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Top 10 Worst TV Network Decisions
Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show is one of the funniest, most original shows on TV today and now it looks like NBC might be giving him the boot. Taking away the Tonight Show from Conan O'Brien, and therefore the world, would be one of NBC's biggest mistakes ever...but as we all know, TV is FULL of dumbass moves. Here's a list of the biggest.
Note: items 5-7 have one thing in common.
Note: items 5-7 have one thing in common.
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Heil Honey I'm Home!
A Hitler SitcomBUY @ amazon
Yes, you read that right, there was a Hitler sitcom produced on British television back in 1990 called "Heil Honey, I'm Home." The plot? The regular household lives of a fictionalized Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun living next door to a Jewish couple, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein.
Comedy gold right? Apparently the time was just not right to watch Hitler engage in comic hijinks just yet because the show was canceled after airing just one episode. - 2
Canceling Star Trek
No, this isn't a nerd-love entry. It was actually a bad business decision.BUY @ amazon
Way back in 1966 NBC debuted a little show called Star Trek. When it was just in its second season, the network was already talking about canceling it. With an outpouring of support from fans, NBC decided to keep the show for a third season but felt that moving it to the "Friday Night Death Slot" would be best. In protest, the show's creator and visionary Gene Roddenberry left the show and was replaced. The quality of the show took a sudden plummet and Star Trek was subsequently canceled all-together. Never to be heard from again...
...Except for the fact that Roddenberry eventually helped spawn one of the largest movie franchises of all time along with one of the largest television franchises ever with four shows, "Next Generation," "Voyager," "Deep Space Nine," and "Enterprise" that were all produced by NBC's rival CBS.
Probably shouldn't have moved that time slot, huh? - 3Or just spinoffs in general.BUY @ amazon
This one was particularly offensive, though, given how actually good the original show was. Yes, even worse than Joey.
"MASH" was one of television's most popular and successful shows spanning eleven seasons. Its final episode is still the most watched episode of television in history, attracting an astronomical 125 million viewers ("Seinfeld" only attracted 76 million viewers). Spinoff? OF COURSE!
Naturally, CBS decided that, given the show's popularity, a spin-off show would be just as popular. Don't remember "After MASH" and the wacky adventures of Colonel Potter, Klinger and Father Mulcahy? Don't worry, neither does anyone else, because it was quietly swept under the rug after two seasons. - 4
Canceling Family Guy
First airing after the Superbowl, the first few episodes of Family Guy garnered so much fan buzz that the episodes were being quoted nation-wide within a matter of days.BUY @ amazon
This didn't stop Fox from canceling it right away because of its irreverent and inappropriate content and lack of viewership.
Today, Family Guy is a multi-million dollar franchise and dominates Fox's Sunday nights. With the Simpsons as now the only non-Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy) owned property on Sunday primetime, Fox would have had to jump off a bridge if another network had gotten the (dirty) joke. - 5The following is a transcript from a CBS executive meeting:BUY @ amazon
Executive #1: "Boy we're not doing so well with our programming, are we?"
Executive #2: "No we're certainly not. We need to do something quick."
Executive #1: "Hey, did you ever see those commercials with that talking baby? What was his name?"
Executive #2: "You mean Baby Bob?"
Executive #1: "Yeah, that's it! Boy, wouldn't it be great to have a show like that? I mean, it's a f**king baby that talks!"
And so it was that CBS decided to air a show that centered around a talking baby. It didn't last long.
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I'M WITH COCO
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But I'll try....
First of all, Paul Feig created "Freaks and Geeks", NOT Judd Apatow. Apatow was a producer and writer, to be sure, but he didnt' create the show.
Nor was it his "first effort" at producing, either. He was a writer and executive producer on "the Larry Sanders" show for years (among others), not to mention the actual co-creator and producer of Emmy-winning but short-lived "The Ben Stiller Show."
What is the phrase the kids are using these days? Oh, yeah. Epic Fail.
Trying doing eleven seconds of research next time.
Top 10 Worst TV Network Decisions at 1/13/2010 1:50 PM
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So it's gone from "Apatow's first effort" to "known for being his first effort" and "first step into the limelight".
Yet you continue to insist that I was somehow "wrong". Okey dokey, whatever!
And now you're assuming I'm a Leno fan??? Other than pointing out the hilarious "Headlines"-esque inaccuracies from your original article, Leno and I couldn't have less in common.
We're all with Coco here. But it doesn't make you any less wrong.
Top 10 Worst TV Network Decisions at 1/13/2010 4:34 PM
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Conan is getting royally screwed and I really hope they kick Leno to the curb.
Sorry if I was a little TOO cranky with my earlier comments. There's no reason I couldn't have been a little nicer about it.
Long live Coco!
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