| today's TV shows totally SUCK
Posted: 8/31/2007 4:34:05 PM | I am sure most of us could pull better television out of our azzes. there is some good stuff on, but let's remember...it is all a game of numbers. If they can get Jane and Johnny to watch some bunch of twenty-somethings crawling around looking for clues and stick in 25 minutes of commercials, hey...they hit the right buttons! The sponsors are paying big bucks to get that commercial out there, and the more who see it...the better it is.
PBS has some good shows at times.
I hate these channels that supposedly are so good, yet, repeats, repeats, repeats....same movie 6 or more times a month, yet presented as "The show you don't want to miss!" Duh.....how many times can you show it??
Or these "marathons" which is rerun after rerun of the same shows they showed two weeks ago!
Game shows? Riiight...some ok...others make me wonder.
Reality shows? They aren't real. Let's try "Survivor"...for real...like Northern Canada in winter...try surviving that! You'd EARN your million if you made it, along with anyone else who made it with you!
Most of the "We'll give you a million" shows have rarely given away that amount....one show went all season without doing it.
I must admit, "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" does kind of make me laugh....I don't get all the questions (based on US education system, therefore I don't know all the things...like how many States have a Pacific Coastline on them? Answer...5) (I thought 4....forgot Oregon is out that way somewheres..Alaska, Hawaii, California, Washington)
Jeopardy...whew....
Sing along shows? Again, duh...not that into music that I have to know the right lyrics for every two-bit tune that shows up on radioland. Especially when you can't make out the lyrics for a lot of them anyways!
Sports shows....way over-rated. Pregame show, then three hours to play a game that has three 20 minute periods and two 15 minute breaks. Then a post game show, then a wrap-up.....total elasped time can be 5 hours or more. Not interested.Boring. Especially when every station is showing some sporting event on a Saturday afternoon instead of a movie ort refular programming or something. they just drone on, and on, and on....
Fantasy car and truck shows....yeah...like a normal person is going to have the time and money to do it....put it into a magazine and leave it there for those who are interested! | |
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Posted: 8/31/2007 9:03:13 PM | Real life tattoo parlour artists at work?? With a whole new spin off show??
Seriously! A SPIN OFF SHOW for TATTOOED LADIES!!!
How many tattoo jobs can you watch before you get bored?? I can't even stay awake during the non-stop commercials for them .
What next Bearded Ladies and Razor Companies who hate them? | |
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Posted: 8/31/2007 10:59:11 PM | I love Tv its one of my best friends
nothing better then sitting back in your bed with the tv on
law and order
Australian Idol
so you think you can dance
sex and the city reruns
friends reruns
spicks and specks
who's line is it anyway
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Posted: 9/1/2007 12:29:41 AM | There are a few shows I used to like watching, but after getting rid of my TV, I have to say I don't notice myself missing cable.
On occasion, I get a movie to watch on my computer. Many series can be found on DVD, so I occasionally rent those if friends have recommended something.
The funny thing is you soon notice some people can't relate or converse unless it's something to do with TV.
"Oh my God, did you see American Idol last night???"
"Uh... no, I don't have TV."
"Yeah, they.... Oh."
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Posted: 9/1/2007 2:00:37 AM | Agreed. I haven't paid for any form of t.v. in the past year and I don't miss it at all. The few shows I really do want to watch are easily available through online streaming. My t.v. usually just sits there unless I'm using it for video games.
I get a few basic channels, and Discovery somehow, but I could only watch so much crab fishing before I got tired of it. | |
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Posted: 9/1/2007 5:33:05 PM | | Some day we will hear about how an entire generation wasted away sitting in front of the idiot box. I fixed the problem. I got rid of my TV. I don't miss it at all. | |
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Posted: 9/1/2007 7:07:45 PM | i don't own a tv. i doubt i'm missing anything worthwhile.
on friday nights, my boss and i order dinner and watch tv. i've always been a huge jeopardy freak, so i get my weekly fix of that.
i also try to watch any televised horse races, especially the triple crown.
other than that, it seems pretty useless. | |
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Posted: 9/1/2007 7:39:34 PM | Wish I could get shows on the computer....but...need the connections for that, and they refuse to install them here, so I'm stuck. With gawd awful French cable. they carry the big three from the States, CBC, the Indian channel, Spike,and PBS out of Michigan. the rest is ALL French with their own locally made shows, etc...some good first run movies, but in French (English Canada has to put up with reruns of old movies so much that it makes me wonder how much French TV is subsidized in comparison!)
