working pretty well this fall, too, when Grandfathered first hit the schedule. However, over time the ratings for Grandfathered have faltered. The show’s still likable enough, but we have a feeling Fox is going to either axe Grandfathered or the also low-rated The Grinder, leaving Grandfathered’s future very much up in the air.

The Grinder, Fox

Things are not looking good for The Grinder. While Brooklyn Nine-Nine and New Girl have done decent ratings on Tuesday nights, both Grandfathered and The Grinder have been soft, and unfortunately, The Grinder has had slightly worse ratings than the John Stamos-led show. The only saving grace that The Grinder has is that it’s awesome. (If you don’t believe me, Rob Lowe’s already gotten a Golden Globe nod, which means someone else out there has been paying attention.) The Rob Lowe and Fred Savage-led series has known exactly what kind of comedy it has wanted to be since it first premiered and has only gotten better since. That said, the last Grinder episode only did a .6 rating, which is legitimately terrible. If Fox decides to keep it, the acclaim will certainly help.

Hawaii Five-0, CBS

CBS is a different beast than the other networks, and even its low-rated programs tend to do better than some of the other channels’ middle-range stuff. Thus, it’s tough to make a call on some of its offerings. Hawaii Five-0 has been a show that’s had meh ratings for the last couple of seasons and already airs in a horrible Friday night timeslot. That said, it has been a good complement to Blue Bloods and doesn’t get the worst ratings on the network. For instance, a recent outing did a 1.1 rating, better than a lot of other stuff that airs on Friday nights. If CBS decides to drop it, it will be to make room for newer stuff on the schedule, and with The Good Wife ending (and other shows on the bubble), that may not be a problem. We’ll have to wait and see.

The Muppets, ABC

The Muppets’ trajectory has been very tumultuous during its first season. The show started out with incredibly high ratings, but saw a sharp ratings decline soon after. Then, the series went through a retooling of sorts before it came back at midseason. Some shows take a while to really find their footing, like Parks and Recreation and others. Plus, The Muppets has never been a total disaster. It has just struggled to find its voice and footing and whether or not keeping the well-known property on the air is worth it will be up to ABC to decide.

Grimm, NBC

Grimm has been crushing the Friday night lineup over at NBC for years now, so why is it just now landing on a bubble list like this one? The answer is simple: The ratings are not looking good. The show has hit series lows in recent weeks and is inching below the 1.0 mark. NBC could cancel it, but with shows like Truth Be Told and The Player already axed and other shows (like Telenovela) also on the bubble, Grimm could also come back for Season 6.

Agent Carter, ABC

If any show on this list is a true bubble show, it’s Agent Carter. The series didn’t manage to gain as much traction during its second season as it did during its first one. However, Agent Carter is a coveted Marvel property, it features a popular Marvel character and it fits nicely into Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s winter hiatus. The show’s ratings certainly aren’t anything to boast about, but I could see ABC and Marvel wanting to keep the show around just to keep the character in the popular consciousness for longer. Plus, we need to know what happens after that ending.

Elementary, CBS

Elementary has had its ups and downs, plot-wise, over the years, and ended on a harrowing note last spring when Sherlock Holmes briefly got back into drugs. The show is back to its usual consulting antics this season, however, and the series has even thrown in Sherlock’s dad (John Noble) to shake things up. It may not be enough, however. While the rest of CBS’ Thursday night lineup has crushed, Elementary has seen lower ratings than in years past. The good news? The show does good Live+7 day ratings, and increased a whopping 82% in its last count. Still, it’s certainly not a lock for next year, at all.

Telenovela, NBC

A lot of NBC’s programs are already renewed for the 2016-2017 season. The stuff that isn’t is really not looking all that great. Telenovela is about a fictional telenovela. The show boasts Eva Longoria and a pretty stellar cast. Unfortunately, it hasn’t gotten a lot of traction since premiering back in December. Recent episodes have fallen below 3 million viewers, and we don’t think the weirdly timed December premiere date totally helped. Still, NBC has bigger problems—see You, Me and the Apocalypse.

Nashville, ABC

Nashville is currently in its fourth season over at ABC, and the show has one thing that is really going for it: consistency. Nashville has never been a huge ratings bringer over at the network, and sure, it’s seen a small chunk of its viewership leave during Season 4, but mostly it keeps ho-humming along and doing decent numbers every week. It’s really on the low-end compared to some of ABC’s other programming, but it’s also kind-of the little engine that could and just keeps on doing its thing, slowly but surely, week in and week out. ABC definitely knows what it's getting with the show, but that may not be enough to sign on for Season 5.

The Mysteries of Laura, NBC

The Mysteries of Laura was on these sorts of lists last year, because the show is in an odd position. It actually has a fairly high overall viewership; the Season 2 finale, for instance, did well over 7.4 million total viewers. However, none of these viewers are young people, making The Mysteries of Laura less of an exciting prospect with advertisers. NBC has other disasters, but we’re not ready to call this one renewed, yet.

American Crime, ABC

Of all of ABC's major dramas America Crime may have the most prestige and the most serious storyline. It's that acclaim that helped the show to land a second season and that acclaim that may help the show to land a third. It's also probably helpful that ABC has a lot of shows in a similar position, or worse. Blood & Oil was already cancelled and The Family could easily follow suit. If ABC has room in the lineup, American Crime might come back, even if it had episodes that only got a .8 rating before Live+ viewership. Then again, maybe not.

Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life, Fox

Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life has not been on the schedule for very long, but it’s been around long enough for us to add it to our bubble list. The series is doing fewer than 2 million viewers each week, and because of this, Fox is switching the series with Bob’s Burgers in its Sunday night lineup. That means it’s going to air at 7:30 ET, which is not particularly good. Still, because few episodes have aired, it’s averaging a 1.2 rating, which is not a disaster. The show just needs to hope that timeslot change isn’t a death sentence.

