The great cancellation: why megabucks TV shows are vanishing without a trace

Re:The great cancellation: why megabucks TV shows are vanish... by rsynnott on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:19AM (#37338565)

In their list of examples of historical cancellations-before-airing, they missed one of the most baffling. "Heil Honey I'm Home!" was a 1990 British sitcom, stylistically parodying 1970s US sitcoms (over-the-top canned laughter, applause whenever characters enter the room, etc), about Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun as a suburban couple, along with their Jewish neighbours. Somehow, eight episodes of this were made (though not shown), and a pilot was actually _screened_, by a proper company (one of the predecessor companies to what's now Sky).

It's very difficult to understand how anyone thought this was a reasonable thing to make.

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Re:The great cancellation: why megabucks TV shows are vanish... by j-bos on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:33AM (#37338810)

Reminds me of the Monty Python skit about a bording house resident called Monsieur Hilter

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Re:The great cancellation: why megabucks TV shows are vanish... by pjc50 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:36AM (#37338874)

More recently, an entire reality TV series was made before they noticed that one of the contestants had Nazi face tattoos: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/30/skys-th...

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Re:The great cancellation: why megabucks TV shows are vanish... by LocalH on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:38AM (#37338912)

Ade Edmondson's character in Bottom was named Eddie Hitler and no-one batted an eye

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Re:The great cancellation: why megabucks TV shows are vanish... by rsynnott on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:10PM (#37339484)

Oh, sure, this _can_ work (particularly as a throwaway joke, as in Bottom - "Any relation?" "Yes!"). However, in the case of the above show, it... didn't. The pilot's available on Youtube, or at least used to be. It is Not Good.

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