Posted on 03/17/2017 12:52:36 PM PDT by RightGeek
The year 2017 hasn't been forgiving to the broadcast networks. With a whopping 17 scripted launches since Jan. 1, nearly all new series are languishing with low ratings, even by today's modest standards. But that may not be entirely the new shows' fault: The root of midseason's problem, some say, is the middling fall that preceded it.
"In the past, midseason success was typically built on the foundation established in the fall," says Sam Armando, lead investment director at MediaVest-Spark, noting all but NBC (and sports-lifted Fox) are down this year. "Since only This Is Us popped in the fall, there just aren't any coattails to ride on."
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
I tape 4 for later viewing - Blue Bloods - Hawaii 5-0 - NCIS - EWTN some.
The only thing I watch with any regularity is South Park.
Doesn't have to be a "full show" to entertain me. For example, I used to like to watch 2nd City TV back in the day. YouTube has plenty of snippets from that show and many others. I like that I can watch a favorite scene and then move on to something else. I guess I have a short attention span. But I've learned to stop living my life in 30 or 60 minute segments....haha....
Let me think -
Lesbian agenda
Homosexual agenda
Black male - white girlfriend
Black in position of authority
Muslim agenda
Affirmative action actors with poor acting skills
Remake with weak black lead actor
The scripts practically write themselves.
The original 70s battle star galactica was weak on the writing and episodes were slow moving a lot of the time... however, most things had slower moving storylines and action from that era, not just battlestar galactica. But the original BG definitely suffered from weak writing, watching it as an adult, instead of as a starry eyed kid, it doesn’t hold up well.. The premise is still good, and the characters still work, but definitely see the weak spots as an adult, that as a child you would miss.
Firefly was proof FOX could take gold and turn it into crap.
They completely blew it with the handling of that show...
I had heard almost nothing about these shows, so I looked some up:
24: Legacy - a liberal, anti-American spin off to “24”. The “24” audience is not watching it, and neither is anyone else.
The Blacklist: Redemption - mercenaries. I haven’t found anything I’m interested in reading about it, but my expectations are so low I won’t bother checking (and I don’t have a TV).
Chicago Justice - Yet another courtroom series, and it sounds exactly like all the others.
Time After Time - H.G. Wells chases Jack the Ripper? Sorry, but if you can’t create your own characters, I’m not impressed. Time travel. Overdone.
Making History - more time travel. Overdone.
Training Day - another cop show.
Doubt - another lawyer show. Katherine Heigl? Cute, but not enough to get me to watch network TV unless they start making good shows that celebrate positive values.
Not enough homosexual agenda shows with thinly veiled anti-Trump politics. Time to go Warp-12 on the PC agenda..
They've completely messed with the entire concept of a "season."
Now, all the shows are doing this thing called a "winter finale," which means that they create a cliff-hanger episode before Thanksgiving, and then go to repeats until January, and sometimes not until March.
The "season" used to be 33 episodes in the 1950s and 1960s. Then the season fell to 22-23 episodes, with repeats to fill the September-May window, and now they have 12-episode shows, with these shows slipping into the "winter" gap between the "winter finale" and when the show returns in March.
Who can keep up the on-again-off-again shows? Who can follow a storyline when one show runs in its time slot from September to November, a new show starts in November through March, and then the original show comes back to finish its seasonal run?
Do we even still have the concept of a February sweeps and May sweeps week?
-PJ
“The Americans” is about the ONLY show I watch, but I am waiting till May when “Lucifer” comes back, and then it’s till next year for “Vikings”, or when Game of Thrones Season 7 gets to the store.
As far as what has been broadcast on “the major networks”, they insult my intelligence to where “I can write better than that!” has escaped my lips. But, I remember, too, that I would have to disavow all that I believe (rabid full blooded American), to kiss the ring and do prostrated homage to queer Hollywood.
That is not true. Although all the libs on FB are saying it. She dances with him and says she loves him. Zero sex, at least in the cartoon. Do you love your dog? If your dog learned to dance would you dance with your dog? I would. It would be hilarious.
Anyway, Iron Fist is good so far. No gay crap yet.
winner! It is like there's a checklist..
gay, check
evil republican, check
hypocritical Christian, check
stupid white males, smarter women, check
I love YouTube.
Since I hate most of what’s on TV these days, I usually just pick an old movie on YouTube for free (there are hundreds available if not thousands) and cast it to my television.
DISNEY HASN'T GONE THAT FAR OFF THE DEEP END ...............YET............
There are plenty of classic TV that still holds up well... Dick Van Dyke, Andy Griffin.... etc... can sit and watch any of those shows, almost anytime over 90-95%% easily of network TV today.
It aint just TV writing
thats getting bad, Most new young comics are sad and lame. The old tried and true snarky kid at the back of the classroom who grows up to become a comedian seems to have disappeared entirely. But then THAT kid wasn’t PC.
thanks
Do you mean you realized you no longer liked the original Battlestar, or were you put off by the remake? I feel like one of the few who hated the reimagined version.
I recently recorded the pilot of Time After Time since I liked the Malcolm McDowell original. After it languished on my DVR for a week unwatched, I just deleted it.
I'm a Netflix subscriber for eleven bucks a month and my smart TV picks up the Comcast WiFi (my computer router box) and we've been watching seasons of original NETFLIX that are pretty well written and acted.
I can type in "trump" and connect with everything Trump on my 39" smart TV.
You don’t stumble across the CW much do you?
..they turned “24” into “Boys in the Hood” meets “Will and Grace”—glad Jack isn’t around for this...
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