TV is unwatchable. Not only the trash they air but way too many commercials.
TV has always been a vast wasteland to some degree or another. Sleaze became institutionalized January 20 1993.
There used to be as little as 5 minutes of ads per half-hour. Then it went to around 8 minutes per half, but now it’s over 11 minutes of ads. That’s for EVERY program out there including the news, and the non-news shows repeat what they did just before the commercial break as soon as the show returns.
There *might* be as much as 15 minutes of programming per half-hour once the repetition and ads are removed. I use the TV for a night light, or to entertain the dogs when I’m not home.
Then again, I occasionally find myself watching Chinese TV, and believe it or not, Al-Jazeera is pretty even-handed in their news most of the time.