Ant n Dec quitting smtv causing a decrease in viewership Russell brand quitting radio 2 because of wossy and sachsgate

GB News isn't right wing. It's broad tent. Astonishing that Ralf Little and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps didn't get a mention. His departure left the show a shadow of its former self.

10 Stars Who QUIT At the Worst Time 0142am 11.10.23 one of those moments wherein yer supposed to have noticed something and yert didnt notice what it was you were meant to notice... much to the chagrin of the person desperate to be noticed... noticed the lights atop the hillside, though...

Yes, I've heard John Cleese say that a few times. We just have to be happy with only twelve episodes of Fawlty Towers.

She did play a witch in The Holy Grail.

She was in the short films “Romance with Double Bass” and “The strange case of the End of civilisation as we know it”

Absolutely. The standard of writing from series 7 onwards is not a patch on series 1-6. It baffled me why he left for Brittas as Brittas was about as funny as toothache.

I guess because he starred in the Brittas Empire, whereas he just co-starred in Red Dwarf. And he's said he was getting fed up playing just Rimmer.

It always seemed to me like Naylor was better suited to writing for children. Red Dwarf moved from the low budget, esoteric, cult appeal of the first 4 seasons, through in my opinion, the peak that was season 5, to the polish of season 6, but throughout, the scripts were mostly clever and tight. Seasons 7 onwards were, by comparison, panto. It was good when Barrie came back, but it never felt the same. Silly walks and silly faces, and somehow everything felt plasticcy. That's the only way I can think to describe it. Also, I think it was a mistake to bring Kochanski back without Clare Grogan on board. I didn't think much of Chloe Annett's performances, and she didn't even attempt a Scottish accent despite confirming the canon that she is from the Gorbals.

True. There's a sharpness to the Grant/Naylor scripts that's not quite there anymore when it became just Naylor. There are still some great ideas and nice character moments, but (as Ozzpot said) there's a whiff of panto to it that wasn't there before. Not breaking any new ground anymore, and content to just cruise comfortably in familiar territory.

Have you seen it since it moved to Dave so much better than when it was on the BBC as they had such a bigger budget

Yes agreed on that

Great suggestion

I phrased it badly - it wasn't his absence that was missed! But you know what I mean.

@@jamesdignanmusic2765 you mean he was missed because of his absence

I own the complete box set of the series, and the guy who they replaced him within the fourth and final series was ok, but just couldn't hold a candle to Coyle as Jeff.

I still have The Dennis Waterman Minder box set on DVD and watch it every now and then.

4 episodes

Very true

And boy can you feel the absence of Cleese in that 4th series. No disrespect to the other Pythons - they're all hilarious in their own ways - but they're also all "nice." It's only really Cleese who could do glowering, intense and a bit "dangerous" ... in an extremely comedic way, of course. The balance just wasn't there anymore with a bunch of nice guys.

She was. She even stopped her husband launching his own signing career. I was never a huge fan of her but I totally disliked her and finding that out

And she didn’t even give a shit about her own mother I know from first hand experience

My wife cleaned for her and many other stars and she wasn't the nicest person

Bitter, bitter people. I'm no star or even someone in the 'biz but I met Cilla many times and she was lovely. Dunno who you people met.

​@@stinameaner- signing career?

She can return but with a H on her forehead.

Because she passed away in 2016

It was originally an Australian show

The 💩shouldn’t be allowed on T.V 🤬🤢

He did?

Yes but he came back on with no clothes on whatsoever which is precisely why he got the boot entirely.

I think this video is wrong to say he left Red Dwarf to concentrate on The Brittas Empire because that latter also ended around the same time (final episode in February 1997, one month after the episode Rimmer left Red Dwarf). From memory - I was only 10 at the time so this is a little hazy - Barrie started a new sitcom called 'A Prince Among Men' and I expect he left/ended both the other two shows to concentrate on this. However I seem to remember A Prince Among Men bombed spectacularly and got cancelled, and so Barrie returned to Red Dwarf for series 8.

@@boyracer1987 I liked Prince Among Men, but it was very similar to Brittas. I wonder if they cancelled Red Dwarf because it was so expensive to make. It was cheaper to make panel shows like They Think It's Over.

The answer must be money Not enough, Too much etc

He was trying to become a star in his own right, and it just didn't pan out. One of his sitcoms bombed, and the only movie role he could get was as the butler in Tomb Raider. Have noticed in the Dave reboot he seems to be just going through the motions as Rimmer as well, although to be fair the others have devolved into caricatures.

