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* Jennifer Saunders re-assembled the main cast of ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]'' to play different characters in ''Mirrorball''. The classic slapstick and the satire were all there, but Saunders traded in her [[Rich Bitch]] [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]] and her [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense]] friends, for a [[Giftedly Bad]] [[The Woobie|down-on-her-luck]] actress and her more sympathetic band of [[Starving Artist]]s. It didn't catch on.
* ''The Modifyers''. The pilot can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXKcC_gMl0 here.]
* ''MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups'': Originally intended to be a series bringing artists together for collaborations, the first mash-up, between [[Jay
* [[The Naked Brothers Band]] animated special ''Supetastic 6''.
* ''Out Of The Trees'', a 1975 stream-of-conciousness sketch show written by [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Graham Chapman]] and [[Douglas Adams]]. One episode was made, and [[Screwed by the Network|was put out on BBC2, with no publicity, opposite]] ''[[Match of the Day]]'' on [[BBC 1]]. It included "The Private Life of Genghis Khan", which eventually got rewritten as a short story for ''The Utterly Merry [[Comic Relief]] Book'', and reached a wider audience in ''[[The Salmon of Doubt]]'', and a sketch about a kamikaze pilot who had flown on dozens of missions, which was [[Left the Background Music On|interrupted while the narrator tried to get some Japanese background music]].
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* ''[[You're in the Picture]]'': 1961 CBS game show hosted by Jackie Gleason where the celebrity panel put their heads in cut-outs of painting reproductions,and had to guess the scene depicted. It was ''slaughtered'' by critics so much that in its timeslot the following week was Gleason delivering [[Self-Deprecation|a hilarious ranting apology]] [[Funny Moments|for the previous week's show]] (which wound up leading into Gleason's famous talk show ''The Jackie Gleason Show''). Gleason's half-hour apology is considered one of the premier mea culpas of the television age.
* NBC's 2011 ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' series, which was quietly canned after receiving '''massively''' negative feedback from test audiences. The incomplete pilot was eventually leaked onto the Internet, which allowed fans to see precisely why it was savaged: Wonder Woman is a violent vigilante who thumbs her nose at the law and tortures a crook for information so she can slander [[Liz Hurley]]—in other words, [[In Name Only|not Wonder Woman at all]].
== Two-Episode Wonders ==
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