Can't get the history channel or english movie channels, nor discovery, space, nothing...unless you have a dish. (They won't allow us to install one here either...)
yep...TV sucks at times. | |
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Posted: 9/2/2007 3:46:33 AM | I dunno. I guess I find great stuff in almost any medium -- movies, TV, books, whatever.
But TV... hmmm.
"Heroes" has probably already been mentioned, that show is amazing in how it hasn't collapsed under its escalating plot revelations. I don't know how they do it, but I hope they can keep doing it next season (WHEN IS NEXT SEASON!?!?)...
"The Venture Brothers" is a really really brilliant cartoon, especially if you ever read any comic books, or perhaps watched Johnny Quest, or just like bizarre self-consistent parody worlds that start with bad pop-culture references that start to develop a life of their own. Luckily the people who have made Adult Swim become unwatchable have not produced this. The old FOX cartoon "The Tick" is reminiscent of this, and a lot less adult for those of you watching stuff with kids -- but you'll probably laugh if you pay attention!
"Doctor Who" -- now, some of you will immediately say "HEY no that show was slow BBC crap with rubber monsters and the only good part was Tom Baker's acting as the Fourth Doctor..." Well, a lot of folks don't know that there is a new version which is as engaging as any sci-fi show I've ever seen --- waaaay better than any TREK crap that has come out since oh, well the original, and almost as addictive as Heroes. And the new one already has been going for three seasons!! Amazing stuff, sadly not very well publicized in the States.
"Futurama" -- and don't say that it's any less hilarious than the Simpsons because then you just DON'T GET IT. This show also has some of the most amazing touching stories, especially the Fry + Leela stuff ... while also featuring some of the sharpest comedy writing you'll ever hear.
"Mystery Science Theater 3000" -- This one isn't on the air anymore, but it is BADLY missed by those who loved it. If you've ever watched a bad B-movie to laugh at it... well, this will be a treat. Trust me. Visit the Satellite of Love.
"Fawlty Towers" -- Not as well known by peeps in the states as "Monty Python", this is one of the outright funniest BritComs out there. If you don't know any BritComs, well, try "Red Dwarf", "The Young Ones", "Little Britain", or if you must have something less absurd and more like "Friends" then at least watch "Coupling" (not the AMERICAN version damn it I said BRITcoms... sigh). And don't say you can't understand the accents, if you can't you're probably one of those people who thinks Jimi Hendrix is saying "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" or Cher is saying "Gypsies, chimpanzees" in that one song (and don't even get me started about "Blinded by the Light" or CCR). Anyway, it's funny enough that I shouldn't have to rant at you to watch it, but I will just to underscore how HILARIOUS the stuff that comes from England sometimes is. You'll notice I didn't mention "Are You Being Served?" because I just can't take that show seriously... no offense.
OK, maybe I like TV. But I still won't watch any "Reality TV" shows... unless you count actual reality shows ... like "Mythbusters" or perhaps any random nature show. And I don't count the news as a reality show, it seems more like Jerry Springer every day.
samfool
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Posted: 9/3/2007 1:52:43 AM | Just finished watching Hitchcock's "Alibi" and at 25 minutes per episode its pretty conveinent, too.
Wish I could get shows on the computer....but...need the connections for that, and they refuse to install them here, so I'm stuck.
You're up in Canada, right? I'm unfamilar as to how things work up there. Doesn't your phone company have DSL available to you? I signed into a package where the price is guaranteed for lifetime and there was no extra special wiring needed, just adapters on all the phones that splits the DSL from the phone line. That is a 1.5 MB per second connection, I've tested it and its about 1.2 actually but its still plenty adequate for TV.
I think for ten bucks more I could move up to3-5 MB per second but since I'm not interested in gaming I don't need that.
