I'll watch just about any football game, but I'm a football fanatic.
Go Crawford Pirates!!!!
Posted on 11/19/2006 8:53:37 PM PST by Snickering Hound
It is the tv version of movie remakes
Must be something to that article - I'm a boomer who thinks TV is crap. 'Course it don't pi$$ me off any, I just don't often watch it.
There are actually some good shows nevertheless. I think. Truth is though, that TV rots your brain whatever your age, should you watch much of it.
I'll watch just about any football game, but I'm a football fanatic.
Go Crawford Pirates!!!!
They are soooo right about this!
House is great, but it's just helping me bide the time until 24 comes back :)
Discontent with what passes for "entertainment" these days has nothing to do with age. Chronologically speaking, that is.
*shakes head* Garbage.
By Orbitz I assume you mean the travel company; how are they "viciously racist"?
If you like old radio, try: http://radio.macinmind.com/.
Almost everynight I turn off the tv and enjoy The Whistler or Suspense while I FReep or do work.
WTH is "middlescence"? The age at which you warn your kids about the dangers of MDMA while, at the same time, you seriously consider Viagra?
It makes me sad (and more than a little angry) to think that the greatest legacy of capitalism and a free market will NOT be a strong, educated, well-informed society of individuals, but rather, a mindless herd of drones driven by rampant consumerism to the newest shiny object.
My mom and stepdad will be 50 in 2008, still at their respective careers but for only a few years longer. They have been fortunate and wise enough to save and invest their "discretionary income" for a carefree Life After Work.
All I can say, is Good Luck to the corporations that think people like yourself and my parents are more fresh meat.
Best show centered around space travel - Red Dwarf/Hitch hiker's Guide
Other shows I like or did like: X-files, 3rd Rock From The Sun, The Simpsons, Futurama, King of the Hill, SouthPark, Law & Order (neither of the spinoffs though), Star Trek: TNG, DS9 and the original, 24, House, Stargate (before Daniel Jackson was killed and brought back), NYPD Blue (post David Caruso), CSI Vegas, Mythbusters, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Inside The Actors Studio, and the Storyteller's series on VH1.
Oh yeah... I have 2 guilty girly shows to add - Dharma & Greg and Sex in the City.
But an all-out MMA brawl like Pride and UFC? THAT'S entertainment.
Voyager I found really lame, and I never got into Andromeda either.
Lots of interesting TV history available at www.tvhistory.tv.
It wasn't Sci-Fi that axed Firefly, IMHO, one of the very best TV shows EVER, and I'm not saying "Sci-Fi" TV: I repeat, one of the best TV shows ever.
No, that was Fox that axed Firefly. There are were only 13 episodes ever filmed (I think), and not all of them were even showed on Fox. It seems that Fox did everything within their power to get that show canceled: From showing the original pilot later in the season (I believe it was the last episode shown) to continually changing the day and time that it was shown. It also didn't help that this was the year that Fox began showing Major League Baseball, so many of the episodes were bumped for the games.
Mark
Sorry. I am such an idiot sometimes. Damn if only I knew how to follow threads. lol. Happy Thanksgiving. Sorry again!!!!!
If I wanted those meaningless sports, I would have subscribed to ESPN-52
I've got news for them. The people under 40 are not watching much television. They're either chatting on the internet, or listening or watching video on their iPods (or YouTube?!!! ;-).
The only shows i care to watch are Gilmore Girls, Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, and Midsomer Murders.
About the only broadcast TV I've watched this year is Dancing with the Stars, which my 'greatest generation' parents enjoy. Now they've got me hooked.
Has anyone else noticed the weird direction that primetime quiz shows has taken? Are there no longer smart people available for TV quizes? All I see now are shows like "Deal or No Deal" where essentially getting past the contestant search process and showing up guarentees a winner of at least $50,000. No intelligence required.
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