[BunnySlippers]

Expect a crush of anti-boomer responses.

But, as a boomer, I can only say that most shows on TV are just plain silly for any age. I still find things on cable like news, Discovery and the History Channel. And love a lot of HBO programs.

But the networks offer next to nothing.

[radiohead]

But the networks offer next to nothing.

I agree. In most network TV, the kids are disrespectful to their parents, or parents are treated as boobs, there is no respect for tradition or authority, and kids seem to live lives completely apart from any adult intervention or supervision. High schoolers have problems I didn't hear about until I was out of college.

I can't believe I'm saying this. I guess I am officially an old fogey (or an angry boomer, which is getting way too close to being the same thing).

[gidget7]

Gotta agree with you there Bunny.

Funny thing is, I hear the same complaints from all the young people I know. And I am talking 20-30. Most of them don't watch the networks either, their complaints about the programs and the commercials too, are the same as those of us who are their parents. The commercials we tend to find something creepy about, they do as well.

It's even more obvious, regarding commercials, when I drive by Burger King, the place is always almost empty even at peak hours. The truth is they aren't giving any of us anything decent to watch. I hear it's because reality tv (yuck) is cheap to make.

[Fairview]

We boomers are the ones with the money. It's our cohort that's buying the Lexuses. No point in advertising cars, cruises, and other expensive goodies to people who are too young to have the disposable income to buy them.

[supremedoctrine]

The mainstream networks have always lived up the characterization of them made by Newton Minow (FCC head) during the Kennedy years.....he called TV "a vast wasteland". The complete dominance of Cable, with all its programming for real people with real interests, just makes ABC, CBS and NBC look that much more hopeless and hidebound. There are maybe 5 good sitcoms on regular TV in the last 10-15 years, and NO good drama shows. News shows are just a joke , as we have known for a loooonnnng time now.

[SuziQ]

But, as a boomer, I can only say that most shows on TV are just plain silly for any age.

Ain't it the truth? Just the past couple of years we've found some TV shows worth watching with our teenage and young adult kids. We watch "24", "House", "Bones", "CSI", and when we can remember they're on, "Eureka" and "Monk". This the most TV we've watched in YEARS!

When the kids were little, they watched some educational shows, but we NEVER got them into the habit of sitcoms and crap like that. Most of them were either way too silly, or way too mature for their ages. The main thing was, we didn't want them thinking that the smart-aleck attitudes of the kids they saw was acceptable behavior.

[MortMan]

As a tail-end boomer/gen-Wer (not quite Xer :-) I find most TV programming inane and unwatchable. Then again, it mya hev more to do with having a higher-than-freezing IQ.

Discovery, History, some Sci-Fi channel, and an occasional football game. Oh - and America's Funniest Videos is usually fairly watchable ;-P