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Study says boomers don't like what's on TV
Associated Press ^ | 11-19-06 | DAVID BAUDER

Posted on 11/19/2006 8:53:37 PM PST by Snickering Hound

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To: LurkingSince1943

"143 posts, and nobody has mentioned The Unit."

I was also counting the posts and feeling very dissappointed in my fellow FReepers. I'd like to also add NCIS to the list of "must see TeeeVeee."


201 posted on 11/20/2006 8:04:28 AM PST by CSM (Americans are getting more and more childish and looking for Big Mommy to take care of them.)
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To: Snickering Hound
Jones is pushing the idea of a "middlescence," about 40-to-59-year-olds who don't feel young anymore but don't feel old, and have plenty of discretionary income.

Not only do boomers have more money - they have more influence with the younger generation. What Grampa has to say has more sway than what Mom says... Same with Grandma.

202 posted on 11/20/2006 8:13:12 AM PST by GOPJ (The MSM's so busy kissing dem butt they can't see straight- come up for air guys.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
TV's not so bad. ....Gunsmoke is on every day on the TV Land channel.

And original series Trek every night. Watched a bunch of the marathon this weekend while working on my modeling stuff, and it was great. I had forgtooen how well-written those shows are...cheesy effects and overdone acting aren't nearly enough to overcome it.

203 posted on 11/20/2006 8:51:51 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Welcome Freepers! Pull up a groove and get fabulous!)
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To: sageb1
I detest drug commercials from Viagra to Lunesta.

Every time I see one of those Cialis ads with the couples in bathtbs, i can't help thinking, "If they do it in one of theose bathtubs, somebody's gonna break a hip!

204 posted on 11/20/2006 8:54:22 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Welcome Freepers! Pull up a groove and get fabulous!)
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To: 6SJ7

It actually wasn’t the SciFi channel that resurrected it….per se.

 It was a producer from one of the worst shows ever:  Star Trek Deep Space Nine.  I watched an interview with him where he said once he was done with DS9, he was done with Science Fiction for good.

 But someone gave him a set of the original BSG series and as he was watching it he thought to himself “Wow, this is stupid and campy, but the story has incredible potential.”

 Where upon, he approached the Sci Fi channel with the outline for the mini-series.

 I think the thing that’s most amazing about the series is not that Sci Fi agreed to re-hash it but, that they didn’t insist on changing it and making it campy like the original…….that’s something they seem to do with everything they produce.

 The writer stuck to his guns, determined not to let the new BSG turn into a insipid, childish series like DS9.

205 posted on 11/20/2006 9:36:26 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (`)
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To: Mr. Silverback

I kinda liked the allergy drug commercial with the guy and his girlfriend's cat.


206 posted on 11/20/2006 9:38:32 AM PST by Overtaxed
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To: gidget7

I'm 20-something and I'm with what I'm seeing here. History Channel, Discovery Channel, HGTV, FoodTv, TLC (still learning to cook :) That's the vast majority of my viewing. I rarely watch the network stuff anymore. I do occasionally watch Reba, which is on whatever the WB used to be. That's a good clean reasonably decent show. Not earthshattering, but not bad and infinitely better than reality TV. I'm also a Golden Girls/Cosby Show/Designing Women addict. Yes, Designing Women had the flaming liberal, but at least she had good morals and the show was clever. Plus, it was the first show to show realistic southerners.


207 posted on 11/20/2006 9:40:41 AM PST by ark_girl
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To: Snickering Hound

History/Discovery/A&E and sports. Television is not so bad if you stay away from the network crap and that PBS abomination.


208 posted on 11/20/2006 9:46:28 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Snickering Hound
Heh Boomers, You all own houses, furniture, cars, etc. If you go to Las Vegas you probably stay off the strip and don't gamble. It's a bitter pill to swallow but advertisers are not interested in targeting shows to people who have all they need and are not going to be spending a lot of money.

