| − | Many of the worst television shows in history have originated from some highly questionable concepts that make you wonder how they ever got greenlit in the first place.<br><br><br>ABC's "Cavemen" series in 2007, for instance, was based on characters from a short-lived GEICO commercial, and Fox's 2014 reality show "I Wanna Marry Harry" saw 12 women compete for the chance to marry a Prince Harry look-alike who they thought was the real Prince of Wales.<br><br><br>Both shows were critical disasters and each lasted only one season — as many of the worst reality shows, dramas, and sitcoms have.<br><br><br>To find out which programs critics hated the most, we turned to review aggregator Metacritic for their all-time list of the worst TV shows (though data only goes back to 1995), which ranks show seasons by their composite critical reception.<br><br><br>Check out the 50 worst TV shows of all time from least to most objectionable, according to critics:<br><br>50. "South Beach" (UPN, Season 1)<br><br><br>User score: 8.6/10<br><br>What critics said: "A preposterous and pretentious drama series." — The Washington Post<br><br><br>49. "Hidden Hills" (NBC, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "This series reflects the way wealthy, neurotic, overly busy and sex-obsessed TV executives and producers think America lives, in other words, the way they live. They're wrong." — The Detroit News<br><br><br>48. "American Inventor" (ABC, Season 1)<br><br>User score: 5.1/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "A bloated disappointment that spends more time on the judges than the inventors and their inventions." — Houston Chronicle<br><br><br>47. "Big Brother" (CBS, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "Five days a week of people in a cramped house full of Ikea furniture is like a bad college flashback." — Variety<br><br><br>46. "Rob" (CBS, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "There's hardly a moment or performance in 'Rob' that doesn't reek of the leftover and the second-rate." — USA Today<br><br><br>45. "Ghost Whisperer" (CBS, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "At times during 'Ghost Whisperer,' the sentiment is so thick you might want to go away from the light — the light from the TV set, that is." — Boston Globe<br><br><br>44. "The Return of Jezebel James" (Fox, Season 1)<br><br>Critic score: 29/100<br><br><br>User score: 5.2/10<br><br>What critics said: "Miscast and only intermittently funny, 'Jezebel James' misfires on all cylinders." — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<br><br><br>43. "Sex Box" (WE, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "Watching it is kind of like bad sex—the clock watching, the profound embarrassment, the desire to check your email." — The New York Times<br><br><br>42. "Painkiller Jane" (Syfy, Season 1)<br><br>User score: 6.1/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "The show is long on concept and short on execution which would actually be OK if the writing and acting were not so simply terrible." — Los Angeles Times<br><br><br>41. "The War at Home" (Fox, Season 1)<br><br>User score: 3.9/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "If 'The War at Home' spent more time on good jokes instead of recycling every gimmick ever seen on TV, it might merely be mediocre, but it's worse." — San Francisco Chronicle<br><br><br>40. "Love Inc." (UPN, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "A grating comedy." — Chicago Tribune<br><br><br>39. "Murphy's Law" (ABC, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "A series so monumentally meaningless, so pathetically puerile, so irredeemably ridiculous that, within my limited professional context, it prompts the Biggest Question of them all: Why is there television?" — Newsday<br><br><br>38. "Rules of Engagement" (CBS, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "The series quickly begins to resemble one of those fake sitcoms you’d see in a snide movie that likes to take easy potshots at low culture." — L.A. Weekly<br><br><br>37. "Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders" (CBS, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "Moving on from the prevalent misogyny of the original 'Criminal Minds,' CBS' new spinoff 'Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders' is a pure distillation of xenophobia." — The Hollywood Reporter<br><br><br>36. "$#*! My Dad Says" (CBS, Season 1)<br><br>Critic score: 28/100<br><br><br>User score: 4.4/10<br><br>What critics said: "'$#*! My Dad Says' is a dismal show, harboring the worst qualities of every lame, four-camera, laugh-tracked sitcom on television." — Slant Magazine<br><br><br>35. "Dirty Dancing" (CBS, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "Play[s] like an extended shampoo commercial and lacking the edge and joyful vigor of the movie on which it is based." — Los Angeles Times<br><br><br>34. "Does Someone Have To Go?" (Fox, Season 1)<br><br>User score: 3.3/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "'Lord of the Flies'-meets-a-telephone book, and just about as entertaining." — Newsday<br><br><br>33. "In Case of Emergency" (ABC, Season 1)<br><br>User score: 6.9/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "Somewhere trapped inside this shrill, irritating comedy is a better show that emerges only in fleeting glimpses." — Variety<br><br><br>32. "Desire" (My Network TV, Season 1)<br><br>Critic score: 27/100<br><br><br>User score: 7.5/10<br><br>What critics said: "In terms of intelligence, wit and quality, 'Desire' is a serious cut below most prime time drama series." — Detroit Free Press<br><br><br>31. "Liz & Dick" (Lifetime, TV Movie)<br><br>User score: 3.8/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "A wildly graceless biopic that careens through the decades-long relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton with more petulance than