• Posted in: Home
• 75
• Author: admin

Terrible TV Shows That Went On WAY Too Long. TV shows should have an expiration date. The length of a series can sometimes be its greatest strength. The time provided by an episodic structure gives a series a way to explore avenues and plots that movies simply can’t manage. All too frequently, however, that length can become a show’s greatest weakness.

• Murley has been a part of the Chicago music scene since 2005, performing at nearly every city venue and countless city festivals in the Chicagoland area.
• E! Online - Your source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and celebrity gossip. Check out the hottest fashion, photos, movies and TV shows!
• Check out Rolling Stone's latest political news and features covering today's hottest political topics and Matt Taibbi's take.

Empire ranks the hottest male actors out there, from Ryan Reynolds and Gosling to Benedict Cumberbatch take a look at the best faces in film. View the latest news from Dinosaur Isle, including the latest finds; including Caulkicephalus trimicrodon a new species of pterosaur unique to the Isle of Wight. The. Texarkana, Texas and Arkansas newspaper. Includes news, sports, opinion, and local information.

There’s a delicate and tricky balance of telling a story for a time, but not too long, in order to find that perfect ending. All the series on this list didn’t stick that landing, not by a long mile. These are shows that went far past where they should’ve ever ventured and ended years too late. They didn’t all start off terrible, though a few shows here never even had a halfway decent season. Watch La Bare Online. These are also series that were victims of their own success. Their stories reached (or could’ve reached) a pitch- perfect ending, but they went way beyond it and became very different – and much worse – as a result.

Before we get started, you’ll notice a couple notable shows missing from the list, like The Simpsons. While The Simpsons probably should’ve called it quits somewhere around season 1.

The Simpsons isn’t great anymore, but it can still occasionally be good. A similar situation befalls the likes of The X- Files, which did (and continues to) last too long, but there are more good seasons than bad with Mulder and Scully. For the series collected here, the scales fall in the opposite direction. Here are 1. 7 Terrible TV Shows That Went On WAY Too Long. 1. Glee. Throughout Glee’s six seasons, it became increasingly easy to make fun of it.

During its run, Glee became one of the most hated shows on TV, and most of that vitriol came from people who didn’t even watch the show. While the hate was a little bit overblown, it wasn’t unwarranted. After a semi- solid but goofy first season, Glee quickly went off the rails. The characters became gross parodies of themselves, and there appeared to be an incredibly forced effort for the show to tackle every hot button issue of the time. Halfway through season 2, it became abundantly clear that Glee had used up all its best material in the first season and half.

There was nowhere left to go that didn’t feel repetitive, but the show went on for another four years, which felt like forty. Desperate Housewives. Desperate Housewives had a schlocky title, but that was always the intention. The series was aiming for a quirky night- time soap and it succeeded … for a time. The truth is that Desperate Housewives fell into a similar trap as Glee. It had a wild first season, and then spent every subsequent year trying to imitate that magic with diminishing returns. The series began with the death of Brenda Song’s Mary Alice Young and the mystery surrounding her demise.

The death of the character was so important that she actually became the narrator. By the end of the first year though, the mystery of Mary’s death was wrapped up completely, and yet Song remained the show’s narrator for the next (insanely long) six seasons. The show never escaped the feeling of the first year, constantly reminding viewers that it was never as good as it started. Desperate Housewives went through time jumps, cast changes, and more deaths, but it never remotely improved on its okay first season. Awkward. Here’s another show that would’ve been best served as a one- season wonder.

When Awkward premiered, it seemed like it could be MTV’s chance to enter the original programming game with a serious contender. The first season of this high school comedy was quirky, fun, and unlike anything else on TV. Unfortunately, the next four seasons tried their hardest to tear down everything that made the first season so great. Main character Jenna became incredibly unlikable.

It was nearly impossible to root for her, which was a major disappointment given the fact that she began the series as the ultimate underdog. Worst of all, the show leaned heavily into the romance angle. Multiple love triangles popped up, each more unoriginal than the last.

Romance was never the show’s strongest element. Awkward began as a parody of the standard high school drama – and then became exactly what it was parodying. Bones. David Boreanaz has enjoyed a highly understated, but highly impressive, career on the small screen. Since his first major acting job on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1. TV show series regular every year. The biggest chunk of that resume, sadly, is devoted to his time on Bones.

In many respects, Bones was completely harmless. Boreanaz and his co- star Emily Deschanel were charming and had some fantastic chemistry together. It’s hard to call that a justifiable reason for a series to be on the air for more than a decade (1. Bones was never truly awful, but it was never quite good either.