On the series 7 dvd there is a documentary and Chris explained that one of the reasons he chose to leave was because he was tired of the long shoots and constant re-shoots. The previous series production in particular was very difficult and had a lot of problems because it was moving more towards a sci-if adventure series and since he was dividing his time with RD and The Britas Empire it was tiring for him. So he decided to stick with Britas because it was a more traditional sitcom show. He also landed a supporting role in Tomb Raider which was pretty big for him. Ironically, in the Red Dwarf series 8 documentary, he explained that even though Britas was a more conventional sitcom, he realised nobody on Britas cared as much about the production side of the show like they did on Red Dwarf, and he realised he would never in his life be a show like Red Dwarf where you always laughed so coming back was an easy decision for him.

I met him in real life and he is funny in anything, even in person 😂

Both were great.

You really should've used capital letters, or quote marks. :)

@@knightad33 I do not get what you mean. I did put his name as first letter capitals. Why would I use quote marks. I am not quoting what someone said.

@@Lord_Skeptic It looks like he was a member of your family rather than in the cast of My Family.

​@@jamesdignanmusic2765this is a video about people who left TV programs so it is obvious I am talking about the TV program

@@Lord_Skeptic I know that, I was just explaining why it looked funny.

wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff

It is a mistake. They got the years the wrong way round.

As I understand that one, both the actor playing Blake and the actor playing Avon thought that the conflict between the two characters was unsustainable and at the end of the second series one of them would have to go. No personal animosity off-screen, it was just the way the character arcs seemed to be going. Gareth Roberts was happy to go off and do other things (and I suspect the Producers, righty, thought Avon to be the more interesting character of the two). He returned for the final episodes of both the seasons he wasn't in, but Blake's bloody demise at the end of Season Four was partly at Roberts's request because he wanted there to be no ambiguity about whether Blake was really dead.

@@chrispalmer7893 The actor was Gareth Thomas - sadly, like Paul Darrow, now deceased.

i have to admit i laughed so loud at that Munchakin song he did on series 7 just show still back on the firsts show,

Got to admit, tikka to ride is one of my favourite red dwarf episodes

The one where they convince JFK to shoot himself could honestly be made into a film.

​@@haroldiniho726one of mine too

At the time of writing, Prunella Scales (Sybil) is still with us, but she's 91 and retired from acting so probably couldn't partake in a remake much.

The US tried, badly, to recreate Fawlty Towers, with Bea Arthur as the hotel owner. Complete disaster. The original had a great chemistry. America threw the formula out the window.

@@Rkenton48 the US tried to copy Fawlty Towers 4 times, each one bombed.

@@SpamEggSausage Thank goodness I only witnessed the one! A fat, semi-suave Manuel was more than anyone should ever have to endure.

If John Cleese had fewer ex-wives, this would never have happened

I think the series after Ralf left (series 7) is not too bad. That is to do with the return of Munch.

I vaguely remember reading something in her autobiography about her asking Bobby, so possibly.

late james hazeldine quit around same time two alpha males quitting double body blow then nick sicknote and recall all killed off. hardly a great advert for the fire service

@@christopherhayes2556 I forgot to mention the brilliant James hazeldine another nail in the coffin

easily done considering so many quit over a short period of time although he did reapperar from time to time as his character was not actually killed off like the others. glen murphy only one to survive from start to finish if memory serves me right@@GarethOwen-zq8hq

@@christopherhayes2556Andrew Kazamia whom played Nick apparently asked for a pay rise, but ITV were already going down the budget “ dumbed down “ route that up you see today so they killed his character off.

thank you yes i can recall reading an article saying he quit over pay. cant recall watching him in any tv since unless he does stage.producersdirectors can curtail career if you upset them@@jane1975

That's being very kind to him. If you shout, stomp and sweat like you're funny; that will be enough, and the audience will be relieved to just be distracted from their emptiness for a few minutes. Hope you never have to open it.

I agree on Tim Vine. Katy Wix was good in it, but she was just the typical dunce character. Tim Vine co-wrote the early series' and as much as I love Lee Mack, I think it had a higher joke count early on.

@@alexinterconnects That's hardly surprising. Doesn't Tim Vine hold the record for the most jokes told in a minute or something?

The first few derives were good, but was never the same after Tim left. I haven’t seem any of the later episodes where Lucy and Lee are now married; though I did see the wedding episode. Think they should have left it there

4 of the 8 episodes

Chloe Annette was in crime traveler after red dwarf

@@Lord_Skeptic I did like that show! Time for a rewatch

Toys, pram.

Yes, I agree with you there.

