Garbage - The Aliens (2016) Discussion

[–] Mark_a_Wood 8 years ago

OK you didn't like The Aliens, that's fair enough.

But seriously, you don't know why it wasn't cancelled after one episode had been broadcast? If that had happened it would have been extraordinary. There are only around 4 UK TV shows that have been axed after 1 episode was broadcast one was deemed racist, two were cancelled due to legal problems and one was cancelled after being deemed the most inappropriate sitcom ever made.

The broadcaster ordered and paid for 6 episodes they will broadcast 6 episodes.

Whether there is any intention for this to run beyond those 6 episodes I couldn't tell you.

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[–] Mikunitk 8 years ago

I see. Which are those other 4 shows?

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[–] Mark_a_Wood 8 years ago

The Melting Pot, 1975. BBC Sitcom written by and starring Spike Milligan pulled after one episode after complaints that it was racist.

The Debbie King Show, 2007. Game show broadcast on ITV Play. The entire channel was closed down due to legal problems. It broadcast interactive games that viewers entered by phone using extremely expensive premium rate telephone numbers. The Debbie King Show aired once on the day ITV announced that they would be closing the channel.

Family Forensics UK, 2005. UK version of a US format. A documentary series featuring a private investigator filmed in 2004 but after one episode was broadcast the producers discovered that the private detective appearing in the show had been arrested, charged and convicted of sexual offences against children one month before the first episode was broadcast. The show was pulled and legal action taken against the private investigator for breach of contract.

Heil Honey, I'm Home, 1990. Famously cancelled after one episode after a media outcry branded it "perhaps the world's most tasteless situation comedy". The sitcom was a spoof of 1950s/60s US sitcoms. It starred fictionalised versions of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun who were horrified when a Jewish family moved in next door to them.

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[–] Brippy_Smuppers 8 years ago

Heil Honey, I'm Home

Remember seeing clips of this on nostalgia talking heads porgies.

The Hitler character actually said the title, as he walked through the front door!

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[–] bbriddell 8 years ago

Agreed; this is Garbage.

The best way to cancel a show is when we stop watching after the pilot ep and give the show the rating it deserves.

If this was a student project at the local entertainment training school; you would at least get a heads up that these are students that don't know anything and you would be more sympathetic with the understanding that this is crap. When the production team are adults that are supposed to be producing something worth watching that the network greenlights, then you expect it at least meets the under the welcome mat level at the front door to be on TV.

This show isn't alone in its unoriginal boring presentation. We have AgentX, Minority Report, Rush Hour, Outsiders, Hunters, The Expanse, and ect. . .

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[–] Mark_a_Wood 8 years ago

There was no pilot episode of The Aliens though.

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[–] grakky 8 years ago

Not garbage, I like it, very intriguing, want to see Season 2.

BTW The Expanse is super *beep* awesome so yeah bring on S2. I must say these are both sort in the same category as District 9, Elysium, The Thing, Lockout, Blade Runner, Alien Resurrection, Chappie but more adult less cheese lol....you get the picture, more close to every day *beep* life in the not too distant sci fi future vs phasers on stun pew pew you're dead R2D2

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[–] eXtra_sauce 8 years ago

Agreed, I quite enjoyed it and would very much welcome a second series!!

MC Confusing: There's more blood than a rubber hose bottle of foot

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[–] Gromit26 8 years ago

I'm not sure how the thing, chappie, or alien are in there, but I get how you could put it in the same category as the others but I would reverse it and say the aliens are less adult and more cheese. I mean it sounds like it was written by 13 year olds. "There are these aliens and they crash to earth but they are just like us, but everyone hates them so it's like they are minorities" and his friend says "yea like us but their hair makes you get high" then "plus their dicks are huge" then they all laugh.

fact: 87.3% of IMDB users belong to the secret society of cynics.

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[–] Marquis_Aurelius 8 years ago

I watched literally 5 minutes of this and I had to turn it off. It was atrocious, the bad acting, an not to mention me having to watch the unfortunate looking Michael and Michaela.

Accept what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be

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