We have just learned today that your ruthless cancellation of your most popular television shows has continued with the axing of Graham Duff's excellent "Ideal".
This was creator, writer, producer and star, Graham Duff's beautifully dignified response to the news.
Hi,
As some of you may have heard, the BBC have decided against commissioning an 8th series of Ideal. The reason given was that the new channel controller wanted to make a clean sweep.
It is a source of both pride and frustration that, at the point of cancellation, Ideal was attracting its biggest ever audiences, its highest profile guest stars and its best ever reviews. And the show is now being screened in more countries than ever before - from America to Finland and beyond.
I just want to say a huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone who has appeared in the show and worked behind the scenes over the last 7 years and 53 episodes. And a very special thanks to everyone who has supported the show and spread the word. We really wouldn't have got this far without you.
It's been a truly wonderful journey and to work with such a genuinely amazing team has been both an honour and a solid hoot.
Best wishes
Graham xxx
However, with respect, we fans feel we have to let you at the BBC know that we are not happy and would like you to reconsider your decision and allow an 8th series. Ideal has fans from all across the globe (for proof of this, please see http://www.idealforum.co.uk ). And for a show languishing in such a late night time slot on BBC Three, the viewing figures have been consistently spectacular!
Ideal has had some incredible stars, including but most certainly not limited to Johnny Vegas, Tom Goodman-Hill, Seymour Mace, Graham Duff, Joanna Neary, Mick Miller, Ryan Pope, Peter Slater, Andrew-Lee Potts, Ben Compton, Tim Fallows andsuper-fan Janeane Garofalo who has been a recurring character for the past two series. And then we come to the manycomedic, musical and dramatic guest stars, including Kara Tointon, Paul Weller, Jason Manford, Mark E. Smith & Sean Lock, among the many who have taken small roles in the show. There are a scant few other shows of the same genre who can attract such a calibre of stars who are actively vying for a role. Surely this alone sets Ideal apart from its peers.
If Not Going Out can be given a reprieve after only 2 series', surely Ideal, with its global fanbase and so many more stories to tell, deserves a chance to prove itself worthy of a second chance?
However, if giving this isn't possible, please can we at least give us a chance to see the series end properly and allow Graham Duff to tie up all the loose ends somehow, as a fair concession for all concerned with this wonderful television show?
All Ideal fans, all over and everywhere, please sign below if you agree.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
August 24, 2011
August 22, 2011
We need to hit the one thousand signature mark before we present this to the network. Post the link on your Facebook wall right now and text three friends to ask them to sign immediately.
Reached 100 supporters
August 3, 2011
August 1, 2011
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to hit that mark before we present this to the BBC. Post the link on your Facebook wall right now. Text three friends who love this show and get them to add their name.
134 Comments
I live in Australia and just finished watching my boxset of ideal. Only to be again left feeling devastated finishing the last episode on that cliffhanger. Continue this show ! It made my days and does to many people all over the world not just the uk
Can't believe it's not been put back on TV for at least another series maybe they could show the 8th series on Dave , and show the run up to it just like they did with Red dwarf, If you're reading this Graham Duff "phone Dave I'm sure he'll sort you out a phat Eighth
The only thing I will miss more than Top Gear
The only thing I will miss more than Top Gear
Telling EVERYONE about this petition!
I just finished watching the entire seven series on DVD. I had seen some of it before, so wanted to see it all from start to finish. IDEAL was an original mix of bizarre, funny, psychedelic, eclectic diverse characters and much, much more. It was one of the few things on TV that relates to neglected subcultures. This is the sort of originality that the BBC, now itself in Salford, should be encouraging. The way it portrays sex, Asian, homosexuals, gangsters, men, women in their frailties and comic stereo types, I loved it. Bring back IDEAL! PLEASE!
Bring it back now you fools before its too late
Bring back the best show ever, BBC you have no excuse!!
best of bbc
Don't ban ideal
Don't ban ideal
Save ideal,my God why would u not with the rubbish that's on tv
No brainer
I've just watched ideal from start to finish. Genuinely depressed it's finished! Times have been trying yet ideal always puts a smile on my face and makes me laugh til I cry! How the bloody hell hasn't another tv company taken it on?! Best tv show ever and I only started watching it a week ago! Bring it back!!!!
Brilliant comedy!
Just watched it all from start to finish, not for the first time. Absolute comedy gold!
Bring it back and fire whoever cancelled it.
Please bring back Ideal!
Bring it back
Bring it back
Just give it 1 more season, c'mon. YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE US HANGING WITH SUCH A PISS POOR ENDING TO SEASON 7!!
Talkings for lesbians!
Should never have been axed, it would be good to see what everybody is up to. Did moz end up getting a real job? did cartoon head die? What happened to psycho Paul and rainbow? Lots of in answers questions and there are so many ways you could follow the story on.
