TV WAY OUT OF TOUCH? MOST HITS DON'T PLAY WELL IN 'RED' STATES (Left-has-discovered-us ALERT)

The Philadelphia Enquirer ^ | 11/4/04 | Ellen Gray

[hispanarepublicana]

Little House on the Prairie, Green Acres, Andy Griffith.....whatever happened to the good old days....

[Newton]

thank goodness for tvland :-)

[Born to Conserve]

Not since the sixties when they cancelled every show with a tree in it.

[MarineBrat]

The Waltons, The Wonder Years....

[VOA]

here's a joke that explains a lot of this:

Q: How does a kid "come out of the closet" gently these days?
A: "Mom, Dad...I want to move to Hollywood to write situation comedies
for a major television network!"

[finallyatexan]

Never seen West Wing, never watched Survivor, don't turn on ABC,CBS,NBC,CNN, or MSNBC and I buy what I want not what some advertiser tells me is "new and improved"

[Tirian]

Note to TV executives: I last watched TV on a regular basis just before I headed off to college .... almost 30 years ago.

Cable-free all these years, and we wonder where we'd get time to watch TV if we even wanted to....

[MKM1960]

Everyone wanted to be cool and with it. I blame Norman Lear. Look a popular women characters. In the 50's it was Harriet Nelson, In the 60's, Laura Petrie. In the 70's it was Maude. Do I neeed to go on?

[sodpoodle]

Andy to Aunt Bee: "Just.......call the MAN". LOL

What we must do is start a faux Demo website and create the most outrageous comment threads about how much we love what Hilary said about ****. Just lead them down the path to oblivion.

I must go..I am getting demolusional.

[RckyRaCoCo]

People still watch primetime network TV?

Liberal propaganda garbage...rather watch paint dry.

[Gingersnap]

I don't have cable and I don't watch a lot of broadcast but in reading the article, I see the author's on to something. When I watch at all, I watch CSI or Law & Order or NCIS. I watch no comedies. I watch no reality TV. I watch no sex n' scandal type shows.

If I didn't need it for the movies and the video games, I would have pitched my TV out long ago.

[KC_Conspirator]

As much as I think Debra Messing is cute, "Will and Grace" is show that I have a big dislike for. Too much shoved in my face.

[KC_Conspirator]

I am presently watching "Desperate Housewives" because Teri Hatcher and Evan Longorio are just too hot.

[Cedar]

.."when they cancelled every show with a tree in it."

Good one. You're right!

[Cheapskate]

I sure miss Key West!!

It wasn't the big family value show, but it was awful good.

[Cheapskate]

I sure miss Key West!!

It wasn't the big family value show, but it was awful good.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Bump! However I occasionally watch Everybody Loves Raymond and the History Channel.

[King Prout]

(ick, ick, and ok)

CSI (the original) is excellent.

As for "reality" TV:

MTV started that trend in this country. That really should be all that need be said about any of them. But I shall elaborate...

When "Survivor" first came out I was working in the engineering department in a mid-sized airfoil manufacturing company. I recall the folks in Eng and QC jabbering about it. I do not recall the folks in Tooling or on the shop floor wasting any time discussing it.

At length, the folks in Eng asked me my opinion of Survivor. I looked up from the operations sheet I was CADding and asked "Do the losers DIE? No? Then it isn't a 'survival' issue, is it?" And then I went straight back to my work.

No one ever polluted my working environment with such trivia again.

I suspect many conservatives react the same way I do to such false "reality" television programs.

[lysie]

Everybody Loves Raymond

The only network show I watch. Unfortunately, the cr*p before and after makes it next to impossible to remember when Raymond is on.

[Hatteras]

"• CBS' "Survivor" will continue to be the one show on television in which conservatives and liberals regularly put aside their differences to defeat common enemies."

Okay, confession time.... They got me.