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Television Is Dead

I need to rant. The current state of television is probably the worst and most boring I've seen in it in my life. Sure, there are some good shows out there, fiction and non-fiction, but most of TV is awful. It's awful for 2 reasons : 1. There is a lot of actual trash out there, mostly coming from the "reality" side of things, on network and cable. There is too much. 2. The second reason is not that these shows are bad, but because there is sooooooo much of the same thing. Medical/doctor dramas. Some form of law enforcement. Reality. And throw in some lawyers. *yawn* I look around TV and I see mostly these same kinds of shows. Everything describing themselves as "edgy", "cutting edge", and so on and so on. They look the same, they feel the same. Everybody trying to "out-edge" each other. How can they be any of these things when EVERYBODY else is doing the same?. "Edgy" and "demographic" are two words I loathe to hear. Now, there is nothing wrong with being "edgy" and whatnot, but does everything have to be?. There isn't much creativity or variety anymore. It doesn't look to be changing any time soon. We don't need another medical show. We don't need another cop show. We certainly don't need more reality. The WB served my needs for years. 99% of my TV viewing was the WB. Now that it's gone and the CW seems to only be focused on ridiculously young, pretty people who wear ridiculously nice clothes and who find themselves in ridiculously silly situations, I find myself finally realizing that there is a problem with the rest of TV. Again, there are some shows.... Will TV ever come back, or do we have to settle for 3,000 more doctor/cop/lawyer/reality shows?