TV shows that never come back?

I have to ask, what happened to a number of shows over the years?

Such as

End of part one
Russ abbot
Mike yarwood
Rutland weekend tv
All 27 episode of Not the nine oclock news

and this is just to name a few of tv shows which have never made it back to repeats anywhere or even made it to dvds

but why have tv people kept some of these shows to the vaults?

I think it's more a case that they haven't got round to repeating them/not the sort of stuff that most people would want to see repeated. I know that Not the Nine O'Clock News has been repeated though.

But I'm sure they're all safe and won't get lost or destroyed by the evil people.

Ah with NNON there have only broadcast The Best of, = 8 episodes so there still another 19 episode with of stuff to repeat

The full run of Not The Nine O'Clock News has never been repeated, what we see is either a 6 or 8 episode compilation of the very best of the programme that the BBC made in 1995.

Although I've noticed one of the episodes has been re-edited recently to remove a scene with Chris Langham from it. It's obvious as all the credits have been rewritten, and the BBC copyright for 1995 is using the 1997 BBC logo.

Isn't it just a case that shows like that are usually quite topical, so TV execs don't think we'd get the jokes now - although I know they used to repeat Drop the Dead Donkey with a recap of the main news from the era at the beginning.

programmes never to return

big brother

ITV could save a few bob scrapping 'I'm a dead entity, sorry 'I'm a celebrity'


I saw not the nine o clock news compliations in either 98, 99 or 2000

programmes not likely to return

life of riley

It's still being repeated like that on Paramount 2 and has been for several years now.

Ok then does this make you smile?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya6oo5A9Y3k

You're going to be in for a big shock for the next 2 years then

Another show which seems to disappeared was "Watching" I believe that got around 12million viewers

i see what you did there.

Hilarious.

Part of the problem with "End of Part One" was that it was screened in a Sunday afternoon slot when it was transmitted, instead of at peaktime. This irked its creators and writers, Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, so much that they refused to write any more episodes. As far as I know, the two series of End of Part One have never been repeated either.