Between that and the netflix (I get 24 hours of online viewing time monthly) I'm pretty content. I even got to see the first of David Duchovny's new show "Californication" two weeks ahead of its cable TV release. SO I pay a fraction of the exorbitant cable fees and still have access to a lot of the cable TV without actually having to buy cable TV. Plus its all legal.
yna6:Here's a site you should run your zipcode through and see what HD programming is available in your area. If it is, consider a HDTV tuning card.
http://www.checkhd.com/aw/welcome.aspx
I added a HDTV dual tuner card to my computer so that is my other source of video. I put together a long distance antenna in the attic, where the winds can't blow it down. 18 feet long and about 12 feet wide. It was quite a project getting that together sweating away up there in the summer heat making sure to step only on studs so I don't go through the ceiling. It was worth it as I can pick up HDTV from St Cloud, about 50 miles away. Plus a bunch of local stations are in HD, as of 2009 I think they will all be. The operation of the card is extremely slick, downloads a tv guide from the internet, I click on any show I want to record and it takes about 10 gigs disk space for an hour of HD. They also have compression technology to store it to normal DVDs which otherwise is about a thousand dollar machine. My HDTV tuner card was only 99 bucks plus it came with a remote control and remote sensor so you can put the whole computer out of sight. For all practical purposes it works like TIVO does with a lot less cost than a TiVo box.
Can't hurt to check into your other options. But I've never bought into cable or satellite tv in my life and I don't ever plan to!
Now I see showtime and some of the cable shows are offering some content over the internet. Check into that dsl connection!
"Heroes" has probably already been mentioned, that show is amazing in how it hasn't collapsed under its escalating plot revelations. I don't know how they do it, but I hope they can keep doing it next season (WHEN IS NEXT SEASON!?!?)...
Heroes has rocked.  A lot of shows are great the first season then go downhill drastically after that so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this one. I hate the way they mislead people saying a series is going to start on a certain day and then its just repeats. If you want my loyalty as a viewer don't make it hard to do that and be honest when you are playing repeats!
Survivor is starting sept 20th in China! I am looking forward to that plus I've got a relative over there in the student exchange program for the next year. He can speak cantonese, fluently, and he was self taught from those CDs you buy in order to learn a language. Impressive. I wouldn't be surprised if he comes back with a wife! | |
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Posted: 9/3/2007 7:16:40 AM | I haven't really watched any TV for about the last four years. I've really disconnected with the entire concept of television. CBC and PBS occasionally have some great stuff, but I still find buying DVD's and the internet MUCH more interesting.
No commercials, and (in the case of the net and news) you are able to actively research things of interest.
The occasional show can still attract me, like "Curb Your Enthusiasm", but well within reason. Things like "American Idol" , "Big Brother" , and "Survivor" I just consider quite boring.
When my old computer blew up on me, I actually started watching TV again, while readying the replacement computer. It suddenly dawned on me ( after a long absence) that TV now is very much like a drug.
You sit there, and get told things, and essentially have to accept them. It's such a passive experience, and it almost begins to make YOU passive too.
I grew up watching people like Walter Cronkite, and appreciating guys like Edward R. Murrow, so watching almost any talking head on the news today makes me want to scream.
I was really glad when I was back online again. | |
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Posted: 9/3/2007 8:58:37 AM | Yes, I am in Canada...about two and a half hours down the road from Montreal Guy, towards Quebec City...the phone company does offer some high speed deal, BUT...they will not come to the people asking for it when they are called to install it. They absolutely refuse to budge on this because the gov't forced them to make the service available in rural areas. Now, when the phone company goes back with a low number of high speed connections in rural areas (way more expensive to maintain!) they can ask to delete the services. We've called 5-6 times, and are always told "We'll be there in a couple days!" They never show up, and any complaints are not taken seriously no matter who you talk to!
Anyways...TV....Many of the cartoons are so much crap...badly done, badly drawn, etc. I think anyone with a magic marker could come up with a storyboard and Teletoon would air it just so they'd have something new to stick on the screen.
I realize a lot of the old cartoons like Bugs Bunny are politically incorrect, but I remember them as being a bit of a hoot at times!
Any of the "reality" shows pretty well suck. Big deal if some "team" can run half naked down a beach and toss a ring onto a peg. The only thing that whole scenario is good for is the jiggling...cause even if something does manage to make an appearance, they fuzz it out anyways.
Sticking a bunch of people into one home to see who gets on who's nerves...a lot of us actually live that! We just don't get the option of voting them out! | |
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Posted: 9/3/2007 10:48:00 PM |
...the phone company does offer some high speed deal, BUT...they will not come to the people asking for it when they are called to install it. They absolutely refuse to budge on this because the gov't forced them to make the service available in rural areas. Now, when the phone company goes back with a low number of high speed connections in rural areas (way more expensive to maintain!) they can ask to delete the services. We've called 5-6 times, and are always told "We'll be there in a couple days!" They never show up, and any complaints are not taken seriously no matter who you talk to!