It was aggressively mediocre, and it followed the all- too- familiar procedural structure of having a genius who couldn’t manage their personal life. There are things that are worse than being boring, we suppose? Dexter. Honestly, the first two seasons of Dexter are fantastic. If the series had been given a tight two or three season order, it would’ve been the story of one of TV’s best antiheroes.

Instead, Dexter was dragged out for seven long years. No matter how good it started out, ultimately, there were more bad seasons of Dexter than good ones.

By the end of Dexter, he wasn’t an interesting, morally ambiguous antihero anymore. Dexter was a bland superhero without powers, surrounded by a cast of morons and one- dimensional monsters. Unfortunately, the TV world doesn’t seem to have wrapped their heads around the source of the shortcomings of Dexter‘s later years. The show’s final showrunner, Scott Buck, continues to get high- profile work. With every horrible show that Buck helms, whether it be Iron Fist or Inhumans, it’s clear that the last years of Dexter weren’t a fluke.

Learn the lesson, Hollywood. When 2. 4 premiered in 2. TV landscape. As 2. After season 3, every subsequent year followed the exact same formula.

There was one tragic death to open the season, one mole working against the heroes, and ton of Jack Bauer torturing people. The series morphing into TV movies and a rebooted miniseries did help freshen things up in the slightest, but the change- up merely highlighted how stale and formulaic 2. The King of Queens.

Before Kevin James “gifted” the world with the comedic duds that are Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1 + 2 and every Adam Sandler movie after 2. The King of Queens.

King of Queens is the definition of cookie cutter sitcom. It had the hot wife and significantly less hot husband dynamic, the stereotypical dorky friends, and the show even managed to throw the wildly eccentric goofball into the mix as well. King of Queens was a humorless smoothie of far better sitcoms, but it still managed to go on for nine seasons, with over 2. Kevin James isn’t a terrible comedic actor. King of Queens surely wasted his talents, though, as it did everyone else who appeared in it, especially someone as brilliant as Patton Oswalt. Full House. Full House is a childhood favorite of many.

This doesn’t keep it from, objectively, being a terrible piece of TV. Full House is a product of its time and it fit in perfectly with the ABC’s family- friendly TGIF line- up from the 1. While some of the TGIF entries had depth to them and can still be enjoyed, Full House simply cannot be logged into either category.

Full House was less a TV show and more of catchphrase factory.

The Sexiest Men in Film. Want to know who made the top twenty of Hollywood's sexiest ladies and gents? We reveal the crème de la crème of our list here.

Or check out how the gals fared with our countdown of the top 5. Colin Farrell. There's something wounded and haunted about most of Colin Farrell's characters. Even if they're outwardly cheeky and confident, there's a depth and a dark side that's never far away, giving all his characters a little something extra. Bonus points too for those big soulful eyes and expressive eyebrows. SEXIEST ROLE: In his recent films, we think his Douglas Quaid in Total Recall might be a good shout (film quality aside). Further back, we've never forgotten Danny's sharp suits in Minority Report. STROKE OF CHARM: He discussed naked mud wrestling and being attacked by nether- regions on Conan.

Nicolaj Coster- Waldau. Thank goodness for Game Of Thrones. If not for HBO's fantasy behemoth we might never have learned about Coster- Waldau, who's overcome the fact that his character is incestuous and (latterly) one- handed to become one of the show's breakout stars. He's built on that with Mama and Headhunters, and now seems poised for Hollywood domination. Bring it on, frankly. SEXIEST ROLE: On the big screen it's Headhunters, where his extreme handsomeness and great suits drive Aksel Hennie's Roger Brown out of his mind with jealousy.

STROKE OF CHARM: On what his sisters think of his role as Jaime Lannister. Denzel Washington. Despite being a two- time Oscar winner and leading man for over 2. Denzel Washington isn't really the Hollywood type.

He – like the characters he often excels in – is more the down- to- Earth, stay- at- home type, and it's that steadiness of purpose and good sense that makes him all the more awesome. SEXIEST ROLE: Lt. Commander Ron Hunter in Crimson Tide. We love a man in uniform.

STROKE OF CHARM: Initially amusing and then inspiring speech at the University of Pennsylvania. Mark Ruffalo. Poor Mark Ruffalo is the lowest- placed Avenger (unless you count his alter- ego Hulk, who didn't make the cut) but we doubt he's too upset. The loveably crumpled, environmentally aware and thoroughly down- to- earth star has far bigger fish to fry, between campaigning to outlaw fracking and returning to Avengers 2 as Bruce Banner once more. SEXIEST ROLE: He's wildly loveable in 1. Going On 3. 0, and befuddled but brilliant in this summer's Now You See Me. STROKE OF CHARM: His reaction to the "Science Bros" meme which pairs Banner and Tony Stark in a (possibly sexual) relationship. Tom Cruise. As much as people like to gossip about his personal life and beliefs, let's get one thing clear: Tom Cruise is cool.

