General : TV Show Renewals & Cancellations

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Only Fools & Horses - 7 series
On The Buses - 7 series
Till Death Do Us Part - 5 series
Last of the Summer Wine - 31 series
Liver Birds - 10 series
Birds of a Feather - 12 series (9 BBC, 3 ITV)
As Time Goes By - 10 seasons
The Good Life - 4 seasons
Shelley - 10 Seasons
Steptoe & Son - 8 seasons
My Family - 11 series
Never the Twain - 11 series

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose…

Tbf Last of the Summer Wine would be in my Room 101 , racist and 30 series too long !

Steptoe and Son has never been bettered though.

(BTW Shelley ,On the buses , Never the Twain were ITV, check your lists before cutting and pasting )

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Originally Posted by telegramsam

But surely programs are only renewed if they are popular so what's wrong with that?

Being popular doesn't necessarily mean they are any good. There are excellent dramas with low viewing figures that commercial broadcasters wouldn't touch.

Originally Posted by Mr K

Tbf Last of the Summer Wine would be in my Room 101 , racist and 30 series too long !

Steptoe and Son has never been bettered though.

(BTW Shelley ,On the buses , Never the Twain were ITV, [b]check your lists before cutting and pasting [b])

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Being popular doesn't necessarily mean they are any good. There are excellent dramas with low viewing figures that commercial broadcasters wouldn't touch.

Too much of the same old being renewed. If it makes money, just churn more of it out

compiled, not cut and pasted...

Originally Posted by Mr K

( btw when are they going to renew Blake's 7? )

You mean the Blakes 7 that had four seasons, and only one of them actually had Blake ?

[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by Paul

You mean the Blakes 7 that had four seasons, and only one of them actually had Blake ?

Until the last episode

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Paul

You mean the Blakes 7 that had four seasons, and only one of them actually had Blake ?

Blake was in the first 2 series, with an appearance in the finale....
Interesting that ... #i'llgetmyanorak

Blake appeared in all four seasons - every episode of the first two, and the finales of seasons 3* & 4.

* Yes, I know it was actually a facsimile designed to fool Avon and not actually Roj Blake, but still …

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Chris

Blake appeared in all four seasons - every episode of the first two, and the finales of seasons 3* & 4.

* Yes, I know it was actually a facsimile designed to fool Avon and not actually Roj Blake, but still …

Ok you can have the anorak

[telegramsam]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Tbf Last of the Summer Wine would be in my Room 101 , racist and 30 series too long !

Steptoe and Son has never been bettered though.

(BTW Shelley ,On the buses , Never the Twain were ITV, check your lists before cutting and pasting )

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Being popular doesn't necessarily mean they are any good. There are excellent dramas with low viewing figures that commercial broadcasters wouldn't touch.

Yes but if you were in charge of a tv station would you cancel a program that was extremely popular? How is Last Of The Summer Wine racist?

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by telegramsam

Yes but if you were in charge of a tv station would you cancel a program that was extremely popular? How is Last Of The Summer Wine racist?

Trust me, if you live in Yorkshire it's racist

You might cancel a programme if you wanted money to do something new/better. Look at the absurd number of series US TV shows do. So far in the UK we tended to quality over quantity e.g. Fawlty Towers just 12 episodes of perfection. In the US they'd still be running it and it would be in its 82nd series, with its 27th hotel owner.

Originally Posted by Mr K

Fawlty Towers just 12 episodes of perfection.

Nope, it was pretty awful.

[telegramsam]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Trust me, if you live in Yorkshire it's racist

You might cancel a programme if you wanted money to do something new/better. Look at the absurd number of series US TV shows do. So far in the UK we tended to quality over quantity e.g. Fawlty Towers just 12 episodes of perfection. In the US they'd still be running it and it would be in its 82nd series, with its 27th hotel owner.

Faulty Towers ended because the writers and main stars decided not to do anymore,not because the BBC didn't want to do anymore.
I don't believe a program is racist simply because they don't have many black people in it. If that were the case then you could say that about just about every program pre 1980's!

I think this is going a little off topic, please stick to Renewals & Cancellations, there are other topics for tv discussions (or make one).

Monsters at Work has been renewed for a 2nd season.

[1701-e]

Snowpiercer to end with season four https://deadline.com/2022/06/snowpie...47908/#respond

Shame, but its had a good run, and hopefully they will finish it off well.