View Full Version : Tv shows that was LOVED by the Critics, and not liked by Viewers?


TVFactFan
09-07-2005, 08:56 AM
I can start this off. The critics loved

That's My Mama
Ropers
Grady
Beacon Hill

Mr. Monitor
09-07-2005, 11:50 AM
Arrested Development
Sports Night

TVFactFan
09-07-2005, 02:14 PM
Scrubs




By the way Solomon, what was "Beacon Hill" about?


a drama in 1975, can remember off the top of my head. It has something to do with the 1800's

treky
09-07-2005, 04:02 PM
no, I remember it. "Beacon Hill" was an american version of a british show that aired in the 7os called "Upstairs, Downstairs". That show aired on PBS, and was about the servents at an estate, in the early 1900s.
"Beacon Hill" was based on it, and aired on CBS in, I think, 1977. It was about the same thing, only it was set in Boston, in an area where some rich people live, called Beacon Hill, and it was set in the 1920s.


(on "MASH" Major Winchester was from Beacon Hill)

TV DVD Fan
09-07-2005, 04:59 PM
YEP! Cheers is there, actually its called the Bull & Finch.

I can think of no shows that were loved by critics, and not by fans, but the one that immediately stuck out at me when reading what I thought the title of the thread was (TV Shows that was Loved by the viewers...), GILLIGAN'S ISLAND!

Adored by fans, hated by critics.

pat

snl 70s show fan
09-08-2005, 05:39 PM
a show called united states that aired in 1980 on nbc every critic as i remember loved it but it was a few years ahead of its time .it went over my head as an 8 year old but i saw an ep again a few years ago and i didnt like it then ether

sara
09-10-2005, 12:12 PM
Freaks and Geeks

Mysty Eyes
09-10-2005, 12:37 PM
Police Squad!

I loved Police Squad! I think they made a whole six episodes, or something like that... It was a result of all the spoof movies of that time period, like "Airplane."

I want this show on DVD. There were so many gags in it that the viewer couldn't catch them all in one airing.

Zebra 3
09-10-2005, 02:34 PM
I'm also a fan of the short lived ABC police spoof Police Squad!. It had a second life as feature comedies a few years later with The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! ('88), The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear ('91) and Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult ('94).

snl 70s show fan
09-10-2005, 10:42 PM
Buffalo Bill
Frank's Place
My World and Welcome to It
He and She
Brooklyn Bridge
Doctor, Doctor
The Office (US)
The Associates
Police Squad!
The Betty White Show
The Slap Maxwell Storyive seen both my world and welcome to it and he and she and i really liked both of them its a shame more people didnt give them a chance

Paindrain
09-12-2005, 03:19 PM
hello, 1st post here

but a show that I loved and so did the critics, and was up for an academy (i believe) that was cancelled after 1 long season due to lack of viewers ... Jack and Bobby!

TVFactFan
09-12-2005, 03:24 PM
I'm still trying to find out what critics were saying about Mork and Mindy

treky
09-13-2005, 02:26 AM
I loved Police Squad! I think they made a whole six episodes, or something like that... It was a result of all the spoof movies of that time period, like "Airplane."

I want this show on DVD. There were so many gags in it that the viewer couldn't catch them all in one airing.
I also loved "Police Squad!"

treky
09-13-2005, 02:28 AM
I'm still trying to find out what critics were saying about Mork and Mindy
I'm not 100% sure, but I think critics liked it.