On the other hand, there's the CBS news. Have you tried Gold Bond power?
209 posted on 11/20/2006 9:47:22 AM PST by jackieaxe (Unsourced reporting is not reporting but a lie or a manipulation)
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To: napscoordinator

I was replying to someone bashing Boomers. The spirit of my post mirrored his ... Gen Xer!


210 posted on 11/20/2006 9:51:27 AM PST by BunnySlippers (Never Forget / Giuliani 2008)
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To: Terpfen

Good post, House is a good show.


211 posted on 11/20/2006 9:55:27 AM PST by Moleman
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To: Snickering Hound

Boo freakin' hoo .. of course, TV, in general, is very low quality entertainment within the realm of mainstream media broadcasting.


212 posted on 11/20/2006 10:42:11 AM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: Snickering Hound
TV Land was a lot better a couple of years ago...now, everytime they buy a new syndication, they run a week long marathon of it...

Oh, and I saw about enough of "The Jeffersons" and "Good Times" back in the 70's...J.J. Walker just isn't that funny to anyone over 13.

They have a lot of good shows too, but he programming of them sucks. Instead of mixing and matching and running a variety of the oldies, it's marathon-this and marathon-that...give us a break. A week of non-stop "A-Team" or "Three's Company" is just plain enough.

In the past year, I see the listing when scrolling my menu, but I seldom stop on TV Land anymore.
213 posted on 11/20/2006 11:01:04 AM PST by FrankR (Post Election Advice: Don't let the bastards wear you down..................)
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To: Rastus
Thank you for mentioning Supernatural. Great acting, great writing, and multi-dimentional lead characters. I'm really pulling for this show.
214 posted on 11/20/2006 11:26:09 AM PST by YoungCurmudgeon (I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I woke to find that life is duty.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
It actually wasn’t the SciFi channel that resurrected it (Battlestar Galactica)….per se.

It was a producer from one of the worst shows ever: Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I watched an interview with him where he said once he was done with DS9, he was done with Science Fiction for good.

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The writer stuck to his guns, determined not to let the new BSG turn into a insipid, childish series like DS9.

That makes BSG even more amazing. DS9 was weak, among the Star Trek series, but to my mind, the weakest had to have been Voyager; the totally PC Star Trek. At least DS9 had the Ferengi, the original party animals. Making money, gambling, naked females; those guys know how to live.

215 posted on 11/20/2006 11:28:47 AM PST by 6SJ7
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To: x_plus_one

I've never seen House and didn't list it.


216 posted on 11/20/2006 1:17:01 PM PST by Rastus
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To: 6SJ7

Wow. Most Star Trek fans--at least online--regard DS9 as the best of the Trek spinoffs. Never seen it called "weak" or "insipid." It was the only human Star Trek since the original. None of this Roddenberry, liberal, "we're so perfect we don't even argue" crap. The Ferengi were always capitalist whipping boys on the other shows, but DS9 tried to make them a little more than that. And, capitalism got a positive spin on a few episodes of DS9, such as the one where Jake learned about capitalism while trying to get a baseball card for his dad. And, religion--even if it wasn't our own--got the only positive view in the spinoffs on DS9.


217 posted on 11/20/2006 1:21:34 PM PST by Rastus
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To: LurkingSince1943

I didn't appreciate the underlying storyline of the CO sleeping with one of his men's wife--and sending him on missions just so he can get a little sack time! I stopped watching because of that. Maybe they toned that down.


218 posted on 11/20/2006 1:23:44 PM PST by Rastus
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To: YoungCurmudgeon

The family dynamic on that show is great. They really sell that they are brothers. There were a couple of moments I didn't like, like when the crazy right-wing preacher's wife was using the reaper to kill abortionists or whatever, but that was just one episode, and the rest is good. I think the ratings are improving, so hopefully it'll be around a while.


219 posted on 11/20/2006 1:25:45 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Zetman
Speaking of aging, I was born in 1962

1964 myself...

Generation Jones

220 posted on 11/20/2006 1:46:47 PM PST by The SISU kid (I may be killed w/ my own gun, but they'll have to beat me to death w/ it for lack of ammo!)
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