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Mark your calendars! Midseason TV dates are here. The winter hiatus is one of the worst times of the year for TV fans. Sure, many of us are probably too busy around the holidays to tune in for a slew of TV shows and specials, but because shows leave the air for a big chunk of the winter, fans are often left on big cliffhangers, including deaths, secret love affairs and more. The good news? We can already tell you when some of your favorites will be coming back.

The schedule is a work in progress, and dates are subject to change as we head into the fall season. If there's a new or returning show you don't see on here, feel free to leave a comment and we'll see if we can dig up the date for you! Please note that the networks announce new and returning premiere dates at their own pace, so some dates may not be available, yet. Finally, brand new shows are listed in ALL CAPS. If you are looking for dates for the upcoming summer shows, we have you covered with our summer TV premiere schedule.

Friday, January 1

9:00 p.m. - Sherlock: The Abominable Bride - BBC America

Sunday, January 3

8:00 p.m. - The Simpsons - Fox

8:00 p.m. - Galavant - ABC

8:30 p.m. - COOPER BARRETT’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING LIFE - Fox

8:30 p.m. (ET) 8:00 p.m. (PT) - Undercover Boss - CBS

9:00 p.m. - Family Guy - Fox

9:00 p.m. - Downton Abbey - PBS

9:00 p.m. - Long Island Medium - TLC

9:30 p.m. - BORDERTOWN - Fox

Monday, January 4

8:00 p.m. - The Bachelor - ABC

8:00 p.m. - Supergirl - CBS

8:00 p.m. - Superhuman special - Fox

8:00 p.m. - Superstore - NBC

8:30 p.m. - Telenovela - NBC

9:00 p.m. - The Biggest Loser - NBC

9:00 p.m. - Scorpion - CBS

10:00 p.m. - NCIS: LA - CBS

Tuesday, January 5

8:00 p.m. - New Girl - Fox

8:00 p.m. - Finding Your Roots - PBS

8:00 p.m. - Hollywood Game Night - NBC

8:00 p.m. - NCIS - CBS

8:30 p.m. - Grandfathered - Fox

9:00 p.m. - Chicago Fire - CBS

9:00 p.m. - Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Fox

9:00 p.m. - Teen Wolf - MTV

9:30 p.m. - The Grinder - Fox

10:00 p.m. - Chicago Med - NBC

10:00 p.m. - Limitless - CBS

10:00 p.m. - THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES - MTV

10:00 p.m. - Beyond the Tank - ABC

Wednesday, January 6

8:00 p.m. - American Idol 2-Night premiere - Fox

8:00 p.m. - The Middle - ABC

8:00 p.m. - Mysteries of Laura - NBC

8:00 p.m. - 2 Broke Girls - CBS

8:30 p.m. - The Goldbergs - ABC

8:30 p.m. - Mike & Molly - CBS

9:00 p.m. - Modern Family - ABC

9:00 p.m. - Law & Order: SVU - NBC

9:00 p.m. - People's Choice Awards - CBS

9:30 p.m. - black-ish - ABC

10:00 p.m. - Chicago P.D. - NBC

10:00 p.m. - American Horror Story: Hotel - FX

10:00 p.m. - It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - FXX

10:00 p.m. - American Crime - ABC

10:30 p.m. - Man Seeking Woman - FXX

Thursday, January 7

8:00 p.m. - American Idol 2-Night premiere - Fox

8:00 p.m. - Heroes Reborn - NBC

8:00 p.m. - The Big Bang Theory - CBS

8:00 p.m. - MY DIET IS BETTER THAN YOURS 2-Hour premiere - ABC

8:30 p.m. - Life in Pieces - CBS

9:00 p.m. - The Blacklist - NBC

9:00 p.m. - Mom - CBS

9:30 p.m. - ANGEL FROM HELL - CBS

10:00 p.m. - SHADES OF BLUE - NBC

10:00 p.m. - Elementary - CBS

10:00 p.m. - Beyond the Tank - ABC

10:00 p.m. - Lip Sync Battle - Spike

10:00 p.m. - The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret - IFC

Friday, January 8

8:00 p.m. - Masterchef Junior - Fox

8:00 p.m. - Reign - the CW

8:00 p.m. - Undercover Boss - CBS

8:00 p.m. - Last Man Standing - ABC

8:30 p.m. - Dr. Ken - ABC

8:30 p.m. - Girl Meets World - Disney Channel

9:00 p.m. - Hawaii Five-0 - CBS

9:00 p.m. - Love Thy Neighbor - OWN

10:00 p.m. - Blue Bloods - CBS

Saturday, January 9

9:00 p.m. - Mythbusters - Discovery

Sunday, January 10

7:30 p.m. - Bob’s Burgers 2-Night premiere - Fox

8:00 p.m. - The Golden Globes - NBC

8:00 p.m. - Madam Secretary - CBS

9:00 p.m. - The Good Wife - CBS

9:00 p.m. - Shameless - Showtime

10:00 p.m. - CSI: Cyber - CBS

10:00 p.m. - Live to Tell - History

Tuesday, January 12

8:00 p.m. - Pretty Little Liars - ABC Family/Freeform

8:00 p.m. - MADtv Reunion Special - The CW

9:00 p.m. - SHADOWHUNTERS - ABC Family/Freeform

9:00 p.m. - iZombie - The CW

9:00 p.m. - Fashion Police - E!

Wednesday, January 13

9:00 p.m. - SECOND CHANCE (formerly Lookinglass) - Fox

9:00 p.m. - Criminal Minds - CBS

9:00 p.m. - Face Off - Syfy

10:00 p.m. - Code Black - CBS

10:00 p.m. - Younger - TV Land

11:00 p.m. - TEACHERS - TV Land

Thursday, January 14

10:00 p.m. - COLONY - USA

10:00 p.m. - Workaholics - Comedy Central

10:30 p.m. - Idiotsitter - Comedy Central

? p.m. - Greatest Party Story Ever… And Other Epic Tales -MTV

Friday, January 15

12:01 a.m. (PST) - Degrassi: Next Class - Netflix

9:00 p.m. - Hell’s Kitchen - Fox

Saturday, January 16

9:00 a.m. - Sesame Street - HBO

11:30 p.m. - Saturday Night Live - NBC

Sunday, January 17

8:00 p.m. - Critics Choice Awards - A$E

9:00 p.m. - ANGIE TRIBECA - TBS

9:00 p.m. - THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF POTOMAC - Bravo

10:00 p.m. - BILLIONS - Showtime

10:00 p.m. - Mercy Street - PBS

10:00 p.m. - The Royals - E!

