First viewed : 9 July 1993
Terry Wogan must have been laughing his socks off after the early evening soap that replaced him was axed after one torrid year of unceasing bad publicity. It's second only to Triangle in the annals of BBC TV disasters. The show got off to a bad start with audiences reacting badly to a character called Bunny, a middle aged slob with a teenage wife. It's hard to believe the writers really thought viewers could warm to a near-paedophile character. Added to that were too many inexperienced actors and persistent sound problems and the show never really recovered.
The ratings were actually improving when incoming Controller Alan Yentob decided to cancel the show. I decided to watch the last one out of sheer schadenfreude. The only thing I remember is that the show's JR character Marcus Tandy ( played by Jesse Birdsall, the one actor to draw positive comments from critics ) reappeared after he was supposed to be dead, yes that old chestnut.
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