The last couple of years I watch very little series television. There isn't a single regular network program that holds my interest.
At the same time though F/X network the last several seasons has been offering almost the only interesting new shows on the air. Nip/Tuck, The Shield, and Rescue Me all push the boundaries of basis cable, and are totally upfront that this is what they do. They aren't right for everybody and give fair warning they are mature programming with foul language, nudity etc at the beginning of each episode (MLV etc) may as well be a Roman numeral geometry problem it uses so many warning letters. They are also broadcast late night past the bedtime of youngsters.
With several hundred channels now there is room for mature subjects programming to be offered to forewarned audiences.
Do you actually want All Barney the Dinosaur all the time?
There's a name for this kind of spurious argument. I don't know it, but I know there is.
It's where you set up one unpleasant extreme to compare to another, pretending that there is nothing in between. Of course there is!
..neither do I expect beastiality to be on my TV programs.