Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36125047)

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…

Originally Posted by telegramsam (Post 36125046)

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

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36125049)

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.

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36125043)

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

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36125060)

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

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36125060)

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

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36125069)

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

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

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36125049)

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.

Originally Posted by telegramsam (Post 36125074)

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?

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36125075)

Fawlty Towers just 12 episodes of perfection.

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36125075)

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.