Yeah. And from memory she at least gave more notice than Dan Stevens that she wasn't renewing the contract, he decided later on that he also wanted to leave the series, which is why Matthew ended up in a sudden tragic car accident. It was still really emotional to see the two characters die, though.

That was no bad thing

Still doing weather reports!

1/2 of series 7. There was 8 episodes in series 7. He was in 4 episodes.

She left ballykiss angel dervla kirwin that was never the same agreed on men behaving badly but game on was better with Ben chaplain

​@@GarethOwen-zq8hq- never heard of sentences and punctuation?

Spot on although Gary Webster is a good man it just wasn't the same

He stared in it. Wrote the theme tune. Sang the theme tune.

No shit Sherlock

this!

@@WatchMojoUK He retired to spend time with his family

I know how you feel, but I have nothing but respect for stars who retire (TRULY retire) to spend time with their family. They have enough money, now they just want a life. Another wonderful example is Rick Moranis.

Totally agree, I couldn’t stand the woman

Bigots will always find an audience

What!?! what he said of Harry and Megan was true?

And that POS weather man is still reading the weather.

GMB figures have recovered over time, and desite Morgan's claims, no, his show doesn't perform better than GMB. Indeed, his show and the channel as a whole lag behind the indescribably pisspoor GB News; challenging ITV / BBC seems like a pipe dream. Morgan is what he always was, a blowhard who confuses having people's attention for having their respect. Normally I'd say he'd be better suited to the US TV market but he's already demonstrated that he'd do no better over there.

Piers is just sore that Meghan wants nothing to do with him, so he acted like a creepy, obsessive ex - it was about time someone told him to shut up.

@dementednun1175. Stop talking out of your big fat American arse - Fawlty Towers was not cancelled full stop. John Cleese and Connie Booth decided to choose quality over quantity and stop making FT's after 12 near perfect episodes. This will be a concept alien to you (The One Where The Friends Wanted a Million Bucks an Episode for the Same old Tired Shtick) is just one example that springs to mind. Having a poor sense of humour is your problem *but* get your facts straight first 🙄

They are not racist. they are taking the piss out of racists.

I’m not a Fawlty Towers fan, but I do appreciate it was successful and still has a fan base. With that in mind, there is such a thing as quitting while you’re ahead

I don't think it was cancelled. John Cleese and Connie Booth thought that a third series would be hard to make as funny as the previous series.

@@Lord_Skeptic Yes, f****g auto correct

Mainstream still has to pretend to be woke not to offend the Floyd supporters.

Would you prefer "habitually dishonest GB News"? Or "constantly in breach of OfCom Guidelines GB News"? Or "batshit crazy but thankfully having very few viewers GB News"? Or "Fox News-wannabe GB News"? I assume not, because if you're objecting to "right wing" you probably don't accept the other equally valid descriptions...

Compared to the other channels we have it’s right leaning, but essentially it’s big tent and at least 3 presenters are left ( Andrew Doyle, Gloria De Piero and Paul Embry ).

@@jane1975 Just out of interest, if a rival channel had hired several current and previous Labour Ministers and MPs, plus a smattering of voices from the far left, would you consider them a left-wing channel? My guess is that you would (I wouldn't disagree). So a channel that has Rees-Mogg, had Esther McVey, has just hired Boris Johnson and also had Farage and Laurence Fox looks pretty right-wing to me (that's without even mentioning explicitly right-wing journalists). We've seen the "we've got some lefty presenters trick before" with Fox. Just having so left (or more accurately, not explicitly right-wing) presenters doesn't change the reality; you look at which presenters the channel pushes, and you look at who has control of the network. GB News is a right-wing channel, and as with Fox in the US, that's a reaction to all the other channels being... not that. GB News, like Fox before it, attempts to perpetuate the myth of a media dominated by the left, but the reality is far more subtle and complex. There is a general - but only general - tendency for national journalists to be relatively socially liberal, but they also tend to be conservative on fiscal issues. There is also a tendency for the right to define anything with which they disagree as "left" or even "far left" (some on the left do the same with the "right" and "far right"). This leads to bizarre characterisations such as seeing Cameron and Osborne as "centrists" despite an objectively right-wing (if unsuccessful) record in government.

It was a bad idea.

Err Norman wisdom wasn't funny either

Michael Jayston was great but Michel Byrne is a fine actor too. The scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where it dawns on Vogel that he is talking to Jones is sublime.

Michael Byrne is an excellent action but Michael Jayston's voice is Peter Guillam. Especially when listening to the TTSS audiobook. @@minsapint8007