History OvershadowedByControversy / LiveActionTV

* Graham Linehan, best known for creating ''Series/FatherTed'' and ''Series/TheITCrowd'', has had his famous creations tainted by allegations of transphobia. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement And that is all we will say on the subject]].

** By the time the revival rolled around, Barr's controversial behavior, which was infamous even back during the original run of the show, had only expanded since then. This included her extremely defensive stance regarding her Jewish heritage, to the point of creating a Holocaust-themed cooking photoshoot, and in particular her support for Donald Trump due to his pro-Israel stance, with Barr announcing that the latter would be integrated to her character in the revival. At first, this seemed like a case of NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, as the revival's premiere drew large ratings, to the point that the series was renewed, but this all culminated in it being abruptly cancelled and [[Series/TheConnors retooled]] without her after Barr sent out a racist tweet directed at one of Barack Obama's former aides, Valerie Jarrett. Barr has spent the time since her dismal raging against ''everyone'' from ABC, Michelle Obama, her castmates -- especially Sarah Gilbert [[NeverMyFault blaming everyone but herself]] for her reversal in fortunes.

** By the time the revival rolled around, Barr's controversial behavior, which was infamous even back during the original run of the show, had only expanded since then. This included her extremely defensive stance regarding her Jewish heritage, to the point of creating a Holocaust-themed cooking photoshoot, and in particular her support for Donald Trump due to his pro-Israel stance, with Barr announcing that the latter would be integrated to her character in the revival. At first, this seemed like a case of NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, as the revival's premiere drew large ratings, to the point that the series was renewed, but this all culminated in it being abruptly cancelled and [[Series/TheConnors retooled] without her after Barr sent out a racist tweet directed at one of Barack Obama's former aides, Valerie Jarrett. Barr has spent the time since her dismal raging against ''everyone'' from ABC, Michelle Obama, her castmates -- especially Sarah Gilbert [[NeverMyFault blaming everyone but herself]] for her reversal in fortunes.

** By the time the revival rolled around, Barr's controversial behavior, which was infamous even back during the original run of the show, had only expanded since then. This included her extremely defensive stance regarding her Jewish heritage, to the point of creating a Holocaust-themed cooking photoshoot, and in particular her support for Donald Trump due to his pro-Israel stance, with Barr announcing that the latter would be integrated to her character in the revival. At first, this seemed like a case of NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, as the revival's premiere drew large ratings, to the point that the series was renewed, but this all culminated in it being abruptly cancelled and retooled without her after Barr sent out a racist tweet directed at one of Barack Obama's former aides, Valerie Jarrett.

* Graham Linehan, best known for creating ''Series/FatherTed'' and ''Series/TheITCrowd'', has had his famous creations tainted by his anti-transgender activity, including comparing transgender activists to Nazis.

* The short-lived Irish revival of ''Blind Date'' was struck ''twice'' with controversy - It was first struck when it turned out that one of its contestants was a criminal who had previously served jail time in Australia for assault on a civilian. The second time was when host Al Porter was accused of sexual harassment by two male colleagues, which caused the show to immediately be binned by [=TV3=].

* ''Series/DuckDynasty'' has become far better known for the antics of its stars, most notoriously family patriarch Phil Robertson, who is known for his extreme far-right views. His most infamous manifestations thereof are two rants on the subject of atheism, homosexuality and African-Americans, which caused many networks to take the show off their rotation, and at one point actually caused production to be temporarily suspended.
* ''Series/{{Empire}}'' is nowadays best known for being the show that Jussie Smollett is on after he was arrested for falsely reporting a hate crime against him. The show is in deep water because of his actions and the debate about whether or not to fire him is intense, to say nothing of how the show itself could be in danger of cancellation because of it. See the OvershadowedByControversy/{{Music}} page for how this has affected Smollett himself.

* Graham Linehan, best known for creating ''Series/FatherTed'' and ''Series/TheITCrowd'', has had his famous creations tainted by allegations of transphobia.

