GB News isn't right wing. It's broad tent. Astonishing that Ralf Little and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps didn't get a mention. His departure left the show a shadow of its former self.
10 Stars Who QUIT At the Worst Time 0142am 11.10.23 one of those moments wherein yer supposed to have noticed something and yert didnt notice what it was you were meant to notice... much to the chagrin of the person desperate to be noticed... noticed the lights atop the hillside, though...
Fawlty Towers stopped because both Cleese and Booth believed it would’ve declined in humour if it continued. John Cleese also stated that the first series had more to offer than the second series.
Red Dwarf suffered the double blow of Chris Barrie and co-writer Rob Grant quitting at roughly the same time... fair play to Doug Naylor for carrying on the series but the scripts have never quite been the same since, even with the return of Barrie
Absolutely. The standard of writing from series 7 onwards is not a patch on series 1-6. It baffled me why he left for Brittas as Brittas was about as funny as toothache.
It always seemed to me like Naylor was better suited to writing for children. Red Dwarf moved from the low budget, esoteric, cult appeal of the first 4 seasons, through in my opinion, the peak that was season 5, to the polish of season 6, but throughout, the scripts were mostly clever and tight. Seasons 7 onwards were, by comparison, panto. It was good when Barrie came back, but it never felt the same. Silly walks and silly faces, and somehow everything felt plasticcy. That's the only way I can think to describe it. Also, I think it was a mistake to bring Kochanski back without Clare Grogan on board. I didn't think much of Chloe Annett's performances, and she didn't even attempt a Scottish accent despite confirming the canon that she is from the Gorbals.
True. There's a sharpness to the Grant/Naylor scripts that's not quite there anymore when it became just Naylor. There are still some great ideas and nice character moments, but (as Ozzpot said) there's a whiff of panto to it that wasn't there before. Not breaking any new ground anymore, and content to just cruise comfortably in familiar territory.
I mean, Lee Evans also quit because his manager who was with him since he started out passed away, I think you should probably have credited or understood that was also a major part of his retirement.
Connie Booth was not "A Staple" In British Comedy in the 1970s. She did 12 Fawlty Towers and popped up in Monty Python now and again. She was no Mollie Sugden.
Faulty Towers ended because they thought it had done what it had set out to do. There were no more episodes going to be made. Cleese, Booth, Scales ... all have stated this, many times
I own the complete box set of the series, and the guy who they replaced him within the fourth and final series was ok, but just couldn't hold a candle to Coyle as Jeff.
"Rimmer World" was a big highlight of the series though. The Arnold Rimmer song is such a highlight of the show along with stuff like Dwayne Dibbley , Ace Rimmer and the Gelth race of aliens.
I would argue Barrie never really left Dwarf. His role was reduced in VII to finish Brittas Empire, but by VIII he was full time again. So he took maybe three episodes off? 🤷🏻♂️
And boy can you feel the absence of Cleese in that 4th series. No disrespect to the other Pythons - they're all hilarious in their own ways - but they're also all "nice." It's only really Cleese who could do glowering, intense and a bit "dangerous" ... in an extremely comedic way, of course. The balance just wasn't there anymore with a bunch of nice guys.
Blind Date was old hat at the turn of the millennium. It was pioneering and we still get that style of dating show now, but it had it's day when Wife Swap came out and had all the nastiness people wanted to see.
I'd love to know the real reason why Chris Barrie left Red Dwarf. There was something deeper going on there. Equally, I'd love to know what brought him back. I mean, he properly left. It wasn't just a hiatus. I'm also curious as to why the BBC axed Red Dwarf after series eight. It didn't make sense. Yes, the show had declined in its critical acclaim through series' seven and eight. But series eight, despite the split in opinion from fans, brought in absolutely massive ratings. The highest in the show's history by far, and even broke records on being the highest ratings in BBC Two's history. So why was it cancelled? Couple that with the VHS tapes being very financially lucrative, it raises questions as to what politics were going on behind the scenes for both Chris Barrie to quit, then return, and the BBC to also call time on a show which was at the height of ratings.
I think this video is wrong to say he left Red Dwarf to concentrate on The Brittas Empire because that latter also ended around the same time (final episode in February 1997, one month after the episode Rimmer left Red Dwarf). From memory - I was only 10 at the time so this is a little hazy - Barrie started a new sitcom called 'A Prince Among Men' and I expect he left/ended both the other two shows to concentrate on this. However I seem to remember A Prince Among Men bombed spectacularly and got cancelled, and so Barrie returned to Red Dwarf for series 8.
@@boyracer1987 I liked Prince Among Men, but it was very similar to Brittas. I wonder if they cancelled Red Dwarf because it was so expensive to make. It was cheaper to make panel shows like They Think It's Over.
He was trying to become a star in his own right, and it just didn't pan out. One of his sitcoms bombed, and the only movie role he could get was as the butler in Tomb Raider. Have noticed in the Dave reboot he seems to be just going through the motions as Rimmer as well, although to be fair the others have devolved into caricatures.
