Top Canceled Dramas
What are your favorite dramas featuring Black actors that were canceled way too soon and/or without any notice?
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- CreatorAnn BidermanStarsMichael CudlitzShawn HatosyRegina KingThe lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department.
- CreatorDavid SimonStarsDominic WestLance ReddickSonja SohnThe Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement.
- CreatorJohn EisendrathStarsTony DenisonOmar GoodingRussell HornsbyThe series is a gritty ensemble drama about the off-field lives of a group of players on a pro football team and how they deal with the pressure of being on the professional level.
- CreatorAnn DonahueCarol MendelsohnAnthony E. ZuikerStarsDavid CarusoEmily ProcterAdam RodriguezAn elite unit, led by an ex-homicide cop, which is linked to the Miami-Dade Police Department, uses all possible resources and skills at their disposal to solve complex crimes in cross-cultural Miami.
- CreatorMeredith StiehmStarsKathryn MorrisDanny PinoJohn FinnThe Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she's assigned "cold cases," older crimes that have never been solved.
- CreatorSeth FreemanStarsRussell HornsbyNicki MicheauxErica HubbardA family moves to a crime-filled area of the heights and tries to help the community and the convicts living there.
- CreatorTom FontanaStarsErnie HudsonJ.K. SimmonsLee TergesenA series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.
- CreatorDavid E. KelleyStarsLoretta DevineAnthony HealdFyvush FinkelThe lives of 10 faculty members at a high school in Boston weave in and out of dealing with trouble-makers, having a personal life, and keeping sanity.
- StarsRockmond DunbarDarrin Dewitt HensonAaron MeeksThe everyday life and problems of the Josephs, a black family living in Chicago, Illinois.
- CreatorParis BarclaySteven BochcoNicholas WoottonStarsBlair UnderwoodMichael WarrenHill HarperHospital drama that takes place in Los Angeles.
- CreatorNancy MillerStarsAnnie PottsLorraine ToussaintChris MulkeyTwo friends, one black and one white, recall their friendship in the past when they reunite in the present.
- CreatorPaul AaronMichael Henry BrownStarsJoe MortonVanessa Bell CallowayEssence AtkinsShort-lived (6 weeks) show about Neb Langston, a widowed African-American police officer sharing his Seattle home with his family.
- CreatorTerry GeorgeJack MapleStarsCraig T. NelsonRoger Aaron BrownSean Patrick ThomasChief Jack Mannion becomes the police chief of Washington D.C. and cleans up the nation's capitol.
- CreatorHank SteinbergStarsAnthony LaPagliaPoppy MontgomeryEnrique MurcianoSeries about the special FBI Missing Persons Unit (MPU) that finds missing people by applying advanced psychological profiling to reveal the victims' lives.
- CreatorJohn MasiusStarsJada Pinkett SmithSuleka MathewHannah HodsonAs a single mother and the Chief Nursing Officer at Richmond Trinity Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, Christina Hawthorne makes care-taking her life's work.
- CreatorJeffrey LieberStarsJeremy NorthamMike VogelLana ParrillaA medical drama about a team of expert trauma surgeons, who shine brightest when working under pressure against the clock to save critically injured patients.
- CreatorChris MorganStarsRamón RodríguezJay HernandezRZAAs kid, Ryan Lopez got connected to gang boss Javier Acosta. He's now detective in LAPD's Gang Task Force. While secretly passing info on to Javier, he's a good cop 95% of the time.
- CreatorMike KelleyStarsMolly ParkerJack DavenportGrant ShowAs America celebrates its 200th birthday, two generations of friends and neighbors in a Chicago suburb explore new freedoms and seek connections with each other in the midst of the socio/sexual revolution.