Poll: Your most watchable TV Flop

Results of 789 votes:

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   Terra Nova (2011)

    

   With a pilot estimated to have cost somewhere between $16 and $20 million (reports differ), a per episode cost of around $4 million, and a major promotional campaign that included trailers at screenin…
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   Battlestar Galactica (1978)

    

   The Original series is considered a flop. Battlestar Galactica was enormously expensive for its time, rumored to have cost around a million dollars an episode (over $3.6 million, adjusted for inflatio…
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   Flashforward (2009)

    

   Although exact numbers are difficult to come by, most estimates put Flash Forward in the Terra Nova/Lost category of very big-budget shows.
4. 4.
   

   Camelot (2011)

    

   It cost around $7 million per episode to make.
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   The Event (2010)

    

   The Event had an astonishing estimated marketing budget of around $15 million before it launched, with the pilot rumored to cost around the same amount.
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   Bionic Woman (2007)

    

   In this case, it's the reboot that flopped. The pilot for this short-lived reboot cost somewhere around $7.4 million dollars to produce, with per episode costs of about $6 million and a promotional bu…
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   Father of the Pride (2004)

    

   It cost somewhere between $2 and $2.5 million an episode — making it, at the time, one of the most expensive half-hour comedies ever produced.
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   Kings (2009)

    

   A reported $10 million dollars into its two-hour pilot and around a per-episode costs of $4 million.
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   Supertrain (1979)

    

   The show experienced difficulties right from the start: a model train set costing around a million dollars (over $3 million in today's money) crashed at its very first demonstration. Cancelled after o…
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    Viva Laughlin (2007)

     

    It's been called one of the worst shows in television history. The pilot cost around $6.8 million. No one was surprised when CBS cancelled the show after only two episodes.