On the series 7 dvd there is a documentary and Chris explained that one of the reasons he chose to leave was because he was tired of the long shoots and constant re-shoots. The previous series production in particular was very difficult and had a lot of problems because it was moving more towards a sci-if adventure series and since he was dividing his time with RD and The Britas Empire it was tiring for him. So he decided to stick with Britas because it was a more traditional sitcom show. He also landed a supporting role in Tomb Raider which was pretty big for him. Ironically, in the Red Dwarf series 8 documentary, he explained that even though Britas was a more conventional sitcom, he realised nobody on Britas cared as much about the production side of the show like they did on Red Dwarf, and he realised he would never in his life be a show like Red Dwarf where you always laughed so coming back was an easy decision for him.
Cilla Black went on, "Blind Date," that was the disaster. The only decent thing Piers Morgan ever did was stop Jeremy Clarkson's fist (also the only decent thing Clarkson has ever done).
As I understand that one, both the actor playing Blake and the actor playing Avon thought that the conflict between the two characters was unsustainable and at the end of the second series one of them would have to go. No personal animosity off-screen, it was just the way the character arcs seemed to be going. Gareth Roberts was happy to go off and do other things (and I suspect the Producers, righty, thought Avon to be the more interesting character of the two). He returned for the final episodes of both the seasons he wasn't in, but Blake's bloody demise at the end of Season Four was partly at Roberts's request because he wanted there to be no ambiguity about whether Blake was really dead.
I can forgive Chris Barrie leaving Red Dwarf; The Brittas Empire is seriously underrated in my opinion. If I had to choose between them, I'm glad that he chose to continue on with The Brittas Empire.
Can’t stand Gemma Collins anyway! She a big egomaniac who needs bringing down a peg or too! So is it really any surprise that she walked out of i’m a celeb when they payed her upfront for it?! They should’ve withheld payment then that would’ve kept her in with the threat of having no money for doing it!!!!
Seasons 7 and 8 are considered low points for Red Dwarf, due to Chris Barrie being absent for most of the former season, and the show feeling less like a sitcom and more like a standard sci-fi adventure show in those years. The first Dave season, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth (Season 9) also has its problems, though fans usually cut it a little more slack since it was produced on a very short schedule with even less budget than usual. Kristine Kochanski, who was introduced as Rimmer's replacement in Season 7, is an incredibly annoying character who sucks the fun out of any scene she's in. Fortunately, aside from a brief cameo in Back to Earth, the Dave episodes have completely ignored the character, and Doug Naylor has said she probably won't ever return. Red Dwarf is still a great series, but Season 7 was not that good Season from a good TV show. Two episodes from Season 7 that I like Stoke Me a Clipper and Blue. I'm glad that Rimmer was back in Season 8.
Also bad girls became bad when Yvonne left also two pints of lager suffered when Ralph little left and the last series was dreadful when Janet and Louise left
Chris Barrie never "Quit" Red Dwarf. He just had scheduling conflicts which meant he could only commit to 5 of the 8 episodes in a series that had usually been 6 episodes anyway. Hense how every clip you used in this video was from the season he apparently "quit" and he was back the first epidode of season 8. And even if you say he quit I don't think you can say he quit at "the worst time" given the only person who seems to have had any ill effects is the acvtress who played Kochanski having not appeared in anything since.
late james hazeldine quit around same time two alpha males quitting double body blow then nick sicknote and recall all killed off. hardly a great advert for the fire service
easily done considering so many quit over a short period of time although he did reapperar from time to time as his character was not actually killed off like the others. glen murphy only one to survive from start to finish if memory serves me right@@GarethOwen-zq8hq
@@christopherhayes2556Andrew Kazamia whom played Nick apparently asked for a pay rise, but ITV were already going down the budget “ dumbed down “ route that up you see today so they killed his character off.
thank you yes i can recall reading an article saying he quit over pay. cant recall watching him in any tv since unless he does stage.producersdirectors can curtail career if you upset them@@jane1975
The Evens retirement is simple. HE was not getting the movie and TV roles he wanted and being a stand up comic traveling all over the place gets old. He did it for 20 years. Also, the death of his long time manager hit him hard and made him ask questions.
Never really got the Lee Evans thing personally. Still have an unopened boxset of all his stand-ups sitting on my DVD shelf. He's not awful. And is certainly better than 90% of current stand-ups. But that says more about them than Lee I reckon.
That's being very kind to him. If you shout, stomp and sweat like you're funny; that will be enough, and the audience will be relieved to just be distracted from their emptiness for a few minutes. Hope you never have to open it.
Michael Jayston was great but Michel Byrne is a fine actor too. The scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where it dawns on Vogel that he is talking to Jones is sublime.
Chris’s departure feels like it doesn’t count hence coming back for Blue & then season 8 onwards. Also Andrew Neil’s latest stint on 4 is because of Nadine Dorries
Jessica Brown Findlay’s contract was for 3 years before she started her first scene. Want to blame somebody? Blame the producers who couldn’t find an actress who was willing to stay for every season front the start.
Yeah. And from memory she at least gave more notice than Dan Stevens that she wasn't renewing the contract, he decided later on that he also wanted to leave the series, which is why Matthew ended up in a sudden tragic car accident. It was still really emotional to see the two characters die, though.
