TV today is just boring

Headline News stopped doing their 30-minute news spans 24/7 and now are just another cable news network with horrible Court-TV like investigative shows.

The Learning Channel has stopped showing interesting things like Ancient History Tuesdays and Connections and the like and are now another DIY/Health channel.

History Channel often broadcast shows that would be more appropriate on Discovery (same company) such as Modern Marvels and often don't seem to have any real focus on history at all.

Discovery Channel seems flooded with occupation-based reality shows. Snore. Gimme some documentaries, dangit!

A&E is now basically the 'Detective Network'. They used to have such awesome shows.

No music videos on MTV. Ever.

VH1 is 'The Celeb Channel'.

Sci Fi channel makes such campy B-movie like originals.

The CW and TBS are basically the same dang channel. And TBS doesn't have the night-long B-movie fests like they used to. I miss my cavewomen. :(

TNT is pure syndication so you already see all it's shows on other channels.

G4 what in the heck? Cops, ninjas and cheaters all day (sure it SOUNDS cool...)? On a tech channel?

Sure, there's a few good shows: Ghost Hunters on Sci-Fi, Star Trek:TNG Reruns on various channels, a half-handful of adult swim shows, Histories 'Battles BC' was interesting but it's only on once a week, and so on. It's just rare that something's on worth watching.

The 90's were great for TV: Beavis&Butthead, Ren&Stimpy, 120 Minutes, X-Files, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Sliders, My So-Called Life (though it didn't last long, Ancient Warriors and Connections, A&E had awesome biography shows and original productions, Headline News was always a report-based network on 30 minute blocks, MTV still showed mostly music videos, and the list goes on and on.

/rant

Seriously, what's on TV that's worth paying attention to? Do you think TV has gone downhill this decade? Or am I just becoming a cynical old man?

Family guy, futurama, south park for cartoons

I dig sitcoms like fresh prince, family matters, full house, but those are all from the 90s =(

I watch a couple dance shows like ABDC and so u think u can dance

There's stuff to watch, just not the time to watch!

Family guy, futurama, south park for cartoons

I dig sitcoms like fresh prince, family matters, full house, but those are all from the 90s =(

I watch a couple dance shows like ABDC and so u think u can dance

There's stuff to watch, just not the time to watch!

Guntrix7

Futurama is awesome, but the new ones have been so few and so slow in coming. South Park I find to be trying too hard to be offensive to be funny. Used to like it, and the WoW episode was awesome, but they just seem to be trying to step on peoples toes these days just for the hell of it.

And yeah I watched all those sitcoms in the 90's. The original Cosby Show was the best of them all. Ahhh...don't get me started on 80's TV...so awesome!

Yeah tell me about it. I just went to turn on my TV and all the channels were frozen. :evil:

Yeah tell me about it. I just went to turn on my TV and all the channels were frozen. :evil:

Jackboot343

You're suppose to yell at it when that happens.

Family guy, futurama, south park for cartoons

I dig sitcoms like fresh prince, family matters, full house, but those are all from the 90s =(

I watch a couple dance shows like ABDC and so u think u can dance

There's stuff to watch, just not the time to watch!

Guntrix7

I love ABDC!

QUEST CREW!

I don't watch tv because of the commercials. Having to wait week to week to watch a show? Waste of time

House, life, the Simpsons

I think there are probably more good shows than ever, but there are so many more stations now that there is far more worthless garbage to sift through to figure out what they are. Maybe the actual problem is tyranny of choice. ;)

Battlestar Galactica has been about the only thing I have been able to watch in the past 2 years.

Do you think TV has gone downhill this decade?

br0kenrabbit

[QUOTE="Jackboot343"]

Yeah tell me about it. I just went to turn on my TV and all the channels were frozen. :evil:

br0kenrabbit

You're suppose to yell at it when that happens.

Nah, ur sapos to hit the side of it like some of the ppl i know. Who ever thought that blunt force trama would fix an electronice device is, well, yeah.

There does seem to be much more filler out there but with DVR and VoD, I consolidate all my favorite shows into sat morning and just keep the TV off for the rest of the week.

No music videos on MTV. Ever.br0kenrabbit

Wow, I regularly watch quite a number of shows. I bought an external 1TB drive for my DVR because I was constantly running out of room. Maybe I'm just easily entertained?

... Knight Rider ... Bane_v2

:P

Okay, honestly, I haven't seen it, but I've heard it's pretty bad.

[QUOTE="Bane_v2"]Wow, I regularly watch quite a number of shows. I bought an external 1TB drive for my DVR because I was constantly running out of room. Maybe I'm just easily entertained?

... Knight Rider ... SpaceMoose

:P

Okay, honestly, I haven't seen it, but I've heard it's pretty bad.

Crime Drama-
CSI
CSI New York
Law And Order SVU
Flashpoint
Lie To Me
Eleventh Hour
Without A Trace
Cold Case

Sitcoms-
Fresh Prince
Family Matters
Home Improvement

Documentary-
Monster Quest
Ghost Hunters
The Universe
How The Earth Was Made
Naked Science
Most Evil

Awesome yet Pointless-
Jackass
Nitro Circus
Rob And Big
Punk'd
Wildboyz
Viva La Bam
Scarred

I dont know what these go in-
Dirty Jobs
Recreation Nation

Yep, I like my shows. Im happy I have MTV2, so that I can watch Wildboyz and Viva La Bam since I used to always watch that, lol.

i watch around 6+ shows. south park, futurama, family guy, king of the hill, maury, simpsons, crappy shows on MTV- whats ur news, nitro circus, fantasy factory, other shows. but those aren't so bad compared to other shows on MTV.iam2green

CSI

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Well if there is nothing on TV then just play some videogames or listen to music.

About 90% percent of TV is boring garbage. But their is still seriously great shows like Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Wire, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia ect:.

I watch The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, South Park, and King of the Hill all moderately frequently, particularly the first two. I also watch Futurama a decent amount.

• House

• Lie to Me

• Daily planet

I don't watch much else...

I don't reguarly watch any TV shows. Only show I follow is 24 but that is on monday nights. Other than that I just sit down and wacth TV when I feel like it.