You and me too!! As soon as a show shows ones of those things you mentioned, it's gone in my house. I'll rent movies if I have to, though usually don't since we have a dish, and can usually fond something. It's a shame really, because some of my favorite shows are now ruined!
These Networks prefer to force feed us their ideology. They want us all to live as they do, in one big Reality TV show. But very few viewers are watching.
Did anyone see the comedian on Conan last night? This comedian said they were trying to bring back the sitcom. And that Network TV is (his word) screwed, cuz of their insistance to keep making more reality shows.
I can't even count the number of shows we stopped watching. Some of them were later canceled anyway, but we just just decided we didn't have to sit here and be insulted. We'd watch a documentary on migration patterns of wild elk before we'll put up with that.