Cilla Black got wind they were going to axe it anyway. So she decided to pull this pathetic prank on ITV and basically to save face she jumped before she was going to be pushed. Considering she was LWT's highest paid star, it was a bad way to go. But then years later she was quoted as saying how unprofessional she was that night. Funny how she never got another show with ITV after that!
Soldier Soldier suffered after Robson Green & Jerome Flynn left - the last two series were so dull and the show lost its spark as a whole without them being in it
I agree on Tim Vine. Katy Wix was good in it, but she was just the typical dunce character. Tim Vine co-wrote the early series' and as much as I love Lee Mack, I think it had a higher joke count early on.
The first few derives were good, but was never the same after Tim left. I haven’t seem any of the later episodes where Lucy and Lee are now married; though I did see the wedding episode. Think they should have left it there
Chris Barrie being absent from literally two thirds of one season out of is it 13 seasons now? hardly counts as 'quitting' I would personally say. As I've heard it said in the documentaries on the DVD's of each season (which are great btw) Chris was just finding it difficult to do both Red Dwarf and Brittas at the same time. So took a sort of mini hiatus from the Dwarf to get Brittas finished. I know in hindsight when bingeing the entire lot things can look different to when it was broadcast. But when doing that you hardly even notice Rimmer missing to be honest. And who could begrudge Chris the time off to make Brittas? A sitcom I personally consider on a par with Red Dwarf. AND we got Chloe Annett to look at for a few episodes.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Dervla Kirwan regretted quitting Goodnight Sweetheart when she did. There are shows that got better after one of the main actors quit, Men Behaving Badly was a lot better when Neil Morrissey replaced Harry Enfield and Game On was better after Neil Stuke replaced Ben Chaplin
I believe that it was the correct decision to end Faulty Towers after series 2, not because I didn't like it, I loved it. So many other sitcoms have gone on way past their sell-by- dates. A few of the other celebs mentioned were annoying and/or talentless and should have gone much earlier than they did. Mentioning no names.
Lee Evan retired after thr death of his manager. They'd worked together frim the beginning. Once he died Lee didn't see the point. His daughter was grown up ans wanted to spend more time with them.
Ridiculous putting Connie Booth in there! She didn't QUIT Fawlty Towers, did she? And giving up acting to become a Psychotherapist at the "wrong" time? was she about to make it big when she did? And thirdly, i can guarantee the Fawlty Towers update (if it ever happens) will be ubbish, so she's not "quitting at the wrong time" there, either!
I think Misfits had run it's life by season three anyhow. I couldn't stand Nathan. Rudy was ok. But the third season had no direction. Didn't do anything much with the new powers. And whilst the actors playing Kelly and Seth really tried to make that romance work, they did not have the chemistry. Season four had no direction at all, so I didn';t bother with the fifth.
I know how you feel, but I have nothing but respect for stars who retire (TRULY retire) to spend time with their family. They have enough money, now they just want a life. Another wonderful example is Rick Moranis.
And as for Chris Barrie? Well he’s an impressionist and their ALL tossers anyway! So he thought big headedly that he would rather do the crap sitcom where he had the “starring role” over the classic that is Red Dwarf? Well that is a surprise! And it never suffered for his “brief” departure anyway! It was when they decided to bring back the entire crew that had been wiped out in the radiation leak that did it for me! Absolute shite after that happened! And I have never had any time for it ever since!!!!
Fawlty Towers one of the greatest sitcoms ever made not by American standards ... not to mention it was cancelled after two seasons and at least 4 of those 12 episodes are very racist.
@dementednun1175. Stop talking out of your big fat American arse - Fawlty Towers was not cancelled full stop. John Cleese and Connie Booth decided to choose quality over quantity and stop making FT's after 12 near perfect episodes. This will be a concept alien to you (The One Where The Friends Wanted a Million Bucks an Episode for the Same old Tired Shtick) is just one example that springs to mind. Having a poor sense of humour is your problem *but* get your facts straight first 🙄
I’m not a Fawlty Towers fan, but I do appreciate it was successful and still has a fan base. With that in mind, there is such a thing as quitting while you’re ahead
Pires morgan got the last laugh to be honest 🤷♀️ It got found out that what he was saying about Megan markale and Harry was true. GMB views went down by so much once he left. And he got his own show which is also performing better than GMB. So i think he is doing ok aha 😂
GMB figures have recovered over time, and desite Morgan's claims, no, his show doesn't perform better than GMB. Indeed, his show and the channel as a whole lag behind the indescribably pisspoor GB News; challenging ITV / BBC seems like a pipe dream. Morgan is what he always was, a blowhard who confuses having people's attention for having their respect. Normally I'd say he'd be better suited to the US TV market but he's already demonstrated that he'd do no better over there.
Would you prefer "habitually dishonest GB News"? Or "constantly in breach of OfCom Guidelines GB News"? Or "batshit crazy but thankfully having very few viewers GB News"? Or "Fox News-wannabe GB News"? I assume not, because if you're objecting to "right wing" you probably don't accept the other equally valid descriptions...
Compared to the other channels we have it’s right leaning, but essentially it’s big tent and at least 3 presenters are left ( Andrew Doyle, Gloria De Piero and Paul Embry ).
