Singer and guitarist Steve Marriott was one of Britain’s most respected blues-rock performers of the 60s and 70s.

Before theme songs became skip buttons and recaps started explaining things you absolutely already knew, TV shows had one precious chance to grab your attention. Enter the cold open—the pre-credits moment designed to hook you, delight you, or completely derail your expectations before the story even begins. Let’s journey through some of the most iconic cold opens in TV history.

American remakes of British TV have a reputation—and not always a flattering one. For every awkward cultural transplant, there’s a reinvention that somehow clicks harder, lasts longer, and embeds itself into pop culture in a way the original never quite managed. Sometimes it’s a cast change, sometimes it’s pacing, and sometimes it’s just the confidence to go bigger, louder, and messier.

Hollywood loves a test screening. Dim the lights, hand out comment cards, and let a roomful of strangers decide a movie’s fate. Sometimes that feedback saves a project. Other times, it nearly buries films that would later be crowned untouchable classics. From endings that were completely rewritten to tones that were wildly misunderstood, these movies all faced brutal early reactions—and survived anyway.

Every generation has guilty pleasures—but boomers? Oh, they practically invented them. Long before Spotify Wrapped exposed everyone’s questionable listening habits, boomers were already hiding record sleeves under their beds and praying no one caught them humming along. These are the songs they loved…and would rather not talk about.

Every legendary rock band has at least one album fans worship—and at least one they quietly pretend never existed. These are the greatest highs and the most notorious lows from the most iconic bands of all time… or are they? Do you agree with the choices?