11 movie sequels and TV series that were so bad their franchises disowned them 

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When you\'ve scored a box-office smash or a ratings-topping season, what do you do next? Milk it for everything it\'s worth, of course.

But what happens when you get the chance to go back and do a "proper" sequel with the right cast or the original director? Do you do a

remain relevant? Or do you say "sod it" and pretend the dodgy instalments never happened? Screw the fans, they won\'t notice.

Here are a few examples of franchises that did whatever they could to skip a few chapters:

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You\'ve got to hand it to director Bryan Singer. He lost one of his 

movies to Brett Ratner, so what did he do? He made 

sequel that retroactively made Brett\'s totally pointless.

With the beautiful plot device that is time travel,

was able to wipe the slate clean and make most of the stuff that happened in

totally irrelevant (like, pretty much all of them dying and Vinnie Jones\'s dodgy Juggernaut).

At least this way, they\'ve not just pretended

) didn\'t happen, they actually used a (flimsy) plot to reduce it to nothing.

Easily one of the most confusing film franchises ever. After the critical acclaim of the first, John Carpenter reluctantly made a sequel. Fine. But then came a third which had nothing to do with Michael Myers or slashers or anything, and while it was okay, no-one cared.

After that came three more films where Michael terrorised the daughter of Jamie Lee Curtis\'s Laurie after Laurie was presumed dead. However, Laurie returned seemingly from nowhere for

, with the previous three instalments apparently ignored altogether (why the hell would she have not looked after her daughter in all that time?).

To make it even more convoluted, Carpenter is thought to be working on a new

, making everything that came after worthless (including Rob Zombie\'s two remakes).

Seasons disowned: Season 9 (and the season 8 finale)

. Nowadays you just couldn\'t get away with the stuff that they pulled back then.

Viewers were totally shocked when Bobby Ewing was killed off at the end of season 8, and so the rest of the next season felt a bit... off.

But then... the final scene saw Bobby in the shower alive and well! Yep, the entire season was just a dream of Pam\'s. WTF? Imagine if

did that today, people would literally die and MPs would resign.

, where the ENTIRE show was in Jane Asher\'s head.

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Technically, these two movies could still be canon with

was so successful was because it tied itself so tightly to everything that happened in the original. It was as if everything from the two sequels happened in a parallel dimension and you shouldn\'t worry about it. That\'s probably why Jeff Goldblum never showed up.

Set 22 years after Jurassic Park was overrun by dinosaurs, a new park has since become a successful resort. You\'d think after everything that happened in

and presumably killing a bunch of people, there\'s no way such a venture would have happened. 

If the movie is ever made, this next sequel will actually bypass David Fincher\'s 

. Bye-bye dead Newt and Hicks, bye-bye human-alien hybrid.

"It\'s just as if, you know, the path forks and one direction goes off to three and four and another direction goes off to Neill\'s movie," star Sigourney Weaver explained back in July.

TV series exploded in 1994, of course that meant that a movie HAD to be made. But instead of placing it in the same continuity and timeline, they just kinda... went rogue.

Although the 1995 movie contained largely the same cast and characters, it had its own story and world separate from the TV series - and when the series resumed  a few months later, it carried on as if the film never happened.

They probably got away with it as we were all kids who weren\'t paying attention and just liked Ivan Ooze and ninjas so much that we didn\'t notice or care. But again, imagine if there was a

movie that came out starring Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie, but it had its own continuity and timeline away from the TV series, and then the show just carried on as normal. Bizarre.

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After Kevin Bacon\'s star turn in the wonderful B-movie that was

, several sequels (most of which were straight-to-video) were made without him and starring Michael Gross in the lead role of gun nut Burt. There was even a TV series that took place in the same continuity. If you want to know more, we\'ve done a whole guide to the 

is coming back as another TV series. And for some reason everyone is suddenly excited about it, even though it never really went away.

The reason, of course, is that this time it will star Kevin Bacon. Michael Gross must be pissed off. Not only that, but he\'s essentially said that everything that came after

 about the show, Kevin said: "They went and made a bunch of sequels to the movie. I want to put those aside because, first of all, I wasn\'t in them."

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movie sequels, what no-one asked for was a series of bizarre straight-to-DVD spinoffs bearing the

name but doing an utterly crap job at replicating its magic.

The first three spin-offs centred around Steve Stifler\'s brother and cousins in various sexcapades, while the fourth and final (hopefully) instalment tried to introduce a new group of boys attempting to lose their virginity (including a character delightfully named Lube).

Somehow (*cough* MONEY *cough*), they managed to convince Eugene Levy to appear in all four movies as Jim\'s dad, despite no Jim and no particular reason for him to show up. Even the Shermanator appeared in

came out after these monstrosities, it didn\'t even attempt to work the spinoffs into the plot. Not that it was a problem, because no-one watched them in the first place.

was axed during season 4, the team behind it created what they considered to be its send-off, 

is coming back for a revival run in 2017. And Michael is alive and well. How? Ignoring that movie, of course.

"Yes, he is going to be ignoring the straight-to-DVD video," Fox boss Garry Newman has said. "It is past season four, several years past where the series ended."

There\'s also an outside chance that this revival will just be a one-off, and

DC did a James Bond in 2006, by making a new Superman with an entirely different (and younger) actor but still in the same continuity as the previous films.

But, instead of carrying on where Christopher Reeve left off after 

, Brandon Routh\'s version of the Man of Steel followed up from

, totally pretending that the next two films didn\'t happen at all.

We kinda get the feeling DC are constantly pondering whether or not to pull the same trick today as each film gets released. Burn.

sequels paled in comparison to what came before them. But when you\'ve got the chance to have a mini do-over and ignore films, don\'t do it with the worst of the entire lot:

This quite-frankly atrocious sequel disregarded 3 and 4 entirely, and hoped to kickstart the failing franchise once again. But it failed miserably. And after a while, the whole use of time travel to reboot and rehash old plot points gets a bit lazy, and almost makes you hate the first two at the same time.

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