The Brighton Belles

Brighton Belles
Starring Sheila Hancock
Wendy Craig
Sheila Gish
Jean Boht
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 2
No. of episodes 11
Production
Running time 30mins (inc. adverts)
Production company(s) Carlton Television[1]
Release
Original network ITV
Original release 9 March 1993 – 28 December 1994[1]

Brighton Belles was a short-lived British sitcom,[2] based on the hit U.S. NBC sitcom The Golden Girls. The programme consisted of 11 episodes, which were broadcast from 1993 until 1994.[3]

Cast

Reception

The series was a commercial and critical failure. It is included in Jeff Evans's list of the twenty worst TV series of all time.[citation needed] The BBC comedy guide said about the series' failure: "Why did it fail? Several explanations apply, but the simplest has to be that The Golden Girls itself was already familiar to most British TV watchers [...], and people felt no reason to tune into a UK adaptation delivering the same lines. When an original piece is already nigh-on perfect, and has sated its public, why try to sell a replica? Most transatlantic sitcom adaptations air without the original series having been seen in that territory. To pitch to viewers a carbon copy of an already successful series seems pointless - in hindsight, at least."[2]

The show performed so poorly in the ratings that it was pulled from the ITV schedule halfway through its run.[4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 "BBC - Comedy Guide - Brighton Belles". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 31 December 2004. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  2. 1 2 "Brighton Belles". British comedy Guide. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "Will a Stupid Stupid Man travel better? - TV & Radio - Entertainment". Theage.com.au. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
  4. ↑ McCann, Paul (1999-02-04). "ITV pins sitcom hope on US guru - News". The Independent. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
  5. ↑ James Rampton (1993-03-09). "TELEVISION / BRIEFING: Liverpudlian turmoil - Arts & Entertainment". The Independent. Retrieved 2012-11-22.

See also

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