Must-flee TV

Jewish World Review ^ | Nov. 15, 2007 | Cal Thomas

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[Old Grumpy]

This is a very good and truthful article.

[JamesP81]

It's not much better in the news division, especially on cable, where female anchors and reporters resemble Barbie doll cutouts.

The anchor-babe phenomenon.

[Spok]

“Even when they’re not “re-runs,” the plots are mostly re-runs.”

Story lines on television insult the alleged intelligence of its audience. TV writers routinely disregard Mark Twain’s observation that ‘the difference between fact and fiction is that fiction has to be plausible.’

[posterchild]

There are a few good things on, but the vast majority of the stuff that needs writers and laugh tracks has been bad for several decades. Why did he need to wait for a strike to turn that crap off?

[stevie_d_64]

Female "scientists" on the crime shows display enough cleavage that if the commercial were for Victoria's Secret, viewers wouldn't notice the transition.

Yes, I have to admit, the few times I have seen female scientist cleavage I was incredibly impressed!

They have Victoria's Secrets commercials!!! Holy Toledo Batman!!! ;-)

[Citizen Tom Paine]

In our family TV has been characterized as - “The spigot of filth.”

[Disambiguator]

Female "scientists" on the crime shows display enough cleavage that if the commercial were for Victoria's Secret, viewers wouldn't notice the transition.

No wonder CSI is so popular, and so many guys are going to school to be forensic scientists.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

On the really bright side, we'll get more "must flee" TV like Dog. There's no scripts to write, just this wanna-be doing what he wants to do.

[Theresawithanh]

Great article! I have no problem fleeing TV, except for watching sports, cartoons, and the wonderful movies from the time when great movies were made.

[posterchild]

I agree there is alot of worthless junk on TV, but if one uses TV sparingly for deliberately viewing specific shows then there is enough decent stuff to make owning a TV worthwhile. If someone just plants himself in front of a TV for a whole evening hoping to find value he’ll likely just be wasting time.

I doubt that wife unit and I see more than 7 hours of tv each month together. I’ll also catch a few CNBC shows (Squawk Box, Kudlow, etc) without her so I probably see an extra 10 or 12 hours/month.

[vpintheak]

I was talking to my wife about this a few nights ago. I was telling here that there are no family comidies or shows on during prime time any more. If there are families on shows, the kids are either not shown but for a few seconds or they are a huge inconvinience to the parents. All the jokes are about sex and are very vulgar. I know I am not being that much of a prude.

[MediaMole]

Everyone knows everything on TV is real (including the cleavage). Do we really want to watch a TV show where the forensic scientist is a 53-year old, bitter, divorced, 215lb woman, with a missing front tooth?

[BBell]

The Writers Guild strike has no effect on me. I don't watch any of the kind of shows that would be effected. Except Southpark and I'm not sure if the strike applies to them.

Anne rules!!!

[durasell]

What’s on TV is what people watch. The folks who produce the shows and those who buy the commercial time that makes the shows possible are not in business to amuse themselves.

[tioga]

Rosanne was quite a popular show in it’s day. How do you explain that?

[durasell]

She was seen partying with Paris Hilton...

[Eepsy]

I loved the Anne miniseries! The first two, at least- the third was a travesty. They just had to have a go at ruining Anne. Heaven forbid we show a happy mother on public television :(