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List of flops in entertainment
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Most of the items listed below are ones that had high expectations, large amounts of money or widespread publicity, but fell far short of success. Obviously, due to the subjective nature of "success" and "meeting expectations," there can be disagreement about what constitutes a "major flop."
Contents
* 1 Musical comebacks gone awry
* 2 Flops in sports
* 3 Flops in professional wrestling
o 3.1 See also
* 4 Flops in television
o 4.1 Flops in soap operas
o 4.2 Other flops in television
* 5 Turkeys (Flops in theatre)
* 6 Flops in film
Musical comebacks gone awry
* MC Hammer's failed restyling as a gangsta rapper
* New Kids on the Block's attempt to return with a more mature sound as "NKOTB"
* Diana Ross's "Diana Ross and the Supremes" tour, which was cancelled for lack of strong ticket sales and because she had refused to include other original members of the Supremes in the tour; 23 scheduled appearances were cut off.
* Vanilla Ice's multiple returns, such as his gangsta rap and nu metal phases, though his career has seen a sort of resurgence in 2005 due to his winning performance on Hit Me Baby One More Time.
* Jennifer Lopez's "Rebirth" was an attempt to rid the public conscience of the Gigli fiasco. The ill-received record ended up being a disappointment of its own.
* Victoria Beckham's attempts to launch a solo pop career after the break up of the Spice Girls. All the other former members had managed a UK Number One record. Her first solo album was released under the name 'V.B.' ala 'Jennifer Lopez' as "J-Lo" and after poor sales she was dropped. A second album was recorded with another label but when the first single release failed to make No. 1, the album was shelved.
* Peter Andre's eventual flop on stage after he tried to revitalise his career on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!. Andre was pelted with fruit and cans/bottles until forced to stop singing.
* Garth Brooks failed "Chris Gaines" persona. Chris Gaines' material was more alternative rock than country. Gaines' only album met with disappointing sales and reviews.
Flops in sports
* The American Basketball League
* The American Football Women's League
* The Chicago Cubs infamous "College of Coaches" (a coaching system meant to take ideas from several "coaches" instead of the usual manager, but failed resoundingly).
* The European Hockey League
* The World Hockey Association in both the 1970s and 2000s
* The United States Boxing Championship tournaments of the 1970s
* The United States Football League
* The World Football League
* The original World League of American Football, now NFL Europe
* The Women's Football Association
* The XFL
* The Baseball Network - A joint venture between Major League Baseball, ABC, and NBC1994-1995. that ran from
* The Triplecast - A pay-per-view service by NBC for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona.
* The List: Biggest Heisman flops
* ESPN25: The 25 Biggest Sports Flops
* The Ontario Motor Speedway, built in 1970 in Ontario, California, for $25.5 million, closed after the 1980 racing season
Flops in professional wrestling
Many gimmicks and storylines in professional wrestling have failed, but a select few have failed resoundingly. Examples:
* The Gobbledygooker - A wrestler dressed in a turkey outfit that was "hatched" during the 1990 Survivor Series, after months of hope. "Mean" Gene Okerlund frolicked in the ring with the giant turkey, even dancing to The Funky Chicken. The entire segment lasted upwards of 15 minutes, much to the fans' utter disinterest and even repulsion. Due to the overwhelming negative reaction, the character was scrapped. It did resurface once more, at Wrestlemania X-Seven for the gimmick Battle Royal, under the name "Gobbly Gooker" (the misspelling possibly due to the production team's uneducation of the gimmick).
* The Shockmaster Incident - A new wrestler who was heavily hyped in WCW, but tripped during his grand entrance. He killed any chance of being taken seriously.
* Xanta Klaus - At the WWF's December In Your House PPV, Savio Vega and 'Santa Claus' were at ringside handing out presents and playing to the fans. Heel manager The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase then appeared. DiBiase proclaimed that he can buy off Savio Vega. As Vega argued with DiBiase, 'Santa' jumped him from behind and attacked him. DiBiase did his trademark laugh and introduced this warped Santa as Xanta Klaus. Xanta would go on to have one more appearance (on the following night's Monday Night Raw), before never being mentioned again. The man who played Xanta would resurface again in ECW more famously as Balls Mahoney.
See also
* Wrestlecrap
Flops in television
Flops in soap operas
* 90-minute installments of the soap opera Another World, which were reduced back to one hour after sixteen months and a 50% ratings decline, from which the show never recovered
* The NBC soap opera Texas, originally made as a springboard for popular actress Beverlee McKinsey, who left the show after one year, causing the show's cancellation the following season
* The NBC soap opera Generations
* The BBC soap operas Triangle and Eldorado
* The ABC soap opera The City
* The relaunched ITV1 soap Crossroads
Other flops in television
* Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos Supposed to be a spinoff of Australia's Funniest Home Video Show, but canceled during its first episode. It simply went to a commercial and never came back.