passion." — Los Angeles Times<br><br><br>30. "Truth Be Told" (NBC, Season 1)<br><br>User score: 4.1/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "Not a single scene feels authentic, even if we excuse the overexplanations we often see in comedy pilots. This show is not provocative. It is not a conversation-starter, it is not thoughtful, it is not sharp, it is not enlightening." — Vulture<br><br><br>29. "Get This Party Started" (UPN, Season 1)<br><br>User score: 3.6/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "UPN's new series has a shot — in the sweepstakes for the worst reality show of all time." — PopMatters<br><br><br>28. "How to Get the Guy" (ABC, Season 1)<br><br>User score: 7.2/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "A ridiculous, cloying, condescending, wrong-headed reality show." — New York Post<br><br><br>27. "Dr. Ken" (ABC, Season 1)<br><br>Critic score: 26/100<br><br><br>What critics said: "A family comedy has to have heart and humor, and 'Dr. Ken' has neither." — Los Angeles Times<br><br><br>26. "Hawaii" (NBC, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "The new cop series 'Hawaii' isn't your father's 'Hawaii Five-O.' It's probably not yours, either, or your child's, or anyone's. It's awful." — New York Daily News<br><br><br>25. "Happy Hour" (Fox, Season 1)<br><br>User score: 8.3/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "Sheer, excruciating pain.... 'Happy Hour' stands a good chance of being named Worst New Show, or at least feeblest new sitcom." — The Washington Post<br><br><br>24. "The Trouble With Normal" (ABC, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "ABC has been promoting the heck out of 'The Trouble With Normal,' but the shockingly unfunny ensemble and rotten scripts will undo all that publicity in minutes. On a positive note, this will almost certainly end the TV career of Jon Cryer." — Kansas City Star<br><br><br>23. "Tucker" (NBC, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "A dopey comedy deserves a dopey assessment: Tucker sucks. Please make it go away." — Detroit Free Press<br><br><br>22. "The Leisure Class" (HBO, TV Movie)<br><br>User score: 2.8/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "There’s little reason to waste 85 minutes watching Jason Mann’s 'The Leisure Class,' a tonally troubled and reprehensibly dull movie." — The Washington Post<br><br><br>21. "Killer Instinct" (Fox, Season 1)<br><br>Critic score: 25/100<br><br><br>User score: 8.5/10<br><br>What critics said: "You won't see any worse acting across the broadcast spectrum. The women-in-peril scenes are vile. The writing is atrocious. The series is horrifically bad." — San Francisco Chronicle<br><br><br>20. "Unan1mous" (Fox, Season 1)<br><br>User score: 3.1/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "Makes a solid bid to win the Most Unpleasant Reality Show of All Time award." — Miami Herald<br><br><br>19. "Woops!" (Fox, Season 1)<br><br>User score: Unavailable<br><br><br>What critics said: "It could have been the funniest show in the world, if there was a nuclear war, really, and this was the only one show left. 'Woops!' is moronic on so many levels." — Newsday<br><br><br>18. "Modern Men" (WB, Season 1)<br><br>Critic score: 24/100<br><br><br>User score: 5.6/10<br><br>What critics said: "Bad sitcom, bad." — Chicago Sun-Times<br><br><br>17. "10.5 Apocalypse" (NBC, Mini-Series)<br><br>User score: 4.2/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "The calamities and catastrophes occur with such frequency and ferocity that, yes, indeed, 'Apocalypse 10.5' suffers the curse of being unintentionally funny — even hilarious." — The Washington Post<br><br><br>16. "I Wanna Marry Harry" (Fox, Season 1)<br><br>What critics said: "Instead of just creating the horror show that is 12 women competing for a man, it chooses also to play them for fools." — The AV Club<br><br><br>15. "October Road" (ABC, Season 1)<br><br>Critic score: 23/100<br><br><br>User score: 3.0/10<br><br>What critics said: "This wretched show not only features a lead character who is an unredeemable nitwit but dialogue that manages to be leaden, preposterous and pretentious all at once." — Chicago Tribune<br><br><br>14. "Identity" (NBC, Season 1)<br><br>User score: 8.4/10<br><br><br>What critics said: "Now, you may be saying, 'There he goes again, that elitist toad.' But believe me, even Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Bill O'Reilly would think this show was stupid." — Philadelphia Inquirer<br><br><br>13. "The Game" (The CW/BET, Season 1)<br><br>Critic score: 22/100<br><br><br>User score: 8.2/10<br><br>What critics said: "It just isn't funny. At all.
| + | Veteran actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has recounted her struggles while growing up as a young girl who lost her dad at 12 and had to start helping her family at 15.<br><br><br>In commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child today, October 11th, she wrote;<br><br>"On today’s girl child day I’ll do an unusual post true to me. As a child I lost my father age 12. Sponsored by a great community of Ondo men, the #Ekimogun club, so i could continue my education. At age 15, started struggling to help my widowed mother. I started working in the Entertainment Industry.<br><br><br>While going to school, and working, faced many challenges as a female child… talks of being loose, perhaps being a prostitute,lack of freedom to mingle like male counterparts, rumours and fear of slander, sexual harassments… but one of my early dreams was to be great at whatever I chose and be side by side the best in the World.<br><br><br>I’m Not totally there yet, … but.. That 12 years old iyanaipaja little girl did take care of her widowed mum till she died, took care of her younger brothers… they are in marriage stages now, taking care of herself and her own family, taking care of a few people she is privileged to be able to. |