Ideal needs to return! It would be very successful, attracting old viewers as well as a large number of new ones. BBC comedy is at an all time low right now and ideal would be a welcome edition by many. Please bring it back.
To not make an 8th season of ideal would be mean that the entire seven seasons have been for nothing and leave the story with an unsatisfactory ending which, this show doesn't deserve. It's one of the best comedy series created in the UK and a show created before its time and it's time it's NOW!
Great show and a Big fan unthinkable we would all like to see this one end right all the good shows are cut down for no reason
):<
Love this show
Need more ideal
Don't kill the show like you killed CH! unless you didn't, we need to know! he was scrummy!
Get it back on!!! Need to know what happened to CH
To not make an 8th season of ideal would be mean that the entire seven seasons have been for nothing and leave the story with an unstaisfying ending which this show doesn't deserve. It's one of the best comedy series created in the UK and a show created before its time and it's time is NOW!
BBC we pay you your wages through the TV licence! bring back Ideal!!!
Ideal completes me, i can remember discovering it on bbc 3 late at night, never have i watched a more relatable series.
Bring it back
It would be a massive shame to see an end to one of the funniest sitcoms Britain has ever produced.
Save this great show
The greatest sit-com ever made and certainly the most original. I find it appalling that one man has the power to prevent the cilmination of what is really a work of art.
Bring back this incredible show!!
SAVE IDEAL, how will we ever know if Cartoon Head dies ?
Please bring Moz and his weed back to our TV
Please bring back Ideal!
This was literally one of your best shows! Now BBC3 is exclusively online surely this is more possible now more than ever?!
Old but gold ..don't rheought it away
It deserves a propper ending
best show ever.
I love this show, I was gutted when it ended abruptly. One selfish BBC man has ruined it for everybody else. It wasn't even finished!! We all want to know what happens!!!
On probabtion
Plz save ideal
Love this show
It was different
bring back wilfred
Pleeease!! :)
I still miss Ideal. That they were never given the chance of at least a finale special to wrap up the show in appropriate style isn't just disrespectful, it's damn criminal.
Please bring it back
If not the Ideal movie then maybe a few more TV Christmas specials from next year please?
Still find it hard to believe they would cancel a brilliantly funny and unique show it was a real shame
BRING IT BACK!!!!
Best show on TV. Ever. Easily! Why not keep it going?
Bring this back or atleast an movie installment
I think we’ve waited long enough for this. Sell the rights to channel 4 lol!
bastards for cancelling this, a true classic, watched it iver and over again since its cancelation, such a kick in the teeth to graham johnnie and co, ive shown it to people onn my travrls in south america australia new zealand america and elsewhere and they fell in love with it and got its humour with ease, come on netflix bring it back
please let Ideal have a final series to wrap it all up. the least the BBC could do.
Best comedy ever works better than tablets for my personality disorder to not even show respect to crew and cast and not let them wrap up with final series disguting that is the cowardice of modern life
Definitely need another series at the very least. Hands down the best tv series the BBC has aired to date.
By far one of the best an most underated shows om any channel
such an awesome show should at least give us one final show or series to wrap things up
Please I’m very depressed :(
I have only just caught up with the end of this brilliant series and am very saddened that there are no more. It may be late in the day, but please bring it back. Even if it was brought back as repeats would be very welcome.
Cartoon head :)
Please reconsider. We are fans from America and thoroughly enjoy this television show by Mr Graham Duff. It is original and brilliant!
The best thing the bbc EVER did then they go scrap it!!!!
Are the BBC off their box? How can they scrap this great show after an award-running seven series over the two series wonder "Not Going Out"? Is it because "Not Going Out" is 'safe' for the snowflakes watching the BBC? Probably. I think it's time that PsychoPauuul and his gang paid the BBC a lesson.
wonderful show bring it back and still open all hours too
We Aussies loved this show too! Thank heavens we have the box set eh?
lease bring back this epic series ASAP
Bring this show back
The only show I ever watched and meant something to me throughout growing up
We all want ideal to continue, even after a decade of not being on television, there's nothing else like it and we need it back. PLEASE.
Save ideal it has a massive following
To paraphrase Andrew Lawrence’s character, “Don’t ignore me!”
Ideal is epic!!!!
BRILLIANT SERIES
I honestly used to live for this show
bring it back!
Dear BBC, please clean sweep this back onto our screens.
We need more shows back like this!
Ideal was a big part of my childhood and it got me through some hard times please allow it to come back. It's loved by so many fans.
Please from America put the show back on
Why !!!
Why !!!
Love Ideal! Greatest show ever! Please please please bring it back
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We have just learned today that your ruthless cancellation of your most popular television shows has continued with the axing of Graham Duff's excellent "Ideal".
This was creator, writer, producer and star, Graham Duff's beautifully dignified response to the news.
