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''The Brighton Belles'' is a short-lived
British sitcom A British sitcom or a Britcom is a situational comedy programme produced for British television. Most British sitcoms are recorded on studio sets, while some have an element of location filming. A handful are made almost exclusively on location ...
, based on the hit American sitcom '' The Golden Girls''. The programme consisted of 11 episodes, which were broadcast from 1993 until 1994, being pulled halfway through its run due to very poor ratings.


Cast

* Sheila Hancock as Frances *
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as Annie *
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as Bridget *
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as Josephine


Reception

''Brighton Belles'' was a commercial and critical failure, being mauled by critics. The
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Comedy Guide said of 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 television watchers .. and people felt no reason to tune-in to 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.' ''Brighton Belles'' performed so poorly in the ratings that it was pulled from the ITV schedule just six episodes into its run. The remaining episodes aired more than a year later in a filler slot, and were not screened by all ITV regions. When asked about the series in an interview from 2007, Sheila Hancock commented that '...It should have worked, the four of us are all old comedy hands and the initial scripts showed potential for growth. But Carlton ho produced the seriessimply didn't know how to produce comedy, they just wanted something cheap and easy to fill a half hour slot.' Meanwhile,
Wendy Craig Anne Gwendolyn "Wendy" Craig (born 20 June 1934) is an English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms ''Not in Front of the Children'', '' ...And Mother Makes Three'', '' ...And Mother Makes Five'' and ''Butterflies''. ...
- talking in previous interview, from 2003 - said '...On hindsight, it probably wasn't wise ttempting the series ''The Golden Girls'' was so globally popular and renowned that there's no way that a clone of it could do anything but pale in comparison.'


See also

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List of sitcoms known for negative reception The following is a list of situation comedy series that have been ranked among some of the worst series in television history. With the possible exception of reality television, the sitcom genre constitutes the largest category of poorly received ...


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IMDb Profile
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