The shows are getting worse and the writers want more. I cannot even watch Two Men and a Boy or How I Met your Mother with my 11 year old son - let alone even try Caveman.
TV is limited to History Channel, SiFi, and Food Network.
CEO’s that have staff putting out this junk need to re-evaluate the pay/benefits.
They don’t need to make less but more incentives for better work would be appreciated.
True! The race-to-the-bottom seems to be accelerating, and it's all just to sell soap (and cars and trucks and ED medications and feminine hygiene products and so on.....). I DO watch television for sports and whenever Ann Coulter's on....
For really good TV you can actually use, I advise adding HGTV to your list. We’re remaking the house just on what ideas we get from the various shows and every one is hosted by somebody authentically perky and moderately intelligent.
Some of them are downright cute.
Otherwise, our TV could go dark and we might not even notice.
They also have to reckon with the competition. It used to be the guys on the "other two networks", but nowadays any show must compete for audience with history: all those older TV shows which are now available on DVD.
All those lousy writers should be waiting tables instead of having their low class offerings on primtime TV. Every show now has a main character with incredible personal deficiencies. Monk and House come to mind immediately. Two mental case losers who save the day...Nope, sorry, not buying any of that sissy cr*p.
If you have WGN channel, check out this show sometime.
So far the rural Canadian sitcom is clean and funnier than the so called hip shows Hollywood is making. Only sitcoms I watch any more is Corner Gas, Red Green Show on PBS, and surprisingly I think “Everybody hates Chris” is cleaner and better than most shows anymore.
We’ve been enjoying Pushing Daisies. Only a few things that have gone over the kids’ heads and a few bad words. (My kids are 11 & 13).
It’s basically PG rated, but not G.
Anyway, it’s entertaining for adults and my kids were busting up laughing last week. It’s very querky and different.
There’s lots of good shows on, though most are on cable.
Burn Notice is excellent, The Shield is fantastic, Rescue Me is a hilarious satire, Mad Men is good, Monk is GREAT, Damages is good, except Glenn Close reminds me of Hitliary.
The Dead Zone, The 4400, and especially My Boys are all really good, and Tony Bourdain’s No Reservations is outstanding.
On the networks, The Office is great and My Name is Earl is pretty funny. House has lost its interest for me since they got rid of House’s team because they wanted a pay raise, and the new candidates are dull and boring.
Ugly Betty is trashy but I still enjoy watching it, Prison Break is mildy enjoyable, although it’s getting far-fetched, and the Discovery Channel has Mythbusters, Ice Road Truckers, and Deadliest Catch, all of which are very good.
It may seem like I watch a lot of TV, by the way, but I Tivo everything, fast-forward through the commercials and wait for a boring, rainy Sunday when nothing’s going on, to watch them all!
Ed