Monday, January 18

9:00 p.m. - WAR AND PEACE - History, Lifetime, A&E

10:00 p.m. - Hit the Floor - VH1

Tuesday, January 19

8:00 p.m. - The Flash - The CW

8:00 p.m. - TEAM NINJA WARRIOR - Esquire

9:00 p.m. - Marvel’s Agent Carter - ABC

9:00 p.m. - Chicago Med - NBC

10:00 p.m. - Chicago Fire - NBC

Wednesday, January 20

8:00 p.m. - Arrow - The CW

9:00 p.m. - Supernatural - The CW

10:00 p.m. - KOCKTAILS WITH KHLOE KARDASHIAN - FYI

Thursday, January 21

8:00 p.m. - LEGENDS OF TOMORROW - The CW

9:00 p.m. - The 100 - The CW

10:00 p.m. - BASKETS - FX

10:00 p.m. - Portlandia - IFC

11:00 p.m. - DARK NET - Showtime

11:00 p.m. - LONDON SPY - BBC America

Friday, January 22

12:01 a.m. PST - Chelsea Does It - Netflix

? - MAD DOGS - Amazon

11:00 p.m. - Children's Hospital - Adult Swim

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Saturday, January 23

9:00 p.m. - Black Sails - Starz

10:00 p.m. - BEOWULF - Esquire

Sunday, January 24

8:00 p.m. - The X-Files - Fox – subsequent episodes to air on Mondays

Monday, January 25

8:00 p.m. - The Fosters - ABC Family/Freeform

8:00 p.m. - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - The CW

9:00 p.m. - LUCIFER - Fox

9:00 p.m. - THE MAGICIANS - Syfy

9:00 p.m. - Jane the Virgin - The CW

9:00 p.m. - RECOVERY ROAD - ABC Family/ Freeform

9:00 p.m. - American Dad - TBS

Tuesday, January 26

9:00 p.m. - OUTSIDERS - WGN America

Wednesday, January 27

9:00 p.m. - Suits - USA

Thursday, January 28

8:00 p.m. - You, Me and the Apocalypse - NBC

Friday, January 29

8 p.m. - The Vampire Diaries - The CW

9 p.m. - The Originals - The CW

9 p.m. - Grimm - NBC

Sunday, January 31

7:00 p.m. - Grease Live! - Fox

Monday, February 1

8:00 p.m. - Castle - ABC

10:00 p.m. - Lost Girl - Syfy

Tuesday, February 2

8:00 p.m. - The Muppets - ABC

8:30 p.m. - Fresh Off The Boat - ABC

10:00 p.m. - AMERICAN CRIME STORY: The People V. O.J. Simpson - FX

Wednesday, February 3

8:00 p.m. - MADOFF - ABC

8:00 p.m. - Young & Hungry - ABC Family/Freeform

8:30 p.m. - Baby Daddy - ABC Family/Freeform

10:00 - Preachers of Atlanta - Oxygen

Friday, February 5

8:00 p.m. - Sleepy Hollow - Fox

11:00 p.m. - Vice - HBO

11:30 p.m. - ANIMALS - HBO

Sunday, February 7

?:00 - Super Bowl 50 - CBS

?:00 - The Venture Bros. - Adult Swim

Monday, February 8

10 p.m. - FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE - TBS

Tuesday , February 9

10 p.m. - Tosh. O - Comedy Central

10:30 p.m. - NOT SAFE WITH NIKKI GLASER - Comedy Central

Thursday, February 11

8:00 p.m. - Grey’s Anatomy - ABC

9:00 p.m. - Scandal - ABC

10:00 p.m. - How To Get Away With Murder - ABC

10:00 p.m. - Impractical Jokers - truTV

10:30 p.m. - THOSE WHO CAN'T - truTV

Friday, February 12

8:00 p.m. - The Amazing Race Season 28 - CBS

Sunday, February 14

9:00 p.m. - VINYL - HBO

9:00 p.m. - The Walking Dead - AMC

10:00 p.m. - Talking Dead - AMC

?:00 p.m. - Last Week Tonight - HBO

Monday, February 15

?:00 p.m. 11/22/63 - HULU

8:00 p.m. - Grammy Awards - CBS

9:00 p.m. - Major Crimes - TNT

10:00 p.m. - Better Call Saul - AMC

Tuesday, February 16

9:00 p.m. - Rizzoli & Isles - TNT

Wednesday, February 17

8:00 p.m. - Survivor - CBS

10:00 p.m. - Broad City - Comedy Central

Thursday, February 18

10:00 p.m. - Vikings - History

11:00 p.m. - JOIN OR DIE WITH CRAIG FERGUSON - History

Friday, February 19

12:01 a.m. - LOVE - NETFLIX

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Sunday, February 21

10:00 p.m. - Girls - HBO

10:30 p.m. - Togetherness - HBO

Tuesday, February 23

12:30 a.m. - This Is Not Happening - Comedy Central

Friday, February 26

12:01 a.m. - FULLER HOUSE - Netflix

Sunday, February 28

8 p.m. - The Oscars - ABC

Monday, February 29

8:00 p.m. - Gotham - Fox

8:00 p.m. - The Voice - NBC

10:00 p.m. - Blindspot - NBC

Wednesday, March 2

8:00 p.m. - Rosewood - Fox

8:30 p.m. - THE REAL O’NEALS- will move to Tuesdays following premiere - ABC

Thursday, March 3

12:30 a.m. - Adam Devine's House Party - Comedy Central

9:00 p.m. - THE FAMILY- Will move to Sundays following sneak preview - ABC

Friday, March 4

12:01 a.m.(PST) - House of Cards - Netflix

Sunday, March 6

8:00 p.m. - Once Upon A Time - ABC

10:00 p.m. - Quantico - ABC

10:00 p.m. - Intervention - A&E

Monday, March 7

9:00 p.m. - Bates Motel - A&E

10:00 p.m. - DAMIEN - A&E

Tuesday, March 8

9:00 p.m. - Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - ABC

10:00 p.m. - OF KINGS & PROPHETS - ABC

Wednesday, March 9

?:00 p.m. - UNDERGROUND - WGN America

Friday, March 11

12:01 a.m. PT - FLAKED - Netflix

Sunday, March 13

10:00 p.m. PT - Naked And Afraid - Discovery

Wednesday, March 16

8:00 p.m. - Schitt's Creek - Pop

10:00 p.m. - Nashville - ABC

10:00 p.m. - The Americans - FX

10:00 p.m. - CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS - CBS

Thursday, March 17

