Talk:List of television shows notable for negative reception

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Suggested Additions

A list of "favorite" bad shows to be added to the official list. Listed here does not assure listing in the article, but does consolidate several suggestions under one heading.

Caillou

Should you add Caillou and Greeny Phatom to the List of television series considered the worst page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C8:C001:8A3A:14C8:232D:1A0B:981F (talk) 19:30, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Based on what references? Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:22, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How about this article link from CBR which talks about Caillou being the worst TV show? Caillou: The Rise, Fall, Death and HATE for the Nickelback of Cartoons (cbr.com) CrosswalkX (talk) 05:08, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mega babies

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If you look that up, you'll notice that it has many negative reviews of making people sick, due to its extreme toilet humor.Joeleoj123 (talk) 16:57, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Joeleoj123 Negative reviews is not the same thing as reliable sources saying "This is the worst or among the worst series out there." Bad =/= worst. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:19, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Utopia Utopia (U.S. reality TV series)

While many "reality" shows have mixed reviews with lots of fans and haters, Utopia (Fox network) was scheduled to last a year and was canceled in less than two months, going from twice weekly to once weekly before being canceled outright. This show aired partly live. GeeBee60 (talk) 22:42, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Heil Honey I'm Home

The BBC sitcom about Adolf Hitler and his Jewish neighbours, it was pulled after only one episode, perhaps someone should consider adding it to the TV shows on the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.7.80.192 (talk) 21:12, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

GeeBee60 Though I know you meant well, I don't see the value of consolidating these suggestions into a Suggested Additions section and to reformat the headings, since none of them were worth suggesting to begin with, and should be archived, which may now not happen mid-2016. The article is about television series considered the worst. That means they have to have made notable worst TV shows lists, and by no stretch of the imagination should we use this as a forum for internet cranks to complain about series that they dislike. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 06:58, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cyphoidbomb Thank you for the dubious honor of being recognized as a well-meaning internet crank.

The introductory paragraph of this worst TV article defines "worst" very broadly, hardly some lofty summation of an officially designated International Worst Television award. My heading was a suggested work-around to place possible additions here under "Talk" and thereby reduce placement of random TV programs onto the main page, shows which fail to meet consistent references and criteria -- clearly being done. Several of the described shows on the main page ought to be deleted or moved to "Talk". Consider this Talk Heading a Terrible Watch List. My specific suggestion meets some failure criteria -- the show was cancelled because of low viewer ratings, and only about 15% of the promised episodes were produced / aired. If not worst, certainly it was unsuccessful.

This article could be improved if each described show on the main page began with a checklist of criticism as to who designated the show worst. Instead there seems to be a lot of self-assured individual ranting for the various choices described. I agree with BDD, below, that the article is muddled.

All this being said, if you (or some other), Wikipedian feels my heading designation is wrong, you should go ahead and change it. In that it has taken me 8 months to notice this reply, it is hardly an urgent personal topic except in the doldrums of mid-winter. GeeBee60 (talk) 14:04, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

GeeBee60 - I assure you that "well-meaning" was directed at you, but "internet crank" was not. My objection was specifically about creating a forum for casual editors to crankily request that their pet peeve series (like Calliou) be added to the list with no regard for or awareness of any sort of scope. Since it doesn't appear to have been an issue, I'm happy to yield, but I think the section should be allowed to be archived normally from lack of participation. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:00, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's already been added on the Live Action sitcom page article page section. CrosswalkX (talk) 05:06, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Teen Titans Go — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.60.183.103 (talk) 18:27, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ideas I thought up Toddlers & Tiaras (for some reason it has a low rating on IMDb) Wild Grinders (it has negative reviews) MechMaster Katzenstein (talk) 12:25, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

One other I thought we can include is Tomorrow's Pioneers because it got some major controversy and criticism. MechMaster Katzenstein (talk) 23:34, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story Espngeek (talk) 15:42, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can you add "Santa Inc."? NIKO (talk) 10:21, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Love in 40 Days

Philippine drama series on Kapamilya Channel, because the storyline was poor, poor ratings and heavy advertising many negative reviews of making people sick, look like crime and mystery genre very terrible during the read-through. User:Vanryoko (talk) 18:14, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Biatches

The 2014 Comedy Central series Biatches has only 1.0 on IMBD out of over 700 ratings and was very widely panned. That's got to manifest as worthiness for the list, let alone it's one Wikipedia article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Squiggledog (talk • contribs) 03:17, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of Lotería Loca to the list

Lotería Loca: The premiere of the 2023 American game show hosted by Jaime Camil, which utilized a format based on the popular Mexican game known as lotería, drew 1.7 million viewers, one of the worst debuts for a game show on a major television network. The extremely low ratings caused CBS to remove the program from its primetime schedule after five episodes were aired out of the ten that were produced.

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How many international titles do you need?

Tried to find " worst international" and "worst foreign" shows, but all I found were "worst remakes of international/foreign" shows. Espngeek (talk) 21:29, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Australian animated series Pixel Pinkie was very widely panned. Would that manifest as an international title? Squiggledog (talk) 03:12, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is it in a non-English language? Espngeek (talk) 02:50, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Found one: Tomorrow's Pioneers complete with reliable sources and stuff Espngeek (talk) 23:00, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Santa Inc. Absent?

Similar to Velma in terms of controversy and sheer frustration the internet expressed against it, I feel that Santa Inc. deserves to be an inductee on this list.

Both shows are also similar with their overlap of racist and non-racist criticism; their humour was also criticised as uninspired. Internet Informant (talk) 13:02, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PLEASE DEBATE THIS

"My Gym Partner's a Monkey": A "childrens'" cartoon that deals with extremely traumatising pedophilic, and beastialic, themes. The entirity of the show is extremely disturbing, and is just an outright theater of highly inapproipiate sequences. Many a time, alot of upset parents yelled at the station, Cartoon Network, in which it was produced, and aired on, easily looking all over the internet, you can find complaint, after complaint, even there were street protests to ban and remove the show. Horrifyingly, nobody noticed, as all evidence seems to be scrubbed off the internet, other than opinions. (Mid-2000s)

68.42.43.119 (talk) 19:50, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Any references to support your argument? Dipper Dalmatian (talk) 07:12, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Look for it on Wayback Machine. I don't know how to help you. You just gotta trust the information given, like every conspiracy ever. 68.42.43.119 (talk) 16:18, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]