We also have Antenna TV and METV which have a lot of classic programing.
They’re just like radio programmers - could care less what people say they want. “We’re smarter than you so quit complaining”.
Gee, sounds a lot like Democrats in Congress doesn’t it?
Hot in Cleveland is so obvious it isn’t funny. Come on folks, I like Betty White and as Rose and her other characters in the show with Mary Tyler Moore were VERY FUNNY...I do not think her mouth is funny at all. They have her saying way too many assinine and ridiculous things and she says them. As for the other three...they all have lines and what a waste. Especially the lady that was the gal on Frasier who married Martin. She’s got real talent and it is being wasted on this show. sorry...that’s my opinion about it all.
We need some good solid shows with PLOTS. Good Lord...we LOVED Julia Louis Dreyfus in Seinfeld but...after the first Julia show...didn’t they arealize she was made for the character in Seinfeld? going to the new adventures of the old Julia is ridiculous. Has anyone else see it? I LOVED Elaine but she is awful in this new series. Yes, bring back some of the old shows with real plots and real funny comedy. All that is on now is people hopping in and out of bed with someone. That’s a story????
Most of that stuff people are “demanding” is out on DVD and various legal streaming sources. And those ways have the advantage of not having commercials, it’s a double advantage really because when those shows were new they had less commercial time per hour, which means when they’re on cable they’re shorter, an average of 5 minutes per half hour.
I understand where the fans are coming from. I’ve been hoping to see a few more of my old favorites come back. I understand that the network has to keep its ratings up with programs that draw viewers and advertising $$$. And I also get that as the years pass, more recent shows (relatively speaking) become defined as classic/retro - Just Shoot Me, for example.
Still, I’d like to see them run The Bob Newhart Show or the original WKRP in Cincinnati once in a while instead of The Nanny four freakin’ times a day.
BTW, I’m the same way with cooking shows. I can’t stand all the reality crap that’s taken over Food Network. Give me the likes of The Galloping Gourmet and Justin Wilson anyday!
There’s an unmet demand for classic television programming. There was once a time when local affiliates had open blocks that were filled with popular reruns. People love those old shows.
With the advent of more bandwidth with digital broadcast, several local stations have cropped up with a lot of these shows. There are two that I can receive with another on the way. They appear to be holding their own as far as ad sales and revenue. Cost of entry must not be nearly so steep as it once was.
TV-Land was a nifty channel in its first few years. Lots of familiar oldies, like “Mannix,” “Sgt. Bilko,” “Petticoat Junction,” “Cannon,” and such, along with a few occasional rarities on weekends, like “Richard Diamond,” “The Rogues,” “Felony Squad,” “The Loner,” “The Detectives,” “Trackdown,” and whatnot. I used to tape a number of such shows, back then. Pretty worthless channel now, though. I haven’t watched anything on it in many years. A lot of things are now available on dvd, but there’s STILL a lot that’s not.
If I wanted to watch Golden Girls I would...not some revamped version in Cleveland
Excellent.
Now, somebody get throgh to SyFy (ugh!) and tell them that multiple iterations of “Big Snake Monsters” and “Crazy Natural Disaster” make for really lousy television.
Agree about the unmet demand for a true-blue oldies network. In the last ten years, all the mainstay satellite stations (including TV-Land) seem to be morphing into indistinguishable sameness with their programming. You can’t really tell one network from another anymore.
A new network specializing in un-cut, exclusively vintage fare would at very least stand out, and I truly think it could find a receptive audience. I certainly hear this sentiment from all sorts of people, when the subject is discussed. So many folks I talk to are just sick of the sleaze along with the overall abrasiveness of modern-tv, and seem to be craving a safe-harbor of sorts, full of old favorites.
there’s a fairly new network called RTV Retro Television that shows a lot of classics. we can catch it in south Texas. a hell of a lot better than TV Land IMHO.
www.myretrotv.com
TV pretty much turned to trash and vulgarity in the 1970’s, it seems.
if you do not take care of your customers, someone else like Netflix will take care of them for you...
It seems the biggest trend in TV is people tuning to watch ordinary people doing mundane jobs - Pawn Stars, Operation Repo, Dirty Jobs, American Chopper. It’s a trend I’ve never understood. The only show like this that seems slightly interesting is Ice Road Truckers, partly because of the coolness factor of driving trucks on ice, and partly because of Lisa.
The same old thing that happens at every cable channel of this sort.
Starts out one way, gets some success, decides it has to "mature" and gets as gross as the other channels, and a new channel starts up that did what the other one used to do.
See all the iterations of "family channels." They start fine, become less and less family friendly, until they finally stop identifying themselves as a family channel at all. Then a new family channel starts up and attracts all the fans of the old family channel.
We never watch TV Land anymore. It used to be reliable family-friendly tv. First, the ads started getting gross -- your kids are watching The Andy Griffith Show but the ads are horrible. Then they started getting away from classic tv altogether.
Never fear. If they don't listen to their viewers, they will lose them to a new "TV Land" like channel.
TVLand has been running CSI all weekend, how boring.
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Just wanted to bump the post with this movie anyone a round 40 plus will love it. Old time SciFi the dangers of the atomic age were totally different LOL.
http://retrovision.tv/freevideo/fiend-without-a-face-1958