'huge, queer and tawdry' but 'much admired by the public'

I don't so much mind that Phoo Action got a series; it looked to me like a good idea executed with too little time, money and practice, and plenty of pilots with problems that bad or worse have gone on to make good series. What annoys me is that it was commissioned before the other pilots had been shown, which would seem to undermine the supposed point of the exercise.