** By the time the revival rolled around, Barr's controversial behavior, which was infamous even back during the original run of the show, had only expanded since then. This included her extremely defensive stance regarding her Jewish heritage, to the point of creating a Holocaust-themed cooking photoshoot, and in particular her support for Donald Trump due to his pro-Israel stance, with Barr announcing that the latter would be integrated to her character in the revival. At first, this seemed like a case of NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, as the revival's premiere drew large ratings, to the point that the series was renewed, but this all culminated in it being abruptly cancelled and retooled without her after Barr sent out a racially insensitive tweet directed at one of Barack Obama's former aides Valerie Jarrett.

** By the time the revival rolled around, Barr's controversial behavior, which was infamous even back during the original run of the show, had only expanded since then. This included her extremely defensive stance regarding her Jewish heritage, to the point of creating a Holocaust-themed cooking photoshoot, and in particular her support for Donald Trump due to his pro-Israel stance, with Barr announcing that the latter would be integrated to her character in the revival. At first, this seemed like a case of NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, as the revival's premiere drew large ratings, to the point that the series was renewed, but this all culminated in it being abruptly cancelled and retooled without her after Barr sent out a racially insensitive tweet directed at one of Barack Obama's former aides Valerie Janet.

* ''Amos N Andy'' was a very popular comedy radio and TV show from the 1940s and 1950s starring two black people playing stereotypical, dimwitted, jive talking fools. Due to ValuesDissonance, it hasn't been broadcast in ages and is probably better known for the racial offensiveness than the actual comedy.

* Netflix series ''Series/TheRanch'' was affected by this when the company seemed to be in no hurry to remove Danny Masterson after multiple rape accusations. This came to a head with a jaw-dropping moment from former Netflix executive Andy Yeatman, who was questioned about it by a woman at a soccer game and blithely replied the company didn't believe the accusations, only for her to reveal that ''she was one of the accusers''. This is why Yeatman is now a ''former'' Netflix executive. (Masterson was written out and Dax Shepard hired to replace him as a new character.) The upshot was the number of people just plain confused at how you can possibly say anything to that question beyond "Legal has advised us not to talk about it."

* Netflix series ''Series/TheRanch'' was affected by this when the company oddly seemed to have been in no hurry to remove Danny Masterson after multiple rape accusations. This came to a head with a jaw-dropping moment from former Netflix executive Andy Yeatman, who was questioned about it by a woman at a soccer game and blithely replied the company didn't believe the accusations, only for her to reveal that ''she was one of the accusers''. Both Masterson and Yeatman soon found themselves out of a job over it, with many people just plain confused at how you can possibly say anything to that question beyond "Legal has advised us not to talk about it."

** After the show actually started airing, it developed a quite seedy reputation for killing off minority characters. Especially notorious was Michelle Yeoh's Captain Georgiou being killed in the opening two-parter, after the network themselves had spent months patting themselves on the back for having a badass female Asian captain in the show. And then there was the BuryYourGays death of Dr. Culber, which came along with a baffling attempt to lie that he wasn't actually dead even while the show made perfectly clear that this was the case. The producer responsible for that one found himself out of a job after the season wrapped.

* The 1980s sitcom ''[[Series/TheHoganFamily Valerie]]'' will forever be known for its controversial firing of lead Valerie Harper after season two (she later sued NBC and the producers for wrongful firing and won), leading to her character getting killed off and replaced by Creator/SandyDuncan, subsequently leading to the show being retitled ''Valerie's Family'' and later ''The Hogan Family''. The show managed to last four seasons without Harper, producing enough episodes for reruns but has otherwise been unsuccessful in syndication. The controversy even overshadows the fact that the series was a StarMakingRole for Creator/JasonBateman, who played one of Harper's sons.

* ''Series/{{Empire}}'' is nowadays best known for being the show that Jussie Smollett is on after he was arrested for falsely reporting a hate crime against him. The show is in deep water because of his actions and the debate about whether or not to fire him is intense. See the OvershadowedByControversy/{{Music}} page for how this has affected Smollett himself.

* ''Series/{{Empire}}'' is nowadays best known for being the show that Jussie Smollett is on after he was arrested for falsely reporting a hate crime against him. The show is in deep water because of his actions and the debate about whether or not to fire him is intense.

