ITV axe sitcoms

So underrated and under repeated.
Probably ITV’s most funny sitcom.

Barbara was great

It should be on repeat more, didn't they say they were resting Heartbeat and The Royal?

Blimey there is an ITV Comedy YouTube channel. They stopped posting 3 years ago.

ITV is not well known for Comedy and never has been. When it used to broadcast the British Comedy Awards, everyone questioned why it was broadcast on ITV when they contribute very little to Comedy.

They pick up on the odd gem but they milk the hell out of it when they do. Benidorm lasted 7 series too many.

And it was only on for six!

Well if by six you mean ten, then yes. (Not that I agree with RDJ's assessment)

I wish they'd moved them on into the 70s, may have given them an extended life compared to being stuck in a 60s limbo for 18 years.

More shockingly it was probably one of the only decent things to have the Carlton name attached to it. I believe it was the last sitcom to be filmed at Lenton Lane.

Wasn't Barabara technically a Central production? Just made around the time of the switch to Carlton.

And I don't think it was the last, Doctors and Nurses, which went out on BBC1 in 2004, was.

I think the last series of Barbara was made quite a while before it went out, IIRC it was split into two series with a gap of around a year in the middle (but they were all made at the same time). Was probably made a good couple of years before Lenton Lane closed.

Didn't they have more Christmases in Heartbeat than there were Christmases in the 1960s?

Of course, there was the spin-off of The Royal: The Royal Today. Not particularly successful if I recall correctly.

Well yes, considering their decade lasted for 18 years (or longer if you consider it was meant to be 1964 when it started).

Heartbeat was a 1960s drama though, that’s why people watched it. It’s not like a soap that has to have a logical progression of time.