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TV Hell

6.5 / 10 · 2 votes
1992
1 season
1 episodes

TV Hell was a BBC2 theme night broadcast on 31 August 1992, showing a whole evening of archive television clips widely regarded by critics and the public alike as among the worst ever produced in Britain. It followed an unrelated series of archive theme nights called "TV Heaven", shown on Channel 4 earlier in 1992. TV Hell was defined as programmes and broadcasts where the conception of the production was misguided, even though it made use of established television cast and crew. Many of the resulting catastrophes caused promising careers to be curtailed, or in some cases led to a review of the commissioning process. The term "TV Hell" has since been adopted in media culture to describe television programmes which are not very good.

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Cast

Danny Baker

Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Introductions

    31-08-1992
  • Ep 2

    2.Disastermind

    31-08-1992
  • Ep 3

    3.It's a Knockout Compilation

    31-08-1992
  • Ep 4

    4.The Official History of Hell

    31-08-1992

    A to Z of TV Hell.

  • Ep 5

    5.Rock Bottom

    31-08-1992

    A deadpan comical look at the worst pop songs of all time with the morose John Peel.

  • Ep 6

    6.Going Logo

    31-08-1992
  • Ep 7

    7.Nicholas Craig's Masterpiece Theatre

    31-08-1992
  • Ep 8

    8.Triangle

    31-08-1992

    Introduced by Mark Lawson

  • Ep 9

    9.Nul Points?! A Brief History of the Eurovision Song Contest

    31-08-1992
  • Ep 10

    10.Credible Credits

    31-08-1992
  • Ep 11

    11.Hello and Goodbye

    31-08-1992

    Danny Baker on the Chat Show.

  • Ep 12

    12.The Secret Life of TV

    31-08-1992
  • Ep 13

    13.Storm in an Eggcup

    31-08-1992

    The hellish history of independent television's first foray into breakfast, TV-am (1983-1992).

  • Ep 14

    14.Mainly for Men

    31-08-1992

    Edited version of Mainly for Men (1969) - the first time this has been seen, as it was never actually transmitted in 1969.

  • Ep 15

    15.Trading Places

    31-08-1992

    Compilation of famous people not known for singing, who tried singing when they really shouldn't have. Not to be confused with an ITV show of the same title and year also with Cill...

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