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Stars Lacked Enough Talent
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Stars Lacked Enough Talent
CBS has cancelled its new reality series "Secret Talents of the Stars" in which C and D list celebrities showed off alleged talents in other areas after just one episode last Tuesday night. The show joins a rather select circle of nine other infamous one-show flops in television history.
For those who might want to guess, here's the other nine in a spoiler:
Shark will take its place at the end of the month.
For those who might want to guess, here's the other nine in a spoiler:
The others (in order of airing) are: You’re in the Picture (CBS: 1961), Turn-On (ABC: 1969), Co-Ed Fever (ABC: 1979), South of Sunset (CBS: 1993), Public Morals (CBS: 1996), Lawless (Fox: 1997), Dot Comedy (ABC: 2000), The Will (CBS: 2005) and Emily’s Reasons Why Not (ABC: 2006).
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NellyLunatic1980 wrote:luv2jog wrote:Spoiler
What about "The Rich List" on FOX. It aired on November 1, 2006Spoiler
I'll see your "Rich List" and raise you my "Book of Daniel", a show that was so bad, it got canceled before the first episode ever aired!![]()
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I got the list off MediaWeek and did not verify it for completeness. The Rich List would appear to qualify for this bit of infamy; maybe the columnist will explain why it was left off.
Book of Daniel was aired for about four episodes before getting the plug pulled. There have been a few shows that were announced on schedules but never actually aired, but it's hard to count something that never appears anywhere as a series.
The first show on my list, You're in the Picture, is particularly infamous. It was a game show hosted by Jackie Gleason in the days of celebrity game shows like What's My Line. This one involved the celebrities putting their heads through paintings and trying to guess what was actually painted on the painting. It was so bad that the following week (these used to be aired live), Gleason came on the air and spent the entire 30 minutes apologizing to the audience for putting it on the air. Gleason kept the air time for a couple of more months and the show became known as The Jackie Gleason show and was essentially a 30-minute version of The Tonight Show with Gleason chatting with a pal like Art Carney. That didn't get good ratings either and left the air after two months.
Book of Daniel was aired for about four episodes before getting the plug pulled. There have been a few shows that were announced on schedules but never actually aired, but it's hard to count something that never appears anywhere as a series.
The first show on my list, You're in the Picture, is particularly infamous. It was a game show hosted by Jackie Gleason in the days of celebrity game shows like What's My Line. This one involved the celebrities putting their heads through paintings and trying to guess what was actually painted on the painting. It was so bad that the following week (these used to be aired live), Gleason came on the air and spent the entire 30 minutes apologizing to the audience for putting it on the air. Gleason kept the air time for a couple of more months and the show became known as The Jackie Gleason show and was essentially a 30-minute version of The Tonight Show with Gleason chatting with a pal like Art Carney. That didn't get good ratings either and left the air after two months.
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Re: Stars Lacked Enough Talent
In addition to "The Rich List" Wiki notes several other shows that may fit the bill as well although the reliability of Wiki is certainly questionable.silverscreenselect wrote:CBS has cancelled its new reality series "Secret Talents of the Stars" in which C and D list celebrities showed off alleged talents in other areas after just one episode last Tuesday night. The show joins a rather select circle of nine other infamous one-show flops in television history.
For those who might want to guess, here's the other nine in a spoiler:
Shark will take its place at the end of the month.Spoiler
The others (in order of airing) are: You’re in the Picture (CBS: 1961), Turn-On (ABC: 1969), Co-Ed Fever (ABC: 1979), South of Sunset (CBS: 1993), Public Morals (CBS: 1996), Lawless (Fox: 1997), Dot Comedy (ABC: 2000), The Will (CBS: 2005) and Emily’s Reasons Why Not (ABC: 2006).
Comedians Unleashed
2002 Animal Planet's attempt to mimic Comedy Central's stand up comedy shows but with animal-themed jokes. The episode was rerun a few times before being removed from the programming lineup.[3] This is not to be confused with the 2006 syndicated series Comics Unleashed hosted by Byron Allen
The Debbie King Show
2007 quiz show on ITV Play with Debbie King, finished at 12:30 a.m., a few hours before the station's suspension, and was never restored during the station's limited service or since the station shut down eight days later.[citation needed]
Who's Whose?
1951 game show hosted by Phil Baker that aired on CBS. Four celebrity panelists tried to determine which of three contestants was married to a fourth contestant. This show was brought to the air on short notice to replace The Goldbergs, which was dropped when its creator Gertrude Berg refused to fire the blacklisted actor Philip Loeb. [11] There is some difference of opinion among published sources as to whether this show should be classified as a series [12] or a pilot. [13]
These two had remaining episodes burned off later so they may not count. But then so did "South of Sunset" according to Wiki and it was on the list above.
The Great Defender
1995 legal drama on Fox starring Michael Rispoli as a My Cousin Vinny type lawyer. The show aired opposite 60 Minutes and lasted literally 60 minutes. Fox burned off the remaining episodes in the summer.
Quarterlife
on-air version of the popular MySpace series that aired on NBC. The series was moved to NBC Universal sibling channel Bravo after the dismal reception of the premiere episode on Tuesday, February 26 2008. The remaining five episodes were aired "marathon"-style on March 9, 2008.[citation needed]
South of Sunset
1993 private detective show on CBS starring Glenn Frey of rock band The Eagles. This was the first U.S.-produced series to be canceled after one episode since 1969 and was heavily promoted during the World Series.[citation needed] The remaining five episodes eventually aired on the VH1 cable network a year later.
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Re: Stars Lacked Enough Talent
Although I don't think that there is an "official" rules list regarding cancellations, the impression I got from reading the column originally was that they only referring to shows on the major broadcast networks, of which there are currently five, and not various cable and other networks like Animal Planet.tanstaafl2 wrote:
In addition to "The Rich List" Wiki notes several other shows that may fit the bill as well although the reliability of Wiki is certainly questionable.
Along that same line of thought, I wouldn't think that the bulk airing of already filmed episodes (which the network is contractually bound to air or pay for anyway) after the fact would affect whether a show has been cancelled.
Especially on a game show like The Will, in which a prize is being offered to a winning contestant, the network can't just arbitrarily end the show and possibly avoid liability to pay out money. The FCC frowns on that.
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Anchorwomen is a bit of an oddity according to wiki as it was aired as a one hour premiere that was made up of two half hour episodes. Not sure how one might classify that.Estonut wrote:Anchorwoman, Fox, aired on 8/22/07 only, after incessant hype leading up to it.
Also, I wouldn't necessarily classify Clint Black nor Sasha Cohen as C and D list celebrities. I believe neither one is that far from the top of their respective fields.
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Re: Stars Lacked Enough Talent
tanstaafl2 wrote:South of Sunset
1993 private detective show on CBS starring Glenn Frey of rock band The Eagles. This was the first U.S.-produced series to be canceled after one episode since 1969 and was heavily promoted during the World Series.[citation needed].
I remember that incessant promotion of that show during the World Series that year, though I always associated the '93 Series with the equally awful but just as heavily promoted new show "The Hat Squad". Either that was another '93 bomb, or I've got the wrong Series (Since there wasn't a World Series the next year, I'm pretty sure it had to be '93...)
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OK, had to check it out. Google reveals that The Hat Squad premeired in September 1992 and lasted all of 12 episodes. It went on hiatus during October that year, which would correspond to the heavy prmotion I remember during the World Series, just the wrong one....
At least CBS wasn't as awful about whoring its shows during the Series as Fox has been....
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At least CBS wasn't as awful about whoring its shows during the Series as Fox has been....
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