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This bunch of actors knew straight away that their TV show wasn't destined to be a hit.
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00:00From a set of Disney Channel sensations quickly figuring out that a titular show was a bad move
00:05altogether, to one of the galaxy's most adored bounty hunters also not being a fan of the
00:09direction his character was written to head down, each of these TV actors could sense a bumpy road
00:14ahead from the get-go. The always doomed Gareth here from WhatCulture.com and here are 8 actors
00:20who knew their TV show was doomed on day one. 8. Colin Baker Helped Produce a Doctor Who
00:26charity single pleading for its comeback. While the BBC's iconic Doctor Who series may
00:31currently stand as one of the most cherished and respected small-screen franchises ever to warp
00:35into our lives, the show was definitely on the ropes towards the end of its first run in the late 80s.
00:40In fact, things got so bad when it came to the overall quality of the sci-fi time-traveling
00:45property with Colin Baker at the wheel of the Doctor that the show was put on ice for 18 months
00:50in 1985. On the back of BBC One controller Michael Grade feeling it had just become too violent and
00:55a very clunky studio show. Then, in a move that still needs to be heard to be believed,
01:00the decision was made by British songwriter and Who superfan Ian Levine to assemble a collection
01:05of artists together to record a universally panned charity song by the name of Doctor in Distress
01:10to drum up support for the series edging towards cancellation. Clearly sensing he needed to do
01:16something in a bid to keep his failing Doctor dreams afloat, Baker himself also agreed to appear
01:21in the ill-fated tune, with Hans Zimmer of all people playing the song on a synthesizer.
01:26All of the jarring beats in the world couldn't save Baker from eventually getting the regeneration
01:30treatment after just three years including said lengthy hiatus in the Time Lord saddle though.
01:367. Clayne Crawford's Lethal Weapon Honesty
01:38Being handed the chance to lead a TV adaptation of one of the most cherished action movie series of all
01:44time isn't something most actors would be in too much of a rush to turn down.
01:48And sure enough, when presented with this exact opportunity a couple of years back,
01:52Clayne Crawford was happy enough to sign on the dotted line and commit himself to the role
01:56made famous by Mel Gibson of Martin Riggs in Fox's incoming Lethal Weapon action series
02:01alongside Damon Wayans' Roger Murtill. However, in the time after the dust settled on his eventual
02:06firing from the production, a few years into its run due to alleged misconduct on set,
02:11Crawford was quick to note how he sensed he wasn't in an environment suited to him out of the gates.
02:15As he'd tell UPI in 2020,
02:18I was surrounded by people that didn't care that much about the artistry of it,
02:21and I should have known that going in. Placing the entire project,
02:24one that would come to an end following its subsequent claimless season,
02:28as nothing more than a cookie cutter, and feeling wholly unfulfilled by the experience
02:32on the back of appearing in the critically acclaimed Rectify show,
02:35Crawford seemingly knew from the get-go that chasing the money may not have been the wisest call
02:40on this occasion. 6. Chris Harris Knew That A Top Gear Reboot Was Doomed From The Start
02:45News of the trio who helped turn the petrol head delight that was the BBC's Top Gear into the
02:50household name it eventually became, not returning to the show on the back of Jeremy Clarkson decking
02:55a producer over some steak, left the series' future in doubt in 2015. Hellbent on keeping the Top Gear
03:01legacy alive despite Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond opting to take their brand of calamity to Amazon
03:06Prime though. The BBC ultimately decided to relaunch the show with a completely new line-up
03:11of hosts. But from day one, one of said new faces in the form of Chris Harris could sense this
03:17particular attempt to keep the Top Gear brand going was doomed from minute one. As Harris would
03:21admit to Metro when talking about how the show managed to eventually strike the right balance
03:25with later attempts at recapturing some genuine chemistry between the hosts,
03:29The first time I did this in 2015-2016, I thought, oh god, what have I done?
03:34Noting how former Radio 1 host Chris Evans, no not that one in particular, was doomed,
03:39because people were always going to hate it because it wasn't Jeremy,
03:42Harris was understandably relieved to find that the BBC had got their chemistry right
03:46upon his eventual first day alongside current co-hosts Andrew Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness.
03:525. Tamura Morrison knew he talked too much in the book of Boba Fett
03:55After finally making his live-action return and ultimately getting his mitts back on his iconic
04:00Beskar armor over the course of Disney Plus' The Mandalorian, news of Tamura Morrison getting yet
04:06another opportunity to strut his stuff as the immortal Boba Fett in his own damn book was
04:11enough to leave most Star Wars diehards needing a long soak in a Bacta tank. Unfortunately though,
04:16said long-awaited book of Boba Fett didn't exactly deliver on the promise of the badass bounty hunter,
04:21getting a chance to really remind fans why they had clamored for so long to see him given the
04:25spinoff treatment he so richly deserved. And this is a sentiment seemingly shared by the
04:30leading man himself from early on in the show's production, with Morrison eventually going on
04:34record to note to ET how he wants the character to get back to his badass ways if he returns later
04:39down the road. In another conversation, this time with NME, Morrison would also express his desire
04:45to have Boba remain as an often silent assassin instead of having him talk too much throughout
04:49shooting, admitting to trying to pass off some of his dialogue to co-star Ming-Na Wen at one point.
