Posted on 06/05/2017 8:53:14 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Almost every year since 2013, Vulture has published a chart illustrating the performance of veteran TV shows during the most recent season. We’ve labeled said charts “depressing” because they’ve consistently shown the vast majority of returning shows — whether they’ve been on the air for two years or two decades — losing ground in the key TV demographic of adults under 50. This season is no exception, and it’s arguably the most depressing year yet for those who follow network-TV trends. Last year, ten broadcast series were either up or flat versus the previous season. This season? Just one network series — ABC’s indestructible The Bachelor — has managed to increase its audience in the demo, with two others (CW’s Jane the Virgin and CBS’s Hawaii Five-O) remaining flat. Everything else on network TV got smaller.
As noted, the fact that most network shows are down is not exactly news: Every chart we’ve done the past four years has shown the same thing. What’s new is just how rare not losing audience has become (there were more than a dozen flat or up shows in 2013) and how quickly the pace of the erosion picked up this season. This year, 27 returning series suffered what we’d define as serious decline — a ratings loss of 25 percent or larger. That’s up from 16 series with similarly significant declines last season. It’s a dramatic spike, to be sure, but also not all that shocking. While some viewers are no doubt abandoning network TV for better offerings on cable or streaming, audiences are also simply consuming TV in dramatically different ways than they did at the start of the decade.
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1. Millions of people dropped cable during the last year. Some people may now be streaming these shows instead of watching them on TV.
2. Quality of TV shows decreasing
3. Conservatives boycotting. I think TV is actually hurt more than film, because there are still enough blockbuster, action, and horror films aimed at teens and 20 somethings who go to the movies regularly. But younger people don't watch TV, and the main audience for TV is people 35+. These are the people far more likely to be conservative.
Also interesting to note that Last Man Standing had one of the smallest drops of any series, yet it was cancelled.
I think that’s great news. People are turning off the trash.
The fact is that TV, like movies, just plain suck. They're stale. Old. Cliche.
All of hollyweird entertainment severely restricts what writers and directors can do. If a writer or director or actor isn't rabidly pro faggot, pro AGW, pro anti-trump, pro gun control, etc, the Hollyfag establishment blackballs them.
And that leaves only a small pool of talent from which to choose. Fags. Racists. Anti gun nuts.
And we all know those people are, at best, stupid. At worst, clinically insane.
Those are the people giving us tv shows and big screen movies.
No wonder it's boring.
Quality of TV shows decreasing
TV has descended into a rotting corpse.
For nearly as long as I can remember, entertainment has had a subtle but obvious liberal bias. This started maybe around 1965.
Now it is a cesspool of hard core leftist dogma and they hit you over the head with it.
The years of Pavlovian conditioning have worked. The current generations have moved far, far to the left.
I can only speak for myself, but my tv watching has almost completely stopped. I loved NCIS but the last two or three years or so it has taken a turn for the worse. The pro islam message is loud and clear and I don’t need to see that on a program that is supposed to be about protecting Americans.
Other shows that I watched also suffered from progressive preaching, I stopped watching. There isn’t much on the tube these days that is just pure entertainment. Even the home improvement shows are getting bad. It is indeed a ‘vast wasteland’ for anyone who thinks differently than the idiots in Hollywood.
I couldn’t name any shows on TV these days.
Thanks to DramaFever and Viki, I discovered KDramas. And that’s all I need.
There are several shows on those lists that I dropped from my DVR strictly because of politics.
Marvel’s Agents of Shield, Shark Tank and the “Holy Night” abortion on Scandal.
Josh Whedon is an insufferable liberal, Mark Cuban lost me the minute he appeared on stage for Hillary in Pittsburgh forever and Kerry Washington... what needs to be said.
I was a little sad about the drops in Lucifer and Gotham as Fox Mondays is one of my favorite slates of the week. Despite having a main protagonist as the devil, it is an entertaining show.
You will note that the shows with the least amount of political furor surrounding their stars, plots and producers are the ones likely to have dropped the least.
For as old as it is the Big Bang Theory is holding up remarkably well.
Network tv just churns out formulaic trash. Most of the good shows are hourlong cable dramas, or original stuff from the streaming services, because they are willing to take chances, and support shows for two or three seasons until they catch fire. Networks won’t put hardly anything original on, and even if they do, they’ll cancel it before it can hit its stride.
Too many queers.
Biggest problem they’re running into is that the American model of seeing shows as grapefruits and squeezing until there is no moisture left in the kitchen is running into the meat grinder that is peak TV. With 400ish scripted shows coming out every year there’s just not much reason to stick with a show that has creatively peaked and is now running out the string. TV has become the embodiment of the old joke about breakups of there being another train coming, heck not only is there another train coming there’s a dozen sitting at the station.
“I think that’s great news. People are turning off the trash.”
Virtually every show tries to shoehorn political correctness into it. It’s difficult to find a show that DOESN’T have some sort of gay relationship in it.
I stopped watching Super Girl because her sister was NOT gay like she is in the show. Also Jimmy Olsen wasn’t a very large, self-assured black man (nothing wrong with such a character but Jimmy Olsen it’s not).
Arrow HAD to take on gun control. Why?
Does anybody remember Sara Lance being gay? She is now,
But you can name virtually any show on tv now and pick out forced political correctness.
Not really. They are just finding other ways to watch it that do not involve a now old-fashioned mode of entertainment delivery.
!. Fargo.
2. The Americans
that’s it.
Who the heck is still watching the Simpsons? I haven’t watched a single minute of that drek in over 25 years.
Yeah, doesn’t depress me at all.
A couple weeks ago we started watching the premier of ‘Mary’. Trailers looked like it might be an interesting show.
Mary apparently killed people,terminal patients?
Anyway about 15 min into episode one Mary’s teenage daughter and daughter’s girlfriend sneak off the the boathouse and start sucking face.
Zot ! that one is out.
Couple nights ago Gordon Ramsay ‘s ‘F Word. I’ve learned to be entertained by him.
First 10 minutes him and Jamie Foxx fawning over each other. Jamie’s new movie, blah, blah.
Next 10 minutes Gordon and Snoop Dog fawning over each other. Snoop’s new album.
Zot ! that one also
Back to Live PD, First 48, Joe Kenda, etc.
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