@@jane1975 Just out of interest, if a rival channel had hired several current and previous Labour Ministers and MPs, plus a smattering of voices from the far left, would you consider them a left-wing channel? My guess is that you would (I wouldn't disagree). So a channel that has Rees-Mogg, had Esther McVey, has just hired Boris Johnson and also had Farage and Laurence Fox looks pretty right-wing to me (that's without even mentioning explicitly right-wing journalists). We've seen the "we've got some lefty presenters trick before" with Fox. Just having so left (or more accurately, not explicitly right-wing) presenters doesn't change the reality; you look at which presenters the channel pushes, and you look at who has control of the network. GB News is a right-wing channel, and as with Fox in the US, that's a reaction to all the other channels being... not that. GB News, like Fox before it, attempts to perpetuate the myth of a media dominated by the left, but the reality is far more subtle and complex. There is a general - but only general - tendency for national journalists to be relatively socially liberal, but they also tend to be conservative on fiscal issues. There is also a tendency for the right to define anything with which they disagree as "left" or even "far left" (some on the left do the same with the "right" and "far right"). This leads to bizarre characterisations such as seeing Cameron and Osborne as "centrists" despite an objectively right-wing (if unsuccessful) record in government.
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GB News isn't right wing. It's broad tent.
Astonishing that Ralf Little and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps didn't get a mention. His departure left the show a shadow of its former self.
10 Stars Who QUIT At the Worst Time 0142am 11.10.23 one of those moments wherein yer supposed to have noticed something and yert didnt notice what it was you were meant to notice... much to the chagrin of the person desperate to be noticed... noticed the lights atop the hillside, though...
Fawlty Towers stopped because both Cleese and Booth believed it would’ve declined in humour if it continued. John Cleese also stated that the first series had more to offer than the second series.
Yes, I've heard John Cleese say that a few times. We just have to be happy with only twelve episodes of Fawlty Towers.
Red Dwarf suffered the double blow of Chris Barrie and co-writer Rob Grant quitting at roughly the same time... fair play to Doug Naylor for carrying on the series but the scripts have never quite been the same since, even with the return of Barrie
Absolutely. The standard of writing from series 7 onwards is not a patch on series 1-6. It baffled me why he left for Brittas as Brittas was about as funny as toothache.
I guess because he starred in the Brittas Empire, whereas he just co-starred in Red Dwarf. And he's said he was getting fed up playing just Rimmer.
It always seemed to me like Naylor was better suited to writing for children. Red Dwarf moved from the low budget, esoteric, cult appeal of the first 4 seasons, through in my opinion, the peak that was season 5, to the polish of season 6, but throughout, the scripts were mostly clever and tight. Seasons 7 onwards were, by comparison, panto.
It was good when Barrie came back, but it never felt the same. Silly walks and silly faces, and somehow everything felt plasticcy. That's the only way I can think to describe it.
Also, I think it was a mistake to bring Kochanski back without Clare Grogan on board. I didn't think much of Chloe Annett's performances, and she didn't even attempt a Scottish accent despite confirming the canon that she is from the Gorbals.
True. There's a sharpness to the Grant/Naylor scripts that's not quite there anymore when it became just Naylor. There are still some great ideas and nice character moments, but (as Ozzpot said) there's a whiff of panto to it that wasn't there before. Not breaking any new ground anymore, and content to just cruise comfortably in familiar territory.
Have you seen it since it moved to Dave so much better than when it was on the BBC as they had such a bigger budget
I mean, Lee Evans also quit because his manager who was with him since he started out passed away, I think you should probably have credited or understood that was also a major part of his retirement.
Connie Booth was not "A Staple" In British Comedy in the 1970s. She did 12 Fawlty Towers and popped up in Monty Python now and again. She was no Mollie Sugden.
She did play a witch in The Holy Grail.
She was in the short films “Romance with Double Bass” and “The strange case of the End of civilisation as we know it”
Faulty Towers ended because they thought it had done what it had set out to do. There were no more episodes going to be made. Cleese, Booth, Scales ... all have stated this, many times
Richard Coyle's absence from the last series of "Coupling" was sadly missed - the show never recovered.
Yes agreed on that
Great suggestion
I phrased it badly - it wasn't his absence that was missed! But you know what I mean.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 you mean he was missed because of his absence
I own the complete box set of the series, and the guy who they replaced him within the fourth and final series was ok, but just couldn't hold a candle to Coyle as Jeff.
Surprisingly no one said Dennis Waterman minder it definitely was not the same nothing against Gary Webster but the chemistry wasn't the same
I still have The Dennis Waterman Minder box set on DVD and watch it every now and then.
The Brittas Empire was absolutely hilarious in its day. I still watch it and laugh
"Rimmer World" was a big highlight of the series though. The Arnold Rimmer song is such a highlight of the show along with stuff like Dwayne Dibbley , Ace Rimmer and the Gelth race of aliens.
I would argue Barrie never really left Dwarf. His role was reduced in VII to finish Brittas Empire, but by VIII he was full time again. So he took maybe three episodes off? 🤷🏻♂️
4 episodes
John Cleese, when he left Monty Python's Flying Circus after the 3rd series. Totally absent from the 4th and final series.