* It's hard to talk about ''Series/BillNyeSavesTheWorld'' without talking about infamous "My Sex Junk" song and in general the whole "gender spectrum" episode. Aside from dealing with a [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement delicate topic]] with all the care of a drunken bull, Nye constantly flip flops from talking about sexuality and gender, [[TransEqualsGay seemingly confusing the two]]. Nye then makes the downright outlandish claim that sex[[note]]And we mean purely biological sex, not gender[[/note]] are purely societal constructs and have no biological basis, which is contrary to some of the most basic tenants of biology.[[note]]He may have been tripping over his words and confusing gender and sex (which are more or less interchangeable in discussion ''not'' about transgender topics), but that also implies that he barely did any research on a topic before claiming to be an authority on it[[/note]] On a show about science. The worst is the song "My Sex Junk," though, a TotallyRadical song about misconstruing all the above. It's downright surreal starting with [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a woman in a seahorse outfit]] shouting "this one goes out to all my bipeds who identify as ladies!" And then halfway through a BollywoodNerd comes out and raps. [[PainfulRhyme Poorly]]. While the show has its fans, none of them defend this particular segment and precious few say anything in this episode is worth watching.

* Terry Kneiss' perfect bid during a December 16, 2008 episode of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' will forever be tainted by accusations of cheating by the production staff and Drew Carey before they decided Kneiss should keep the prizes.

** The October 12, 2009 episode was the third game for 5-time champion Terry Linwood. However, one of his opponents was Jeff Kirby, who'd previously appeared on ''Jeopardy!'' in 1999, even though Trebek-era contestants are not allowed to appear again. The producers hadn't realized this until someone on the show's message board pointed out that ''he was wearing the same tie'' he had worn in his 1999 appearance. Because of him, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes this game's been banned from reruns]].

** The "Kids' Week" games, which started in the late '90s, gradually fell victim to this. On July 31, 2013, a player on Kids' Week absolutely owned the game to the tune of $66,600. What do people best remember about this episode? One of his opponents was penalized for misspelling "Emancipation Proclamation" for his Final Jeopardy! response. In the days that followed, angry posts flooded the show's Facebook page, claiming that since children were playing the game, the judges should have been more lenient. Journalists and news websites also chimed in on the issue, with the contestant claiming he was robbed because of his spelling error. Never mind that he would've gotten only second place regardless and the controversy over the misspelling completely overshadowed the winner's huge haul. They tried another Kids' Week in December 2014 but a StageMom caused a stir with host Creator/AlexTrebek when she demanded that an act be re-shot. It didn't help that the latter fiasco happened around the same time Sony got hacked. Because of this, ''Jeopardy!'' hasn't done a Kids' Week since, and [[OldShame the series has all but distanced itself from them]]. However, it isn't immune to the occasional reference, such as one of the contestants on February 21st, 2018 saying that he's the father of a Kids' Week participant.

** By the time the revival rolled around, Barr's controversial behavior, which was infamous even back during the original run of the show, had only expanded since then. This included her extremely defensive stance regarding her Jewish heritage, to the point of creating a Holocaust-themed cooking photoshoot, and in particular her support for Donald Trump due to his pro-Israel stance, with Barr announcing that the latter would be integrated to her character in the revival. At first, this seemed like a case of NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, as the revival's premiere drew large ratings, to the point that the series was renewed, but this all culminated in it being abruptly cancelled and retooled without her after Barr sent out a racist tweet directed at one of Barack Obama's former aides.

* Creator/DanSchneider's career has been more or less overshadowed by accusations of pedophilia (not helped by him soliciting pictures of underage girls's feet) and abusive treatment of several of the actors in his shows.

* Even non-fans of ''Series/TopGear'' are familiar with the many accusations of misogyny and racism in the show, particularly at the hands of former host Jeremy Clarkson. Clarkson himself is also infamous for his off-stage antics, such as when he got all the hosts fired from the show through an angry outburst where he physically assaulted a producer for serving him cold food (said food was made during the late night, and at the time, only one cook was working at the restaurant where it was made).

