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Post by The Tank on Jan 24, 2016 19:10:57 GMT -5
To keep this semi-related without making another joke about the Chef-killers that must not be named, That '70's Show losing Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher.
Granted, they were both moving on to brighter pastures, so it wasn't necessarily a boneheaded move for them, but it was certainly a boneheaded move for the show.
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Post by SmashTV on Jan 25, 2016 2:47:08 GMT -5
This is UK specific, but BBC Breakfast presenter Susannah Reid leaving for rival channel ITV's new morning show Good Morning Britain (itself a rehash of a title from the 1980s). She was getting a lot of media attention for how she looked, and seemed to me to believe her own hype; when she accepted the offer from ITV she was removed instantly from BBC Breakfast before reappearing on ITV as 'the face' of Good Morning Britain. Unfortunately, nobody seems to watch Good Morning Britain as it receives a regular beating in the ratings from the BBC. The whole set-up seems sterile, fake and lacking serious chemistry with the four presenters. It's got so bad that Piers Morgan has been brought in to boost ratings...but I digress. Susannah Reid is earning a decent wage, don't get me wrong - but her profile isn't as big as it could have been. The grass isn't always greener, right? I would say the bigger examples are Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley, the two hosts had earned themselves a reputation as likeable and approachable presenters as part of BBC One's The One Show, with Bleakley in particular becoming something of a tabloid favourite, before the two moved to ITV in a multi-million pound deal to front the channels new breakfast show daybreak. Despite a large amount of hype surrounding the new show Daybreak was a massive failure, being consistently retooled multiple times and the duo being axed as presenters after only a few months. Bleakley failed to get a major presenting role since the failure, whilst Chiles became a figure of ridicule as the face of ITV's football coverage. Meanwhile the One Show hires Matt Baker and Alex Jones as presenters, and becomes an even bigger hit for the BBC. on a similar note we can say Natasha Kaplinsky's ill fated move to Channel 5 I would say you're correct! Funnily enough, when Susannah Reid made the jump to ITV I did think of how it turned out for Blakely and Chiles. To me, that would have been the ultimate warning sign to stay where I was. |
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Post by The Lach is very tired on Jan 25, 2016 5:35:16 GMT -5
Sasha Alexander leaving NCIS looked like it was going to be a huge mistake until Rizzoli & Isles came along.
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Jan 25, 2016 9:02:09 GMT -5
Gemma Atkinson leaving Hollyoaks, she thought she was going to be a model and get into Hollywood.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 25, 2016 9:26:42 GMT -5
To keep this semi-related without making another joke about the Chef-killers that must not be named, That '70's Show losing Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher. Granted, they were both moving on to brighter pastures, so it wasn't necessarily a boneheaded move for them, but it was certainly a boneheaded move for the show. Depends. The show didn't do anything wrong by losing them, per se. But if you mean continuing the show after they were bot gone, by all means....yeah....bad idea. Luke Perry leaving '90210' is certianly up there. Granted, I get that he wanted to do other stuff (namely movies) but he left at the wrong time and ended up crawling back for the last season and a half. He seems to have steady work since '90210' actually ended |
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Post by BRV on Jan 25, 2016 9:46:45 GMT -5
Donald Glover leaving Community and I'm mostly a fan of his music. I would say he's gone on to have quite a nice career outside of "Community". He left the show early in the fifth season and the show continued to spiral in the nothingness of the television hinterlands for that season, then was relegated to streaming on Yahoo for season six, a season I'm pretty sure that literally zero people watched and was such a failure that Yahoo lost $40 million on its failed "Yahoo Screen" venture, which was shuttered altogether earlier this year. So it's not like "Community" ascended to these great heights after he departed. Meanwhile, Glover received two Grammy nominations in 2014, he's become a modestly successful rapper as Childish Gambino, and he's had supporting roles in "The Lazarus Effect" and "The Martian", and while "The Lazarus Effect" sucked and nobody was going to see "The Martian" because Donald Glover was in it, that's still a pretty solid career. It's not like sticking around on the set of "Community" for an additional season and a half would have been some massive boon to his career. |
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jan 25, 2016 12:48:33 GMT -5
This is UK specific, but BBC Breakfast presenter Susannah Reid leaving for rival channel ITV's new morning show Good Morning Britain (itself a rehash of a title from the 1980s). She was getting a lot of media attention for how she looked, and seemed to me to believe her own hype; when she accepted the offer from ITV she was removed instantly from BBC Breakfast before reappearing on ITV as 'the face' of Good Morning Britain. Unfortunately, nobody seems to watch Good Morning Britain as it receives a regular beating in the ratings from the BBC. The whole set-up seems sterile, fake and lacking serious chemistry with the four presenters. It's got so bad that Piers Morgan has been brought in to boost ratings...but I digress. Susannah Reid is earning a decent wage, don't get me wrong - but her profile isn't as big as it could have been. The grass isn't always greener, right? Piers Morgan is the new Roland Rat? I always thought he was a bit of a muppet. |
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Post by sternrogers01 on Jan 25, 2016 13:49:22 GMT -5
The BBC choosing to continue Live and Kicking after Jamie Thiekston and Zoe Ball left. None of their replacements ever gelled with one another and the woeful attempt at competing with Ant and Dec on the other end ultimately did the show in by 2001. Saturday mornings fizzled out altogether after SMTV ended.