11:00 p.m. - Gigolos - Showtime

Friday, March 18

12:01 a.m. - Daredevil - Netflix

Sunday, March 20

8:00 p.m. - The Passion - Fox

Monday, March 21

8:00 p.m. - Dancing with the Stars - ABC

Thursday, March 24

10:00 p.m. - THE CATCH - ABC

Wednesday, March 30

9:00 p.m. - Empire - Fox

?:00 p.m. - THE PATH - HULU

Thursday, March 31

10:00 p.m. - Rush Hour - CBS

10:00 p.m. - Archer - Fx

Friday, April 1

12:01 a.m. PT - THE RANCH - Netflix

12:01 a.m. PT - Lost & Found Music Studios -Netflix

10:00 p.m. - Banshee - Cinemax

Monday, April 4

6:00 p.m. - Powerpuff Girls - Cartoon Network

Thursday, April 7

8:30 p.m. - The Odd Couple - CBS

Saturday, April 9

9:00 p.m. - Outlander - Starz

Sunday, April 10

?:00 p.m. - MTV Movie Awards - MTV

9:00 p.m. - House of Lies - Showtime

9:00 p.m. - Fear The Walking Dead - AMC

Monday, April 11

9:00 p.m. - Jackie Robinson - PBS

Thursday, April 14

8:00 p.m. - Bones - Fox

9:00 p.m. - American Grit - Fox

10:00 p.m. - Orphan Black - BBC America

Friday, April 15

12:01 a.m. PT - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - Netflix

12:01 a.m. PT - Kong: King of the Apes - Netflix

Monday, April 18

9:00 p.m. - 12 Monkeys - Syfy

Tuesday, April 19

9:00 p.m. - Containment - CW

10:00 p.m. - The Night Manager - AMC

Wednesday, April 20

10:00 p.m. - Scream - MTV

Sunday, April 24

9:00 p.m. - Game of Thrones - HBO

10:00 p.m. - Silicon Valley - HBO

10:30 p.m. - Veep - HBO

Monday, April 25

10:00 p.m. - Turn - AMC

Thursday, June 2

9:00 p.m. - Beauty And The Beast - CW

It won’t be long before our favorite shows come back from hiatus and spring back onto our screens. But, let’s face it, some of our favorites have fallen a little short of expectations as of late. Most great shows (or great ideas for shows) that spend any length of time on the air will hit a rough patch now and then, and these shows have been in a holding pattern longer than we would like. And, in some cases, that holding pattern is just one season.

But, we keep watching. I like to call this “hope-watching.” It’s the simple idea of holding on to a show when it’s really not working for you anymore, all in the hope that it’ll light your world on fire again like it did in the old days. Now, here’s a few shows that need to get better in order to hold our attention for much longer.

New Girl

New Girl will premiere its fifth season in January, and we can all tell that the age is starting to show. After giving away blockbuster laughs in the first two seasons, the roomies and their exploits started to feel a little forced and stale. The seasons became more uneven; sometimes there would only be a couple of good laughs in a show, but, more and more frequently, whole episodes were lackluster. The Fox show is suffering from some pretty basic premise problems: the new girl is no longer new to the guys, and none of the guys are new to her, or us. Now that everyone’s known each other for five years, how are things supposed to stay interesting? Oh, right, they mostly haven’t. So, come on New Girl, bring the funny back or we may have to panic moonwalk out of the room.

Sleepy Hollow

Oh, Sleepy Hollow, how we loved you in the first season. The stunning chemistry between your leads. The creepy and intriguing supernatural big bads. Your downright inspired cast of supporting characters. Sleepy Hollow, you had it all. So, what happened? It fell prey to the second season curse. That season kept stubbornly shoving things we didn’t want down our throats, and the show suffered more for it. Find a new big bad; Pandora isn’t as frightening as she needs to be. Don’t get carried away with secondary characters; e.g., this version of Betsy Ross just isn’t believable as a Revolutionary-era lady spy, even for a show that takes such huge liberties with history. Sleepy Hollow could still find that old magic again. The show just needs to rely on the (now deep) friendship between the two leads, and find evil to battle that’s as good as Headless and Moloch. The witnesses can do anything, Seepy Hollow, and we believe you can, too.

True Detective

The second season downfall of True Detective is still a total head scratcher. The first season, about two cops with differing ideologies trying to solve a deeply twisted, possibly mystical case, drew raves from audiences and critics. But the second season, which aired in the summer, completely reversed the show’s polarity. It actually ended up on several “Worst Of” lists, and our own review of the finale was a resounding “There’s too much here and I don’t really care anyway.” And that kind of indifference can spell the end of a formerly good show. To get back into our good graces, True Detective will need to find something to focus on in the third season, and then build other characters and stories around that focal point. Not throw a bunch of things into the moody stew and set it boiling.