Hi,
As some of you may have heard, the BBC have decided against commissioning an 8th series of Ideal. The reason given was that the new channel controller wanted to make a clean sweep.
It is a source of both pride and frustration that, at the point of cancellation, Ideal was attracting its biggest ever audiences, its highest profile guest stars and its best ever reviews. And the show is now being screened in more countries than ever before - from America to Finland and beyond.
I just want to say a huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone who has appeared in the show and worked behind the scenes over the last 7 years and 53 episodes. And a very special thanks to everyone who has supported the show and spread the word. We really wouldn't have got this far without you.
It's been a truly wonderful journey and to work with such a genuinely amazing team has been both an honour and a solid hoot.
Best wishes
Graham xxx
However, with respect, we fans feel we have to let you at the BBC know that we are not happy and would like you to reconsider your decision and allow an 8th series. Ideal has fans from all across the globe (for proof of this, please see http://www.idealforum.co.uk ). And for a show languishing in such a late night time slot on BBC Three, the viewing figures have been consistently spectacular!
Ideal has had some incredible stars, including but most certainly not limited to Johnny Vegas, Tom Goodman-Hill, Seymour Mace, Graham Duff, Joanna Neary, Mick Miller, Ryan Pope, Peter Slater, Andrew-Lee Potts, Ben Compton, Tim Fallows andsuper-fan Janeane Garofalo who has been a recurring character for the past two series. And then we come to the manycomedic, musical and dramatic guest stars, including Kara Tointon, Paul Weller, Jason Manford, Mark E. Smith & Sean Lock, among the many who have taken small roles in the show. There are a scant few other shows of the same genre who can attract such a calibre of stars who are actively vying for a role. Surely this alone sets Ideal apart from its peers.
If Not Going Out can be given a reprieve after only 2 series', surely Ideal, with its global fanbase and so many more stories to tell, deserves a chance to prove itself worthy of a second chance?
However, if giving this isn't possible, please can we at least give us a chance to see the series end properly and allow Graham Duff to tie up all the loose ends somehow, as a fair concession for all concerned with this wonderful television show?
All Ideal fans, all over and everywhere, please sign below if you agree.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
August 24, 2011
August 22, 2011
We need to hit the one thousand signature mark before we present this to the network. Post the link on your Facebook wall right now and text three friends to ask them to sign immediately.
Reached 100 supporters
August 3, 2011
August 1, 2011
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to hit that mark before we present this to the BBC. Post the link on your Facebook wall right now. Text three friends who love this show and get them to add their name.
134 Comments
Just finished watching all 7 seasons and it is amazing. You can see how it has influenced many programs since. Fantastic ideas and acting. It is a real shame it was not finished, please bring it back and demonstrate the BBC can still support original daring comedy.
I live in Australia and just finished watching my boxset of ideal. Only to be again left feeling devastated finishing the last episode on that cliffhanger. Continue this show ! It made my days and does to many people all over the world not just the uk
Can't believe it's not been put back on TV for at least another series maybe they could show the 8th series on Dave , and show the run up to it just like they did with Red dwarf, If you're reading this Graham Duff "phone Dave I'm sure he'll sort you out a phat Eighth
The only thing I will miss more than Top Gear
The only thing I will miss more than Top Gear
Telling EVERYONE about this petition!
I just finished watching the entire seven series on DVD. I had seen some of it before, so wanted to see it all from start to finish. IDEAL was an original mix of bizarre, funny, psychedelic, eclectic diverse characters and much, much more. It was one of the few things on TV that relates to neglected subcultures. This is the sort of originality that the BBC, now itself in Salford, should be encouraging. The way it portrays sex, Asian, homosexuals, gangsters, men, women in their frailties and comic stereo types, I loved it. Bring back IDEAL! PLEASE!
Bring it back now you fools before its too late
Bring back the best show ever, BBC you have no excuse!!
best of bbc
Don't ban ideal
Don't ban ideal
Save ideal,my God why would u not with the rubbish that's on tv
No brainer
I've just watched ideal from start to finish. Genuinely depressed it's finished! Times have been trying yet ideal always puts a smile on my face and makes me laugh til I cry! How the bloody hell hasn't another tv company taken it on?! Best tv show ever and I only started watching it a week ago! Bring it back!!!!
Brilliant comedy!
Just watched it all from start to finish, not for the first time. Absolute comedy gold!
Bring it back and fire whoever cancelled it.
Please bring back Ideal!
Bring it back
Bring it back
Just give it 1 more season, c'mon. YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE US HANGING WITH SUCH A PISS POOR ENDING TO SEASON 7!!
Talkings for lesbians!
Should never have been axed, it would be good to see what everybody is up to. Did moz end up getting a real job? did cartoon head die? What happened to psycho Paul and rainbow? Lots of in answers questions and there are so many ways you could follow the story on.
