Worst TV show to be described as a "classic"

[Tubby Isaacs]

Worst TV show to be described as a "classic"

Great theme tunes, both of those shows as well.

The New Statesman- Mussorgsky
Budgie- Ray Davies

[ian.64]

Worst TV show to be described as a "classic"

The New Statesman is featured on a programme called "Comedy Classics" on ITV. The actress who played the wife, of whom I'm quite fond, has said she was glad they "went out at the top".

It was a great "bad good" programme, wasn't it? Good cast, good theme, but not very good. Bit like Budgie really.

It was potentially great material given a somewhat shabby treatment in that it always looked thrown together and in a hurry to be too 'crazy'. It was funny at times, no doubt about that, but it's tough to pin down a truly unforgettable comedy moment from it. It benefits from its leads - Mayall, Troughton and Fitzalan - but that's as far as it goes. A show built on one idea, a truly malevolent tosser of an MP shafting his way to the top, when it probably could have relied on much more than that.

'The Outer Limits'. Now 'Twilight Zone' on the other hand is pure gold.

Agree with you on the latter, but The Outer Limits had its merits, too. Not a total loss at all.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Worst TV show to be described as a "classic"

irishreddevil wrote:

Going by that, Doctor Who is an A1 kids TV show, but it shouldn't be pitched at adults, as that turns it into the TV equivalent of Twilight or Harry Potter

Harry Potter isn't pitched at adults. No matter how hard they might like to pretend they're not reading something written for 12-year-olds.

[Ginger Yellow]

Worst TV show to be described as a "classic"

Given how rich the comic/graphic novel scene has been in N America, it is a shame that there isn't more fresh material and adaptation coming through in that genre

Well there's a keenly anticipated adaptation of Kirkman's The Walking Dead coming in just a month's time. More generally though, there's still an attitude that comics and animation are for kids, even with the success of the Simpsons and South Park et al. So there's a reluctance to make adult oriented comic adaptations or original animations (outside of Adult Swim).

[Mumpo]

Worst TV show to be described as a "classic"

One of the best things about The New Statesman (or some of the later episodes, at least) was spotting Graeme Harper's distinctive camera techniques and digital effects.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Worst TV show to be described as a "classic"

Ah, Marsha Fitzalan, thank you, Ian. Never knew her name before.

She's the daughter of the Duke of Norfolk.

[E10 Rifle]

Worst TV show to be described as a "classic"

The New Statesman quickly became shit didn't it? Or maybe I was just looking too much, in my earnest way, for a bit more corruscating anti-late-80s Tory satire. It quickly degenerated into lazy shagging and nob gags (and I'm a big fan of non-lazy and decent shagging and nob gags), in which you got that horrible sense that the show's makers basically want you to almost sympathise with Alan, as some kind of amusing and loveable rogue.

Didn't Laurence Marks (or was it the other writer?) also once write an unspeakable bad name-dropping 'every-fan' book about Arsenal?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Worst TV show to be described as a "classic"

Alan could turn on the charm, and crack a joke, but sympathise with him?

I remember thinking the first series was bad.