The last Jonathan Creek - the Judas Tree. Awful. I suspect that went wrong at the editing stage. It was like they shot a two-hour episode and were then told, 'Oh, didn't you realise it's a 90-minute slot' and had to cut a load out of it. There were some pretty major plot points that were never resolved.
I hope it's not the last one they ever make because it's like the Fat Elvis stage of Jonathan Creek's lifespan. So with any luck they'll make one or two more really good ones before calling it a day.
The last Jonathan Creek - the Judas Tree. Awful. I suspect that went wrong at the editing stage. It was like they shot a two-hour episode and were then told, 'Oh, didn't you realise it's a 90-minute slot' and had to cut a load out of it. There were some pretty major plot points that were never resolved.
I hope it's not the last one they ever make because it's like the Fat Elvis stage of Jonathan Creek's lifespan. So with any luck they'll make one or two more really good ones before calling it a day.
New Jonathan Creek episode with @Sheridansmith1 will shoot early in 2013
Aha! Great news! Fingers crossed it's better than the Judas Tree.
Another big mistake in TV history, though, was losing Maddie from Jonathan Creek. The whole show revolved around her chemistry with Jonathan and it lost a spark when she left.
Other TV clangers include:
-The introduction of the audience at X Factor auditions
-The hiring of Cheryl Cole as a judge
-The installation of Bryan Kirkwood at Eastenders
-The casting of David 'grinning is acting!' Tennant in Dr Who (and anything else)
-The axing of Jonathan Ross's BBC1 chat show
-The commissioning of Jonathan Ross's ITV1 chat show
-The axing of Jo Brand's Hot Potatoes
-The commissioning of Charlotte Church's chat show
-The commissioning of Lily Allen's chat show
-The commissioning of Alan Titchmarsh's chat show
-The commissioning of Antony Cotton's chat show
-The loss of Grissom from CSI: Vegas (the Fishbourne era was terrible but Danson has revived it)
-Everything about CSI: Miami
-Everything about Law & Order: Criminal Intent (It is the Miami of the Law & Order franchise)
-The fact that Who Wants To Be A Millionaire wasn't killed off at least five years ago
-The continued employment of Bruce Forsythe
-The fact that Monkey Dust series two and three have still never received a DVD release
I won't be able to sleep tonight. More and more will keep occurring to me.
The bits I have highlighted are my particular bugbears. I will probably think of more as I go on! Sorry for using your list.
-The introduction of the audience at X Factor auditions
-The hiring of Cheryl Cole as a judge
-The installation of Bryan Kirkwood at Eastenders
-The casting of David 'grinning is acting!' Tennant in Dr Who (and anything else)
-The axing of Jonathan Ross's BBC1 chat show
-The commissioning of Jonathan Ross's ITV1 chat show
-The axing of Jo Brand's Hot Potatoes
-The commissioning of Charlotte Church's chat show
-The commissioning of Lily Allen's chat show
-The commissioning of Alan Titchmarsh's chat show
-The commissioning of Antony Cotton's chat show
-The loss of Grissom from CSI: Vegas (the Fishbourne era was terrible but Danson has revived it)
-Everything about CSI: Miami
-Everything about Law & Order: Criminal Intent (It is the Miami of the Law & Order franchise) -The fact that Who Wants To Be A Millionaire wasn't killed off at least five years ago
-The continued employment of Bruce Forsythe
-The fact that Monkey Dust series two and three have still never received a DVD release
For me personally - The rescheduling of Still Game ( imho one of the best comedies in the last ten years) to a different time each week on BBC2 after 11pm the death knell for many a good show.
For society in general - The long list of shows such as Location Location Location, To Buy or not to Buy, etc. Shows that told us all that anybody could be a property developer and we should all jump on the band wagon, resulting in people buying 2 or 3 flats with 100% mortgages and when the shit hit the fan we all had to pay, even those of us who didn't play the game.
They went a bit quiet when it all went wrong but they are back at it again now .:mad:
Oh, that's good news.....I'm sure I read an interview with AD recently where he said new episodes were unlikely as the beeb wanted to do them on a budget of fifty quid.
I always thought the beeb setting their glamorous new soap Triangle on a ferry ploughing the North Sea was a hilariously bad decision....Kate O'Mara sunning herself on the deck whilst sodden deckhands in souwesters blew past
But what would you do if you we're in charge back then? With tapes being so expensive, also the culture then with many TV viewers was that if you missed a programme you missed it forever.
But what would you do if you we're in charge back then? With tapes being so expensive, also the culture then with many TV viewers was that if you missed a programme you missed it forever.
