Brilliant but cancelled: the great TV shows killed too soon

• In John Milton’s 1637 poem Lycidas, the poet mourns his dead friend “For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,” he writes. It is more likely than not that Elle Fanning’s Catherine the Great would have read Lycidas, and would have remembered these lines when she was informed that the show in which she stars, The Great, has been cancelled after its third season. It would definitely not have been an occasion for her to shout the show’s catchphrase, “Huzzah!” Yet Tony McNamara’s excellent programme h