Badults - BBC3

brian_t · 23-07-2013 4:52am #1

I find BBC3 sitcoms a bit hit and miss but their latest one Badults starts tonight (Tuesday 23rd July) at 10.00pm.

It stars the comedy sketch troupe Pappy's.

Basq · 23-07-2013 12:52pm

That.. was... dreadful!

Mr E · 23-07-2013 1:00pm

Pretty bad. I think I might have smiled at the pin number bit. I was nowhere near laughing at any of it.

rovoagho · 23-07-2013 8:42pm

I liked it, but then I like odd stuff.

brian_t · 24-07-2013 1:30am

I thought they squeezed a lot of ideas into the half hour but no laughs though.

I did think the signing girl was somewhat amusing.

Bozo Skeleton · 28-07-2013 3:48am

I'm watching this on BBC 3 now, came across it while channel hopping, this is atrocious, how did this end up being made? I can't believe how lame it is, complete with dodgy laugh track.

rovoagho · 28-07-2013 7:41am

brian_t wrote: »

I thought they squeezed a lot of ideas into the half hour but no laughs though.

Ah, I was talking about the trailer. Was it really that bad?

Skid X · 30-07-2013 11:09pm

Just watched Episode two of this - It doesn't work for me, at all. It's a shame, they (the members of Pappys) come across very well in interviews, I wanted to like it.

They do a popular sketch show live in London and Edinburgh, but it doesn't seem to translate to Sitcom. They had a pilot on Channel 4 a few years ago which I thought was equally poor.

It isn't helped by the ridiculous laugh track which is far too loud.

wandatowell · 31-07-2013 11:44am

Bloody horrendous

mutley18 · 31-07-2013 12:14pm

So bad, so so bad. I met one of them Pappys guys a few years ago at that annual comedy festival in the Iveagh Gardens, I shared my nachos with him, nice guy but this is just awful.

Miguel_Sanchez · 31-07-2013 5:37pm

I watched a scene of it and wasn't sure if it was a bad sitcom or a sketch making fun of bad sitcoms.

Either way I changed over and didn't go back.

Shame because I heard they're great live.

DerekDGoldfish · 31-07-2013 8:09pm

Watched an episode, it was like a much poorer version of Bottom

Thrill · 18-09-2013 4:13pm

BBC Three sitcom Badults has been recommissioned for a second series.

Yes folks, its getting a second season.

http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/7833-badults-will-return-to-bbc-three-for-series-2

Gamayun · 18-09-2013 5:00pm

Thrill wrote: »

Yes folks, its getting a second season.

http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/7833-badults-will-return-to-bbc-three-for-series-2

According to that link it got 2.1m viewers, that's an average of 350,000 per episode. The BBC must have decided that it was enough to recommission.

Out of curiosity I just checked the BARB viewing figures for BBC3 week Sep 2nd-8th and one episode of Family Guy got 1.33m views by itself! Family guy appears to dominate BBC3!

1 FAMILY GUY (SUN 2203) 1,33m
2 FAMILY GUY (SUN 2225) 978,000
3 BAD EDUCA (TUE 2202) 975,000
4 FAMILY GUY (TUE 2303) 888,000
5 FAMILY GUY (WED 2324) 877,000
6 FAMILY GUY (THU 2303) 859,000
7 FAMILY GUY (WED 2302) 850,000
8 FAMILY GUY (THU 2325) 837,000
9 FAMILY GUY (FRI 2305) 833,000
10 FAMILY GUY (FRI 2327) 810,000

brian_t · 18-09-2013 5:20pm

Gamayun wrote: »

According to that link it got 2.1m viewers, that's an average of 350,000 per episode.

According to that link 2.1 million viewers watched the first episode.

The comedy series about an unconventional flat-share launched in July with 2.1 million viewers.

In relation to the second series Pappy's say

Clearly people still want a big, knockabout show full of stupid jokes. So that’s exactly what series two will be.

So I guess if you didn't like the first series then you won't like the second one.

Gamayun · 18-09-2013 6:10pm

brian_t wrote: »

According to that link 2.1 million viewers watched the first episode.

Aha! I misread. My bad

Skid X · 18-09-2013 6:33pm

brian_t wrote: »

According to that link 2.1 million viewers watched the first episode.

I think that 2.1 million figure is heavily spun by the BBC -

The first episode premiered on the iPlayer (where it was heavily promoted) and they seem to be counting every click on the homepage as someone who watched the show (and they added that figure to those who watched it on BBC3, including the repeats).

None of the showings of Badults made the BARB Top 30 for 'other channels' (including the first week where they claim 2.1 million viewers) - http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing/weekly-top-30 - 700,000 viewers would get a show on that list most weeks.

brian_t · 29-05-2014 3:39pm

Series 2 starts on Monday 2nd June at 10.00pm

Badults - BBC3

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