Recordings of clearly historic events were indeed kept - the Coronation, Churchill's funeral, the 1966 World Cup final are all intact. Not as many programmes were wiped as some people seem to think - the BBC has all but three of the 80 episodes of Dad's Army (1968-77) and all 9 series of the Morecambe and Wise Show (1968-1977), only the very first episode is not complete.
The mistaken identity situation where a taxi driver somehow ended up on live TV on BBC News 24 being interviewed about his opinion on the happenings in Iran or somewhere.
Aha! Great news! Fingers crossed it's better than the Judas Tree.
Another big mistake in TV history, though, was losing Maddie from Jonathan Creek. The whole show revolved around her chemistry with Jonathan and it lost a spark when she left.
Other TV clangers include:
-The introduction of the audience at X Factor auditions
-The hiring of Cheryl Cole as a judge
-The installation of Bryan Kirkwood at Eastenders
-The casting of David 'grinning is acting!' Tennant in Dr Who (and anything else)
-The axing of Jonathan Ross's BBC1 chat show
-The commissioning of Jonathan Ross's ITV1 chat show
-The axing of Jo Brand's Hot Potatoes -The commissioning of Charlotte Church's chat show
-The commissioning of Lily Allen's chat show
-The commissioning of Alan Titchmarsh's chat show -The commissioning of Antony Cotton's chat show
-The loss of Grissom from CSI: Vegas (the Fishbourne era was terrible but Danson has revived it)
-Everything about CSI: Miami
-Everything about Law & Order: Criminal Intent (It is the Miami of the Law & Order franchise)
-The fact that Who Wants To Be A Millionaire wasn't killed off at least five years ago
-The continued employment of Bruce Forsythe
-The fact that Monkey Dust series two and three have still never received a DVD release
I won't be able to sleep tonight. More and more will keep occurring to me.
ITV's Nigella Lawson cooking and chatting show - they discovered she couldn't cook and ask questions at the same time.
The BBC's Davina chat show where millions of viewers turned off.
The original Daybreak I guess where ITV got rid of a winning format and brought in a losing one.
All of the BOB I'll categorize as the same mistake.
TV channels thinking that simply by virtue of spotting somebody they perceive as probably being popular they will somehow automatically possess the required skills necessary to front a TV chat show on their own.
According to them; Popularity = Talented chat show host.
Why do they keep believing this when as demonstrated by the list posted by the two posters above when they keep doing it the results often end in abject failure?
When 'Who Wants To Be A millionaire' was a hit, so ITV started carpet bombing their schedule with it, at the expense of other show,s which were shunted around.
Changing The Bill from an excellent, police procedural show, to a ridiculous overblown drama, where every week seemed to feature either a copper being attacked by a nutter, or a copper being a nutter.
Yes. To employ the old cliche, it went off after the 'walking boots' intro disappeared and the series became basically a soap, complete with ridiculous, overblown plots and 'issues'.
Killing of Letitia Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley - especially before The Christmas Incident episode - there was so many possibilities for Geraldine to go to her for a fifth dinner and taste some of her notorious concoctions!
Changing The Bill from an excellent, police procedural show, to a ridiculous overblown drama, where every week seemed to feature either a copper being attacked by a nutter, or a copper being a nutter.
Agree with this, went from unmissable to unwatchable in about 12 months
C4 commisioning Sunday Brunch and giving Simon and Dim 2 and a half hours to talk rubbish every Sunday morning, SFTW was quite enjoyable but the quality control on SB is atrocious, hope c4 didnt pay much for it.
Aha! Great news! Fingers crossed it's better than the Judas Tree.
Another big mistake in TV history, though, was losing Maddie from Jonathan Creek. The whole show revolved around her chemistry with Jonathan and it lost a spark when she left.
The name Maddie and chemistry with her partner takes me to Maddie Hayes and the chemistry with David Addison, one of tv's great partnerships.
Hayes and Addison were of course Cybil Sheperd and Bruce Willis in Moonlighting, a programme that at its best was as good as anything in the last 30 years, but when it allowed huge egos to take over, crashed and burnt badly.
So to bring it back on topic, a series,such as Moonlighting, where the magic has ended, but still continues with at least one or two series too many.
Changing the focus of seeing the dancers and professionals in training on SCD, to the most unfunny comedy sketches imaginable.Who on earth thought this was a good idea?
Trying to make Dara Obrein into a science presenter, and the show similar to top gear.
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I hope it's not the last one they ever make because it's like the Fat Elvis stage of Jonathan Creek's lifespan. So with any luck they'll make one or two more really good ones before calling it a day.
