[15] Time magazine sharply criticized the series, calling it "embarrassingly amateurish", with "flaccid" and "wearying" jokes, flat writing, "mediocre" acting and "aimless" direction.
[19] In the years since the series, it has garnered something of a positive reputation, with one critic listing it and other Lear efforts as "imaginative shows that contained some of the most striking satires of television and American society ever broadcast".
In a review of the opening episode, Michael Deacon in The Daily Telegraph described it as "unfunny and outdated", writing that "the cast weren't so much playing characters as reading aloud from a dog-eared joke book for half an hour.
The programme made number 97 in Channel Four's 100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell list show, a retrospective of television's low points of the last fifty years.
Several explanations apply, but the simplest has to be that The Golden Girls itself was already familiar to most British TV watchers ..., and people felt no reason to tune into a UK adaptation delivering the same lines.
"[36] Buddies: Comedians Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer attracted the attention of TV network executives with their guest appearance in the March 14, 1995 episode of ABC's highly rated sitcom Home Improvement.
"[53] Coupling (US): This American adaptation of the British sitcom of the same name drew objections over its extensive sexual content, prompting at least two stations (both owned by religious organizations) to not carry the show, and it was pulled from the NBC schedule within two months despite a barrage of publicity.
To avoid any controversy, the producers delayed the release of the series by a year in order to obtain an approval from the Roman Catholic Church (which it did not object to after privately viewing the show first).
The series is a direct adaptation of the Fred Figglehorn character by Lucas Cruikshank, who at the time was one of the most subscribed and popular users on the online video sharing platform, YouTube.
[86] The show was universally panned by both critics and casual viewers for the same reasons as the original videos on YouTube have been criticised for previously such as the character Fred himself due to his annoying and infantile actions, lowbrow humour, unrealistic scenarios, and dialogue.
[94] Ein Haus voller Töchter ("A house full of daughters"): A 2010 sitcom produced by the small German channel Das Vierte as their first (and only) own fictional production.
In one example, Arianna Huffington said that "John McCain's return to the United States Senate will be the chilliest reception for a war hero since McLean Stevenson tried to talk his way back onto M*A*S*H after Hello Larry tanked.
premiered on RTL on 4 March 1993, together with the also unsuccessful and critically panned Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt, and garnered largely negative reviews for the poor adaptation of the original US series.
First, it fails to demonstrate even a grudging respect for the thing it's taking the piss out of, which means it has all the internal logic, dramatic conviction and narrative thrust of a three-minute sketch.
Secondly, it relies heavily on a single comic conceit, namely that the hopeless band of resistance fighters led by Kröd Mändoon spend most of their time bickering like office colleagues on an away-day team-building exercise.
[35] Mad About Alice: This 2004 BBC sitcom starring Amanda Holden and Jamie Theakston as a divorced couple with a young son received largely negative reviews and lasted for only one series.
Repeatedly announced to be a core feature of the renewed programming by the ORF's new management and heavily promoted, the show received extremely bad ratings and devastating critical reception from the start, and was thus cancelled in the middle of its first season.
[146] Mrs. Brown's Boys: Despite being a ratings success on the BBC in the UK and on RTÉ in Ireland, winning multiple awards, this British-Irish co-production has received almost entirely negative reviews from critics.
[162] The Splitsider website included Out of this World on a list of "Terrible Syndicated Sitcoms of the Late 1980s", along with Small Wonder, She's the Sheriff, Mama's Family and the 1987 adaptation of You Can't Take It with You.
Jim Shelley wrote "The Royal Bodyguard was, the BBC trumpeted, Sir David Jason's first Beeb comedy since Only Fools & Horses finished in 2002 – that was nine years ago.
The prospect of seeing the 71-year-old star playing a former guardsman who had seen action in Northern Ireland and had now been appointed to the presumably prestigious position of royal bodyguard after saving the Queen's life stretched this fondness to breaking point.
[182] Unlike the other entries in the Saved by the Bell franchise (which included Good Morning, Miss Bliss, the flagship series, and The College Years in one syndication package), The New Class has never been rerun since ending in 2000, despite having a longer run than the three other shows combined.
[187] David Segler of the Frankfurter Rundschau described the program as a "joke figure cabaret" and "nasty sitcom dumpling" and wrote "It's quite impressive how long 25 minutes can feel.
The actors remain condemned to work through standard situations with predictable dialogue ..."[189] Julian Miller of Quotenmeter.de also gave it a largely negative review and wrote '''Tanken' has nothing to offer but the obvious ...
[194] Hal Boedeker, writing for the Knight Ridder newspaper chain, opined that "the moronic sitcom was beyond bad, a disaster that raises doubts about the judgement of CBS executives.
"[197] The Orlando Sentinel's Greg Dawson praised the show's "first-rate" cast, but attacked the pilot's "dead-in-the-water writing" and "nonstop witlesscisms", and called the finished product "sophomoric dreck ... which tests the self-control of anyone with an IQ over 50 and a sledgehammer or handgun in the house.
[200] Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps: Despite being successful with viewers and staying on the air for ten years, from 26 February 2001 to 24 May 2011, with a total of nine series and 80 episodes, the BBC sitcom always received a strongly negative critical response.
Despite having his name in the title, Payne is straitjacketed into a straight-man role; the saving grace is the grumpy father figure Chester as Davis huffs and puffs his way through the unnatural dialogue.
Some things happen repeatedly, such as the patriarch of the family telling everybody to 'get out' or 'go home,' apparently desiring the company of none of them...At times one wishes that, yes, House were Payne-less...(T)he program has a long way to go before jelling as a believable unit...(T)he acting styles conflict or seem barely to exist."
The Wright Way: A 2013 BBC TV sitcom by Ben Elton, starring David Haig as the director of the health and safety department of the fictional Baselricky Council, implied to be in Essex.