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* The ''[[Blake's Seven|Blakes Seven]]'' re-imagining had an announcement of script ordering in mid-2007 and nothing since. In 2010, Britain's Sky1 channel announced that a series would not be commissioned.
* ''[[K 9]]'' was first announced in 1997. It subsequently premiered in the UK in 2009, airing its full season in Scandinavia in 2010.
* The [[Disney Channel]] series JONAS, suffered from this. The original plan was to launch the vehicle for [[The Jonas Brothers]] with the band serving as a front for a group of secret agents (think a [[Kim Possible]] meets [[Hannah Montana]] hybrid) with the name standing for "'''J'''unior '''O'''peratives '''N'''etworking '''A'''s '''S'''pies). For whatever reasoning, that didn't fly, resulting in [[Retool]] after [[Retool]], ultimately culminating in a standard, run of the mill sitcom (albeit sans [[Laugh Track]]). Then after a botched launch on Saturdays where ''[[
* The team behind ''Human Giant'' announced that MTV had allowed them a third season. Unfortunately, they couldn't film much because Aziz was busy on ''[[Parks and Recreation]]''. Since then nothing has been said.
* The Sci-Fi Channel announced in 2002 that they would produce a ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' television movie featuring Sam's daughter as a new leaper. A proposed release date of 2004 was given, and the movie's writer even gave a ''QL'' fansite [http://www.quantumleap-alsplace.com/quantum2/castandcrew/treycallawayinterview.htm an interview] about the plot, but ultimately nothing ever came of it.
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* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]:'' Since updates to rulebooks and models for different armies are largely based on player demand, and player demand is in turn based on the availability of up to date rulebooks and models, some teams spend years in development hell. This was exemplified by the Dark Eldar who went ''over a decade'' without an updated codex while the much more popular space marines received seven. They were mercifully [[Saved From Development Hell]] with an excellent new codex and model range, but others [[Demoted to Extra|haven't fared so well]].<br /><br />Games Workshop recently started work on updating older books, which thankfully will see a resurgence of the forgotten armies. However the Sisters of Battle are notable in that while they're not as old as the Dark Eldar, they might very well have to wait quite a bit longer given that they're getting a Magazine Codex (which usually means development on them has halted and they're just getting lip service in the meantime). Even more notable is that the army is so old, they're the only ones who still require you to use metal models for the entire army (every army, even the Necrons and Dark Eldar, had plastics for troops. Sisters are not so lucky).
** With the release of the Necrons during the halloween of 2011, the Sisters of Battle is now literally the oldest range, having not received a new model in the longest time.
* [[Gary Gygax]] had always wanted to release a version of his iconic "Castle Greyhawk", the location that pretty much launched ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' while at TSR. Due to his busy schedule as the head of TSR, and his writing duties on a myriad of other modules, he never was able to complete or even start the module. (His being sent to Los Angeles to develop the ''D&D'' cartoon series didn't help either). In 1982, the module had been advertised in Dragon Magazine, but as of 1986, when Gygax left the company due to "[[Creative Differences]]", no module had been published. In '87, TSR did a wild and [[Dude, Not Funny|mostly unfunny]] parody version of the Castle that bore no resemblance to Gygax's design. It was seen by many gamers as little more than a parting shot against Gygax, and the module has been pretty solidly rejected by players and [[Canon
** Still, that wasn't Gygax's castle, one that wouldn't see print until 2008, when "[[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|Castle Zagyg]]" was published by Troll Lord Games. Sadly that one went straight back into development hell after Gary [[Author Existence Failure|died shortly after the first installment was released]] and the deal Troll Lord games had with Gygax fell apart when his wife took control of the company. Nobody's sure what exactly happened, all people know is that in 2008, Gygax Games was going to find a way to publish the rest of the castle. It is now 2012, and as of this writing, the Gygax Games website has been ofline since at least 2009, still promising "something good in the works."
* d20 Spectaculars was a [[Superhero]] add-on to ''d20Modern'' that was supposed to be published by Wizards of the Coast in 2006, but it never materialized (possibly because ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' already had rules for d20 supers and did it very well). Possibly because that's when they started work on 4th edition.
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