That is bizarre, Sounds like how cops or taxi drivers service a ghetto area here in the states. Why not document it, record the phone calls or something and get one of the local news reporters who specialize in fraud and hinky deals to report on it?
That kind of pressure would probably get them moving to your doorstep. | |
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Posted: 9/3/2007 11:20:58 PM | TV has been going down hill for years. So much in fact that i haven't had cable for any decent stretch of time since 2003. It's time for the cable companies to rethink how they deliver this content to us in the digital age. I for one just hear about decent shows from friends and family then download them and watch them at my leisure.
There was an article recently that what happened to music is about to happen with tv shows and movies. It basically stated that people are moving to download there shows and this will cause problems for the networks who rely on ratings. Hell your Tivo box records the show you watch it later and the network doesn't register you as a viewer so they loose out on there precious marketing dollars and thus pull a show. I as a downloader also don't register on there ratings.
Cable tv needs to come up with some interesting fresh ideas or they will start to suffer if they aren't already. | |
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Posted: 9/4/2007 7:19:50 AM | Not all TV is bad nowadays.
I just received season 1 of "Heroes" on DVD and have found the show completely enjoyable--and I never watched it much when it was on last year; I am looking forward to the season premiere later this month. It appeals to the sci-fi/fantasy geek in me.
Now both my brother AND mom want to borrow itfrom me, but I know that if I lend it to either one of them, they'll probably not give it back. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2007 11:19:27 PM | | I just love Boston Legal and I've started getting a bit hooked on Brother's And Sister's.. Other than that I love old movies like Dean Martin and Doris Day..But, I have to admit I love Family Guy, it's so stupid.... | |
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Posted: 9/7/2007 10:17:55 AM | To me sitting around watching TV for a period of time is really really really freaking boring. My friends on Sundays have movie night where they get together and watch two of three movies. I quit that because we have opposite tastes in films and also I got so bored and restless watching television. Right now I am having picture problems with my TV and my DVD player conked out on me and I really dont care. Someday I'll get the TV fixed but its not important to me. To be honest I would rather read a book or listen to music than watch TV.
Also the only movies I like to watch anyways are documentaries. I hate comedies. | |
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Posted: 9/8/2007 10:19:58 PM | I cant do it for a long time, either, which why I could never understand watching football games. I mean I played basketball and baseball when I was younger so I like participating but watching for 4-6 hours? Get a life!
If I watch sports its boxing or drag racing. I just discovered ultimate fighting so I've been renting those on DVD. watch a quick match, go get some things done, eat and watch another match, go again..... they're not boxing but boxing has become so woooOoosified that they're not bad, maybe the next best thing to my memories as a kid watching Ali go 15 3 minute rounds which is unheard of these days. The physical and mental stamina and tenacity to do that is totally gone these days.
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Posted: 9/9/2007 7:08:15 AM | | I don't watch much tv at all. When I do it's usually a movie, or music videos (country) or maybe something like Law and Order. I don't even know what's on anymore. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 9:21:57 AM | A Majority DO . .
All the Cop-shows . . Crime Investigation . . Courtroom Trash . .
Granted . .
Some story lines are intriguing . . and some of the techniqies are fascinating...
...But, it's still the same old Jazz . . Week after Week . .
I'd like to see a Re-make of the 'Richard' Van Dyke Show . . !!!
* Starring Ryan Stiles . . Jeri Ryan . . Robin Williams {as Buddy}. .
{..I need some more cast members . . ! . . H E L P ! . . } | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 4:02:47 PM | I have to agree, a lot of these reality shows are getting pretty good and intense. I really like the ones where people are eliminated somehow and off the show. It makes it more interesting to see if the people you like will be on next week.
Some ones i am addicted to are:
Rock of Love
Who Wants to Be a Rapstar
The Pick-up Artist
Top-chef
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Posted: 9/9/2007 4:11:01 PM | | i watch rock of love/the pick up artist (vh1 as a whole, great channel) and top chef too, love those-- also like dog the bounty hunter and am really looking forward to project runway 4. | |
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Posted: 9/10/2007 9:17:53 AM | Maybe the writers and producers of TV shows thinks that the VIEWERS all have ADD or other probs that require pills, so there isn't much of an effort anymore.
I tell ya though I still can't believe that NipTuck show and how that one made it on TV.
The one scene where the Doctor gives the fugly woman a brown paper bag to wear in order to have sex with him was a shocker and other scenes. JAW dropping scenes. Well at least my friend and I had a few laughs watching it. | |
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