(Do you smell a bit of desparation here?) Which sitcoms would have been more successful if they had been created later? The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin should have been in the 80s for example?
Which sitcom started too early?
Very interesting question!
There were a spate of perfectly good studio audience sitcoms that launched in the early 2000s, at the height of The Office hype, and consequently only lasted one or two series each. Either beginning a few years earlier or a few years later would surely have given them a longer run.
You're not talking about Hardware, Aar?
People Like Us perhaps should have been a year before The Office?
Weird, the moment I saw the title of this thread I thought of Reginald Perrin! I think it worked brilliantly when it was broadcast but definitely ahead of its time.
Game On perhaps? Not sure why; the 1st series had a particularly dark and isolated feel to it but was also excellent. Maybe a later audience more accustomed to its kind of tone would have boosted its ratings for the 1st series and persuaded Ben Chaplin to stay? After he left the show nosedived for me.
Gavin and Stacey
It's should have started about 300 years after my cold dead body is six feet under the ground pushing up the daisies
Could we have one thread that isn't about shows we hate?
No? Oh well.
The Lovers?
I am not sure how big a series it was but as Wilcox and Beckinsale went on to do Man About The House and Rising Damp/Porridge respectively it would have been bigger if it has been made at the same time as those.
Quote: Paul Wimsett @ 13th August 2014, 5:02 PM BSTPeople Like Us perhaps should have been a year before The Office?
I believe The Office was commissioned instead of a third series of People Like Us.
My wish has come true!
On the Buses should've waited for another bus sitcom before going out.