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Remember when broadcast networks would pull a show from the schedule due to bad ratings?
- Thread starter tall_guy1
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In a few weeks, we have a reboot of the movie coming.
I still see them hanging on wires.
The CW did has done it with Nexstar an Aussie show was pulled after 2EPS in summer 2023 aired the rest on the website/CW App Lovers & Liars with only 3EPS left should've aired them I watched it on the website I was too invested in the show I wanted to know who the guys picked and should've been ONDemand as well on cable systems that have The CW prime-time. The Wranglers after 3EPS in the fall.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Thank you. It was just kind of fun when it happened, but looking back at it I am even impressed by it myself.
Sometimes there is a show so horrendous, it should never have gotten a green light from a network in the first place, instead going as far as to allow one episode to air. I'm still amazed no one at this network had second thoughts about it...
The ultimate in bad taste television.
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The ultimate in bad taste television.
Heil Honey I'm Home! - Wikipedia
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Sometimes there is a show so horrendous, it should never have gotten a green light from a network in the first place, instead going as far as to allow one episode to air. I'm still amazed no one at this network had second thoughts about it...
The ultimate in bad taste television.
Heil Honey I'm Home! - Wikipedia
Our own shameful such example was UPN's "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer", which only managed to air four episodes in 1998 before being yanked off the schedule. The pilot, which was inexplicably scheduled to be the fifth episode, never aired.
The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer - Wikipedia
This was the UK. The standards for both humor and what's allowed on TV are completely different.
So, you haven't seen The Righteous Gemstones, then.
Let's see which one is more distasteful....
A comedy about a family of evangelists with some moral issues.
Or ...
A sitcom about a dictator who ignited a world war, invaded sovereign countries, responsible for the deaths of over 13 million people total. Almost exterminating the Jewish people. Euthanizing (term used by Nazi's) people with disabilities, those in opposition of the Nazi party, gays, different religions.
You decide
Lest my point be obscured..."Heil, Honey I'm Home" was rightly dumped and shouldn't have aired. But it is far less surprising that it got further in the UK than it would have been anywhere else. It's only about two degrees off a Monty Python sketch from 20 years earlier.
As for The Righteous Gemstones, "a family of evangelists with some moral issues" is the synopsis that got my wife and me to watch." It's also a gross understatement. Hitler is worse, of course. Both are solidly in the running for a long list of bad taste in a medium that often finds gold there.