* Galactica 1980. Sequal to the original show that was widley panned by fans and critics and was cancelled after five episodes.
* Bette Bette Midler's vanity show went well with neither tv audiences nor critics.
* Card Sharks, the 2001 revival hosted by Pat Bullard
* CBS 2 Information Network, from WCBS-TV New York
* Century City - A near-future take on ABC's popular court drama The Practice, which got canned shortly into its first season.
* Chalk This BBC comedy series was not the school's Fawlty Towers it could have been.
* CNN's specialized channels CNN Sports Illustrated and CNNfn
* Cop Rock Short-lived commercially unsuccessful effort to combine police drama with musical, by Steven Bochco.
* Coupling, the U.S. version
* Dolly!, starring Dolly Parton
* Double Trouble, highly advertised NBC sitcom that starred real life twins Liz and Jean Segal. It was cancelled after two seasons, but found life in constant reruns on USA Network.
* Father of the Pride - A 3D animated series about a pride of white lions owned by stage magicians Siegfried and Roy, which was cancelled early in its first season due to the fact that many saw it as a gimmick and a shill.
* Forever Eden - The first so-called 'never ending' reality television series, similar in format to Paradise Hotel. Fox cancelled the show during its first season.
* Head Cases was an American primetime dramedy television program, best known as the first show cancelled for the 2005-2006 season.It was broadcast by FOX and premiered on September 14, 2005. It was cancelled after two episode on September 22 after disastrous ratings and critical drubbing.
* G4techTV was the highly controversial merger of successful tech channel TechTV and failing gaming network G4.
* Law & Order: Trial by Jury was cancelled after two months, and was the first spin-off of the Law & Order series to be taken off the air. The cancellation came mostly from lackluster storylines (despite a cross-over with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), as well as the death of cast member Jerry Orbach.
* Let Loose Live Australian comedy show styled on Saturday Night Live which, despite extensive promotion, was cancelled by the Seven Network after two episodes due to poor ratings.
* Let's Make a Deal, the 2003 version hosted by Billy Bush
* Living It Up! With Ali & Jack Cancelled due to lack of success after a year.
* Pink Lady & Jeff This Japanese female singing duo's program is considered by many to be one of the worst television shows ever.
* Saturday Night Live, the disastrous 1980 season. After cast member Charles Rocket said the f-word on the air, every performer was fired—except Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo.
* Stooged Australian show heavily based on Punk'd and hosted by Rob Mills, cancelled after two episodes.
* Supertrain Is usually cited as the worst television flop ever, bringing NBC to the brink of bankrupcy.
* That '80s Show was supposed to be a successor of That 70s Show but failed to make it to a second season.
* The Chevy Chase Show was cancelled after five weeks and remains one of the most notorious failures in the history of broadcast television.
* The Magic Hour This 1998 critical disaster was hosted by Magic Johnson. It got canned after 2 months.
* The Magnificent Marble Machine, a game show hosted by Art James that aired on NBC1975-1976. from
* The Pat Sajak Show Late-night show on CBS that couldn't cut it against Johnny Carson.
* The Tomorrow People A remake of ITV's Doctor Who-rivalling science fiction series. It failed because it lacked everything that made the original series famous (and beloved): the title music, title sequences, "TIM" the computer, and so on. It was cancelled, surprisingly, after four series (in spite of disastrous ratings throughout the run).
* The Will A CBS reality show about a bunch of family members competing in challenges to become the heir to a large fortune. Despite heavy promotion, it was canceled after the first episode.
* Thicke of the Night, a talk show hosted by Alan Thicke
* Transformers: Zone, a Japanese anime that was canceled after the first episode. Any chance of a revival was killed when the rest of the show's story was published in a magazine.
* Turn-On, ABC's derivative answer to Laugh-In, became the first show to be cancelled by its network before the first episode had finished airing. In some markets, the show went to a commercial break and never came back.
* You Bet Your Life remake with Bill Cosby
* You're In the Picture, hosted by comedian Jackie Gleason, its sole broadcast on CBS was in January 1961. Gleason thought the game was so bad that on what was intended to be the show's second broadcast, he apologized for the previous week's atrocity. Reformatted into The Jackie Gleason Show.
* Who's Your Daddy? - A reality show that drew heavy controversy while getting less-than-stellar ratings. Fox dropped it after the pilot.