** The "Kids' Week" games which started in the late '90s gradually fell victim to this. On July 31, 2013, a player on Kids' Week absolutely owned the game to the tune of $66,600. What do people best remember about this episode? One of his opponents was penalized for misspelling "Emancipation Proclamation" for his Final Jeopardy! response. In the days that followed, angry posts flooded the show's Facebook page, claiming that since children were playing the game, the judges should have been more lenient. Journalists and news websites also chimed in on the issue, with the contestant claiming he was robbed because of his spelling error. Never mind that he would've gotten only second place regardless and the controversy over the misspelling completely overshadowed the winner's huge haul. They tried another Kids' Week in December 2014 but a StageMom caused a stir with host Creator/AlexTrebek when she demanded that an act be re-shot. It didn't help that the latter fiasco happened around the same time Sony got hacked. Because of this, ''Jeopardy!'' hasn't done a Kids' Week since, and [[OldShame the series has all but distanced itself from them]] (though it is not immune to the occasional reference, such as one of the contestants on February 21st, 2018 saying that he's the father of a Kids' Week participant).
* The third season of ''Series/LethalWeapon2016'' was undermined by reports about the constant dysfunction behind the scenes, with Damon Wayans and Clayn Crawford being at each other's throats and Fox being overly hesitant to rein in its stars' behavior. In the end, Crawford was fired, his character was killed off, and Sean William Scott was brought in to replace him in the new season.

* Even non-fans of ''Series/TopGear'' are familiar with the many accusations of misogyny and racism in the show, particularly at the hands of former host Jeremy Clarkson. Clarkson himself is also infamous for his off-stage antics, such as when he got all the hosts fired from the show after angrily physically assaulting a producer for serving him cold food (said food was made during the late night, and at the time, only one cook was working at the restaurant where it was made).

* Even non-fans of ''Series/TopGear'' are familiar with the many accusations of misogyny and racism in the show, particularly at the hands of former host Jeremy Clarkson. Clarkson himself is also infamous for his off-stage antics, such as when he was fired from the show after angrily physically assaulting a producer for serving him cold food (said food was made during the late night, and at the time, only one cook was working at the restaurant where it was made).

* Netflix series ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'' has been hit with this from the start with many accusing its handling of the very sensitive subject of bullying and suicide among teenagers of being [[CluelessAesop tone deaf]] and even potentially dangerous. The central plot revolves around Hannah who has died by suicide before the series starts and left a series of cassette tapes detailing her reasons for doing so and the people she blames for pushing her to her actions. This has been harshly criticized for implying that bullying and external factors are always the cause of suicide with no mention given to mental illness as well as implying that [[AdultsAreUseless reaching out for help to adults is futile]] as well as overall sending a message that mental well-being is on others and that suicide is an effective way of getting revenge. Not helping is that Hannah has been criticized as overreacting to minor slights and generally [[UnreliableNarrator getting stuff wrong]] which can lead to another toxic line of thinking. Additionally, the finales of the first and second seasons came under fire for [[spoiler:their graphic depictions of Hannah's BathtubSuicide and a secondary male character being brutally beaten and raped, respectively]], with detractors stating that the former scene could inspire copycat behavior. People generally believe the series may have done more harm than good for the cause of suicide awareness.

* The vast majority of the audience for Nickelodeon's 2013 block ''Nick Studio 10'' were likely just there for the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' reruns and didn't care about the continuity in-between. However, the block quickly became defined by its content, which was widely hated. The network wanted to bring it back for the new school year, but soon gave up on it.

* Actor Creator/KevinSorbo, star of ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'', is nowadays better known for his [[TheFundamentalist extremist Christian views]] and starring in the controversial ''Film/GodsNotDead'' than for his acting, effectively rendering him PersonaNonGrata among the sci-fi[=/=]fantasy community.

* The 1980s sitcom ''[[Series/TheHoganFamily Valerie]]'' will forever be known for its controversial firing of lead Valerie Harper after season two (she later sued NBC and the producers for wrongful firing and won), leading to her character getting killed off and replaced by Creator/SandyDuncan, subsequently leading to the show being retitled ''Valerie's Family'' and later ''The Hogan Family''. The show managed to last four seasons without Harper, producing enough episodes for reruns but has otherwise been unsuccessful in syndication. The controversy even overshadows the fact that the series was a StarMakingRole for Creator/JasonBateman, who played one of Harper's sons.
* Terry Kneiss' perfect bid during a December 16, 2008 episode of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' will forever be tainted by accusations of cheating by its production staff and Drew Carey before they decided Kneiss should keep the prizes.
* Graham Linehan, best known for creating ''Series/FatherTed'' and ''Series/TheITCrowd'', has had his famous creations tainted by allegations of transphobia.