When Under The Dome season 3 ends next week, that'll be CBS' final ever visit to Chester's Mill as the show has been cancelled...

You'll forgive us if we don't fly the flags at half-mast for this one. Under The Dome, CBS' summertime Stephen King adaptation, is officially ending at the close of season three.

That means no more Big Jim and his menacingly tight shirt buttons, no more of Junior's bovine beauty, no more of Julia's bouncing, luxurious hair, and most of all, no more bonkers leaps of illogic that assume the show's viewers have fewer critical faculties than a toddler yet to understand that Teddy doesn't actually disappear when Daddy covers him with a blanket.

We jest. It's a show that, for all its faults, never stopped trying. You had to admire its moxie, if nothing else. And far be it from us to applaud when any work...