* On Air With Ryan Seacrest - On Air was a daytime talkshow that used heavy computer graphics and was hosted by Ryan Seacrest. The show recieved low ratings and was cancelled in less than six months.
* Toronto one - it is reported that Columnist Russell Smith of The Globe and Mail went so far as to call Toronto 1 a "wretched excuse for a television station." The station improved and is now renamed Sun-TV after the Toronto Sun newspaper.
See also: Jumping the shark; List of television shows cancelled after one episode
Turkeys (Flops in theatre)
* 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976): Lyrics by Alan J. Lerner, of My Fair Lady and Brigadoon fame; music by Leonard Bernstein (who had important Broadway successes such as On the Town, Candide, and, most notably West Side Story, to his credit). Closed after only seven performances. There was no cast recording made. An attempt was made to revive it in London in 1997. A reviewer commented: "As exhumations go, this one had its bright moments."
* Behind the Iron Mask (2005): This was written by John Robinson, who fulfilled his wife's dying wish to spend £500,000 on a West End production on this stage production of the story, The Man in the Iron Mask. It was so heavily panned by the critics that it has been scheduled to close after its second ever performance.
* Carrie (1988): A Broadway musical adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same title, starring Betty Buckley, closed after only five performances and 16 previews. One of the many problems plaguing the show was the bucket of pig blood used in a climactic scene in the film. In the play, it was replaced by people dabbing red paint on the actress's face, as actually pouring stage blood on the actress would have interfered with her body microphone. The show was such a notorious turkey it provided the title to Ken Mandelbaum's survey of theatrical disasters, Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops.
* Dance of the Vampires (2003): the English language rewrite of the successful Austrian Tanz der Vampire closed after only 56 performances on Broadway.
* Oscar: In October 2004, a musical by Mike Read about Oscar Wilde closed after just one night at the Shaw Theatre in Euston after a severe critical mauling.
Flops in film
A movie is most likely a flop if it doesn't perform as expected. A major movie flop might barely (or not even) make back the money it took to finance it. In extreme cases it might put the studio out of business.
A separate discussion of famously awful movies and box office bombs provides examples and rationales. See also Golden Raspberry Awards.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flops_in_entertainment"
Dr. sipmac does not own Wikipedia, and didn't write this article, but considers there was no reason for Jimbo Wales to delete it.
List of flops in entertainment
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Most of the items listed below are ones that had high expectations, large amounts of money or widespread publicity, but fell far short of success. Obviously, due to the subjective nature of "success" and "meeting expectations," there can be disagreement about what constitutes a "major flop."
Contents
* 1 Musical comebacks gone awry
* 2 Flops in sports
* 3 Flops in professional wrestling
o 3.1 See also
* 4 Flops in television
o 4.1 Flops in soap operas
o 4.2 Other flops in television
* 5 Turkeys (Flops in theatre)
* 6 Flops in film
Musical comebacks gone awry
* MC Hammer's failed restyling as a gangsta rapper
* New Kids on the Block's attempt to return with a more mature sound as "NKOTB"
* Diana Ross's "Diana Ross and the Supremes" tour, which was cancelled for lack of strong ticket sales and because she had refused to include other original members of the Supremes in the tour; 23 scheduled appearances were cut off.
* Vanilla Ice's multiple returns, such as his gangsta rap and nu metal phases, though his career has seen a sort of resurgence in 2005 due to his winning performance on Hit Me Baby One More Time.
* Jennifer Lopez's "Rebirth" was an attempt to rid the public conscience of the Gigli fiasco. The ill-received record ended up being a disappointment of its own.
* Victoria Beckham's attempts to launch a solo pop career after the break up of the Spice Girls. All the other former members had managed a UK Number One record. Her first solo album was released under the name 'V.B.' ala 'Jennifer Lopez' as "J-Lo" and after poor sales she was dropped. A second album was recorded with another label but when the first single release failed to make No. 1, the album was shelved.
* Peter Andre's eventual flop on stage after he tried to revitalise his career on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!. Andre was pelted with fruit and cans/bottles until forced to stop singing.
* Garth Brooks failed "Chris Gaines" persona. Chris Gaines' material was more alternative rock than country. Gaines' only album met with disappointing sales and reviews.
Flops in sports
* The American Basketball League
* The American Football Women's League
* The Chicago Cubs infamous "College of Coaches" (a coaching system meant to take ideas from several "coaches" instead of the usual manager, but failed resoundingly).
