Last week saw the arrival of the Veronica Mars movie, nearly ten years after it first aired on television, and  cancelled back in 2007. Funded with over $5 million by fans, Veronica Mars is just one of the many shows, in the recent years, that has successfully been revived through vocal fanfare and support.

Last year, Show Creator Rob Thomas posted “The Veronica Mars Movie Project” on Kickstarter, a crowd funding platform that allows users to fund projects and take actual roles in its production, looking for $2 million. In less than ten hours the project had already met its goal.

Several funders were invited on the film set. As production started, fifty backers who pledged hefty amounts of money to the project received the chance to be extras in the film. Kristen Bell, who plays a titular character shared her experiences with the backers on set.

“They were lovely, intellectual, sweet as can be. And I ended up being really grateful for the experience because I got to meet a ton of people that I would never normally interact with. And I met cooks, and a trauma counselor, and teachers, and dentists, and just a ton of people that I never would run into in my daily life. I ate lunch with them every day,” Bell said.

With the project breaking several records, including the fastest project to break $1 and $2 million mutually, and the most backers for a single project, it broke the expectations of both Thomas and Bell.

Admidst the Veronica Mars return, many other shows have been revived through different providers.

Netflix has taken the opportunity to bring back several shows over the past few years. Most significantly, Netflix brought back Arrested Development last year. Considered to be one of the funniest, most influential, and beloved comedies of all time, Arrested Development had a short run on Fox. Due to Fox’s scheduling, the show was unable to build an audience despite winning six Emmy awards and a Golden Globe. For six years, the production team and actors looked for a way to continue the show until Netflix announced in 2012 that they would bring a fourth season. 15 new episodes were released simultaneously on Netflix last May. Series narrator and producer Ron Howard shared his excitement over the show being brought back.

“Bringing a series back from cancellation almost never happens, but then, Arrested always was about as unconventional as they get, so it seems totally appropriate that this show that broke the mold is smashing it to pieces once again,” Howard said.

Given its success, Netflix took the opportunity to support a third season of The Killing after a negotiation with AMC who had canceled it. After airing, AMC once again canceled the show, only for Netflix to pick it up with a fourth and final season.

The animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars was in the middle of production for its sixth season when it was canceled by Cartoon Network. With 13 episodes already finished, Netflix picked up the series and aired the last episodes as Star Wars: The Clone Wars-The Lost Missions earlier this month.

NBC took many by surprise during the Olympics this year by airing a teaser for Heroes Reborn. Lasting from 2006 to 2010, Heroes proved to be a huge hit for NBC. Expected to air in 2015, Heroes Reborn is a 13 episode event miniseries helmed by original creator Tim Kring. While very few details have been shared on the miniseries, NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke remarked on its revival.

“Shows with that kind of resonance don’t come around often and we thought it was time for another installment. We’re thrilled that visionary creator Tim Kring was as excited about jumping back into this show as we were and we look forward to all the new textures and layers Tim plans to add to his original concept,” Salke said.

Courtney Cox led the show, Cougar Town, which lasted for three seasons on ABC before being cancelled. Cable channel, TBS picked it up shortly after and is now in the middle of its fifth season.

Both cult favorite shows led by Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel received subsequent seasons in the form of comics. After respectively ending with their seventh and fifth season, Buffy is in the midst of its ninth season and Angel having ended with a sixth season.

Released across the course of 291 screens, the Veronica Mars movie has already made $2 million at the box office. Taking place nine years after the events of the third season, Veronica returns to her ten year high school reunion after becoming a New York lawyer. Shortly after she finds herself going back to her former teenage sleuthing to solve a murder one of her friends was accused of. Upon its release, the film received positive reviews citing that it will satisfy diehard fans and newcomers alike. Creator Rob Thomas posted on the Kickstarter page for the movie one last time giving his reasoning on why after so many years he was determined to bring the series back.

“I realized that there were three big reasons I never gave up: One, Veronica Mars was a show that we’re all proud of. That’s rarer than you might think. Two, the people who worked on Veronica Mars really enjoy working with each other. That’s also rarer than you might think. But above all: we never gave up because you never gave up,” Thomas wrote.

With other cult favorite shows like Pushing Daisies, Chuck, and Rob Thomas’s Party Down discussing the potential of coming back, fans hope these television revivals will be just as successful as Veronica Mars.