Arrow

Even though the quality of Arrow has had an uptick from last season, there was so much hope-watching going on the past two years that we still fear the show will slide back into madness. The Slade Wilson-ness of the second season, combined with Ra’s al Ghul Ra’s al Ghuling all over town last season was a bit too much to handle. Each season amounted to having one villain do the same thing over and over again; meaning our crime-fighting crew had to respond in the same way over and over. Plus, the flashbacks had never felt less important. But, a big sign that the show is turning around is the now blissful absence of Oliver Queen’s island struggle-wig. Being without that horrid hunk of straw is like a little bit of sunshine coming into every episode. Keep it up, Arrow. You may be about to return to your first season glory.

The Muppets

OK, we can keep this short. Muppets should never, ever talk about sex, or dating, in any way that isn’t the chaste Kermit and Miss Piggy way. The new-found adult tone of the current iteration of The Muppets has upset many people, and that’s not too surprising. Outright sex and pot jokes don’t belong. I suppose it didn’t occur to the creators that adults might want to watch the show for nostalgic reasons, which would have nothing to do with all that grownup stuff. Aside from the problems with tone, the show just isn’t as funny as it was way back when. Sometimes, when constraints are placed on creators, the product is better for it. So, if the lowest common denominator jokes are replaced with something more thoughtful, it seems like a good bet that things will change for the better.

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After a strong first season, Sleepy Hollow really struggled during Season 2. Because of this, some characters on the series were killed off or written off in order to revamp the show for its third season. One of these characters was Captain Frank Irving, played by Orlando Jones. This week, the actor spoke out about why he left the supernatural Fox drama. Apparently, it wasn’t exactly his choice. Here’s what the actor had to say about leaving the gig:

When we first found out that Orlando Jones was leaving Sleepy Hollow, it generally seemed like the decision was made by the actor. Now, his statement during this fan Q&A seems to indicate otherwise. Although it looks as if Jones was asked to leave Sleepy Hollow, he seems to understand that the show went in a different direction and no longer had a ton of room for the character.

It wasn’t just Jones who left Sleepy Hollow. As the actor has noted, the Headless Horseman was also kicked off the show. In order to really go in a new direction, the story of Ichabod Crane’s family, including his wife Katrina and his son Henry/Jeremy (played by Katia Winter and John Noble), also had their storylines wrapped up in a way that would not require their involvement during the 18-episode third season. If you’ve been keeping tabs on Sleepy Hollow at all this year, you should know the series has pivoted in a new direction. The new big baddie is Pandora, played by Shannyn Sossamon and Crane’s Old World flirtations now revolve around none other than Betsy Ross (Nikki Reed).

While the simpler plotline has mostly worked in Season 3, I think most of us really miss Captain Frank Irving and his relationship with Jenny on the show. Still, Irving was cut out of parts of Season 2 and it became hard to work him back in to the team dynamics once he became important again on the series. While Orlando Jones hasn’t spoken out about his departure on the show before this, I think fans who have been keeping tabs on the series haven’t really expected Captain Irving to ever reappear. Now, it definitely doesn’t look as if it will be happening.

Sleepy Hollow has struggled in the ratings this season, and just a few weeks ago, Fox announced the Season 3 drama is going to move to Friday nights after winter hiatus. Hopefully the series will be able to find a niche in the schedule, then.

You can find out when the rest of your favorite shows are returning, here.

Every season the TV landscape becomes cluttered with shows that have been abandoned by their networks or audiences. Sometimes, when you’re caught up in your favorite program, it can be hard to gauge just how popular it really is. Well, two shows have now gotten a hint of their actual popularity, because the network is showing them no love.

Fox has decided to move Sleepy Hollow to Fridays when it returns for the spring, and Bones has been left without a scheduling spot at all. And, this does not bode well for either show.

Bones has been on the air for a whopping eleven seasons. Series star David Boreanaz has gone on record recently and said that this will likely be the last season for the Fox staple. I doubt, though, that Bones fans or the stars of the show would like to go out by just falling off of the network’s radar all together. Everyone wants a clean end to their show, whether that means that every storyline is tied up neatly or not, the goal is always getting a chance to actually finish the story and getting to watch while that ending is told. For a fan favorite to simply disappear in the middle of the eleventh season, it would pretty much be unheard of.

Sleepy Hollow is in its third season right now, and it’s been moved a few times over the past seasons. After a mega-hit first season that saw it get picked up for a second season after only a few episodes had ever seen the light of day, the 2014-2015 season saw its critical reception and audience appreciation dip. The creative direction of the show was retooled for the current season and it hasn’t quite rebounded from that or the second season slip-ups. For the show to get pushed to Fridays is basically a death sentence. Very few shows can make headway on Friday night. And networks usually stick shows there in an effort to bump them off quietly. It’s like the mob arranging for a person to hit their head while falling on an icy patch of sidewalk, instead of shooting up an entire restaurant to get to them.

Now, Bones has had a very good run. It wouldn’t be unfair to say that one of the goals of the series was to get their leads together, and since the show took care of that a few years ago, it could easily go out leaving fans sort of happy, even if it doesn’t come back in the Spring. But, Sleepy Hollow fans deserve better than a slow, quiet death for their favorite witnesses. I don’t know if there’s anything worse than having a mythology heavy show give an unintentional swan song. If Fox was going to do this, they should have ended at the second season, which felt like a natural conclusion to Sleepy Hollow anyway.

Any TV show that lasts more than half a season should get a chance to wrap things up properly. But, that doesn’t always happen. Let’s hope that all the Bones and Sleepy Hollow fans unite and pray to the TV gods for a well-planned and peaceful end to their shows, whether that comes sooner or later.

Halloween approaches. It’s that time of year when we get to dress up as whatever we want, eat way too much candy, and scare the pants off of ourselves with some good old-fashioned terrifying TV. Now, television over the years has seen creepy crawlies ranging from zombies to werewolves to vampires, but there’s nothing like a witch to give us nightmares. There are plenty of ways for a witch to be terrifying, and not all of them involve cauldrons or broomsticks. Take a look at these ten devious ladies who manage to put a chill down our spines every time.

