Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 2:17amWhat is the worst TV show you've ever seen, either cancelled after a few episodes or never cancelled and had a horrifically lengthy run?
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#2re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 2:19am*cough, cough* The War at Home.
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#2re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 2:38am
Well, as usual I think the word EVER is vague and inappropriate since some of us haven't even been around since TV became part of everyday life.
Having said that, one of the worst, most offensive, entirely cliched, and with only one redeeming quality (its star) is KRISTIN. I don't get how any network could have picked up that show, or how any writer could have written something that terrible. Chenoweth was quite good (and Ana Ortiz is a good actress even if she was playing a rather offensive role for Latinos) but the show itself was a complete disaster.
A show that I don't know why it ran for so long was 7TH HEAVEN.
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Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#3re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 2:40ami hear ARLI$$ is pretty awful, but i've never seen it.
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#4re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 2:42am
jam_man i so agree!
One day I found myself watching it- and I couldn't believe my eyes and ears- it was paaaainful.
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"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#5re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 2:48amI vehemently hate any show starring a comedian where the title is "The (Comedian's Name) Show" and the comedian, in question, is playing a character with the actor's first name but different last name.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:54amThat Nathan Lane sitcom in which he played a senator. Not only wasn't it funny, but it was produced on a budget of about $12 per episode.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#7re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 7:10amTurn on or Turn Off . It was a Laugh In clone . It was one once & than it was gone
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#8re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 7:35amThe Tony Awards telecast
....but the world goes 'round
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#9re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 7:41amI actually liked The War at Home.
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"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
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deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#10re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 9:29amIts generally believed that NBC's late 70's-early 80's, pre-Brandon Tartikoff era produced some of the worst TV shows ever: HELLO LARRY, SUPERTRAIN, CLIFFHANGERS! and many others are still referred to as TV's nadir to this day.
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Broadway Star Joined: 5/17/06
#11re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 9:42am
Britney & Kevin: Chaotic
Hands down the worst show I have ever seen. I went into it knowing it was going to be bad, but it was a complete train wreck.
#12re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 9:44amThere was a sitcom, I think on Fox, a few years ago called The Help. It's illustrious cast included Mindy Cohn, Tori Spelling, David Faustino, and Antonio Sabato. Other than the facsination with the compulsion to view a traffic accident, it had no redeeming values.
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#14re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:23amBook of Daniel. Eight episodes were filmed, NBC couldn't sell it and only four were shown. NBC had to eat the huge advertising cost and ended up showing commercials that bragged about their Olympics coverage.
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#15re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:26am
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#16re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:26amNow, Goth...was that the show with Kevin Anderson or the sitcom version of the E.L. Doctorow classic?
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#17re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:27amI agree with The War at Home. That show was awful.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#18re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:28am
"Now, Goth...was that the show with Kevin Anderson or the sitcom version of the E.L. Doctorow classic?"
Aidan Quinn plays a drug addicted preacher.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#19re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:31amThink back to the early days of the WB. Like the "Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher" days. Or, even further back, that "Married with Children" knockoff starring Matt Frewer. I still have the moment etched in my brain where Frewer walked into the kitchen and announced to his family: "What a beautiful day! The sun is shining, and I just had a movement that would have made Beethoven proud." No amount of therapy has allowed me to forget that.
#20re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:33amBut Borstal, Hello Larry had one redeeming feature - it introduced me to the glory that is Joanna Gleason.
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#22re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:58am
I loved Book of Daniel also. IT was as if they had created a show just to piss off the right-wingers: A drug addict preacher, the Gay son is the GOOD son, Jesus stops in to offer anti-church observations...so much to love.
And as far as worst TV show ever:'My Mother The Car' followed the antics of lawyer Dave Crabtree (Jerry Van Dyke from 'Coach'), a typically hapless sitcom family man who discovers that his mother has returned from the grave as a 1928 Porter convertible automobile.
They used to run it periodically on Nick at Night. Horriffic.
#23re: Worst TV Shows EVER?!?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:02pmIt is so awful but I watch it....the Tanning show on E!
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