Answers are TV shows

[Skipper77]

1. Desired goal, but ultimately a failure (8 letters).
2. He could fit well on Eggheads! (6 letters)
3. Ground-breaking culture series (12 letters)
4. ----------------------------------- work, in London (4 words 4, 5, 3, 6 letters)

[vegasmad]

4. Only Fools and Horses

[bibblebub]

3 Civilisation ?

[weecalf]

4 kaleidoscope

[rivel]

1. Mission Impossible?

[rivel]

Oops sorry!
I have just noticed the number of letters.

[hogbody]

1. misfits ? ) only seven letters though??

[rivel]

1. Bullseye

[Skipper77]

Bullseye certainly fits, but was it ultimately a failure? I don't know much about it, other than it was a darts programmes.

[hogbody]

Bullseye, Jim Bowen famously always said at the end. 'come and have a look at what you could have won'

[Pandmfrost]

accidental injury - 8 letters