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** Similarly, the ''Evangelion'' manga actually began serialization ''before'' the show ever started airing. To this day, it still hasn't reached its ending, as chapters are published so far and between.
* An anime adaptation of ''Tonari no 801-chan'' was originally supposed to be animated by Kyoto Animation, and even had a preliminary website up for it. Then something happened and it fell into limbo. The project was ultimately cancelled, though a 90-second animated OP was created by A-1 Pictures and bundled with Vol.4 of the web manga.
* After the third season of the ''[[Slayers]]'' anime (titled ''Slayers TRY'') aired in 1997, a fourth season (''Slayers AGAIN'') was slated for the following year; unfortunately, [[Megumi Hayashibara]]'s (the voice of the female lead) schedule was hectic, and since the entire staff and the other actors had no interest in doing the show without her, there was no direct fourth season...[[
* ''[[Lost Universe]]'': A which had only one season; a second season was due to follow, but because of a financial pitfall occurring through animation studios at the time, it was held off in favor of more ''Slayers'' media, and may be still.
* A stall can be typical of all English manga distributors, especially for less common titles, but the Yaoi distributor Drama Queen seems to have either gone on a dragging hiatus since 2007, or is dead and no one can figure out where it's been buried, so to speak.
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== Live Action TV ==
* 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.
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* 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 ''[[iCarly]]'' cleaned its clock, it went through yet another retool after the first season, and with the Jonas Brothers fading among teenagers, turned into an unexpectedly depressing soapish dramedy in the second season, renamed, JONAS LA, (yes, it's in ALLCAPS). JONAS LA was canceled, because of predictably low ratings.
* 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.
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{{quote|'''Eminem'''(from a song released in 2004): "Don't worry 'bout that Detox album, it's comin'! We gon' make Dre do it!"}}
** The album had two well-received promo singles in 2011; the second, "I Need a Doctor", hit the top 5 and has been nominated for a Grammy. So of course we get announcements that a) neither song will be on the album if it's ever finished, and b) Dre's going on a hiatus from music altogether.
* Anthony Rapp released a single solo album, ''Look Around'', in 2000. After that, he claimed he was giving up solo work in favor of promoting his alternative/indie rock band Albinokid, and has promised they'll release an album since 2005. Several track listings have appeared on his [[
* Wintersun's next album, ''Time'', is taking forever to be released, supposedly due to problems with the recording equipment. It slowly became a punchline akin to ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]'', although the band has performed new material (including a new 10-minute song) live. As of 2012, the band has said it's almost finished and has a release date, so expect to see this entry moved to [[Saved From Development Hell]] soon.
* E Nomine's next album. It was stated that it would be out by 2008 but as of September 2009 there has been no news of ''any'' band activity.
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* Nelvana holds the rights to the ''[[Little Critter]]'' characters and at least a couple of scripts were written around 2000, but nothing further has been heard since and it is assumed development was dropped.
* Hasbro had planned two DVD releases based on the character TJ Bearytales and even released a music video featuring this character on a ''[[My Little Pony]]'' DVD. The DVDs were slated for release in either late 2007 or early 2008, but neither ever materialized.
* [http://www.rugratonline.com/ntnot.htm This webpage] has information on five series that qualify, they include [[Spin-Off]](s) of both ''[[Rugrats]]'' and ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', [[Dueling Shows|a clone]] of ''[[Teacher's Pet (TV series)|Teachers Pet]]'', a [[Animesque]] series like ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' and a series that was supposed to be based off of a comic book. [http://www.rugratonline.com/ntshows.htm another page] (on the same website) has information on a show that was originally aired as a 15-minute short in 2002. But no more information has surfaced on it.
* An animated series based on the comic book series ''[[The 99]]'' was announced to be one of the launch programs on [[The Hub]], no word about the series has been heard [http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/05/18/the-99-animated-series-the-hub/ since its announcement in March 2010]
* A DTV animated movie based on ''[[Castlevania III Draculas Curse]]'', with character designs by James Jean and a script by Warren Ellis, was announced in 2007, but no further developments has been made.
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