04:55As he put it, this scene tomorrow I'm talking too much, this Boba doesn't talk this much.
04:59I've got all these paragraphs here, I think we should get rid of it. And John's gone to Atlanta
05:03so don't tell him. Next morning on the set I got a call from Atlanta. Uh, John wants you to say all
05:08that dialogue. And what Favreau says goes I guess. Number 4, Charlie Barnett wasn't fully on board with
05:15Ordinary Joe. Cut down after just one season in March of this year, NBC's Ordinary Joe getting cancelled
05:22not long after its first 13 episodes trickled onto the network, didn't actually come as too much of a
05:27surprise to one of the show's stars as it goes. According to Charlie Barnett, who plays Joe's best
05:33friend Eric Payne as the former embarks on three parallel journeys, on the back of opting for three
05:38entirely different routes when faced with a life-altering choice post-graduation, the actor himself admitted
05:44to Digital Spy that he fought against it at first going into it, due to not being sure that it was
05:49obtainable. Confessing that the story itself gets really, really, really confusing, the Eric
05:55Thespian's fears of his program being a little too difficult to execute, to the point of roping in a
06:00sizable network audience, ultimately came true later down the road. With the actor eventually declaring
06:06that it was always going to be a challenge to compete with the likes of Netflix and Hulu with a
06:10show this complicated, and he was not necessarily surprised to see it dead.
06:15Number 3, John Rhys-Davis thought Slider's scripts were gibberish.
06:18Quite clearly cherishing the world he was occupying at the time, and sensing the limitless potential
06:24housed within the late 90s sci-fi fantasy show by the name of Sliders on Fox, it was this love
06:29of the concept that left John Rhys-Davis positively seething for much of his time bringing Professor
06:34Maximilian Arturo to life.
06:36As the Gimli icon would explain to Digital Spy in 2016, the entire scenario wound up being the
06:42single biggest missed opportunity of his life, due to the constant battles he found himself
06:46in with the series' writers during his time as part of the first three seasons of the show.
06:51Branding the scripts often handed to him as incomprehensible gibberish, Rhys-Davis would
06:55go further inventing his frustrations at the writers on set, stating,
06:59I would go to the writers and complain, but they would say, John, why don't you just say
07:03the words as written? And I'd say, I'll tell you what, I will actually say the words as
07:07written when you can actually write intelligent sentences.
07:10In the end, after Rhys-Davis departed during season 3, Fox would ultimately opt to cancel the
07:14flailing show before it was picked up by the SyFy channel for its final two seasons.
07:192. The Jonas Brothers Just Went Along With It Despite Disney's Writing Being Terrible
07:23They may form one of the most unstoppable pop trios on the planet, and have even made some
07:28headway in Hollywood in more recent times. But the Jonas Brothers didn't exactly get off to the
07:33best of starts when it came to their detour into the world of acting. Nick, Joe, and Kevin have each
07:37all gone on record at various points to admit to sensing how much of a bad idea their first real
07:42standalone project whilst working under the Disney Channel banner was from the second they
07:46started to get to grips with the writing being handed over to them. With the late naughty show
07:50by the name of Jonas and later Jonas LA focusing on the fictionalized version of this heartthrob boyband,
07:56Joe would tell Vulture that some of the weird slapstick humor writing was terrible before noting,
08:01we went along with it at the time, because we thought Disney was our only real shot,
08:05and we were terrified that it could all be taken away from us at any moment.
08:09Again, reiterating their regret over agreeing to the whole Disney debacle, Nick in particular
08:13would confess when talking about the show's second season during their 2019 Chasing Happiness
08:18documentary, we shouldn't have done that. It really stunted our growth, you know. I feel
08:22like it was just a bad move. Fair to say the lads have done alright since this early House of Mouse
08:26mishap though, eh?
08:271. Matt LeBlanc Knew Joey Was Doomed From The Start
08:31Trying to follow up Agape, the biggest sitcom ever to grace the world's TV screens, is a tall order
08:36whatever way you slice it. Trying to do so just a few months on from its highly emotional finale
08:41being taken in by over 50 million passionate fans around the globe was downright insane.
08:47And sure enough, the ill-advised Friends spin-off that was Joey, didn't exactly manage to recapture
08:52lightning in a bottle despite boasting one of the most lovable elements of that NBC game-changer
08:56front and centre. But clearly feeling as though the burden of having to carry an entire episode
09:01on his back was a lot of responsibility, and the pressure was so much, Matt LeBlanc himself
09:06has since confessed to Radio Times. It was doomed from the start. In Friends, I was sharing a 22-minute
09:12episode with six other characters. In Joey, the script was all me. Going further, LeBlanc would also
09:18allude to the showrunner, who had also just finished up on Friends, and himself likely benefited from
09:23taking a year off instead of diving straight into the spin-off. In the end though, Joey was savaged by
09:28the critics, and didn't live past its second season before being canned. LeBlanc would also
09:33take a much-needed five-year break from the acting world not long after Joey's cancellation,
09:38before rocking up in BBC2 and Showtime's episodes and eventually winning a Golden Globe in 2011
09:43for playing a fictionalised version of himself.
09:46And that's our list of any other actors who knew their TV show was doomed on day one. Then let us know all about them
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