* The European Hockey League
* The World Hockey Association in both the 1970s and 2000s
* The United States Boxing Championship tournaments of the 1970s
* The United States Football League
* The World Football League
* The original World League of American Football, now NFL Europe
* The Women's Football Association
* The XFL
* The Baseball Network - A joint venture between Major League Baseball, ABC, and NBC1994-1995. that ran from
* The Triplecast - A pay-per-view service by NBC for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona.
* The List: Biggest Heisman flops
* ESPN25: The 25 Biggest Sports Flops
* The Ontario Motor Speedway, built in 1970 in Ontario, California, for $25.5 million, closed after the 1980 racing season
Flops in professional wrestling
Many gimmicks and storylines in professional wrestling have failed, but a select few have failed resoundingly. Examples:
* The Gobbledygooker - A wrestler dressed in a turkey outfit that was "hatched" during the 1990 Survivor Series, after months of hope. "Mean" Gene Okerlund frolicked in the ring with the giant turkey, even dancing to The Funky Chicken. The entire segment lasted upwards of 15 minutes, much to the fans' utter disinterest and even repulsion. Due to the overwhelming negative reaction, the character was scrapped. It did resurface once more, at Wrestlemania X-Seven for the gimmick Battle Royal, under the name "Gobbly Gooker" (the misspelling possibly due to the production team's uneducation of the gimmick).
* The Shockmaster Incident - A new wrestler who was heavily hyped in WCW, but tripped during his grand entrance. He killed any chance of being taken seriously.
* Xanta Klaus - At the WWF's December In Your House PPV, Savio Vega and 'Santa Claus' were at ringside handing out presents and playing to the fans. Heel manager The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase then appeared. DiBiase proclaimed that he can buy off Savio Vega. As Vega argued with DiBiase, 'Santa' jumped him from behind and attacked him. DiBiase did his trademark laugh and introduced this warped Santa as Xanta Klaus. Xanta would go on to have one more appearance (on the following night's Monday Night Raw), before never being mentioned again. The man who played Xanta would resurface again in ECW more famously as Balls Mahoney.
See also
* Wrestlecrap
Flops in television
Flops in soap operas
* 90-minute installments of the soap opera Another World, which were reduced back to one hour after sixteen months and a 50% ratings decline, from which the show never recovered
* The NBC soap opera Texas, originally made as a springboard for popular actress Beverlee McKinsey, who left the show after one year, causing the show's cancellation the following season
* The NBC soap opera Generations
* The BBC soap operas Triangle and Eldorado
* The ABC soap opera The City
* The relaunched ITV1 soap Crossroads
Other flops in television
* Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos Supposed to be a spinoff of Australia's Funniest Home Video Show, but canceled during its first episode. It simply went to a commercial and never came back.
* Galactica 1980. Sequal to the original show that was widley panned by fans and critics and was cancelled after five episodes.
* Bette Bette Midler's vanity show went well with neither tv audiences nor critics.
* Card Sharks, the 2001 revival hosted by Pat Bullard
* CBS 2 Information Network, from WCBS-TV New York
* Century City - A near-future take on ABC's popular court drama The Practice, which got canned shortly into its first season.
* Chalk This BBC comedy series was not the school's Fawlty Towers it could have been.
* CNN's specialized channels CNN Sports Illustrated and CNNfn
* Cop Rock Short-lived commercially unsuccessful effort to combine police drama with musical, by Steven Bochco.
* Coupling, the U.S. version
* Dolly!, starring Dolly Parton
* Double Trouble, highly advertised NBC sitcom that starred real life twins Liz and Jean Segal. It was cancelled after two seasons, but found life in constant reruns on USA Network.
* Father of the Pride - A 3D animated series about a pride of white lions owned by stage magicians Siegfried and Roy, which was cancelled early in its first season due to the fact that many saw it as a gimmick and a shill.
* Forever Eden - The first so-called 'never ending' reality television series, similar in format to Paradise Hotel. Fox cancelled the show during its first season.
* Head Cases was an American primetime dramedy television program, best known as the first show cancelled for the 2005-2006 season.It was broadcast by FOX and premiered on September 14, 2005. It was cancelled after two episode on September 22 after disastrous ratings and critical drubbing.
* G4techTV was the highly controversial merger of successful tech channel TechTV and failing gaming network G4.
* Law & Order: Trial by Jury was cancelled after two months, and was the first spin-off of the Law & Order series to be taken off the air. The cancellation came mostly from lackluster storylines (despite a cross-over with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), as well as the death of cast member Jerry Orbach.
* Let Loose Live Australian comedy show styled on Saturday Night Live which, despite extensive promotion, was cancelled by the Seven Network after two episodes due to poor ratings.
