Not everything you do is going to be a raging success.
Take Derren Litten, the chap who created and wrote the popular ITV sitcom, Benidorm.
Benidorm was very popular, and fans enjoyed 74 episodes of the show spread over ten series.
Among the fans were several celebrities.
Apparently, Joan Collins was talked into appearing in the show by her late sister, bestselling author, Jackie Collins, who was a huge fan.
The show was also popular with a large number of fans in places like Germany and the Netherlands.
Because of its success for ITV, the BBC asked Derren if he could do something similar and sprinkle his comedy magic on a popular North Yorkshire seaside town, here in the UK.
Scarborough was going to be the next Benidorm, or so the BBC hoped.
Unfortunately, it was cancelled after just one season.
It had the same kind of humour, similar types of character traits and behaviours, but, for some reason, viewers didn’t take to it.
Maybe that was the problem.
Fans probably wanted something completely different other than the same old same old, but in a different location.
You’ve seen that saying… Same shit, different day.
Maybe this was a case of… Same shit, different town.
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The fact that it was the BBC who is funded by license payers, might be the reason for the quick cancellation too.
Had it been on ITV which is funded through advertising revenue, the show may have been allowed to run for another season or two to find its feet.
Who knows?
What I do know is that Derren created an incredibly popular show that ran for 10 series over 11 years, and then created a show that was cancelled after just one series.
The high was HIGH, and the low was incredibly low.
It just goes to show that you cannot always hit success every time.
In football, the very best strikers in the world only have a goal scoring rate of 0.50 per game.
These guys are paid millions and they can’t even score one goal in every game.
They fail just as much as they succeed.
Many of them fail more than they succeed… but when they score that goal in the last minute of the final… it counts more than any previous failings.
You don’t need a lot of successes to be incredibly successful.
You can fail ten or twenty times and have just one success, but that one success can change or affect your life for the better.
It is the same in anything you do.
You can write ten books, star in ten films, buy ten crypto currencies, nine may do ‘ok’ or even fail badly… but that one which does well, does spectacularly well.
Think of the one hit wonders in the world of music.
A singer can (they could, I don’t know so much about today with digital streaming) live quite comfortably off the back of just one successful song.
Most people would know that singer for that one song, yet they may have released several albums over many years after that successful one song.
The singer may have a decent sized fan base and that one song will have introduced them to their other music… but for most people, it’s that one song that they know.
The singer can have a career that is unknown to most of the world.
They are mostly known for that one song… but as I say, that one successful song helped introduce people to their other work, which, although never enjoyed the same success as that one song, it helped them to carry on enjoying their new career in the music world.
You only need to succeed once to change your future for the better.
Kind regards.
John Harrison.
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