Ideal needs to return! It would be very successful, attracting old viewers as well as a large number of new ones. BBC comedy is at an all time low right now and ideal would be a welcome edition by many. Please bring it back.
To not make an 8th season of ideal would be mean that the entire seven seasons have been for nothing and leave the story with an unsatisfactory ending which, this show doesn't deserve. It's one of the best comedy series created in the UK and a show created before its time and it's time it's NOW!
Great show and a Big fan unthinkable we would all like to see this one end right all the good shows are cut down for no reason
):<
Love this show
Need more ideal
Don't kill the show like you killed CH! unless you didn't, we need to know! he was scrummy!
Get it back on!!! Need to know what happened to CH
To not make an 8th season of ideal would be mean that the entire seven seasons have been for nothing and leave the story with an unstaisfying ending which this show doesn't deserve. It's one of the best comedy series created in the UK and a show created before its time and it's time is NOW!
BBC we pay you your wages through the TV licence! bring back Ideal!!!
Ideal completes me, i can remember discovering it on bbc 3 late at night, never have i watched a more relatable series.
Bring it back
It would be a massive shame to see an end to one of the funniest sitcoms Britain has ever produced.
Save this great show
The greatest sit-com ever made and certainly the most original. I find it appalling that one man has the power to prevent the cilmination of what is really a work of art.
Bring back this incredible show!!
SAVE IDEAL, how will we ever know if Cartoon Head dies ?
Please bring Moz and his weed back to our TV
Please bring back Ideal!
This was literally one of your best shows! Now BBC3 is exclusively online surely this is more possible now more than ever?!
Old but gold ..don't rheought it away
It deserves a propper ending
best show ever.
I love this show, I was gutted when it ended abruptly. One selfish BBC man has ruined it for everybody else. It wasn't even finished!! We all want to know what happens!!!
On probabtion
Plz save ideal
Love this show
It was different
bring back wilfred
Pleeease!! :)
I still miss Ideal. That they were never given the chance of at least a finale special to wrap up the show in appropriate style isn't just disrespectful, it's damn criminal.
Please bring it back
If not the Ideal movie then maybe a few more TV Christmas specials from next year please?
Still find it hard to believe they would cancel a brilliantly funny and unique show it was a real shame
BRING IT BACK!!!!
Best show on TV. Ever. Easily! Why not keep it going?
Bring this back or atleast an movie installment
I think we’ve waited long enough for this. Sell the rights to channel 4 lol!
bastards for cancelling this, a true classic, watched it iver and over again since its cancelation, such a kick in the teeth to graham johnnie and co, ive shown it to people onn my travrls in south america australia new zealand america and elsewhere and they fell in love with it and got its humour with ease, come on netflix bring it back
please let Ideal have a final series to wrap it all up. the least the BBC could do.
Best comedy ever works better than tablets for my personality disorder to not even show respect to crew and cast and not let them wrap up with final series disguting that is the cowardice of modern life
Definitely need another series at the very least. Hands down the best tv series the BBC has aired to date.
By far one of the best an most underated shows om any channel
such an awesome show should at least give us one final show or series to wrap things up
Please I’m very depressed :(
I have only just caught up with the end of this brilliant series and am very saddened that there are no more. It may be late in the day, but please bring it back. Even if it was brought back as repeats would be very welcome.
Cartoon head :)
Please reconsider. We are fans from America and thoroughly enjoy this television show by Mr Graham Duff. It is original and brilliant!
The best thing the bbc EVER did then they go scrap it!!!!
Are the BBC off their box? How can they scrap this great show after an award-running seven series over the two series wonder "Not Going Out"? Is it because "Not Going Out" is 'safe' for the snowflakes watching the BBC? Probably. I think it's time that PsychoPauuul and his gang paid the BBC a lesson.
wonderful show bring it back and still open all hours too
We Aussies loved this show too! Thank heavens we have the box set eh?
lease bring back this epic series ASAP
Bring this show back
The only show I ever watched and meant something to me throughout growing up
We all want ideal to continue, even after a decade of not being on television, there's nothing else like it and we need it back. PLEASE.
Save ideal it has a massive following
To paraphrase Andrew Lawrence’s character, “Don’t ignore me!”
Ideal is epic!!!!
BRILLIANT SERIES
I honestly used to live for this show
bring it back!
Dear BBC, please clean sweep this back onto our screens.
We need more shows back like this!
Ideal was a big part of my childhood and it got me through some hard times please allow it to come back. It's loved by so many fans.
Please from America put the show back on
Why !!!
Why !!!
Love Ideal! Greatest show ever! Please please please bring it back
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Just finished watching all 7 seasons and it is amazing. You can see how it has influenced many programs since. Fantastic ideas and acting. It is a real shame it was not finished, please bring it back and demonstrate the BBC can still support original daring comedy.