* Let's Make a Deal, the 2003 version hosted by Billy Bush
* Living It Up! With Ali & Jack Cancelled due to lack of success after a year.
* Pink Lady & Jeff This Japanese female singing duo's program is considered by many to be one of the worst television shows ever.
* Saturday Night Live, the disastrous 1980 season. After cast member Charles Rocket said the f-word on the air, every performer was fired—except Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo.
* Stooged Australian show heavily based on Punk'd and hosted by Rob Mills, cancelled after two episodes.
* Supertrain Is usually cited as the worst television flop ever, bringing NBC to the brink of bankrupcy.
* That '80s Show was supposed to be a successor of That 70s Show but failed to make it to a second season.
* The Chevy Chase Show was cancelled after five weeks and remains one of the most notorious failures in the history of broadcast television.
* The Magic Hour This 1998 critical disaster was hosted by Magic Johnson. It got canned after 2 months.
* The Magnificent Marble Machine, a game show hosted by Art James that aired on NBC1975-1976. from
* The Pat Sajak Show Late-night show on CBS that couldn't cut it against Johnny Carson.
* The Tomorrow People A remake of ITV's Doctor Who-rivalling science fiction series. It failed because it lacked everything that made the original series famous (and beloved): the title music, title sequences, "TIM" the computer, and so on. It was cancelled, surprisingly, after four series (in spite of disastrous ratings throughout the run).
* The Will A CBS reality show about a bunch of family members competing in challenges to become the heir to a large fortune. Despite heavy promotion, it was canceled after the first episode.
* Thicke of the Night, a talk show hosted by Alan Thicke
* Transformers: Zone, a Japanese anime that was canceled after the first episode. Any chance of a revival was killed when the rest of the show's story was published in a magazine.
* Turn-On, ABC's derivative answer to Laugh-In, became the first show to be cancelled by its network before the first episode had finished airing. In some markets, the show went to a commercial break and never came back.
* You Bet Your Life remake with Bill Cosby
* You're In the Picture, hosted by comedian Jackie Gleason, its sole broadcast on CBS was in January 1961. Gleason thought the game was so bad that on what was intended to be the show's second broadcast, he apologized for the previous week's atrocity. Reformatted into The Jackie Gleason Show.
* Who's Your Daddy? - A reality show that drew heavy controversy while getting less-than-stellar ratings. Fox dropped it after the pilot.
* On Air With Ryan Seacrest - On Air was a daytime talkshow that used heavy computer graphics and was hosted by Ryan Seacrest. The show recieved low ratings and was cancelled in less than six months.
* Toronto one - it is reported that Columnist Russell Smith of The Globe and Mail went so far as to call Toronto 1 a "wretched excuse for a television station." The station improved and is now renamed Sun-TV after the Toronto Sun newspaper.
See also: Jumping the shark; List of television shows cancelled after one episode
Turkeys (Flops in theatre)
* 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976): Lyrics by Alan J. Lerner, of My Fair Lady and Brigadoon fame; music by Leonard Bernstein (who had important Broadway successes such as On the Town, Candide, and, most notably West Side Story, to his credit). Closed after only seven performances. There was no cast recording made. An attempt was made to revive it in London in 1997. A reviewer commented: "As exhumations go, this one had its bright moments."
* Behind the Iron Mask (2005): This was written by John Robinson, who fulfilled his wife's dying wish to spend £500,000 on a West End production on this stage production of the story, The Man in the Iron Mask. It was so heavily panned by the critics that it has been scheduled to close after its second ever performance.
* Carrie (1988): A Broadway musical adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same title, starring Betty Buckley, closed after only five performances and 16 previews. One of the many problems plaguing the show was the bucket of pig blood used in a climactic scene in the film. In the play, it was replaced by people dabbing red paint on the actress's face, as actually pouring stage blood on the actress would have interfered with her body microphone. The show was such a notorious turkey it provided the title to Ken Mandelbaum's survey of theatrical disasters, Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops.
* Dance of the Vampires (2003): the English language rewrite of the successful Austrian Tanz der Vampire closed after only 56 performances on Broadway.
* Oscar: In October 2004, a musical by Mike Read about Oscar Wilde closed after just one night at the Shaw Theatre in Euston after a severe critical mauling.
Flops in film
A movie is most likely a flop if it doesn't perform as expected. A major movie flop might barely (or not even) make back the money it took to finance it. In extreme cases it might put the studio out of business.
A separate discussion of famously awful movies and box office bombs provides examples and rationales. See also Golden Raspberry Awards.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flops_in_entertainment"
Dr. sipmac does not own Wikipedia, and didn't write this article, but considers there was no reason for Jimbo Wales to delete it.
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