TV shows / films where they thought of the title first and worked backwards

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/mk8jqm/lodgers-for-codgers--s1-e1-lodgers-for-codgers/

The Simpsons

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

1 Like

Eastenders

6 Likes

Hostelling with Chris Eubank

7 Likes

Snakes On A Plane

3 Likes

The Hottie and the Nottie

Based on a comic but I suspect the same still applies.

(Genuinely one of the worst things I have ever seen. Mary-Louise Parker looks embarrassed in every scene she’s in.)

1 Like

Bend It Like Beckham

24

Doc Martin

Black Books

Surely that was ITV exec buys 2nd home in Port Issac and needs TV show filmed there so that it can be claimed on expenses?

1 Like

Dogs Can Fly

Sex Box

Trading Places

The 2004 World Snooker Championship

We were on holiday in Boston when they were filming it there - every day we’d see them shooting in a different part of the city, so we went to watch it when it came out.

Absolute bobbins.