TV has sucked for a long, long time.

24 hour corporate-sponsored news, reality tv on every network, game shows/contests, and endless law and order/csi spinoffs and similar dramas. Gone is the sitcom, the action/adventure, ect. I really miss TV from the 90s, that was a golden era in entertainment that will never come back again. :(

 

TV kind of sucks?

TV SUCKS!!!!!

 

Agreed just more useless junk on television,it really is no surprise why I would rather watch reruns of good sitcoms. The only show I really watch new are sometimes Simpsons and Family Guy. I also always watch the Office. Other than that tv has been mediocre to me for awhile.

 

Modern Family - Best new comedy in YEARS

 

best new show hands down is homicide life on the streets. Ok its not new but ya knooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

 

Its not new but I can't wait for Chuck to come back this Sunday. Other than that I don't know of any shows worth watching. The few other shows I watch have been mediocre. And I have no clue when South Park is coming back. I probably just need to keep working my way through The Wire.

 

Besides sports i basically i only watch comedy central shows and reruns of older shows. Really cant get into any of the new stuff. The only good sitcoms that came out last decade were 2 1/2 men and my wife and kids(only because of damon wayans though). All the good shows didnt last or retired early, such as The Sopranos and The Shield. Now were stuck with all this cheap, low budget crap they put out. If you want good tv, you gotta have HBO and Showtime, and people dont have the extra income to afford premium cable/satellite packages. Overall, Id say the 2000s were a horrible decade for tv and so far the 2010s dont look much promising.

 

When someone like Joss Whedon actually convinces a network to let him do a show they **** on it and cancel it after a season or two. They drive away creative people and just keep producing the same show. Its hard to blame them because people actually watch the ****. For some reason the American public doesn't want to have to think or let a show develop some characters and tell a story over an entire season.

 

I <3 Dexter.

 

I find it hard to give a show a chance because they might just cancel it.

 

In fairness, Grey's Anatomy is a good show.

the King of Queens, Scrubs and Everybody loves Raymond have been the best sitcoms in the past decade.

This

 

Yeah, if you want any good TV you pretty much need to pony up for Showtime and HBO. There are maybe 1 or 2 watchable sitcoms on the networks right now outside of the animation shows Fox runs on Sunday Nights.

 

"Series" television ended for me when BSG ended. There's a reason I only watch documentaries, T.V. pretty much sucks.

 

About the only thing I watch on Network TV is sports. I go to other channels to watch entertaining programs. Network blows.

 

30 for 30 is a great series.

Thats why I used the past tense.

 

Its really pathetic we have all this new technology out and HD television and all, yet there's nothing worth watching in HD besides sports and movies.

 

Caprica. :yes:

Also Stargate: Universe is pretty damn good. MUCH darker than the previous incarnations of the franchise.

Mike, all these cool Scifi shows are filmed up where you live, do you often run into the stars of the shows?

Amanda Tapping:hump:

It is turning out to be pretty good; although the Barry Levinson segment on the former Baltimore Colts marching band could have been 15 minutes instead of an hour.

 

Don't tell anyone but I still watch Real World... aside from that, just Family Guy & The First 48 and every now and then I re-watch The Wire (G.O.A.T.) from Season 1 - 5.

TV sucks badly now. Bring back the 90s please! Sports & movies is all there really is.

You can probably find a cool program on History or Discovery Channel every now and then, though.

 

I've started watching The Wire. I just finished the first season. Its really good. I look forward to watching the rest of the series.

 

Theres a new Stargate out? Whats the plotline like?

 

I got news for you, TV. Has sucked for 2 decades.
Get used to it :up:

 

A ship of the Ancients, millions of years old - much older than any previously-known Ancient tech - is discovered; a boarding party is assigned to explore it.

But the ship has an auto-program which makes it jump into hyper-space on a regular schedule, stopping at predetermined points in the universe - again, on a predetermined schedule.

So, naturally, the ship jumps with everyone on board; and it jumps so far that the crew literally doesn't know where they are. So far that the stargate on board can't dial Earth or any known gate address.

Of course, there's a "mad" scientist who is suspected of knowing all along that the ship would take off like it did, but wanted the adventure so badly that he let it happen, taking everyone with him.

It's exceptionally dark in that several crew members have already died, and they have all faced their own deaths a couple times just in the first 1/2 season.

It ended on quite a cliffhanger, and it only figures to get better from there as the rest of season one unfolds soon.

Try to catch it if they rerun it, or get it on pi rate s bay. Well worth it.

 

the real world is such an awful show.

 

Depends on what you like, Kenny.

For instance, I think we're seeing a golden age in sci-fi on TV. There are some truly exceptional programs in that genre, with visual effects not possible before CGI, and - most importantly - with good writing and realistic, well-written characters.

And if you like variety shows, I suppose there are a lot of those on too, like AI and Dancing WTS and such; I'm decidedly NOT a fan of the genre.

What is fading fast is the genre of procedural crime drama.

The Law & Order franchise is becoming more than stale, it's almost a parody of itself now; the best of them, Criminal Intent, was ruined by the usual corporate meddling in moving the show from NBC to the ridiculous USA Network, and by problems incorporating new star Jeff Goldblum, which caused a nearly-two-year hiatus and scattering the fan base. Now, four of the show's current main characters are leaving this season.

Needless to say, I won't watch it again.

The CSI franchise is struggling, with :Miami becoming cartoonish and soap opera-ish; but :NY and the original seem to be experiencing a revival in quality this season; still, they aren't what they were.

I know what you're saying, though; television took a steep downturn when classic series like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show stopped, and in the time when others like All in the Family were winding down.

Everything since seems like dreck if you compare it to those series.

 

Serves you right. :lol:

Three cast members from that abomination were on George Lopez one night, and I felt like I needed to be hosed off in a hazmat unit afterward.

 

I don't get what all the "TV SUCKS" talk is about. I'd hardly call some of the following shows bad:

Entourage
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Lost
24
Flash Forward
V
Family Guy
The Office
How I met your mother
Simpsons

Seriously though, to the OP, if you haven't watched an episode of LOST, pick up the DVDs of season 1 and give it a go. Best show I've ever seen. Great for action, sci-fi, drama, and romance fans. And although sometimes a little cheesy and predictable, V and Flash Forward are pretty good too.

For sitcoms, try out the office or it's always sunny in philadelphia. It's always sunny is absolutely hilarious.