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Another big mistake in TV history, though, was losing Maddie from Jonathan Creek. The whole show revolved around her chemistry with Jonathan and it lost a spark when she left.
Other TV clangers include:
-The introduction of the audience at X Factor auditions
-The hiring of Cheryl Cole as a judge
-The installation of Bryan Kirkwood at Eastenders
-The casting of David 'grinning is acting!' Tennant in Dr Who (and anything else)
-The axing of Jonathan Ross's BBC1 chat show
-The commissioning of Jonathan Ross's ITV1 chat show
-The axing of Jo Brand's Hot Potatoes
-The commissioning of Charlotte Church's chat show
-The commissioning of Lily Allen's chat show
-The commissioning of Alan Titchmarsh's chat show
-The commissioning of Antony Cotton's chat show
-The loss of Grissom from CSI: Vegas (the Fishbourne era was terrible but Danson has revived it)
-Everything about CSI: Miami
-Everything about Law & Order: Criminal Intent (It is the Miami of the Law & Order franchise)
-The fact that Who Wants To Be A Millionaire wasn't killed off at least five years ago
-The continued employment of Bruce Forsythe
-The fact that Monkey Dust series two and three have still never received a DVD release
I won't be able to sleep tonight. More and more will keep occurring to me.
Oops.:o
I meant, of course, more series set after the election.
For society in general - The long list of shows such as Location Location Location, To Buy or not to Buy, etc. Shows that told us all that anybody could be a property developer and we should all jump on the band wagon, resulting in people buying 2 or 3 flats with 100% mortgages and when the shit hit the fan we all had to pay, even those of us who didn't play the game.
They went a bit quiet when it all went wrong but they are back at it again now .:mad:
Oh, that's good news.....I'm sure I read an interview with AD recently where he said new episodes were unlikely as the beeb wanted to do them on a budget of fifty quid.
I always thought the beeb setting their glamorous new soap Triangle on a ferry ploughing the North Sea was a hilariously bad decision....Kate O'Mara sunning herself on the deck whilst sodden deckhands in souwesters blew past
The BBC's Davina chat show where millions of viewers turned off.
The original Daybreak I guess where ITV got rid of a winning format and brought in a losing one.
But what would you do if you we're in charge back then? With tapes being so expensive, also the culture then with many TV viewers was that if you missed a programme you missed it forever.
Yes, they were always more likeable than Gwen and Jack!
Getting whoever it was that wrote Hunted and Outcasts, to write them. Two shows with potential but ruined by the appalling writing. Embarrassing!
Recordings of clearly historic events were indeed kept - the Coronation, Churchill's funeral, the 1966 World Cup final are all intact. Not as many programmes were wiped as some people seem to think - the BBC has all but three of the 80 episodes of Dad's Army (1968-77) and all 9 series of the Morecambe and Wise Show (1968-1977), only the very first episode is not complete.
All of the BOB I'll categorize as the same mistake.
TV channels thinking that simply by virtue of spotting somebody they perceive as probably being popular they will somehow automatically possess the required skills necessary to front a TV chat show on their own.
According to them; Popularity = Talented chat show host.
Why do they keep believing this when as demonstrated by the list posted by the two posters above when they keep doing it the results often end in abject failure?
Yes. To employ the old cliche, it went off after the 'walking boots' intro disappeared and the series became basically a soap, complete with ridiculous, overblown plots and 'issues'.
That long ago?!
It only seems like yesterday I was hammering my family at a game of tennis. Six years? Really? ...
Agree with this, went from unmissable to unwatchable in about 12 months
C4 commisioning Sunday Brunch and giving Simon and Dim 2 and a half hours to talk rubbish every Sunday morning, SFTW was quite enjoyable but the quality control on SB is atrocious, hope c4 didnt pay much for it.
Actually, I rather liked the Jubilee and I always watch Queenie on Christmas Day.
Not so sure about the Royle Family though.
Jack Whitehall and James Corden
Allowing frankie Boyle to leave mock the week was a big mistake, same with Lamarr then Amstell leaving buzzcocks.
The name Maddie and chemistry with her partner takes me to Maddie Hayes and the chemistry with David Addison, one of tv's great partnerships.
Hayes and Addison were of course Cybil Sheperd and Bruce Willis in Moonlighting, a programme that at its best was as good as anything in the last 30 years, but when it allowed huge egos to take over, crashed and burnt badly.
So to bring it back on topic, a series,such as Moonlighting, where the magic has ended, but still continues with at least one or two series too many.
Trying to make Dara Obrein into a science presenter, and the show similar to top gear.
S4C, not even the welsh watch it.
Any sitcom with Frank Skinner.
Miranda Hart.
That Anthony Cotton Show