8 Awful TV Shows That Were Clearly Doomed To Fail
4. Father Of The Pride (2004)
-->-->Here's a show with an interesting premise an animated TV show starring Siegfried and Roy's lions and their adventures in Las Vegas, produced by Dreamworks themselves. It would have made a great kids show... except it was promoted as an adult comedy on NBC. Perhaps the most damning thing about this show is that it premiered in 2004, one year after Roy was attacked by one of his tigers on stage and almost died in real life. So the show ended up lampooning a stage show that no longer existed at this point, adding to the bad taste in the critics' collective mouths.
I think that Siegfried and Roy wanted the show to continue so their lions and tigers wouldnt get a bad reputation. That I can understand. However, the show really wasnt all that funny. Add to the fact it was very easy for young children to find it during prime-time, so while kids would see a cartoon, adults saw a lion going through a mid-life crisis while dealing with his very curvy wife, elderly and perverted father, and his highly annoying children. I commend Siegfried and Roy for wanting to put a positive spin on a terrible situation. But this show should have never seen the light of day.