TV series's that flopped

[Richard1978]

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The Glam Metal Detectives (BBC2 1995)

This was an oddball mashup of sketch & sitcom, which never seemed make much sense, even with a few biggish names involved.

[Richard1978]

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I remember there was a good programme about what went wrong with Eldorado a few years ago.

[dazzyboy74]

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Biggest flop ever - Eldorado!

[Cartimand]

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Hussy? Meaning a sexually immoral lady.

But if you pronounce it to rhyme with hussy, it sounds like something full of pus!

[Richard1978]

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Mrs Merton & Malcolm was given a harsh reception, but I loved it.

I found it OK, but after the Royle Famiy was an unexpected hit it seemed a backwards step.

[DemonEyeX]

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Mrs Merton & Malcolm was given a harsh reception, but I loved it.

[Cooldeepblue]

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Hee hee! They starred the word out again. No rhyme for the colloquial word for cat in English is there?

Hussy? Meaning a sexually immoral lady.

[agfagaevart]

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Duck Patrol
I saw the trailers and never watched the actual show.
it was panned well and truly!!

[Heather74]

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Its an automatic swear filter part of the database

[Cartimand]

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Hee hee! They starred the word out again. No rhyme for the colloquial word for cat in English is there?

[Cartimand]

I thoroughly enjoyed the End-of-the-world sit-com "Not With a Bang" too. Terrific haunting theme tune as well. Just a shame it was given a very late graveyard slot and only got one series.

You cited Bottle Boys for some cringing dialog, but let's not forget "Are You Being Served?" got away with just as bad. What about Mrs Slocombe saying "I cannot attend the meeting tonight Captain Peacock, as I have to attend to my *****!"

[DanTanna_Investigations]

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TECX! OMG, that was soooo boring, a European based detective 'drama', which had pretensions to high intelligence but was also packed with 'Mind Your Language' cliches about the Italians and Germans. Horrible. Full of incomprehensible industrial espionage plots too.

[DanTanna_Investigations]

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'Bottle Boys' - Robin Askwith stars as a randy milkman. Dire. Worse than dire. I think it's possibly the worst tv show ever made, it certainly made TV Hell. Sample lines "Mrs Evans is having trouble with her ****" "Really?" "Yes, they keep pecking at the milk on the step." It made you lose faith in the existence of intelligent life on earth. (EDIT: LOL, they've starred out a word that rhymes with 'bits' and starts with a t. Actually made it funnier than the original line)

'The Happy Apple' - Lesley Ash stars as a girl who gets a secretary's job at an ad agency, and inadvertently creates brilliant campaigns. I liked it, noone else did.

'Good Companions' - 1980s JB Priestly adaptation, ITV thought it was going to be the next big period drama but with music... they made thousands of soundtrack LPs which apparently were stuck in a warehouse for years cause record shops returned them unsold!

'The Good Guys' - cheesy comedy adventure series with Nigel Havers and Keith Barron as two blokes who happened to be both called 'Guy', teaming up to solve crimes and other stuff. Total rubbish insulting to the actors. I remember really wanting to like it cause I like both of them, and being so disappointed.

'Coasting' - Peter Howitt and James Purefoy, again, after Bread, ITV thought Howitt's name would guarantee a hit but it was so unpopular, two episodes were apparently never shown, they couldn't axe it quick enough! Shame, because they had fun adventures in Blackpool, on the run from some cockney gangsters back home. I sure know how to pick losers.

'Hope It Rains' - Tom Bell plays a miserable sod who runs a waxwork museum in a seaside town. Holly Aird - future Mrs James Purefoy - was his flighty young goddaughter. Honestly, who thinks of these things? More intelligent than Bottle Boys admittedly - actually, almost anything is on a higher intellectual plane than Bottle Boys - but although I was Holly Aird's age (still am funnily enough!) and had a bit of a crush on her, I still didn't take to the show.

[Richard1978]

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I remember Stressed Eric could be funny in places, but some running jokes became boring after a few uses.

[darren]

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stressed eric is another i remember it was bought by NBC and adapted for American audiences. The BBC described it as "the first British animated sitcom to make it on to prime time US TV." Some episodes were shown in August 1998, but they were received poorly