Time Machine Full and I Can't Navigate Time Machine

This gets presented all the time. So moderator if you can find me a solution please do so.
Here's the problem I'm having.
1) My Time Machine says the disk is full but my partition on my external is 360 GB and my internal hard drive is only 150 GB. I gave it 2x the amount of disk space but I'm still out of space.
2) Time Machine is supposedly programmed to delete old backups. Why are my old backups not being deleted.
3) When I enter time machine I cannot navigate to old backups. I click on the arrows and nothing happens. I click on the lines on the right hand side and nothing happens.
So those are my problems. Anyone have answers or solutions to these?

I have the same problem. I just set time machine up to back up my 1TB drive and 120GB system ssd and its been working fine all week. Made a 1.2TB partition on an external for time machine, which should be enough for the 1.12TB combined capacity of my drives, especially considering time machine is claiming to require only 954.1GB. I rearranged a lot of what was on my 1TB drive, pretty much moving everything to a different location as well as deleting a fair bit, and the next backup following this was still processing well after 42 hours when I finally decided to cancel it. After that it reports that the drive isn't big enough for the backup.
"Time Machine needs work space on the backup disk.."
I guess this is the issue. 80GB isn't enough extra work space? And its not deleting old backups to make room, which I thought it is supposed to do. So how much overhead is really necessary? How large do I need to make the backup partition? Yet, the backup will eventually expand to fill all of the available space.. so ***.I really would like to preserve the backups I have prior to making the changes, one of the key reasons to even use time machine, but it seems I'm going to have to delete the old backups and/or reformat the partition in order to continue using time machine without any more hassles in the future.
Any help is appreciated.

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