Very true
And boy can you feel the absence of Cleese in that 4th series. No disrespect to the other Pythons - they're all hilarious in their own ways - but they're also all "nice." It's only really Cleese who could do glowering, intense and a bit "dangerous" ... in an extremely comedic way, of course. The balance just wasn't there anymore with a bunch of nice guys.
Blind Date was old hat at the turn of the millennium. It was pioneering and we still get that style of dating show now, but it had it's day when Wife Swap came out and had all the nastiness people wanted to see.
It was originally an Australian show
Not surprised about Cilla failing to inform the crew. By all accounts she was a complete 'Don't you know who I am' diva.
She was. She even stopped her husband launching his own signing career. I was never a huge fan of her but I totally disliked her and finding that out
And she didn’t even give a shit about her own mother I know from first hand experience
My wife cleaned for her and many other stars and she wasn't the nicest person
Bitter, bitter people. I'm no star or even someone in the 'biz but I met Cilla many times and she was lovely. Dunno who you people met.
@@stinameaner- signing career?
0:39 To be fair. It’s going to be difficult for Cilla Black to return.
She can return but with a H on her forehead.
Because she passed away in 2016
Gemma Colins a star???
To be fair, Piers Morgan did return. He even finished the segment. He quit that evening, yes, but he did return for the rest of the episode
The 💩shouldn’t be allowed on T.V 🤬🤢
He did?
Yes but he came back on with no clothes on whatsoever which is precisely why he got the boot entirely.
I'd love to know the real reason why Chris Barrie left Red Dwarf. There was something deeper going on there. Equally, I'd love to know what brought him back. I mean, he properly left. It wasn't just a hiatus. I'm also curious as to why the BBC axed Red Dwarf after series eight. It didn't make sense. Yes, the show had declined in its critical acclaim through series' seven and eight. But series eight, despite the split in opinion from fans, brought in absolutely massive ratings. The highest in the show's history by far, and even broke records on being the highest ratings in BBC Two's history. So why was it cancelled? Couple that with the VHS tapes being very financially lucrative, it raises questions as to what politics were going on behind the scenes for both Chris Barrie to quit, then return, and the BBC to also call time on a show which was at the height of ratings.
I think this video is wrong to say he left Red Dwarf to concentrate on The Brittas Empire because that latter also ended around the same time (final episode in February 1997, one month after the episode Rimmer left Red Dwarf). From memory - I was only 10 at the time so this is a little hazy - Barrie started a new sitcom called 'A Prince Among Men' and I expect he left/ended both the other two shows to concentrate on this. However I seem to remember A Prince Among Men bombed spectacularly and got cancelled, and so Barrie returned to Red Dwarf for series 8.
@@boyracer1987 I liked Prince Among Men, but it was very similar to Brittas. I wonder if they cancelled Red Dwarf because it was so expensive to make. It was cheaper to make panel shows like They Think It's Over.
The answer must be money Not enough, Too much etc
He was trying to become a star in his own right, and it just didn't pan out. One of his sitcoms bombed, and the only movie role he could get was as the butler in Tomb Raider.
Have noticed in the Dave reboot he seems to be just going through the motions as Rimmer as well, although to be fair the others have devolved into caricatures.
On the series 7 dvd there is a documentary and Chris explained that one of the reasons he chose to leave was because he was tired of the long shoots and constant re-shoots. The previous series production in particular was very difficult and had a lot of problems because it was moving more towards a sci-if adventure series and since he was dividing his time with RD and The Britas Empire it was tiring for him. So he decided to stick with Britas because it was a more traditional sitcom show. He also landed a supporting role in Tomb Raider which was pretty big for him. Ironically, in the Red Dwarf series 8 documentary, he explained that even though Britas was a more conventional sitcom, he realised nobody on Britas cared as much about the production side of the show like they did on Red Dwarf, and he realised he would never in his life be a show like Red Dwarf where you always laughed so coming back was an easy decision for him.
I’m American but I loved Fawlty Towers.
Cilla Black went on, "Blind Date," that was the disaster. The only decent thing Piers Morgan ever did was stop Jeremy Clarkson's fist (also the only decent thing Clarkson has ever done).
The Fawlty Towers graphics are shown as the WRONG WAY round 🤣🤣
Met Alex the weather man. Lovely bloke!
Dennis Waterman leaving Minder just was never the same when Gary Webster replaced him.
Spot on although Gary Webster is a good man it just wasn't the same
He stared in it. Wrote the theme tune. Sang the theme tune.
what about Blake's Seven losing Blake? would love to know what happened there.
As I understand that one, both the actor playing Blake and the actor playing Avon thought that the conflict between the two characters was unsustainable and at the end of the second series one of them would have to go. No personal animosity off-screen, it was just the way the character arcs seemed to be going. Gareth Roberts was happy to go off and do other things (and I suspect the Producers, righty, thought Avon to be the more interesting character of the two). He returned for the final episodes of both the seasons he wasn't in, but Blake's bloody demise at the end of Season Four was partly at Roberts's request because he wanted there to be no ambiguity about whether Blake was really dead.
@@chrispalmer7893 The actor was Gareth Thomas - sadly, like Paul Darrow, now deceased.
I felt like my family was not the same after Nick (Kris Marshall) Left.