10. Samantha Stephens

What Show She Was On:Bewitched(1964 - 1972)

Who She Was: Samantha Stephens was a witch who fell in love and married a mortal named Darrin Stephens. Although she vowed to forsake her powers to live as a homemaker, she was frequently plagued by problems as minor as housework and as major as a witchy extended family that did not approve of her marriage to Darrin. Bewitched was a cute half-hour comedy with a cute nose-wiggling friendly witch as the star…or so it had seemed.

Why She Was So Scary: Samantha’s trademark nose wiggle may have been adorable, but there must have been some dark magic for her to manage it. Normal human noses are not meant for such things. We can only wonder what would have happened if Darrin really made her mad.

9. Sabrina Spellman

What Show She Was On: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996 – 2003)

Who She Was: Sabrina Spellman was a typical teenager who discovered that she was a half-witch with magical powers. Living with her 600-year-old aunts and a quippy witch-turned-cat Salem who took a feline turn as punishment for trying to take over the world, Sabrina had to deal with the normal trials of a teenage girl as she learned to control her magic.

Why She Was So Scary: Sure, everything was fun and funny and culturally relevant to the late 1990s, but the implications are terrifying to consider. Knowing what Sabrina was capable of as a mere teenage witch makes us wonder just what she might have been capable of as a fully-developed witch. Besides, spending so much time with a cat with known motivations to take over the world could surely warp the mind of any teenager.

8. Katrina Crane

What Show She Was On:Sleepy Hollow (2013 - )

Who She Was: Wife of Ichabod Crane, Katrina was secretly a witch throughout their marriage in the 18th century. Her motives were somewhat murky in the first two seasons of Sleepy Hollow, but her fate at this point is quite clear: Katrina was stabbed and killed by Ichabod as she was attempting to murder heroine Abbie Mills.

Why She Was So Scary: Katrina was brought into far more prominence in Season 2 than in Season 1, and her increased presence saw a decrease in the delightful screentime between Ichabod and Abbie. The ratings were proof enough that viewers were not exactly over the moon with Katrina. In fact, Katrina disrupting the dynamic between Ichabod and Abbie for no good reason makes us wonder: is dark magic real?

7. Piper Halliwell

What Show She Was On:Charmed (1998 - 2006)

Who She Was: Piper Halliwell was the oldest of the Halliwell sisters following the death of Prue. She is thereafter considered the most powerful of the three remaining sisters. She specializes in molecular manipulation, allowing her to do everything from freeze to combust to even slow down time to a certain degree.

Why She Was So Scary: Piper was a lead character on a show about witches that lasted for eight seasons, centered on sisterly relationships, and amassed a fiercely loyal fanbase. That in and of itself is witchy, and Piper’s molecular manipulation has terrifying implications beyond what Charmed could bring to the screen on The WB. Just think: if Charmed had aired on HBO, what kind of havoc could Piper have wreaked to defend her family?

6. Davina Claire

What Show She Is On:The Originals (2013 - )

Who She Is: Despite starting the series living as regular a life as she could as a witch with a vampire as an adoptive father, Davina Claire is now a witch in the French Quarter with the standing of Regent of the New Orleans Witch Community. In her short lifetime, Davina has been abandoned, empowered, sacrificed, resurrected, and promoted in a meteoric rise to the top.

Why She Is So Scary: Davina receiving the powers of three or her fellow Harvest witches was a chilling look into what even witches without evil intentions can manage. Her ties to both witches and vampires potentially make her a valuable ally and terrible enemy, and Davina’s rise to coven prominence at such a young age marks her as somebody not to cross.

5. Bonnie Bennet

What Show She Is On: The Vampire Diaries (2009 - )

Who She Is: Bonnie Bennett is a powerful witch more than willing to sacrifice herself and her safety for the sake of her friends. Despite being one of the good guys of the series, however, Bonnie has been known to willfully use dark magic. Misuse of dark magic has taken a great toll on Bonnie, but it also made her one of the most powerful witches of The Vampire Diaries.

Why She Is So Scary: There’s always something terrifying about a good witch willing to use dark magic, and Bonnie had done more than dabble in darkness. What is even more terrifying, however, is that Bonnie has managed to displace Elena in the hearts of some shippers as the ideal love interest for Damon. Messing with the hearts of shippers takes some serious sorcery.

4. Willow Rosenberg

What Show She Was On: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 – 2003)

Who She Was:Willow started out on Buffy as a shy and nerdy girl lacking confidence among her high school peers. Thanks to Buffy and a tight knit circle of friends, however, Willow became more confident and began to explore witchcraft. As she grew more powerful, she began to dabble in dark magic. The murder of her lover Tara made her go full dark on a path of revenge.

Why She Was So Scary: Willow was very firmly on the side of good through so much of the series and so loyal to her group of friends that her psychic break following Tara’s death was terrifying. It was such a departure from the Willow that viewers had come to know, and the Willow with black hair and eyes who had a showdown with Buffy was an unforgettable antagonist.

3. Fiona Goode

What Show She Was On: American Horror Story: Coven (2013 – 2014)

Who She Was: Fiona Goode was the Supreme Witch of the Salem Coven. Obsessed with youth and despising her own aging body, Fiona proved more than willing to use her powers to drain the lives of others. Not hesitating to kill whenever she deemed it necessary and showing no remorse, she only failed in selling her soul to a dark force in exchange for immortality because she had no soul to sell.

Why She Was So Scary: A sociopath obsessed with living forever, without remorse, that is dying of cancer is a frightening prospect even without taking into account the lack of a soul and powers of witchcraft. The discovery that she has no soul motivated her to want to kill other witches, and she remained manipulative and deceitful nearly to the end.

2. Marnie Stonebrook

What Show She Was On:True Blood (2008 - 2014)

Who She Was: Marnie Stonebrook was a witch in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Although seeming innocent and unassuming enough at first, her vast studies in things magical allowed her to bind the spirit of a powerful witch to her and use those powers to combat the vampires…and any who dared oppose her.

