NEWS that a TV sitcom starring David Jason – The Royal Bodyguard – had lost three million viewers in the space of a week has prompted a listing in the Daily Record of ‘TV’s 20 biggest turkeys’.
TV critic Jim Shelley – best known as TV critic for Record sister title, the Mirror – includes Eldorado and Minipops among his ‘top of the flops’, which reads as follows:
1. DAYBREAK (STV, 2010 to date)
2. LIVE FROM STUDIO FIVE (5, 2009-11)
3. ELDORADO (BBC1, 1992-93)
4. SHAFTED (STV, 2001)
5. MINDER (5, 2009)
6. DAVINA (BBC1, 2006)
7. SAM’S GAME (STV, 2001)
8. HORNE & CORDEN (BBC3, 2009)
9. THE BIG TOP (BBC1, 2009)
10. AMANDA HOLDEN’S FANTASY LIVES (STV, 2010)
11. BADDIEL & SKINNER UNPLANNED (ITV1, 2000-3)
12. MAISIE RAINE (BBC1, 1998-9)
13. THE BIONIC WOMAN (STV, 2008)
14. RED OR BLACK (STV, 2011)
15. HIGH STAKES (STV, 2011)
16. FAMOUS & FEARLESS (C4, 2011)
17. MINIPOPS (C4, 1983)
18. LIFE’S TOO SHORT (BBC2, 2011)
19. THE BRITS (STV & BBC, 1977 and 1982 to date)
20. BRIGHTON BELLES (STV, 1993-4)