He's an insanely huge mega- star, a thrill- seeking daredevil who lives to climb high things and race fast things and, by all accounts, a caring and charismatic guy who goes out of his way to be nice to fans. SEXIEST ROLE: Mission: Impossible's Ethan Hunt, who stays impossibly agile even after 2. Stacee Jaxx and his assless chaps. STROKE OF CHARM: Here he is, about to get wet. Daniel Radcliffe. As the star of one of the biggest franchises ever, you'd forgive Daniel Radcliffe for being at least a tiny bit of a diva. And yet he's one of the nicest, most down- to- Earth men in show business, hard- working and apparently near egoless.

Now that Potter's behind him and he's proven himself onstage on and with The Woman In Black, we look forward to seeing what he does next. SEXIEST ROLE: We suspect it's going to be Horns, but since that isn't out yet, we're going to have to choose The Woman In Black because suggesting Harry Potter feels wrong. STROKE OF CHARM: He can sing The Elements. Viggo Mortensen. He's like a one- man United Nations. As well as speaking about eleventy billion languages, Mortensen has made films all over the world and unites the film industries of Spain, the US and Middle- earth.

He also writes poetry and paints – ladies? SEXIEST ROLE: It's tempting to just say Aragorn, but let's mix it up and suggest A History Of Violence's Tom Stall. STROKE OF CHARM: The story of his last day on The Lord Of The Rings is kind of adorable.

Colin Firth. If self- deprecation is an artform, Colin Firth is its Michelangelo. One of the great joys of seeing him win an Oscar for his fantastic turn in The King's Speech was watching Firth's outrageously humble and amusing speeches at a variety of awards shows.

But the sad fact is, we don't believe a word of them. He's really that great. SEXIEST ROLE: It is, and forever will be, TV's Mr Darcy. We pause here for a moment to pay tribute to that wet shirt.

STROKE OF CHARM: That Oscar acceptance speech. James Franco. He's a poet, a student, a director, a comedian, an artist and generally the busiest man in Hollywood. It's hard to remember the days when James Franco was just a teen heartthrob type; now he's turning his hand to everything. Just don't ask him to host the Oscars, and you should be fine. SEXIEST ROLE: Springbreakers – JUST KIDDING. Try Will in Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes: he's handsome, he's smart and he has chimps in his house! STROKE OF CHARM: He's Between Two Ferns!

Jude Law. As Jude Law ages (slightly) his handsomeness levels have shifted from blinding to merely overwhelming, and it's only helping him tackle more interesting roles and have a bit more fun in life. We can also tell you, based on his visit to Empire for a webchat earlier this year, that he smells absolutely great. SEXIEST ROLE: From his recent stuff, it has to be John Watson in Sherlock Holmes – for the magnificent moustache alone. STROKE OF CHARM: Here he is, reading the lyrics to Poker Face. Alan Rickman. World- weariness, a biting wit and a withering way with sarcasm can, it turns out, be crazy hot. Alan Rickman remains a perennial favourite in these votes (note that he is the second highest- placed Potter alum, behind only Pattinson) and that's because he's a classy gent. SEXIEST ROLE: If you like Nice Alan, Truly Madly Deeply.

If you prefer Manic Alan, try Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. Or for Classy Evil Alan, it has to be Die Hard. STROKE OF CHARM: Here he is, singing in French. Jensen Ackles. Technically, he's a film star because of My Bloody Valentine and the like, but let's be real: Ackles is here because Supernatural's Dean Winchester is one of the most compellingly complicated and searingly hot characters ever to grace a screen big or small. His best friend is an angel and he drives a cool car, but that's just a bonus. SEXIEST ROLE: Dean Winchester, a monster hunter so hot he doesn't really need the lighter to salt- and- burn his prey.

STROKE OF CHARM: Eye Of The Tiger. This man has no shame. Martin Freeman. There's a facebook group which suggests that Martin Freeman is made of “jam, kittens and rage”. That seems about right: he's simultaneously intensely likeable and a bit cuddly while also having hidden, dark depths.

It makes him the perfect foil for Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes, but also the ideal Bilbo and, increasingly, a sex symbol in his own right. SEXIEST ROLE: Tim from The Office, on the small screen, or John from Love Actually on the big, what with him being mostly naked and on a porn set.

STROKE OF CHARM: He was a delight in our Hobbit podcast interview. Aidan Turner. The young, hot dwarf in The Hobbit's company has played just about every supernatural beastie going, up to and including a Romantic poet. And no wonder: he's far too handsome to be an honest- to- goodness human being.

There must have been some sort of mistake.