You really should've used capital letters, or quote marks. :)
@@knightad33 I do not get what you mean.
I did put his name as first letter capitals. Why would I use quote marks. I am not quoting what someone said.
@@Lord_Skeptic It looks like he was a member of your family rather than in the cast of My Family.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765this is a video about people who left TV programs so it is obvious I am talking about the TV program
@@Lord_Skeptic I know that, I was just explaining why it looked funny.
I can forgive Chris Barrie leaving Red Dwarf; The Brittas Empire is seriously underrated in my opinion. If I had to choose between them, I'm glad that he chose to continue on with The Brittas Empire.
I met him in real life and he is funny in anything, even in person 😂
Both were great.
How exactly did Fawlty Towers run backwards 1979-1975???
wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff
It is a mistake. They got the years the wrong way round.
Can’t stand Gemma Collins anyway! She a big egomaniac who needs bringing down a peg or too! So is it really any surprise that she walked out of i’m a celeb when they payed her upfront for it?! They should’ve withheld payment then that would’ve kept her in with the threat of having no money for doing it!!!!
Seasons 7 and 8 are considered low points for Red Dwarf, due to Chris Barrie being absent for most of the former season, and the show feeling less like a sitcom and more like a standard sci-fi adventure show in those years. The first Dave season, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth (Season 9) also has its problems, though fans usually cut it a little more slack since it was produced on a very short schedule with even less budget than usual. Kristine Kochanski, who was introduced as Rimmer's replacement in Season 7, is an incredibly annoying character who sucks the fun out of any scene she's in. Fortunately, aside from a brief cameo in Back to Earth, the Dave episodes have completely ignored the character, and Doug Naylor has said she probably won't ever return. Red Dwarf is still a great series, but Season 7 was not that good Season from a good TV show. Two episodes from Season 7 that I like Stoke Me a Clipper and Blue. I'm glad that Rimmer was back in Season 8.
i have to admit i laughed so loud at that Munchakin song he did on series 7 just show still back on the firsts show,
Got to admit, tikka to ride is one of my favourite red dwarf episodes
The one where they convince JFK to shoot himself could honestly be made into a film.
@@haroldiniho726one of mine too
Confused by this- not all entries leaving were at the “worst time”…. 🤷🏼♀️
I understand most leaving. Done it for years or less. So tired. Red drawf was a shame when Chris left. Not the same without him.
Also bad girls became bad when Yvonne left also two pints of lager suffered when Ralph little left and the last series was dreadful when Janet and Louise left
I think the series after Ralf left (series 7) is not too bad.
That is to do with the return of Munch.
Wish that Lee Evens would come back hes one of my favourite comedians.
Chris Barrie never "Quit" Red Dwarf. He just had scheduling conflicts which meant he could only commit to 5 of the 8 episodes in a series that had usually been 6 episodes anyway. Hense how every clip you used in this video was from the season he apparently "quit" and he was back the first epidode of season 8. And even if you say he quit I don't think you can say he quit at "the worst time" given the only person who seems to have had any ill effects is the acvtress who played Kochanski having not appeared in anything since.
4 of the 8 episodes
Chloe Annette was in crime traveler after red dwarf
@@Lord_Skeptic I did like that show! Time for a rewatch
John hallam quitting London's burning was missed
late james hazeldine quit around same time two alpha males quitting double body blow then nick sicknote and recall all killed off. hardly a great advert for the fire service
@@christopherhayes2556 I forgot to mention the brilliant James hazeldine another nail in the coffin
easily done considering so many quit over a short period of time although he did reapperar from time to time as his character was not actually killed off like the others. glen murphy only one to survive from start to finish if memory serves me right@@GarethOwen-zq8hq
@@christopherhayes2556Andrew Kazamia whom played Nick apparently asked for a pay rise, but ITV were already going down the budget “ dumbed down “ route that up you see today so they killed his character off.
thank you yes i can recall reading an article saying he quit over pay. cant recall watching him in any tv since unless he does stage.producersdirectors can curtail career if you upset them@@jane1975
Wasnt it Cilla's dead husband telling her from beyond the grave to quit
I vaguely remember reading something in her autobiography about her asking Bobby, so possibly.
The Evens retirement is simple. HE was not getting the movie and TV roles he wanted and being a stand up comic traveling all over the place gets old. He did it for 20 years. Also, the death of his long time manager hit him hard and made him ask questions.
Toys, pram.
Where Christopher Eccleston in Dr Who?
Blind date was already finished by the time she quit it had gone stale a couple of series earlier.
Never really got the Lee Evans thing personally. Still have an unopened boxset of all his stand-ups sitting on my DVD shelf. He's not awful. And is certainly better than 90% of current stand-ups. But that says more about them than Lee I reckon.
That's being very kind to him. If you shout, stomp and sweat like you're funny; that will be enough, and the audience will be relieved to just be distracted from their emptiness for a few minutes. Hope you never have to open it.
Smiley's People suffered from a lack of Michael Jayston as Peter Guillam.
Michael Jayston was great but Michel Byrne is a fine actor too. The scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where it dawns on Vogel that he is talking to Jones is sublime.
