Don’t call Piglets ‘the worst sitcom ever’ while the BBC is making this show

Yesterday, TV fans around the globe (or the UK at least) celebrated the news that ‘one of the worst sitcoms ever’ had come to an end.

The show in question? None other than Piglets, a divisive ITV show about a group of police recruits.

ITV confirmed the news to Metro in a statement, which read:‘We would like to thank all the cast and crew for their hard work in bringing these unforgettable characters and stories alive on screen.

‘Viewers can watch the adventures from series one and two by streaming all episodes on ITVX.’

Unfortunately, we don’t think many people will take ITV up on its offer, as the show wasn’t exactly popular with critics.

The first series has just 42% on Rotten Tomatoes, with The Telegraph branding it ‘lacklustre’ while The Independent said the comedy was ‘puerile and intermittent.’

Yeesh. Sadly, the audience reviews aren’t much better.

Daniel P was so annoyed that he wrote a review calling it ‘quite possibly the most unfunny show I’ve ever seen’.

Pete H was even more exorcised writing that the person who commissioned it should be made to ‘resign’ for ‘wasting money’.

Meanwhile, on X, at least one person wrote that it was ‘the worst sitcom to ever appear on British TV screens’.

To make matters worse, before the show had even been broadcast, the Police Federation complained that the show’s title was ‘disgusting,’ given that the word ‘pig’ is a derogatory term for police officers.

Yet, for all the controversy, is Piglets really the worst sitcom the UK has ever made?

After all, this is the country that produced On the Buses and (I wish I was making this up) Heil Honey I’m Home!

With that in mind, I think we can all agree Piglets might be unfunny, but it’s far from the worst sitcom slush ever produced.

No, that ignominy in my opinion still belongs to the show no one asks for, but the BBC keeps on making: Mrs Brown’s Boys.

To say I loathe Mrs Brown’s Boys is an understatement – I despise it, and I’d rather pour paint into my eyes than have to watch a single second of it.

What drives this burning hatred?

Well, the obvious answer is that it’s one of the laziest and least funny things I’ve ever seen on the small screen.

Call me a joyless husk if you want, but watching a man in a dress shout and gurn for 25 minutes just isn’t my idea of a good time.

Still, I could probably forgive this terrible Mrs Doubtfire tribute act, though, if the other jokes were funny, but they’re not.

The writing is predictable, lowbrow, and repetitive. It feels like a fake show you’d see in a better TV series about bad sitcoms.

All of this makes it a slog to watch, honestly, and I should know because every Christmas I’m forced to endure another episode where Mammy and her mates shout double entendres at each other.

To make matters worse, creator and star Brendan O’Carroll once infamously made a ‘clumsy’ joke involving a racial term during a script read-through.

While O’Carroll apologised, this prompted a formal complaint to the BBC and the resignation of a Black crew member

And that’s what I hate most about Mrs Brown’s Boys.

It’s that despite how terrible the series is and the bad behaviour of its creator, the BBC keep making more of it.

And that really annoys me because I genuinely believe it undermines the BBC, which, for all its faults, remains one of the greatest British institutions.

Because whenever I get on my soapbox about how the Beeb remains a bastion of good journalism and quality television, some clever clogs always says the same thing.

‘If the BBC is so good, how do you explain Mrs Brown’s Boys?’

And you know what? I can never answer that question because they’ve got a point.

And to make matters worse, we know that we’re getting at least one more Christmas special this year.

But after that, please BBC, I’m begging you. Stop making this tripe for your own good… and for the sake of my blood pressure.

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