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== Live Action TV ==

* The ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' prequel ''[[Caprica]]'' was announced in 2007, in July 2008 it was picked up as a 2-hour pilot and in December of that year finally chosen to become a series. It wasn't until April 2009 that the pilot was released as a DVD and the series itself aired in January 2010.

* ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]'' was shopped around from network to network for about ten years before getting picked up by ABC Family in 2008.

* Saban had been trying to get a network to pick up an Americanized version of ''[[Super Sentai]]'' for ''years'', but no one had faith in the idea. He finally got his lucky break as the then president of Fox Kids had previously had tried to do the same thing before but failed. Thus ''[[Power Rangers]]'' was created, and the rest is history.

== Music ==

* ''[[Guns N' Roses (Music)|Chinese Democracy]]'' until 2008. It's now [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Guns_N%27_Roses%27_%27Chinese_Democracy%27_released_after_15_years finally been released] after 14 years in development, prompting the long-standing joke that China itself would become democratic before Chinese Democracy was released.

* [[Massive Attack]]'s next album. For a while at the end of 2006 it had a confirmed release date, which was spring 2007, but it did not come out. Since then, it has no release date at all, the band even dropped the title, ''Weather Underground''. As of now (January 2010) we still don't know when will it come out and what will the title of the album be. They released an EP recently though.

** It was released in February 2010, and the title is ''Heligoland''.

* Shortly after releasing ''[[Tommy]]'', [[The Who]] began working on an epic followup to be entitled ''Lifehouse'', which would have been accompanied by a film and a series of experimental concerts involving using the vital statistics of audience members to produce synthesizer tracks. The project fell apart and most of the songs were released on the ''Who's Next'' and ''Who Are You'' albums. Pete Townshend ultimately released ''Lifehouse'' in 2000 as a six-disc solo album and a radio play for the BBC, and the synthesizer concept found its way onto the web in 2007.

** The album that became The Who's ''Endless Wire'' was announced in 1999 and hit the shelves in 2006, its release having been delayed by touring, Townshend's putting the finishing touches on ''Lifehouse'', and the death of John Entwistle. Two "preview" tracks were released on a compilation album in 2003 - neither made it onto the final album.

* A similar tale relates to [[Outkast|Big Boi's]] solo debut, ''Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty''. He originally released a single with Andre 3000 to promote it in 2008... then [[Executive Meddling|the label]] got involved. Unlike Lil Jon, though, Big Boi was able to take his previously recorded material to another company and get the album a 2010 release: fans agree it was worth the wait.

* Slightly odd example as it didn't involve newly recorded material: Neil Young's ''Archives'' self-curated best-of compilation. First discussed in the late 1980s, and announced several times since. There were rumours that Young had convinced himself that actually releasing them would send him into a terminal writer's block. First massive installment finally came out in 2009.

* Simple Minds' Our Secrets Are The Same was recorded and intended for release in 1999. However it wasn't released that year because of a number of record company mergers, followed by their record company deciding they couldn't do anything with it and releasing the band from their contract in 2000. However, during this time an unmastered promo CD-R arrived in the hands of a Spanish radio host who proceeded to play all the tracks from the album over a few weeks. Fans recorded these and these recordings were subsequently bootlegged. Because of the bootlegs, an attempt to release the album in early 2003 fell through as it was considered unmarketable on its own. Eventually it was released officially as the last disc of the box set Silver Box in late 2003.

* Ohgr (Nivek Ogre of [[Skinny Puppy]])'s ''Welt'' album was originally recorded in 1995, but got stuck in legal limbo until 2001.

* [[Mission of Burma]] released the EP ''Signals, Calls and Marches'' in 1981 and the studio album ''Vs.'' in 1982. Then singer Roger Miller lost his hearing. Sophomore effort ''ONoffON'' appeared in 2004.

* [[Chicago]]'s ''Stone of Sisyphus'' was originally slated to be ''Chicago XXII'' in 1994, but Reprise rejected the album. They responded by leaving the label and making a big band-styled album as their 22nd. ''Stone'' would eventually be released in 2008 as ''Chicago XXXII'' on another label (Rhino) mostly intact.

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