Shows that never should have been started?

[Rylant]

Give a shout out to Wink for the suggestion. In light of the other threads making the rounds, what are the TV Shows that should have never been created?

Rylant

[Bomm Bastic]

Saved by the Bell
Full House
Any "Reality" show
The Simple Life
Cops - and all voyeuristic schadenfreude shows
...pretty much all of current TV, except hockey and football.

[Chili con Carne]

Who's the Boss
Growing Pains

[Rylant]

Agreed with "Any reality show". The only "Reality Show" I have ever enjoyed, is the Joe Schmoe show, which poked a lot of fun at real TV. It was presented as a Real TV show like "Big Brother", but only one of the contestants didn't know what was going on. The other members were actors and the show was scripted around the guy who didn't know it wasn't real. It was pretty funny stuff.

The Walking Dead - An amazing premise consistently executed with amazing mediocrity. The writing is brutal, the acting is anywhere from amazing to brutal, the Series Lead is incredibly boring, the characters are incredibly one dimensional and also regularly do REALLY STUPID THINGS in a Zombie Apocalypse. I WANT to like it. I WANT it to be good. It isn't...

Jersey Shore - What... The... F...

Lost - Another show for me that started with promise, but quickly turned horrible. I stopped watching some time during the 3rd season when I started to feel ill every time I watched an episode. I felt like my TV show was cheating on me. It started to become painfully obvious, that the writers had no end-game in sight, and they were just trying to set up the biggest mind-f..k at every chance. In the process, they were just digging themselves in further and further into something they would never be able to get out of. A buddy of mine described it perfectly: "Lost: Let's see what's down the Rabbit Hole... Oh Look? It's another EFFING Rabbit Hole!!!" No thank you...

Rylant

[HockeyProphet]

I agree Rylant. Jersey Shore was a cancer to society!

[The Bottlenecker]

I couldn't stand Roseanne. John Goodman was the lone saving grace in that show, but even he couldn't save the audience from Roseanne's terrible acting, whiny voice and inability to make a coherent sentence that didn't end in some sort of Rebel Yell glass shattering squeal. How many seasons did it somehow survive?

[newfcollins]

Agreed with "Any reality show". The only "Reality Show" I have ever enjoyed, is the Joe Schmoe show, which poked a lot of fun at real TV. It was presented as a Real TV show like "Big Brother", but only one of the contestants didn't know what was going on. The other members were actors and the show was scripted around the guy who didn't know it wasn't real. It was pretty funny stuff.

Did you ever see the second one? Way better. A guy and a girl are on a Bachelor-type reality show, but everyone else was actor. It was hilarious. Instead of giving a rose, the guy had to give a pearl necklace.

And in this one, there were a lot of screwups, so one of the real contestants started to get suspicious really early on.

[Shake]

Glee.

My wife thinks she is 18 again when this damn show comes on and she just has to tell me all about each episode!

[newfcollins]

Hated Seinfeld. Wished it was never started. I've seen about 10-15 different episodes, never laughed once.

Never like Roseanne. Could have done without that one too.

[gainerama]

I second Glee, that show and Young & the Restless really monopolize my TV and piss me off.

[Pengwin7]

Ha... I can't think of too many.
Just about every show obviously had some sort of target audience in order to make it to prime time.

I remember when Charlie's Angels came on a couple years ago.
Watched about 5min of that for Minka Kelly (purrrrrr), but it stunk.
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Cop Rock... oh gawd, the badness.

A LOT of shit on Fox... most recently "Dads"... terrible.

Small Wonder - you have to be a little bit older to remember "Vicki the Robot"... but good lord, yeesh.

[newfcollins]

Hey, I liked Small Wonder. But I was probably their target age group at the time.

Sex and the City is another one for me. Just awful.