It was me who mentioned the Game On fiasco (our only fun for the evening was counting the rapidly diminishing audience - under twenty left in the end - & enjoying the warm-up act).
Apart from sitting through some very tedious sitcoms which necessitated numerous retakes & a recent pilot quiz show with Jamie Theakston which took from 7pm 'til gone 11 to record, I think my number one worst is an attempt to see Shooting Stars a couple of years ago.
Despite being in the first 20 in the queue the studio was full (lots of friends?) & we were all forcibly ushered in to watch the first National Lottery show from BBC TV Centre. 'It'll only take fifteen minutes', they cried as they pushed us & the overflow from Jim Davidson's Generation Game through the doors. AND they played us bits of Noel's House Party as part of the warm-up! I haven't been the same since.
Having Bobby Bragg as the warm-up act.
He's quite good on Supermarket Sweep, though.
I was in the audience of a Mike Smith and Julian Cleary vehicle called 'Trick or Treat'. I went along to LWT in the autumn and the show was so bad that transmission was postponed to the following Spring. It was in the days before the Norman Lamont incident. Embarasment prevents me from describing the show to you, but the fact that it never made a second series and neither of them work much on TV these days says a lot.
Anything with Bobby Bragg is bound to be an experience best forgotten.
I saw an episode of 2.4 Children this year where virtually all the action took place on the stairs which were at the back of the studio meaning that we couldn't see any of it.
The worst though was Star Secrets with Carol Smille. This one they recorded bits of 5 or 6 episodes so she had to change clothes between each guest. There was a break in recording where everybody went to the loo, but kept going out the door of Studio 1 and into Wood Lane! God knows what they did as they were struggling to make the audience look full at the beginning
The few times that I've been to see University Challenge, they've never had a full audience, even for the final.
That's the reason that any audience shots are so tight - they can only fill the first few rows of seats
Last year I went to see a still unbroadcast Frank Skinner pilot called 'Heavy Revie' (I think) about a jaded 70s rock star (Frank) who is forced by his manager to record with some boy band or other. And along the way a child he had fathered decades ago turned up.
It wasn't very funny.
Though I sat near Lee & Herring and tried to eavesdrop their views. Since I failed, maybe they could add them below here.
I personally thought Frank should have just been honest and made it about a jaded old comedian but then there you are.