Jump the Shark is a fun website :) I like the comic-book "Tales from the Crypt" better than the TV show, but the TV show is entertaining, too. "Tales from the Darkside" was classic--that opening segment was a great mood-setter :) "Twilight Zone" is still my favorite in that genre but I always enjoyed "Night Gallery" as well. On "Donnie Brasco", I read the book when it came out but have never seen the movie. The book touched on the mob's activity in an area I used to live in and I knew some of the locales involved, so it was pretty interesting.
There are only a few recent mobster-type movies, e.g. "Goodfellas", "Blow", etc., which I would highly recommend; "Donnie Brasco" being one.
The most amazing aspect of his real life story-from my perspective-is the fact that this guy still lives in New Jersey, albeit under an unlisted number and in almost complete anonymity.
As for the fantasy/horror shows, I completely agree with you. What really aggravates me though, is the pathetic, ad hoc attempts to remake classic television shows, which invariably meet with disastrous results.
A perfect example is "The Outer Limits", which was an amazing sci-fi/fantasy show that should have been left alone.
Of course, the nimrods that seem to run the Hollywood production studios felt compelled to tarnish the legacy of this show, by rolling out a newer version, which essentially used the exact same scripts-updated for a contemporary audience, of course, and with a hokey, pc/lib spin tacked on by the incompetent screenwriters for good measure.