Why She Was So Scary: Marnie was unpredictable in the most terrifying way throughout her stint as a big bad on True Blood. The revelation that she was controlling the spirit of the powerful witch rather than the other way around proved her cunning to be her most dangerous natural weapon, and her control over the vampires was truly frightening.

1. Melisandre

What Show She Is On:Game Of Thrones (2011 - )

Who She Is: Melisandre is a priestess of the Lord of Light who worked as an adviser to Stannis Baratheon throughout his campaign for the Iron Throne. Called a witch by Arya Stark during a visit to the riverlands, Melisandre has certainly proved herself a worker of magic. Rather memorably, she gave birth to a shadowy figure that stole out of her womb to assassinate Renly Baratheon.

Why She Is So Scary: Melisandre is more than just a priestess and wielder off magic. Her skills at manipulation allowed her to ingratiate herself into the confidence of Stannis and Selyse Baratheon, ultimately to their ruin in the North. Using powers of seduction and manipulation as well as prophecy and magic, Melisandre is one of the most dangerous and mystical living characters of Game of Thrones.

Head to the next page and let us know which witch you think is the scariest.

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The TV landscape is constantly changing. However, while streaming services like Netflix and Amazon and subscription cable channels like HBO and Starz don’t rely on Nielsen ratings to determine what programming moves forward and what gets the axe, traditional cable and network TV outlets still very much rely on ratings to nab advertising dollars. So, we’ve decided to take a look at what shows are already faltering in those ratings this fall, looking only at programs that very well could be cancelled by the end of the season.

It’s true that some of this fall’s shows have yet to premiere at this point, but despite this, we feel it’s never too early to talk about the shows that are doing well over at the networks and cable stations, along with the show’s that aren’t doing so hot. And if the first few weeks of these shows are any indication, there are a few new programs and older programs that may see themselves get the axe over the next few months.

Minority Report, FOX

Fox’s Minority Report is based on a famous movie, which theoretically should have given it a fanbase boost. In addition, it boasts a great cast, headed up by Stark Sands, Meagan Good and Wilmer Valderrama. Despite this, the show’s numbers have been dismal. The drama was a flop during its premiere, only pulling in 3.1 million total viewers and a 1.1 rating. This week, that number slipped to a .7 rating and we don't see how it could rise from there.

Our Verdict: We wouldn’t be shocked if this was the first cancellation of the season.

The Player, NBC

NBC launched an all-new drama lineup this fall, and while Heroes Reborn is doing decently and The Blacklist is still a ratings draw for NBC, the same can’t be said of The Player, the high-octane drama starring Wesley Snipes and Phillip Winchester. Unfortunately, few people are watching the drama, as it pulled in barely a 1.0 rating during its first couple of tries at bat. Those numbers will slip more, and when that happens, NBC will be forced to cancel.

Our Verdict: This show might’ve worked in a different timeslot, but it’s barely scraping by on Thursday nights.

Sleepy Hollow, FOX

Damn, Fox spent a lot of time and effort revamping Sleepy Hollow for a third season. So far, the direction has been good in terms of creativity and rebooting the storyline. However, Hollow's numbers have not been looking good, at all. Last season, the show premiered at a 2.0 rating and this season, the supernatural drama only earned a 1.0 rating during its premiere. That’s even lower than the 1.4 rating the show nabbed in the Season 2 finale. Some fans just look to have given up.

Our Verdict: That Thursday timeslot is tough, but I’m not sure if even a different timeslot could fix these numbers.

CSI: Cyber, CBS

It’s rare for a CBS show to have lower numbers, but that’s exactly what Sunday nights look like on the network right now. The CSI: Cyber premiere boasted only 6.7 million total viewers, and most were not in the 18-49 demographic. Because of this, those numbers only equated to a 1.0 rating. In comparison, ABC’s Quantico aired at the same time with nearly the same number of viewers and did a 1.9 ratings. So, the Cyber rating is really poor.

Our Verdict: It’s probable the wrong CSI property was cancelled last spring.

Blood & Oil, ABC

Unlike a lot of other networks, ABC doesn’t have any new shows that are clear disasters, which is quite the feat. However, the modestly rated Blood & Oil ended up falling from a 1.4 to a 1.2 rating in its second outing on the network. That makes it ABC’s lowest-rated drama on Sunday night and means a lot of people are already wondering if the show’s numbers will further erode in the coming weeks.

Our Verdict: If those ratings are able to even out, we could see it on the schedule next year. Or it could follow Revenge into the cancellation bin.

Scream Queens, FOX

Expectations for Scream Queens were high when Ryan Murphy’s latest dramedy premiered. The first episode didn’t reach such great heights as were expected, but it didn’t do poorly, either. However, subsequent episodes of Scream Queens have shown a further erosion in the ratings and during Monday’s episode, only 2.9 million total viewers tuned in. More people are watching John Stamos’ Grandfathered at this point.

Our Verdict: Clearly Ryan Murphy has plenty of hits, but it absolutely looks like Scream Queens is not going to be one of them, despite the high-end cast.

The Good Wife, CBS

The Good Wife premiere did a 1.2 rating this fall. It did do a whopping 9.25 million total viewers, but to CBS that’s actually small potatoes. In addition to having a lower 18-49 rating than most CBS programs, the show is now doing less viewers than Madam Secretary, which premiered to a 1.4 rating and 11.79 million total viewers on Sunday night.

Our Verdict: The Good Wife is a critical darling, but with key players gone and ratings so far down, this could be the year the show wraps up.(Also, let's not forget that Kalinda drama.)

Castle, ABC

It looks like Caskett fans are not digging this whole Beckett leaving to find herself storyline. The veteran ABC drama has seen poor ratings for its first several outings in Season 8. Ratings are the lowest they’ve ever been, but on the bright side, they don’t seem to be getting any lower. Still, no one is calling a 1.2 rating “good.”

Our Verdict: Castle fans have stuck with this show forever, and a good storyline could still turn this ship around.

