Is 'Benidorm' one of the worst TV series ever?

You mustn't have seen Last of the Summer Wine.

I have, and Benidorm is even worse. Though it was only on for ten series whereas Last of the Summer Wine was on for 37 years.

So it looks like another series of this TV show is about to start soon. Thank god we don't pay a licence fee for ITV!

I really have no idea why this show wasn't axed years ago, it's the same repetitive garbage episode after episode about a bunch of holiday makers sitting around a hotel swimming pool and getting drunk on presumably endless free booze, absorbing lethal doses of UV sunlight, dressed like idiots, with equally moronic hotel staff and hotel management who presumably got their hotel and catering credentials from a packet of half price economy cornflakes that were a few years past the sell by date.

By the way this rather fictitious peculiar hotel is called the 'Solana' and yes it makes Fawlty Towers (an infinitely more enjoyable TV comedy) look like the Savoy by comparison! The very first episode of series 1 fails to get past 3 minutes when some racist bigoted comment is made about German people.

Do hotels like this really exist?? If so I'd sooner spend a week in a North Korean gulag!


A typical episode plot, begins with them getting up then stuffing their faces with brekkie around the hotel swimming pool where they remain for the rest of the day getting drunk on their free booze, before riding down to dinner on their shop mobility scooters to eat in front of some extremely incapable karaoke singers or a low rate vocalist. (repeated next week as episode 2)

Yes I know its comedy but this just isn't funny and as hard as I try, I can not see the humour in it. It doesn't take a lot to make me laugh, and I love comedies like Fawlty Towers, Only fools and horses etc, but Benidorm just doesn't interest me.

Thank god someone has sense. That show gives me anxiety. I loathe all the characters (Kenneth especially) he’s just worst. I can’t believe there are fan pages dedicated to that waste of space. Your right every episode is the same. It’s unoriginal, stupid and not funny at all. It annoys the crap out of me. I’m glad I found your page I was about to start a I hate Benidorm club but then realised I don’t care enough about it to dedicate any more time in my life on it. I can’t believe Derren Litten thinks this was original writing. Thank god television producers decided to scrap the movie. What a joke and now he’s going to set up a bar called Mateo with all the shows memorabilia. Pathetic