[Malcolm Armsteen]

Never saw it. Was it any good?

[youngian]

Many of those LWT offerings will have the finger prints of Vince Powell or the other two Ronnies (Chesney and Wolfe) on them.

Although that Worst British Sitcoms list is from 2003, before Amanda Holden made any sit-coms or Ben Elton penned the Wright Way.

[Abernathy]

I can put my hand on my heart (or where it should be) and say I have never seen a single episode of any of those shows.
Or Crossroads, Triangle, East Enders or Coronation Street since about 1966. Ditto Big Brother, X Factor, The Apprentice, Britain's Got Talent, The Voice, Dancing with Whatever or Celebrity Get Me A Sandwich.

I find the best defence from that sort of thing is not to watch it.

Me too. With the exception of Coronation Street, which stands apart. If it was good enough for Betjeman, it's more than good enough for me.

I may also be the only man in Christendom that has never viewed a single episode of "Friends".

[Killer Whale]

Never saw it. Was it any good?

It was an attempt to transfer the surreal radio show The Burkiss Way to television, and it worked because the writers seemed very aware of which gags wouldn't make the switch and the potential to replace them with visual stuff. Featured Fred Harris off of Playschool. Fact.

I'm pretty sure we've discussed this before.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I think I saw a couple. Not impressed.

I'm just outside contemporary culture, I guess. Perhaps I should change my avatar back to Cato the Censorious.

[Kreuzberger]

Worst British Sitcoms

Here's the source http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/se ... ing.uknews" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Right. So. The source is bereft of sources so it's all a lot of bollocks unless we accept that Mr & Mrs was the absolute pinnacle of light entertainment because it once did 100 homes.

It's a truism of telly, or it was before you could run closed pilots on Vimeo, that you had to create a few turkeys before you found a golden egg and this list shows that, at least, the wealthier of the Paranoid Monopolist Bastard franchisees were prepared to have a go.

Malc, you forgot El Dorado.

[youngian]

And Boycie's Marlene if I recall correctly.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Worst British Sitcoms

Here's the source http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/se ... ing.uknews" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Right. So. The source is bereft of sources so it's all a lot of bollocks unless we accept that Mr & Mrs was the absolute pinnacle of light entertainment because it once did 100 homes.

It's a truism of telly, or it was before you could run closed pilots on Vimeo, that you had to create a few turkeys before you found a golden egg and this list shows that, at least, the wealthier of the Paranoid Monopolist Bastard franchisees were prepared to have a go.

Malc, you forgot El Dorado.

No, I watched a few episodes of Eldorado to see just how bad it really was. It really was.

[BeaBoyd]

Oh you are a sadly obsessed little person, aren't you...

Obsession. ON HERE?! You're having a laugh

Nothing but hot air! Arts Council spends £500,000 over 15 months on six-mile steam spiral project that never got off the ground

5% of the money wasted on yesterday's funeral. And since when was the River Mersey in the Wirral?
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29 December 2012

Meet Mrs Bilbo Baggins: Oxford graduate quits society to live a hobbit-style existence in a mud roundhouse in Welsh hills

14 January 2013

So Mrs Bilbo, why DO you live like a Hobbit?: The Oxford graduate who's lived for 13 years in a mud hut - and she really is away with the fairies

Even domestic violence/mental health issues are hilarious now.

Off her trolley! Elderly woman throws ALL her shopping at man in hilarious street argument caught on video

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There's plenty of examples of obsessiveness on here, but I have singled out a few of Arnold's postings because he takes media, sorry, DM watching, to seriously obsessive heights. It must be his job to read every single article every day on the DM because he comments on just about everything. I can't find the pedantic spelling error thread but that was full of quotes of misplaced apostrophes.

[lord_kobel]

You really don't have anything worthwhile in your life, do you?

[youngian]

It's a truism of telly, or it was before you could run closed pilots on Vimeo, that you had to create a few turkeys before you found a golden egg and this list shows that, at least, the wealthier of the Paranoid Monopolist Bastard franchisees were prepared to have a go.

That is what is so puzzling. As ITV commissioned so many sitcoms it is surprising it didn't have a better hit rate.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

That depends on whether or not you were the target audience. I wasn't, and didn't like them. My stepfather was, and he lapped 'em up.

[Big Rob]

I cannot remember much about ITV. It is a distant memory.

Midsomer Murders because my late mother loved that.

The episode of BGT with Mr Methane.

Back in the day I liked Minder, Runaround and Magpie.

[Kreuzberger]

That depends on whether or not you were the target audience. I wasn't, and didn't like them. My stepfather was, and he lapped 'em up.

Early-peak was always a carve up between ITV and BBC. The old, down-market and female demographic was ITV's for the taking and the real battles didn't start until 21:00.

[mattomac]

Or maybe like the BBC announcer who announces what comes next on BBC3 after they have had the silly 1 minute BBC news for the brain-dead who's attention span can barely last 60 seconds.

Never say they don't cater for you Bea....