Bones, Fox

Even the Bones staff thought the drama was getting cancelled last year. Now, here it is back for Season 11 and the show is at least doing better than Sleepy Hollow in the ratings. So, why is it on this list? The ratings aren’t great, and David Boreanaz has flat-out said he won’t be back.

Our Verdict: This one may get an ending from Fox instead of a cancellation, but there’s a mighty good chance this is the last season for Bones.

Nashville, ABC

Nashville has a strong fanbase, but the drama’s numbers have never been the best over at ABC. Now that the show is in its fourth season—a great number for syndication value—ABC might say goodbye to its musical-oriented program. On the bright side, the show did hop from a 1.1 rating to a healthy 1.8 after DVR ratings kicked in three days later, so maybe that healthy DVR 64% uptick will be enough to keep it around for another year.

Our Verdict: This show is obviously going to be around all season, but the future looks less rosy.

Hawaii Five-0, CBS

This show has been hanging on by a thread for several seasons now, and I’m literally shocked it’s still in the schedule (this has less to do with quality than with the numbers the drama is bringing in). Problematically, Hawaii Five-0 just doesn’t have a lot of younger viewers, which is how the 9.2 million viewers who tuned in could top Dateline’s 5.6 million, but still tie the news show with a 1.1 rating. That is not good.

Our Verdict:If I had to bet, Hawaii Five-0 is reaching the end of its line this season.

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It’s been a few weeks now since we learned that Fox will be attempting the impossible and doing a crossover episode between its supernatural series Sleepy Hollow and its science-oriented procedural Bones. While the episode wasn’t originally set to hit the schedule for a little while, Fox revealed this week that we’ll catch the crossover sooner than expected. Both crossover episodes will air on October 29, and we now know exactly what the episodes will be about. Hint: Like many other great TV episodes that came before it, the crossover will have a Halloween theme.

Bones’ portion of the 2-part event will air first, at 8 p.m. on October 29. Called “The Resurrection in the Remains” the episode will find Brennan and the team looking into a 200-year-old headless body. (I guess the search for Booth will be over by then.) Before they get in too deep with the case, Sleepy Hollow's Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills will arrive on the scene to claim the body and the two teams will work together to solve the case. Apparently, this will take a while, because Part 2 will air during the Sleepy Hollow timeslot an hour later.

Sleepy Hollow’s portion of the crossover will be titled “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” which totally just brings the Disneyland Pirates of the Caribbean ride to mind. There will be no pirates in this episode, however. A press release from Fox indicates that the Sleepy Hollow episode will be much more supernatural. New character Pandora will play a key role, unleashing a “British Army of the Undead.” Booth and Brennan will supposedly be following around Abbie and Ichabod during these shenanigans, and we still have no idea how much information the Jefforsonian team will be privy to as Abbie and Ichabod attempt to stop evil incarnate.

Fans on social media have been pretty split about the crossover episodes since Fox first announced them back in July. The difference between the tone of both shows is striking, but if the two separate teams can actually pull off an episode without ruining the fantastical nature of Sleepy Hollow or the realistic nature of Bones, I applaud them. Whether or not the premise comes off well, it seems as if Fox is banking on people tuning in to find out whether or not a crossover event of this ilk works.

Obviously, crossing over has been big business for other channels. Arrow and The Flash’s crossover event last season did such big business that the two CW shows decided to make it a yearly event. And NBC’s Chicago Fire and its spinoffs cross over quite often, which has worked for ABC. A huge crossover event between Law & Order: SVU, Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. also found major success over at the peacock network.

We have yet to see if this Bones and Sleepy Hollow event will work out, but at the very least, we are definitely in for some wild Halloween-based episodes on Fox this year. For now, you can tune in to both shows on Thursday nights, only on Fox.

Following a strong Season 1 start, Season 2 of Sleepy Hollow was a little lackluster, and Fox knows it. Heading into its third season, the supernatural drama has already signed on a new showrunner and a slew of new cast members to replace a bunch of people who exited toward the end of Season 2. Now we know the new season of Sleepy Hollow will feature longtime character Jenny heading in a new direction. Namely, she’s getting a job.

Reports revealed on Friday indicate that Jenny is finally trying to move on from her past and into the future as a regular citizen--you know, just one that takes on evil demons and stuff. Jenny’s life has been rough in a lot of ways; she’s spent time in an asylum for not keeping her mouth shut about the supernatural events she and her sister Abbie witnessed as children. She’s got out of the asylum early in the series, but was still mostly a person on the fringes, helping out Ichabod and Abbie when she could. But now she’s getting a job, and TV Line says the new gig will allow her to help out the team in more effective ways. Go ahead, get excited.

It might seem like a small change, but Jenny getting a job is just another way that Sleepy Hollow has started further examining the details and reworking a show in ways where changes will be obvious, and hopefully more appealing to fans. In addition to giving Jenny more to do, we also know that Sleepy Hollow is adding Shannyn Sossamon as a series regular known as Pandora, and since supernatural stuff is Hollow’s specialty, we’re assuming that a famous box may come into play. Sossamon's character will come into town seeking help from Ichabod and Abbie.

Most importantly, however, Sleepy Hollow wants to be “fun” again. While the show did have its moments during Season 2—especially when a certain karaoke bar was concerned—it was overall a fairly serious endeavor with plenty of plot twists and turns and much higher stakes. Obviously, that didn’t end up going well for characters like Katrina and Henry Parrish/Jeremy Crane, but I think by cutting back on the mythology and essentially rebooting the show, we may get back to the central relationships and goofy humor that made the show so great during the first season. I really wish that Captain Frank Irving was sticking around for it, but after his character’s treatment during Season 2, I guess I really can’t blame him.

Speaking of fun, Sleepy Hollow also has a big crossover episode planned with Fox’s other big Thursday night show, Bones, this season. That episode won’t come for a while, so we don’t have any details regarding how a supernatural show will play into a more scientific one, but we’ll keep you posted as Sleepy Hollow moves forward.

Sleepy Hollow premieres on Thursday, October 1 at 9 p.m. ET, only on Fox. You can check out when the rest of fall TV is hitting the schedule, here.