Has Theikston done much since leaving Live and Kicking? I know Zoe landed on her feet but all I know of Jaime is he ended up doing voice-overs for those late night brit cop reality shows.
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Post by SmashTV on Jan 25, 2016 14:59:17 GMT -5
The BBC choosing to continue Live and Kicking after Jamie Thiekston and Zoe Ball left. None of their replacements ever gelled with one another and the woeful attempt at competing with Ant and Dec on the other end ultimately did the show in by 2001. Saturday mornings fizzled out altogether after SMTV ended. Has Theikston done much since leaving Live and Kicking? I know Zoe landed on her feet but all I know of Jaime is he ended up doing voice-overs for those late night brit cop reality shows. He was in some woeful sitcom with Amanda Holden, was a DJ on Heart FM and as you say, does the 'STOP! POLICE!' type show voice overs. A slippery slope...! Andi Peters and Emma Forbes were my Live and Kicking years; I went to university when Ball and Theakston took over, but somehow it wasn't the same. On a related note, Andi Peters and Zoe Ball opened a leisure estate near me some 20 years ago. Me and my mates gave him an 'An-diiii! An-diiii! And-iiii!' type football chant and got a smile and wave for our troubles.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 15:36:50 GMT -5
I think a few have touched on this already -- a real boneheaded move is when someone leaves a show and then........never has another big role again. Caruso is the legendary example, for having left NYPD Blue so early on, but the big success of CSI Miami several years later I think wipes that older move out completely. Sherry Stringfield's a much better example - left ER, breaking her contract to do so (which led to her being prohibited from doing anything else on TV for the remainder of that ER contract) and thus walked away from the show just as NBC execs were about to work a deal with the main cast to ensure them future earnings for the show's cable & syndication sales - so she was "blackballed" from TV for a while and walked away from a fortune. And then she came back many years later to the show, stuck around for a couple years, and then left the show *again*. Gadzooks, Caruso looks like a genius leprechaun in comparison. To keep this semi-related without making another joke about the Chef-killers that must not be named, That '70's Show losing Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher. Granted, they were both moving on to brighter pastures, so it wasn't necessarily a boneheaded move for them, but it was certainly a boneheaded move for the show. Kutcher, yes.....but to be fair, Topher Grace hasn't exactly lit the world on fire with his post-T7S roles. Heck, he's kinda vanished once or twice from the mainstream for a while since. I think part of why he left was because he was burned out - because the show just kept going and going with no end in sight. The frantic reaction to his departure (in writing him out and then existing another season without its main character) shows they realized the gig was up, and sure enough that 1 season without him was the end. Thank goodness they got him back for the final episode, and finally realized the show HAD to end with New Year's 1980. |
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Post by sternrogers01 on Jan 25, 2016 16:06:05 GMT -5
The BBC choosing to continue Live and Kicking after Jamie Thiekston and Zoe Ball left. None of their replacements ever gelled with one another and the woeful attempt at competing with Ant and Dec on the other end ultimately did the show in by 2001. Saturday mornings fizzled out altogether after SMTV ended. Has Theikston done much since leaving Live and Kicking? I know Zoe landed on her feet but all I know of Jaime is he ended up doing voice-overs for those late night brit cop reality shows. He was in some woeful sitcom with Amanda Holden, was a DJ on Heart FM and as you say, does the 'STOP! POLICE!' type show voice overs. A slippery slope...! Andi Peters and Emma Forbes were my Live and Kicking years; I went to university when Ball and Theakston took over, but somehow it wasn't the same. On a related note, Andi Peters and Zoe Ball opened a leisure estate near me some 20 years ago. Me and my mates gave him an 'An-diiii! An-diiii! And-iiii!' type football chant and got a smile and wave for our troubles. I loved Andi and Emma too...their back-to-back farewell episodes were event tv (well, I say back-to-back only in the sense that Andi left at the end of one series and then Emma got pregnant and had to step down from hosting the next, so the first Jaime and Zoe era episode devoted a bit to interviewing Emma on her way out) |
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 25, 2016 17:18:35 GMT -5
Terry Farrel (Jadzia Dax) leaving Deep Space Nine.
