I’m probably missing something here. I thought that with hundreds of channels on cable TV, that any individual channel will have low ratings, because they are “narrow casting” to a niche audience. Maybe someone can fill in more details. I guess I thought ratings for a niche channel didn’t matter that much.
What is going to save Nik at Night? showing Rosanne, Cosby And Fresh Prince every night, All night Aint gonna do it. Who watches?
Uh oh. The prospect of no more Gunsmoke and Andy Griffith is quite troublesome.
I love old TV shows. But every time I turn to TV Land, they’re showing Andy Griffith. Nice show, don’t get me wrong. But once in a while I’d like to see something else. I rarely go looking on TV Land anymore.
And the movies they list are some of the same ones that get played all the time on other channels.
They need a little more variety on that channel, but not movies. Bring on “Get Smart!”
So their answer is to show bad movies?
I used to tune in to AMC when it meant quality classic movies. Now they show recent crap like Catwoman.
If the latter is the case they should be aware of the fact that older boomers would flock to such shows given the worthless garbage that's shown elsewhere on TV *and* we've got *tons* of money to spend on cars,vacations,financial services and Viagra.
I’d watch if they’d show Charlie Chan movies....
IMHO, the problem with TVLand is that they stopped showing the real classics. They are showing shows that are in syndication on plenty of other channels.
I miss when they showed the old shows. The black & white shows. I stopped watching Nick at Nite for the same reason. They had me when they showed Mr. Ed and Donna Reed and shows like that. They lost me, though. Fresh Prince and Roseanne aren’t old shows to me.
Besides that, pretty much all shows are available on DVD now. That doesn’t help their cause.
Now it’s TVLand’s turn.
Do you watch it? They need to make a profit or the channel will disappear. If they have to play Basic Instinct to get some adult interest than that is what they want to do. I doubt it will work, but this is Capitalism and is necessary.
I.E. UFO, Space 1999, etc.
Also, the anthology series "One Step Beyond" is now in the public domain. (Worldvision neglected to renew the copyright in the 80s.)
TVLand got screwed by the Sopranos effect. Sopranos proved there was a market for selling TV shows (some of which had been around all ready but it boomed after Sopranos hit the stores). There’s simply no reason to watch these shows on a cable network, edited to fit the increased number of commercials they have now and with commercial breaks when you can buy most of their shows on DVD and see the whole episode straight through. Times change, networks need to adapt.
I’m glad you posted this, I was going to post a thread on this a few weeks ago. I sent them an email instead asking why “TV Land” is playing Basic Instinct, White Men Can’t Jump, and Roots. “TV Land”, you know, I love lucy, Andy Griffith, My three sons, brady bunch.
I hear porn sells well, how about some porn!
Yes, it’s a disaster. Maybe we need a new channel with the classic TV that TVLand is abandoning (at least one night a week) and the arts programming that Bravo and A&E seem to be abandoning.
I don’t understand-—how are they *surprised* that programming an entire network for people over 50 would be doomed to failure?
There’s so many great old TV shows, but all TV Land seems to air is Gunsmoke and Bonanza. I look at the TV listings, and it’s Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Bonanza...
If only TV Land would realize that they had more TV shows in the 1960’s than the few they show, they could make them popular again. My most recent DVD purchases were box sets of Rat Patrol, Superman, and Wild Wild West, and I’m waiting for Man from UNCLE soon!