Michael Byrne is an excellent action but Michael Jayston's voice is Peter Guillam. Especially when listening to the TTSS audiobook. @@minsapint8007
Piers "the snowflake" Morgan.
Chris’s departure feels like it doesn’t count hence coming back for Blue & then season 8 onwards. Also Andrew Neil’s latest stint on 4 is because of Nadine Dorries
Jessica Brown Findlay’s contract was for 3 years before she started her first scene.
Want to blame somebody? Blame the producers who couldn’t find an actress who was willing to stay for every season front the start.
Yeah. And from memory she at least gave more notice than Dan Stevens that she wasn't renewing the contract, he decided later on that he also wanted to leave the series, which is why Matthew ended up in a sudden tragic car accident. It was still really emotional to see the two characters die, though.
Cilla Black got wind they were going to axe it anyway. So she decided to pull this pathetic prank on ITV and basically to save face she jumped before she was going to be pushed. Considering she was LWT's highest paid star, it was a bad way to go. But then years later she was quoted as saying how unprofessional she was that night. Funny how she never got another show with ITV after that!
Soldier Soldier suffered after Robson Green & Jerome Flynn left - the last two series were so dull and the show lost its spark as a whole without them being in it
Fawlty Towers ran from 1979 to 1975?? Never knew time travel was involved
3:00 that’s not how time works
Here is one how about heartbeat that suffered when nick berry left where the heart is when Pam Ferris died suffered new tricks as well
Yes, I agree with you there.
Also I think and this will sound contraversial but I don't think not going out was funny when Tim vine and Katy Wix left
I agree on Tim Vine. Katy Wix was good in it, but she was just the typical dunce character. Tim Vine co-wrote the early series' and as much as I love Lee Mack, I think it had a higher joke count early on.
@@alexinterconnects That's hardly surprising. Doesn't Tim Vine hold the record for the most jokes told in a minute or something?
The first few derives were good, but was never the same after Tim left. I haven’t seem any of the later episodes where Lucy and Lee are now married; though I did see the wedding episode. Think they should have left it there
Very epic of cilla there was literally no more they could do with Blind Date they even stopped Cilla talking to the guest in the last years
That was no bad thing
Chris Barrie being absent from literally two thirds of one season out of is it 13 seasons now? hardly counts as 'quitting' I would personally say.
As I've heard it said in the documentaries on the DVD's of each season (which are great btw) Chris was just finding it difficult to do both Red Dwarf and Brittas at the same time. So took a sort of mini hiatus from the Dwarf to get Brittas finished.
I know in hindsight when bingeing the entire lot things can look different to when it was broadcast. But when doing that you hardly even notice Rimmer missing to be honest.
And who could begrudge Chris the time off to make Brittas? A sitcom I personally consider on a par with Red Dwarf. AND we got Chloe Annett to look at for a few episodes.
1/2 of series 7.
There was 8 episodes in series 7. He was in 4 episodes.
The Spectator is not news.
I stopped watching Red Dwarf after Series 6. I tried to like 7 but I couldn’t do it
“On accident “ instead of “by accident “. The worst one is Erbs. It’s spelt HERBS
All of these lists are so shoddy.
10:14 "Priests" is misspelled in the back.
I never got into Red Dwarf, but I loved The Britas Empire
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Dervla Kirwan regretted quitting Goodnight Sweetheart when she did.
There are shows that got better after one of the main actors quit, Men Behaving Badly was a lot better when Neil Morrissey replaced Harry Enfield and Game On was better after Neil Stuke replaced Ben Chaplin
She left ballykiss angel dervla kirwin that was never the same agreed on men behaving badly but game on was better with Ben chaplain
@@GarethOwen-zq8hq- never heard of sentences and punctuation?
We know what happened to Pearce morgan, but what happened to alex bereford
Still doing weather reports!
I believe that it was the correct decision to end Faulty Towers after series 2, not because I didn't like it, I loved it. So many other sitcoms have gone on way past their
sell-by- dates. A few of the other celebs mentioned were annoying and/or talentless and should have gone much earlier than they did. Mentioning no names.
Connie booth did fawlty towers between 1974-1979 not 1979-1974. Sorry, my brain saw it and I had to say something
Lee Evan retired after thr death of his manager. They'd worked together frim the beginning. Once he died Lee didn't see the point. His daughter was grown up ans wanted to spend more time with them.
Someone tell this narrator to release Roger.
Ridiculous putting Connie Booth in there! She didn't QUIT Fawlty Towers, did she? And giving up acting to become a Psychotherapist at the "wrong" time? was she about to make it big when she did? And thirdly, i can guarantee the Fawlty Towers update (if it ever happens) will be ubbish, so she's not "quitting at the wrong time" there, either!
piers should retire from ever showing his face again
Red dwarf went on and on and on far too long anyway
what about jasper carrot for loved comedian
I think Misfits had run it's life by season three anyhow. I couldn't stand Nathan. Rudy was ok. But the third season had no direction. Didn't do anything much with the new powers. And whilst the actors playing Kelly and Seth really tried to make that romance work, they did not have the chemistry. Season four had no direction at all, so I didn';t bother with the fifth.
Nonsence, Rimmer is still in Red Dwaft today.
fawlty towers ran from 1979-1975?
