Plenty of UK TV shows. The original “Life on Mars”, “House of Cards”, and so on. Go back to “The Prisoner”, and they shortened it to 17 episodes because McGoohan and the writers realized they couldn’t pad it out to 26 without compromising the quality.
I loved the concept of “Lost”, but I guessed that since it was on ABC it would inevitably get padded out and padded out and overextended until it was 6 or 7 seasons of garbage. I decided to wait, and if they actually resolved it in a sensible number of episodes, I’d watch it in rerun.
So, saved myself a lot of time and unpleasantness there.
