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Television Turmoil: Listen Up!

May 27, 2022May 27, 2022 liamgoncet

Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. As we reach the end of this little miniseries on the many failures of the Seinfeld cast, it feels only appropriate … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Listen Up!

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Television Turmoil: Watching Ellie

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. With the gift of hindsight, Julia Louis-Dreyfus seemed like the most obvious candidate to find television success post-Seinfeld. While Elaine wasn’t … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Watching Ellie

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Television Turmoil: Bob Patterson

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. The main cast of Seinfeld had their own unique talents that, when combined, helped elevate the show beyond standard sitcom fare. … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Bob Patterson

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Television Turmoil: The Michael Richards Show

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. How do you follow-up one of the greatest sitcoms of all time? It was a question that the main cast of … Continue reading Television Turmoil: The Michael Richards Show

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Television Turmoil: That 80s Show

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. As the 90s drew to a close, Fox had firmly established itself as the de facto fourth network on broadcast television. … Continue reading Television Turmoil: That 80s Show

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Television Turmoil: Teen Angel

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. Throughout much of the 90s, ABC’s TGIF block dominated in the coveted 18-49 demographic. Boosted by family-friendly sitcoms like Full House, … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Teen Angel

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Television Turmoil: Jennifer Slept Here

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. When attempting to pinpoint the moment TV became a regular fixture in people’s live, most point to the 60s as that … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Jennifer Slept Here

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Television Turmoil: Second Chance/Boys Will Be Boys

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. For over three decades, Americans had only a trio of options for their TV fix. CBS, NBC, and ABC comprised the … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Second Chance/Boys Will Be Boys

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Television Turmoil: Life with Lucy

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. Television, especially the sitcom, owes a lot to Lucille Ball. The odds are pretty good that you’ve read a line similar … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Life with Lucy

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Television Turmoil: My Secret Identity

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. The action-adventure genre has long been the backbone of many networks’ programming schedules. While never the most popular shows on air, … Continue reading Television Turmoil: My Secret Identity

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Television Turmoil: We Got It Made

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. The early 80s were something of a rebuilding period for NBC, to put it charitably. Under the tenure of Fred Silverman, … Continue reading Television Turmoil: We Got It Made

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Television Turmoil: Night Man

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. Superhero adaptations have been around almost as long as superheroes themselves. From the early Superman serials to Adam West’s Batman series … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Night Man

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Television Turmoil: Out of This World

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. In the late 80s, the landscape of television was undergoing a major shift. Cable TV had reached a larger audience than … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Out of This World

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Television Turmoil: $#*! My Dad Says

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. For the past two decades, CBS has remained at or near the top of the broadcast network game thanks to a … Continue reading Television Turmoil: $#*! My Dad Says

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Television Turmoil: Automan

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. It’s hard to say exactly where we would be in terms of special effects without the influence of Tron. The 1982 … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Automan

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Television Turmoil: Cop Rock

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. For good or for ill, police procedurals have been an integral part of the TV landscape from the beginning. From the … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Cop Rock

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Television Turmoil: Shasta McNasty

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. The 90s were a period of enormous growth for television. The rise of cable caused an explosion of channels attempting to … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Shasta McNasty

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Television Turmoil: Manimal

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. While we often overlook it, the title of a work does a lot of the heavy lifting with our first impressions. … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Manimal

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Television Turmoil: Cavemen

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the silver screen. Advertising and television have always been linked. From the early days where one sponsor would support an entire program to today, … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Cavemen

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Television Turmoil: Supertrain

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the silver screen. There are few people in the 70s TV landscape as influential as Fred Silverman. Described as “The Man with the Golden … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Supertrain

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Television Turmoil: Small Wonder

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Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the silver screen. It has been said many times over, but the 80s truly were a wild time, especially for TV. Save for the … Continue reading Television Turmoil: Small Wonder