We need Lee Evans back. We need his delightful personality back in this shitty world.
this!
@@WatchMojoUK He retired to spend time with his family
I know how you feel, but I have nothing but respect for stars who retire (TRULY retire) to spend time with their family. They have enough money, now they just want a life. Another wonderful example is Rick Moranis.
Fawlty Towers being the best sitcom ever is surely a matter of opinion.
No shit Sherlock
Lorra loraa blinda-dateeaaa
Couldn't stand Cilla Black, and consequently anything with her in it. All her shows were terrible IMO.
Totally agree, I couldn’t stand the woman
And as for Chris Barrie? Well he’s an impressionist and their ALL tossers anyway! So he thought big headedly that he would rather do the crap sitcom where he had the “starring role” over the classic that is Red Dwarf? Well that is a surprise! And it never suffered for his “brief” departure anyway! It was when they decided to bring back the entire crew that had been wiped out in the radiation leak that did it for me! Absolute shite after that happened! And I have never had any time for it ever since!!!!
I love watch Mojo US, but the UK version is rubbish, especially with this narrator. It seems based solely on his limited experience and dodgy bias!
Fawlty Towers one of the greatest sitcoms ever made not by American standards ... not to mention it was cancelled after two seasons and at least 4 of those 12 episodes are very racist.
@dementednun1175. Stop talking out of your big fat American arse - Fawlty Towers was not cancelled full stop. John Cleese and Connie Booth decided to choose quality over quantity and stop making FT's after 12 near perfect episodes. This will be a concept alien to you (The One Where The Friends Wanted a Million Bucks an Episode for the Same old Tired Shtick) is just one example that springs to mind. Having a poor sense of humour is your problem *but* get your facts straight first 🙄
They are not racist. they are taking the piss out of racists.
I’m not a Fawlty Towers fan, but I do appreciate it was successful and still has a fan base. With that in mind, there is such a thing as quitting while you’re ahead
I don't think it was cancelled. John Cleese and Connie Booth thought that a third series would be hard to make as funny as the previous series.
@@Lord_Skeptic Yes, f****g auto correct
Pires morgan got the last laugh to be honest 🤷♀️
It got found out that what he was saying about Megan markale and Harry was true.
GMB views went down by so much once he left.
And he got his own show which is also performing better than GMB.
So i think he is doing ok aha 😂
Bigots will always find an audience
What!?! what he said of Harry and Megan was true?
And that POS weather man is still reading the weather.
GMB figures have recovered over time, and desite Morgan's claims, no, his show doesn't perform better than GMB. Indeed, his show and the channel as a whole lag behind the indescribably pisspoor GB News; challenging ITV / BBC seems like a pipe dream. Morgan is what he always was, a blowhard who confuses having people's attention for having their respect. Normally I'd say he'd be better suited to the US TV market but he's already demonstrated that he'd do no better over there.
Piers is just sore that Meghan wants nothing to do with him, so he acted like a creepy, obsessive ex - it was about time someone told him to shut up.
Most of these shows are really low grade garbage.
It was gonna be a thumbs up...until you said - "right wing GB News"....
So. thumbs down...
Mainstream still has to pretend to be woke not to offend the Floyd supporters.
Would you prefer "habitually dishonest GB News"? Or "constantly in breach of OfCom Guidelines GB News"? Or "batshit crazy but thankfully having very few viewers GB News"? Or "Fox News-wannabe GB News"? I assume not, because if you're objecting to "right wing" you probably don't accept the other equally valid descriptions...
Compared to the other channels we have it’s right leaning, but essentially it’s big tent and at least 3 presenters are left ( Andrew Doyle, Gloria De Piero and Paul Embry ).
@@jane1975 Just out of interest, if a rival channel had hired several current and previous Labour Ministers and MPs, plus a smattering of voices from the far left, would you consider them a left-wing channel? My guess is that you would (I wouldn't disagree). So a channel that has Rees-Mogg, had Esther McVey, has just hired Boris Johnson and also had Farage and Laurence Fox looks pretty right-wing to me (that's without even mentioning explicitly right-wing journalists). We've seen the "we've got some lefty presenters trick before" with Fox. Just having so left (or more accurately, not explicitly right-wing) presenters doesn't change the reality; you look at which presenters the channel pushes, and you look at who has control of the network.
GB News is a right-wing channel, and as with Fox in the US, that's a reaction to all the other channels being... not that. GB News, like Fox before it, attempts to perpetuate the myth of a media dominated by the left, but the reality is far more subtle and complex. There is a general - but only general - tendency for national journalists to be relatively socially liberal, but they also tend to be conservative on fiscal issues. There is also a tendency for the right to define anything with which they disagree as "left" or even "far left" (some on the left do the same with the "right" and "far right"). This leads to bizarre characterisations such as seeing Cameron and Osborne as "centrists" despite an objectively right-wing (if unsuccessful) record in government.
Lee Evans retiring was the best thing to happen for the world
It was a bad idea.
seems odd that Evans retired when he did
Love this channel,but this guy's voice!
Piers Morgan
Lee Evans is just not funny. He is a pale copy of Norman Wisdom, who wasn't funny either.
Err Norman wisdom wasn't funny either
ok ax