RollingStones 50 Worst Decisions in TV History

[StatUS]

Freaks and Geeks at 1 is wild.

It's Game of Thrones Season 8, Lost Finale, MTV no longer playing music videos, or Rush Limbaugh on MNF.

Honorable Wrestling TV moment for Katie Vick.

 

[Diunx]

Will never get the complains about they killing Susan, it let to widow George and some great storylines with the foundation fukkery, George was never getting married and you didn't see shyt like that on other sitcoms, it was great.

 

[Diunx]

Freaks and Geeks at 1 is wild.

It's Game of Thrones Season 8, Lost Finale, MTV no longer playing music videos, or Rush Limbaugh on MNF.

Honorable Wrestling TV moment for Katie Vick.

Yep, I watched that show after all the online hype some years ago and honestly, it wasn't great, I can see how it got cancelled, its not like there was a lack of teen/ young adults dramedys on tv at that time.

 

[En Sabah Nur]

Should we really take any list by Rolling Stone serious after their Top 50 rappers list?

This is a list of 50 things one white dude found egregious.
No mention of Eddie Torres getting killed off NY Undercover, but has Judie Winslow disappearing from Family Matters
Is there anyone that cared she was gone? What was missed from the show after her departure?

 

[nieman]

So basically, Freaks and Geeks is number 1 because of who the actors became. But I will agree it never had a chance to find an audience.

The Sopranos would have never lasted on Fox. It was so different than everything they aired up to that point. And, it would've failed as a serialized drama at that point in time.

I don't think the endings of Lost, Game of Thrones or even Westworld are that bad. Lost showed from the beginning that it was always about the characters. I do think they should've never started revealing so much about the island to begin with, because in do so it got out of their control to reel it back in. Game of Thrones ended the way I expected it - a council meeting deciding how to rule going forward and clean up the messes left by whoever survived.

 

[Devilinurear]

The Seinfeld story is really crazy in hindsight. There was no reason for NBC to want to keep it, but somebody really wanted it to succeed. That almost never happens, especially back then. Seinfeld went from being just another forgotten sitcom that would have been the subject of a YouTube video to one of the most beloved sitcoms of all-time.

These networks know what they're doing. If they want a show to make it, they'll do whatever they can. When Friends was months away from airing, Jennifer Aniston wasn't cast as Rachel because she was in another sitcom. Had that show lasted, somebody else would have gotten the part. The CBS and NBC executives struck a deal to air a movie of the week at the same time Jennifer's sitcom was airing, knowing those movies were popular and would steal ratings. They literally sabotaged an entire sitcom just so Jennifer could play Rachel, because they knew Friends had potential to be a big hit.

Cheers before it.

 

[mastermind]

This is a list of 50 things one white dude found egregious.
No mention of Eddie Torres getting killed off NY Undercover, but has Judie Winslow disappearing from Family Matters
Is there anyone that cared she was gone? What was missed from the show after her departure?

New York Undercover was nowhere near as popular as Family Matters.

 

[mastermind]

Well, for dramas yes, but hbo been had Emmanuelle, red shoe diaries, real sex, etc by then

Dream On had nudity too

I believe Necessary Roughness also had nudity

 

[beenz]

Tries to read article... ambushed by 2000 ads.... fukk rolling stone

here u go. ad free reading

The 50 Worst Decisions in TV History

We rank the biggest TV screw ups, from NBC canceling 'Freaks and Geeks' to SNL firing Norm McDonald

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[feelosofer]

For the best. Would been like this:

Will fukkin Sasso.

 

[mastermind]

Tries to read article... ambushed by 2000 ads.... fukk rolling stone

You have to get Adblock and/or ublock.

 

[Erratic415]

Will never get the complains about they killing Susan, it let to widow George and some great storylines with the foundation fukkery, George was never getting married and you didn't see shyt like that on other sitcoms, it was great.

It was a good episode, and I don’t think it caused the show to decline as a result. Seasons 8 and 9 were wackier and generally less popular than most of the others, but that’s bound to happen when a sitcom has been on for so long.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Cheers before it.

Yeah, a lot of things had to go right for Cheers to become what it was. Them putting it next to Family Ties and The Cosby Show was what sealed the deal and created a lineup that no other network could touch.

That's why I don't believe these executives when they say certain shows aren't marketable or they don't have the audience willing to tune in. If Warner Bros. wanted to, they could have put all their muscle behind Living Single and made it a bigger show. If it's going up against Friends on Thursdays, play on that and promote it enough to where you could create a rivalry. Kind of like when The Simpsons moved to Thursdays and competed against The Cosby Show. But they just left Living Single out in the cold and gave all their attention to Friends.

 

[Devilinurear]

Yeah, a lot of things had to go right for Cheers to become what it was. Them putting it next to Family Ties and The Cosby Show was what sealed the deal and created a lineup that no other network could touch.

That's why I don't believe these executives when they say certain shows aren't marketable or they don't have the audience willing to tune in. If Warner Bros. wanted to, they could have put all their muscle behind Living Single and made it a bigger show. If it's going up against Friends on Thursdays, play on that and promote it enough to where you could create a rivalry. Kind of like when The Simpsons moved to Thursdays and competed against The Cosby Show. But they just left Living Single out in the cold and gave all their attention to Friends.

Landscape is different now but back then it was definitely if they liked the show or not.

 

[Erratic415]

This is a list of 50 things one white dude found egregious.
No mention of Eddie Torres getting killed off NY Undercover, but has Judie Winslow disappearing from Family Matters
Is there anyone that cared she was gone? What was missed from the show after her departure?

The only time I ever really heard Judy Winslow’s departure mentioned is when the actress got into porn. She was a minor character with minimal storylines. The bigger problem with the show is that it turned into the Steve Urkel Sci-Fi Special.