Maybe that is why we are living in a golden age of television. What compares in the past to Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Hell on Wheels, Ray Donovan, Sherlock, Game of Thrones, Rome, Band of Brothers, Deadwood, Merlin and the list goes on and on.
I would add The Hour, Broadchurch, Top of the Lake, Justified, previously The Shield and the Sopranos, Damages, Masterpiece Mystery, all top notch.
I am not a big fan of the fantasy genre, but before it’s over Game of Thrones will be considered one of the great series of all time.
And the sports coverage is far more from a quantity and quality standpoint. In the 60s you could pay for the Ali fights at the theaters and if you didn’t you couldn’t see the fight. Now they replay the pay-for-views a week afterwords for regular subscribers. Several channels broadcast boxing 2-3 weeks per month. You can see any baseball or football game if you can afford it.
The cable companies have raised the bar and you can turn more and more to tv and now the net and away from the theatres. Look at House of Cards, Arrested Development and Orange is the New Black on Netflix, with more coming.
There’s enough to criticize and some real junk, but we have many more choices of quality programs and for those opposed we always have the turn off button.