X Factor ( Hate everything it stands for and the bland 'singers' it produces)
Anything with Katie Price in. (Awful, detestable woman)
Big Top (Surely they must knew it was crap after filming one episode)
All Jeremy Kyle/ Trisha / Jerry Springer type shows.(An insult to viewers intelligence)
Mike Yarwood shows in the 70's. (I always thought he was a crap impressionist)
Not forgetting the dreadful sitcoms of Carla Lane.
I'll second that, Peter. and that man who wrote 'I didn't know you cared' back in mid seventies. Only for people too stingy too buy a Leonard Cohen record and get properly depressed.
I think you should also mention Triangle with Kate O' Mara, El Dorado(although I didn't think it was that bad compared to Triangle!), Celeb with Harry Enfield, Mad About Alex, According to Bex as some pretty lacklustre sitcoms from the BBC!
Honourable mention to Eddie Izzard's unfunny sit com Cows!
The thing was designed to be a merciless parody of 1950's US sitcoms. I think it was meant to be in bad taste just like Mel Brooks' Producers (Springtime for Hitler was designed to be in bad taste in the first place but inexcplicably became extremely popular).
Curiosity, I guess. It's not every day you see a naked quiz show! I'm sure it would have had huge epic ratings if they had attractive women as the contestants!
I feel called on to defend it. I found it rather engaging. There was something refreshingly unselfconscious about rather chubby middle aged people running wholesomely about with their kit off. Why shouldn't the plain and ordinary feel happy with their bodies? No one was forced to watch if they couldn't stand the unreconstructed human form.
I thought Calum Best's 'Can he not have sex for 10 minutes?' rtv series was the worst pitch I have ever heard, but I would be lying if I said I'd watched it.
Suffocatingly twee: Rosemary and Thyme.
Staggeringly unfunny: Bo Selecta.
Badly misfiring: Dennis the Menace. Now I love the Beano, but the tv animation is awful.
Of recent years - that AWFUL 'sitcom' with Caroline Quentin in it that is a bad clone of My Family and After You've Gone.
Why is it BBC comedy writers can only produce one type of sitcom - the bland middle class in west London 'family' comedy?! At least when My Family came out it was a little sharper and funnier than the rest but this latest Caroline "I always play someone a bit chunky and mumsy" Quentin vehicle takes the biscuit. At least they axed After You've Gone after perhaps realising a dose of pubic lice would be more pleasant in comparison.
I think you mean Life of Riley, and you're absolutely right, it's horrendous.
Any show that incorporates the name of the central character (think "Brittas Empire", "Grace Under Fire" etc.) is starting off with a major handicap. It's as if the writers and producers think we're going to look at the TV listings and go "Ho, ho, check this out....the lead character's surname is RILEY and the show is called Life of RILEY...my word, that's comedy genius that is. The programme is bound to be high quality family entertainment with a laugh a minute script. I must watch this tonight on my tellybox." Er, no. you lazy b'stards, write some decent comedy and we might actually watch it.
personaly i think murder she wrote is the crappiest thing I have ever seen.
will and grace, a very unfunny copy of friends, with gay people in it.
I do think the xfactor is crap but I find it entertaining so I can't really complain. But it's the same old thing now. Same with BGT. kid singers, dance groups, trained dogs. I just get fed up with it. and last years xfactor really took the biscuit.
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Hollyoaks
Britains got talent
Anything else that sees Mr Cowell making an unfair mockery of the public.
Anything with Katie Price in. (Awful, detestable woman)
Big Top (Surely they must knew it was crap after filming one episode)
All Jeremy Kyle/ Trisha / Jerry Springer type shows.(An insult to viewers intelligence)
Mike Yarwood shows in the 70's. (I always thought he was a crap impressionist)
At the end of the show he'd say "And this is me!"
And that was the least convincing impersonation he did!:D
Terrible little man...
I've never seen it, but I know I hate it more than I hate anything ever in the history of television...
The thing was designed to be a merciless parody of 1950's US sitcoms. I think it was meant to be in bad taste just like Mel Brooks' Producers (Springtime for Hitler was designed to be in bad taste in the first place but inexcplicably became extremely popular).
I feel called on to defend it. I found it rather engaging. There was something refreshingly unselfconscious about rather chubby middle aged people running wholesomely about with their kit off. Why shouldn't the plain and ordinary feel happy with their bodies? No one was forced to watch if they couldn't stand the unreconstructed human form.
I thought Calum Best's 'Can he not have sex for 10 minutes?' rtv series was the worst pitch I have ever heard, but I would be lying if I said I'd watched it.
Suffocatingly twee: Rosemary and Thyme.
Staggeringly unfunny: Bo Selecta.
Badly misfiring: Dennis the Menace. Now I love the Beano, but the tv animation is awful.
Why is it BBC comedy writers can only produce one type of sitcom - the bland middle class in west London 'family' comedy?! At least when My Family came out it was a little sharper and funnier than the rest but this latest Caroline "I always play someone a bit chunky and mumsy" Quentin vehicle takes the biscuit. At least they axed After You've Gone after perhaps realising a dose of pubic lice would be more pleasant in comparison.
See, I can't even remember the name of it!
Any show that incorporates the name of the central character (think "Brittas Empire", "Grace Under Fire" etc.) is starting off with a major handicap. It's as if the writers and producers think we're going to look at the TV listings and go "Ho, ho, check this out....the lead character's surname is RILEY and the show is called Life of RILEY...my word, that's comedy genius that is. The programme is bound to be high quality family entertainment with a laugh a minute script. I must watch this tonight on my tellybox." Er, no. you lazy b'stards, write some decent comedy and we might actually watch it.
will and grace, a very unfunny copy of friends, with gay people in it.
I do think the xfactor is crap but I find it entertaining so I can't really complain. But it's the same old thing now. Same with BGT. kid singers, dance groups, trained dogs. I just get fed up with it. and last years xfactor really took the biscuit.
Awful beyond words.
I agree, coming of age has to be the worst thing ever made in the history of television.
As for rubbish shows ELDORADO
Any Carla Lane
Eastenders
That Jasper Carrot Pc boxticking sitcom
Red Dwarf
Doctor Who
Rentaghost
....But mostly Eastenders- Gritty realism my arse.
P.S. Iiked Love Island. Watching Abi Titmuss' Fantastic tits slowly browning over the course of a fortnight.....