5 Worst TV Shows - Viewer Suggestions

5 Worst TV Shows - Viewer Suggestion

[Dean_dialectic]

Mrs Merton and Malcolm is quite misunderstood. Certainly less accomplished than The Royle Family, but it was a deliberate macabre depiction of an overbearing parent and how it stunts her child's growth. These archetypes do exist and I think Cash and Aherne did accurately draw on them for dark comic effect.

[stingrayreal]

Thank goodness Craig Cash and Caroline Aherne wrote The Royle Family.

[gwheregwhizz]

Married for Life... the UK remake of the legendary Married with Children with Russ Abbot and the most hopelessly miscast cast in television history. If you loved the original, you would hate this. If you hated the original, oh dear!

[CappyLarou]

I'm not saying this has an obscure show but did anyone catch themselves watching "Passions" back in the day? It was a soap opera that had a portal to hell in a closet and a doll that came to life and all kinds of stupid shit with witches and all kinds of dumbness. I got so hooked on it back the day it was horrible

[XianHu]

Sometimes I wonder if there's a competition to see who can make the stupidest/cringiest thing possible that actually makes it to air.

[heidifedor]

OMG! You actually pronounced my name right. Most people don’t.

[RossM]

I was going to ask if all those junk kids shows on Disney or Nickelodeon counted but these shows are all even worse.

[paultapner]

Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 will remember the movie 'The Giant Spider Invasion'. In which one Giant Spider invades Wisconsin. A film with very poor visual effects. But they're actually better than the giant spider ones in that scene from Whoops.

Some comedies that just came back to mind:
The Sun Trap. 1980 BBC1 show about a group of ex pats. From the writer of Reginald Perrin. So there were a lot of expectations. It did not meet them. I remember my dad in particular was not impressed. I think one character was an ex military man whose catchphrase whenever he put his foot it in was 'oh my god! Sorry brick!'.

Rushton's Illustrated. ITV monday night show where WIllie Rushton played lots of characters in a show involving a stage show and also a space mission. And the last episode ended with the ship from the latter crashing into the former. It was probably too clever for it's own good, but critics hated it.

The other one. Richard Brier's first show after the good life. Two rather different men endeavouring to get along. Didn't have a laughter track. Nobody laughed anyway.

[Benjiesbeenbetter.]

"Get Well Soon", apparently, according to th'internet, set in a struggling NHS consumption hospital in 1947. What a novel idea given that the NHS began in 1948. And what jolly idea for a sitcom.

[channel]

Des O'Connor Tonight would be my nomination for worst TV show ever. Now, I appreciate that this might be a controversial choice. Des was a national institution, and there was actually a lot of effort put into the production. But as a kid, this was by far the single biggest ruin of my family nights in. The tightly scripted anarchy of Freddie Starr, the spangly-gloved Dame Shirley Bassey powering through a ballad, and just the overall endless tedium of this hour-long parade of dullness. I feel a little bad about this show being my choice, I know that it was beloved by many people for absolutely years. But man, I could have cried at the boredom of watching it when I was young.

[bewd]

Charmed. God how I hated Charmed! Even with 3 beautiful women as the stars it was absolute tripe!

[mattw]

Was that Jon Stewart in one of the clips for Sunset Beach? Sometimes I forget that these American TV show hosts were once actors. For example, I watched an episode of Murder: She Wrote from around 1989 and a youthful Bill Maher (with mullet) made an appearance. 😯

[jimmythebantam]

Also have to mention the last series of Telly Addicts and Gordon Burns era Krypton Factor. Both shows completely changed formats for no apparent reason; Telly Addicts featuring a snakes and ladders style game board and Krypton Factor deciding it was The Crystal Maze with the infamous ‘Super’ round.

[fushammer]

That Woops sounds very much like "Not With A Bang" starring Josie Lawrence amongst others about the last remaining people in Britain after the world goes tits up.
Sunday nights If I remember correctly. The main theme was one of the men kept trying to get his leg over Josies character (well you would) in order to repopulate the country. It was as bad as it sounds.

[nicktaylor]

Whoops gets a bad reputation It was trashed before it even premiered It was pretty silly but not unlike other shows on FOX like Hermans Head which managed a surprising three seasons in the early 90s😊

[fushammer]

I suspect that Get Well Soon was based on Ray Galtons time in a TB sanatorium. That's where he met Alan Simpson. John Antrobus co-wrote The Bedsitting Room with Spike Milligan so his personal take on humour is quite different.
Let's face it Mrs Merton And Malcolm is simply creepy and Brian Murphy was wasted in it.
Talk about wasted it's pretty obvious that whoever decided to make a sitcom about a mummy living with a modern family was obviously out of his/her box on chemicals at the time.😂

[PREPFORIT]

I think I mentioned it a while back but I nominate "The Trouble With Tracy" a so called Canadian Comedy. That was never funny but always boring.

[jhnf_uk]

I only vaguely remember the first one mentioned, and that was probably in a trailer. The rest, I'm pleased to say I never heard of prior to this video.

[danpettitt]

K9 the series, the attempt to cash in on the Doctor Who comeback craze, God awful from what I remember

[mgthestrange]

Does anyone remember an American sitcom called Billy, starring one of the world’s best comedians, Billy Connolly. It wasn’t great.