Screw you, Ezri Dax.
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Post by dablueboy on Jan 25, 2016 20:21:31 GMT -5
Gemma Atkinson leaving Hollyoaks, she thought she was going to be a model and get into Hollywood. Boneheaded at the time yes but she's bounced back well as doing I'm A Celeb led to a role in Casualty which in turn has led to her current role in Emmerdale |
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Post by SmashTV on Jan 26, 2016 3:51:37 GMT -5
He was in some woeful sitcom with Amanda Holden, was a DJ on Heart FM and as you say, does the 'STOP! POLICE!' type show voice overs. A slippery slope...! Andi Peters and Emma Forbes were my Live and Kicking years; I went to university when Ball and Theakston took over, but somehow it wasn't the same. On a related note, Andi Peters and Zoe Ball opened a leisure estate near me some 20 years ago. Me and my mates gave him an 'An-diiii! An-diiii! And-iiii!' type football chant and got a smile and wave for our troubles. I loved Andi and Emma too...their back-to-back farewell episodes were event tv (well, I say back-to-back only in the sense that Andi left at the end of one series and then Emma got pregnant and had to step down from hosting the next, so the first Jaime and Zoe era episode devoted a bit to interviewing Emma on her way out) Yeah, I remember that; they were both very tearful, and it was a nice way for us viewers to say goodbye as well. I remember on the show itself there was a time machine sketch, and Andi stepped in and came out dressed as an old man. Emma went in....and out stepped Nanette Newman i.e. her mum! I had an inkling that this might happen, but Andi wasn't in on the joke. As a result he almost collapsed with laughter, bless him. This will make me sound old (I'm 40), but kids today really have no concept of just how enjoyable 80s/mid 90s Saturday morning TV was. |
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Jan 26, 2016 4:08:23 GMT -5
Does anyone remember anything Chris Kattan did after leaving SNL? He fell off the face of the earth. Bad move on his part.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 26, 2016 4:36:36 GMT -5
Does anyone remember anything Chris Kattan did after leaving SNL? He fell off the face of the earth. Bad move on his part. If I am thinking of the same person,Kattan was on The Middle for the first 4 or 5 seasons. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jan 26, 2016 16:26:23 GMT -5
Would Chris Barrie count? I know he had Brittas Empire, but once that dried up, he made a few appearances in the Lara Croft movies and then I didn't see him again until Red Dwarf: Back to Earth. I worked for a supermarket in the UK called the Co-Op, and the training video, I swear to f***ing God (bro), starred Chris Barrie as the model bad employee. The kid who watched the training DVD with me had no idea what I was talking about, and no-one I tell ever believes me. |
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jan 26, 2016 16:31:44 GMT -5
A smaller name, but Christine Elise had a decent-sized roles on '90210' and 'ER' but left for a show called 'LA Firefighters' that lasted 6 episodes
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Jan 26, 2016 16:42:01 GMT -5
Craig Kilborn, anyone? Left The Daily Show for the Late, Late Show and the Daily Show becomes a phenomenon, leaves the Late, Late Show and his career has never recovered.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 26, 2016 17:34:47 GMT -5
Does anyone remember anything Chris Kattan did after leaving SNL? He fell off the face of the earth. Bad move on his part. Leaving SNL at the same time as Will Ferrell did him no favors |
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