Normal, sane people don’t like in-your-face perversion, all the time.
I wonder why? With Survivor, Amazing Road Race, comedies that aren’t funny just vulgar, day long reruns, History Channel with very little that has to do with History, Weather Channel with Prospector reruns, switching shows around from one night to the next so you never know what is going to be showing on what night, The Voice for 3-4 hours on two evenings the reruns of it again later in the week, what’s not to like.
TV ping
Have not missed it at all, except for NFL football.
In which, I go to a Buffalo Wild Wings, or some other sports bar, on autumn Sundays and see the games that way, with plates of wings and mugs of cold beer.
All in all, I made the right call.
TV ratings see double-digit declines for fifth straight month.
With “high-quality” offerings like THIS, expect the slide to continue
NBC — and executive producer Ellen DeGeneres — are back with the flipside, sort of, of a nontraditional family in “One Big Happy,” about a lesbian who decides to have a baby with her straight male bestie.
Weirdly, this is a show that owes more to the 1970s sitcom “Three’s Company” than anything else, if Jack had married Janet and Chrissy preferred girls.
Not a problem. Just add 10 more minutes of commercials per hour and the everything will be fine. /s
I wonder if the networks went back to having companies sponsor shows with minimal interruption like was done in the early days of TV if it might slow the decline.
I doubt it because once people change a lifestyle, they are unlikely to shift back. It might be their only hope.
I say this as one who doesn’t watch it and hasn’t in years.
I can’t stand the pop-up ads during the shows. I can block them on my computer. Invent a TV that can block them, and I’ll start watching again. Some of them take up the bottom third of the screen.
I suppose this means that a full plate of reality shows supplemented by gay romances simply no is longer “hot”.
The American public has a lot of ‘splaining to do to Holliwood for being such poor sports for preferring decent scripts with decent actors. /S
I suppose this means that a full plate of reality shows supplemented by gay romances simply no is longer “hot”.
The American public has a lot of ‘splaining to do to Holliwood for being such poor sports for preferring decent scripts with decent actors. /S
Television has turned us off.
For example, I used to enjoy NCIS.
Then, in 2012, right before the national election, the script writers threw in a gratuitous, unnecessary-to-the-script bit of admiration for the administration, IIRC.
There are millions of conservatives and indies just like me, who are offended at political instruction offered under the guise of entertainment.
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All we ever watch any more is golf tournaments.
A ton of people are giving up cable. Although I have Hulu, Amazon Instant Video and Netflix, I still have cable. I understand that folks whe are cutting the cord are basically paying the same for just cable. I got rid of the hard line phone and don’t get a break for not taking it. If I am going to pay the same price then I might as well keep cable. Plus, I am afraid they are going to put that data limit on the internet soon and apparently if you have cable they will keep it unlimited. If you cut the cable they will limit you to 250 data. That sounds awful.
Imitation- the sincerest form of television.
A narcissistic medium whose time has come and gone. Of any interest are nature and science shows of high quality without a political axe to grind. Few and far between.
Barebones for $10 a month, I only watch Fox News Sunday.
Otherwise....
NETFLIX!
We just re-cut the Cable TV connection.
Had the full lineup.
Moved, didn’t have it connected (TV, did get internet) for 6 years.
After much badgering, relented and got it in time for last winter’s Olympics (also was a way to move the drop point from one end of the house to the other).
About the only thing watched was The Bachelor[ette].
Then AT&T nearly doubled the cost (oh, your introductory rate expired - well so did my interest).
At best, including bare minimum TV, it was still an increase.
Fine - drop the TV, and triple my data rate for less.
Ad-laden scheduled content intended for lowest-common-denominator viewers just sucks.
Save $100/month. Pay $2/episode so she can watch The Bachelor[ette] the day after it airs. Leaves a whole lot to use Netflix/iTunes/Amazon/Redbox for what I want when I want ad-free and still pay way less.
Stupid rant over.
Stupid TV.
Very easy!!! Using a movie as an example......the great Clint Eastwood film, “American Sniper” has now grossed $570 billion dollars, worldwide. All of this years Academy Award nominees, put together, with the exception of “American Sniper” made less then 10% of this number.
Forgetting the money difference....you cannot forget the viewer attendance, which is in the millions of people who saw “American Sniper”. Producing & showing films or TV programs that impact tiny percentages of America life and history and people is no sane way to run a business.
The very fact of life that the “Fox” mega empire is killing all the competition in every sector as cable and alphabet news dwindles away is proof of much failure of vieweship on many biased TV stations!!!
Until that practice and attitude changes, many “Obamabot”, “waterboy” TV stations will only continue to go down in both viewership of news and regular programming!!! End of story!!
All gay, all the time, is a ratings loser.
My time is limited on this earth. I don’t waste it on crap like TV. So many people wasting their God-given time on worthless b-flat, time-controlled entertainment.
Yes, I’m from the TV generation. It was broadcasting coast to coast when I was 5 (1939). I wasted a lot of my free time on this crap all the way through the 70’s. By the early 1980’s my TV rabbit ears were gone and I moved into videos.
Life was good once again. And so, for 33 years, I’ve been very, VERY happy. Watch a movie once or twice a week. That’s all I need.
It’s impossible to watch because of all the commercials. Unwatchable.
The story or mood to any good show now is like driving on a highway with someone slamming the breaks on every 3 minutes.