I've got two shows I'll post here.
Record of the Year, it was the great idea for the award show for a song of the year but teen pop acts especially Westlife winning the the show year after year and in some cases the finalists let it down. It was the brainchild of the now discredited music mogul.
Record of the Year used to be a great marker on the way to Christmas for many years. What I especially used to like about it was that the regional voting system meant that the Channel Islands and the Scottish Borders became Britain's top rock powerbrokers, because all the regions awarded the same number of points. I wonder if record companies used to send pluggers to Carlisle and St Helier just so they could all vote for them.
I know it was mostly pointless when Westlife won all the time, but it was entertaining enough. I remember one year when they ran away with it, Mel Blatt from All Saints was sat behind them in the green room and every time they cut to them as the voting was going on, she was pulling a succession of ridiculous faces. She was such a great pop star.
Watch This Space, Channel 4's mid 1990s yoof interactive show that was supposed to allow viewers to decide what would be on the next show on the internet but system kept breaking down which is why the show failed.
I mentioned this on another thread, the interactivity was such that they did a "preview" before the series began introduced by Dominik Diamond, when we were invited to vote for the presenters, and after the show ended they had to apologise that they'd actually announced the wrong results because Dominik had read out the fake results they'd written on the same bit of paper for the rehearsal. I do remember Private Eye pointing out that, rather conveniently, the public had managed to vote for the most diverse presenter line-up possible - two men and two women, two black and two white. Almost as if they'd fixed it. Hem hem.
Anyway, as you say the whole point was that it was supposed to be as interactive as possible so they'd invite the audience to vote for what feature they'd do, and you could phone and fax and email in, and they'd do a link up to a cyber cafe every week for people to join in, but obviously the whole thing constantly fell apart and there were endless technical cock-ups, so by the end of the run it had more or less all been binned off and it was just the most bog-standard youth show you'd ever seen.