Ditto! I limit my TV watching to old movies, concerts, football.
The shows that I allow my family to watch is more “Americana” by definition. I love “Swamp People”, and some of the other shows about auctions etc... My daughter wanted to watch “Glee” since many of her friends watch it. I watched it with her for about ten minutes and said, “no”. (actually, what I said was a little more severe).
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Fun time is going through a list of new shows and trying to predict which ones will get cancelled and when.
Numerous shows get pulled after just a few episodes. Some are so bad or get so low an audience that they get pulled after 2-3 episodes.
Networks have been reducing the number of episodes for new series, so they won’t have so much invested in the failures. They get an initial order for 4-8 episodes with a contingency for more, such the series gather an audience.
It is difficult to predict which new series will be successful and which will fall flat.
network TV is the ghetto of entertainment.
how much longer before the networks start going the way of newspapers?
>>> New Fall TV Lineup Heavy on Sex
Then the shows will quickly fail. Nobody wants to watch heavy people having sex. Problem solved.
Modern TV nauseates me. It’s become such a sewer that it is no longer worth the effort to wade through the putrid mess to find anything worthwhile. I gave up on all of it entirely, opting instead for dvd-sets of older, more classic shows.
One commercial I saw showed her dressed in a short French maid outfit at the ironing board when her boyfriend came home and she asked seductively if he needed anything else done, so he got her some more clothes to iron. Just what I need to see, another "smart woman, clueless man" show.
Football, the Food Channel (Alton Brown is an icon), History Channel, and ‘Castle’ when it’s on. Don’t even watch Fox News anymore ... their treachery was finally revealed.
We watch VERY LITTLE TV. We watch some news to stay current. Some old reruns (stupid but funny) History Channel, a couple Food Network shows like Giada and Barefoot Contessa (those are pretty much it), some football, some baseball. That’s it and...we don’t watch it all the time. We will not sit in front of a tv all day long so these shows are “caught” more or less when we have time for them.
We read and we enjoy the great outdoors where God has created so much beauty for all of us. Even those who don’t appreciate seeing a bird or a beautiful tree or sunrise or sunset. Those are free and nothing filthy about any of them.
We have grandchildren whose parents take them to see historical things, interesting things, fun things and teach them some of the old ways regarding games etc. We gave pick up stix to a little boy for his birthday and he LOVED them. Simple pick up stix.
We need to return to our values. I think we are getting saturated with all the low life things and maybe that’s a good thing because once you go so low...there is only one way to go and that is up. I have faith that will happen.
It's more about the music and the creative individuals who have that gift. it's about teens and yes sex is part of the story line, but is not who they are as artists--they have boyfriends, girlfriends but the music comes first.
Hey sex and violence make up the world--and ratings are big on the popular Big Brother [which I do not watch], but then I have other choices. Who am I to say what someone should watch. I sneak in a show I won't mention once in a while--train wrecks are not my life-so curious. ;)
These issues are controlled by ones own moral code, the government or some politician cannot control that part of our being.
I am and have always been a film buff, watch TV, and read before bed as well [at the moment, Brad Thor's latest]--and of course the newspapers and ALWAYS FR. I also am into the arts.
With openly homosexual, Bob Greenblatt, now in charge of programming at NBC, expect gay characters and story lines to engulf the network. But since no one has actually watched NBC for a decade, I guess it doesn’t matter.
It’s a problem for us as well. We’ve been buying more and more movies. We also watch football, golf, HGTV and FoodNetwork.
Most current tv reeks. I don’t even try to watch most of it. I do like “House”, “Holmes on Homes”, and a handful of other offerings, but most of it stinks.
Deadliest Catch, Dual Survival, Swords, American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars {Cali}, Auction Kings, Ice Road Truckers, Swamp Loggers, Swamp People {especially the two brothers that aren’t hunting gators}, American Restoration, are mainly the shows I’ll watch with a few more shows added. Most of them are entertaining and educational. None are on the Big Four Networks.
The only shows I bother recording is Dr. Who, Top Gear UK (not the US Top Gear)Mythbusters and NASCAR.
I love my PVR, it records everything, it auto tunes Fox news at 2am so when I get up at 3am I just roll it back one hour and then I skip all the commercials or boring stuff.