The last episode of Journeyman aired last week. The announcer told us it’d be back next season, but clearly someone at Sky hasn’t been doing their research, since the show was axed in the states due to poor ratings.

I’m actually pretty gutted it was axed. Its been quite a strong season for Sci-Fi programmes this year from the States, but sadly, be it low-ratings or the writer’s strike, a lot of them have either been axed (Journeyman, Bionic Woman) or have an uncertain future (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles).

Journeyman was a great show. Although initially seeming like a modern day version of Quantum Leap, the show really broke away from this by focusing on events on the present day. While the main character Dan travelled back in time to fix people’s lives, the writers cleverly kept focussed on the effect this would have on his life in the present day. We see his wife struggling to adapt to the new situation, with Dan disappearing back in time, his brother becoming suspicious that Dan’s gambling addiction has resurfaced, and we also get Dan’s attempts to discover what is happening to him and why.

The show certainly seemed to lay a lot of groundwork that presumably would’ve been picked up in a second season. Its a shame now that we’ll never discover who the rogue FBI agent was working for, or see if my pet theory about Dan’s father being a time traveller would be confirmed.

For anyone that didn’t catch the show on its first airing, its definitely worth checking out.

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