Posted on 02/23/2024 6:35:01 AM PST by SJackson
YouTube is pretty much all we watch. We watch people with the same values that we have and the same problems.
If DEI was a correct thing then 13% of actors would be black and almost 20% would be Hispanic and then there would be a sprinkling of Arabs and Asians and the rest would be white and close to 50% male and there would be a lot of fat people.
They also don’t give them original material they’re putting them in iconic roles that everyone recognizes. It’s like a popular song sung to a different tune nobody likes it they like the original.
As far as all that sexual stuff in real life in a city with 28,000 people even with all the indoctrination their public face wouldn’t amount to a drop in a bucket but they’re more well-known because of all the drama they always create.
I’ve been working my way through the original Perry Mason series. It is a lot of fun.
In my post I meant B-17’s not B-52’s. My bad
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Car 54
Sgt Bilko
Amos & Andy **
** Even though the “civil rights” moved campaigned against this show its genius and many black comics such as Red Fox defended the show. Primarily the show depicts hard working black Americans in a middle class setting. The goofballs providing comic relief are Andrew Brown, Kingfish and Algonquin J. Calhoun. Every other black is a hard-working middle class American. The white equivalent is “The Honeymooners”. Ralph and Ed no more represented white American then Andy, Kingfish & Algonquin represented black America. The actors and writers in both cases provided incredible comedy!
I know your concerns. At this point, I am skeptical even of Baptist or Catholic run hospitals. I am also skeptical of doctors, dentists, and other practitioners who belong to multioffice medical providers.
Back in the pre-cable days there were 63 hours of prime time among the three networks. Some was chewed up by sports and reruns. That increased some with Fox and then more with cable channels producing some original content. Now a lot more content is produced which means they are digging deeper for producers, directors, writers and actors. Some will be surprise hits that wouldn’t have been made with the old system, but most is dreck that that would have been correctly dumped in the trash with only 63 hours available.
The fact is most of the studios are cutting back right now and what they writers and actors got in the recent contracts was pretty much a Pyrrhic victory. Studios also got rid of a lot of expensive production deals. 2024 will be a very lean and weak year for TV and the movies.
An old show like Seinfeld can still command a $1 Million an episode in syndication, and I am sure that is true of other shows like that from the 1990’s. I would rather watch, that, 3rd Rock, Just Shoot Me, News Radio, Spin City, etc. which have great writing and are still just as funny. Lot of great drama’s still to watch and I love Dallas Reruns.
I only like the first 3 seasons after that it become pretty much the Alan Alda show, some of the best characters left or were fired.
We recently watched all of the old “Avengers” with Patrick McNee and Diana Rigg. Very entertaining! Mr. sneakers is watching all of the Star Trek series. Other than that, the only newer shows we watch are Barnwood Builders, Maine Cabin Masters, Oak Island and Time Team (archaeology show). All the new stuff is crap.
The show was so dense, with so many characters and so many intricate plot points that spilled over into various season - it was hard to keep it all straight watching it either week to week - or season to season, some of which had 18 months between seasons. (Ditto for Game of Thrones).
Much better the second time b/c we watch it in either a two or three hour block - plot flows SO much better and it’s far easier to follow. I picked up on a lot of things that I missed the first round. It just got better and better - Season 6 is my absolute favorite - and the ending was just...weird.
Saw an interview with one of the writers and he said if they’d gone another season, the character “Syl” who owned the Bada-Bing would have died in the hospital - last the series left off, he was not expected to survive. Great character and I’d love another season - thought the prequel was a huge disappointment...
I like The Saint, Danger Man, and the classic Mission Impossible.
Will do.
I think it has a lot to do with most of those old shows not having an arc. As much as I love serialized TV it doesn’t lend itself to casual viewing. Episodic TV you can watch any episode any time, you don’t have to know anything that happened before. The rise of serialization has opened many wonderful doors for story telling. But there’s still a lot of audience for 1 episode stories with nothing to keep track of.
I have been streaming a lot of foreign cop shows; British, French, Australian, New Zealand, Scandinavian.
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Peace out,
The Breakfast Club
For the record. Brit Box and Acorn both feature “old” British, Canadien, Australian and New Zealand TV shows. Once you get comfortable with police cars driving on the wrong side of the road, the experience is not really foreign.
We have become very enamored of Australian and New Zealand TV. Both are first rate and un political except for “Rake” and that is pure political comedy.
The recent programming is polluted with both superfluous African and Pakistani that are totally out of place and unbelievable.
Brit Box:
https://www.britbox.com/us/
Lorry = Truck
Take away = Take out
Pudding = desert
and on and on.......
The series “Justified” although more recent, was a lot of fun. Great crime drama with lot of humor and quirky characters.
We keep running through the Frasier series at bedtime. Pure gold. Must have gone through it at least 10 times already. We’ll just start over again, and let it roll - never gets old.
Imagine seeing the ending live on your TV in real time.
Hint: Many thousands of people panicked and called their cable TV companies at that moment.
Lol.
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