[James2001]

As we saw with land based TV, being high brow and sophisticated doesn't get butts on seats.  If it had survived it would have had to go downmarket to ITV's level and possibly even lower.

Only need to look at what happened to the "high brow" LWT, after the ITA decided that viewers "needed" such a service. Within a matter of months they were making On The Buses, and were pretty much known for sitcoms and light entertainment afterwards, which is a million miles from the content they were actually awarded the franchise for. Operas and David Frost every night didn't cut it however much they thought it would enrich viewers.

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Heil Honey only get s reputation as being a piece of tat because that reputation is almost certainly based on talking heads to the sort of repackaged "top <something or other" stuff that Channel 5 keeps pushing out.  Those heads probably saw "key" portions of this show nicked off YouTube and made comments.

Could probably be argued Heil Honey was too clever for its own good as I don't think the pilot was that bad to be honest (and let's be fair, Hitler's been ridiculed and parodied so many times over the years in film and TV that Heil Honey looks relatively tame by comparison).  Like most things that were heavily controversial at the time, you look at it and think what's the problem here?

Then you get the story that it was "pulled because of the controversy of the pilot episode", which also isn't true. They went on to make a whole series after that pilot episode was screened, the reason it wasn't shown was down to the merger and replacement with Sky One. If it was so controversial that they didn't want to show it, they wouldn't have made the rest of the series to begin with.

Pretty much no BSB content made it to Sky, TV Ark had a clip of Sky One showing "Cool Cube", which was a kid's magazine programme (made by Granada) that went out originally on Galaxy, and Sky News showing Now Sir Robin. I don't think either lasted long, and I can't think of anything else that transferred over (nearly a third of Jupiter Moon was infamously not seen until Sci Fi showed it years later), so they probably wouldn't have taken Heil Honey no matter what the reputation was.