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Did anyone catch this? It was borderline awful.

 

Edge of Heaven got off to quite a bad start, setting a poor ratings record for ITV.

 

Set in an eighties-themed B&B in Margate and starring Blake Harrison of The Inbetweeners, it sounded like a recipe for comedy success.

 

However, the 2.7 million viewers who tuned in for the launch episode were ITV’s smallest ever audience for a first episode of a new scripted series airing at 9pm, according to TV Scoops.

 

The show received a mauling from TV critics, who highlighted the two-dimensional character and its almost non-existent humour.

 

The Telegraph said: ‘The comedy in Edge of Heaven was unapologetically no-brow, so you might reasonably have expected it to be accompanied by an old school tumult of artificial guffaws. Instead, the gags hung in an eerie silence.’

 

The Guardian was harsher still, saying: ‘It’s basically Benidorm, only set on the Costa del Kent. Margate’s about the only thing that comes out of this well. It looks lovely’ and in the words of Unreality TV, it was ‘a poorly-written show that is neither comedic nor dramatic.’

 

Edge of Heaven didn’t go down well with viewers either, with some of the kinder reactions panning the show as ‘dire’ and a poor version of Benidorm.

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The preview I read made it look like the programme would be terrible so I didn't bother watching. It looks like that was a wise decision.

I watched a bit on itv player yesterday, Didnt get further than the first 10 minutes before I gave up on it...

 

Blake Harrison really needs to do something new, everything he's done is so samey especially after seeing that awful Big Bad World show he did for Paramount! He just seems to be typecast as the unlucky loser in love type character but at least when he did that in The Inbetweeners it was much more hilarious

 

Safe to say this wont be getting a second series...

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