bhowells

I think there were a lot of long running shows on our screens over the years that limped on for far too long.
A case in point was That's Life, surely the ratings must have gone down in the latter seasons.

I gave up long ago after the dog that said,"saussges.2

"Happy Days2 was pretty awful in its later seasons and should have been cancelled long before.

"Generation Game" when Jim Davdson took over, awful, the show had dumbed doen in his clumsy hands.

One of the longest running sitcoms on us tv,"The Advetnures of Ozzie and Harriett.2 starring Rick Nelson and family must have looked very quaint when it was cancelled in in 1965. Seen a couple on the Life channel, very dated.

donna

good thread bh

The Bill
Coronation st
Anything with Rory Bremner.

bhowells

Thanks Donna.

Have to agree with you about Rory Bremener, I got very tired of his shows being mostly satire.

I am not into politics and many of the imprersonations of policiticians used to pass me by.

Also used to get iritated when I saw him on chat shows, I am aware that viewers wanted to see him do some of his impressions but he would launch into them without any encouragment at all from the host.

Windthrop

Three Men and a Tin Bath - I watched it as a child and thought it was a wry look on second childhoods. It now appears to have become a laboured series of 'star turns' and any resemblance with the original programme is now purely coincidental.

That's the joke that killed the Music Hall

batman

My Family .... crap when it started, even more crap now!

Anything with Lenny Henry.

Don't miss out on a chance to win a rare film in Bat-Quiz 13 closing date - 31/8/8.

Windthrop

Anything with Joe Pasquale in

That's the joke that killed the Music Hall

Dandy Forsdyke

Last of The Summer Wine and Heartbeat spring to mind immediately.

Steve Crook

My Family aka the Robert Lindsay / Zoë Wanamaker retirement fund.
It was beyond it's sell by date when they did the first episode, but they've kept it going for 8 years since then. It's a shame to see such talented people waste themselves on nonsense like that

Steve

Windthrop

Wanamaker admitted it wasn't very good before the last series went out and said that she and Lindsay were rejecting more scripts that they accepted for the series. Makes you wonder what the rejected scripts were like

That's the joke that killed the Music Hall

bhowells

BBC one frequently use it as a schedule filler, which is quite annoying.

donna

yes some shows are jaded and even a good actor struggles with a done in script.

Why do some actors take on some scripts, its beyond me, surely they see how dire some are. even the witty, Victor Meldrew lost it too near the end. and became laboured

bhowells

The last series had a lot of shortcomings, the humour got too dark and it got too surreal, I think David Renwick was probably under pressure from the BBC to do some more.

Marky B

Last Of The Summer Wine
Eastenders
The Weakest Link
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

donna

why dont the programmers put on two or three shows , give us a break then bring it back all fresh instead of dragging it out, the script writers must get jaded too.

davidb

well theres one thing we agree on at least . you could also say last of the summer wine but its better than my family because its at least its had a few funny moments over the years .heartbeat is a show thats went on longer than the sixties decade its set in ,if the charactors had aged in real time it would be around 1983 by now !