# Television programming you think nobody watches

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-programming-you-think-nobody-watches/452485>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 10, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-programming-you-think-nobody-watches/452485 "2008-06-10T20:11:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-programming-you-think-nobody-watches/452485/81 "2008-06-15T11:25:02Z")

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On the True Life Movie Channel there are films whos descriptions are… A couple grieving at the death of their young son take a shine to a young irreverant boy.  
A woman on being diagnosed with terminal Cancer comes to terms with her life.

A divorced mother bringing up two children on her own remembers her dysfunctional childhood and her brutal alcoholic father.  
???

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-programming-you-think-nobody-watches/452485/82 "2008-06-15T13:45:58Z")

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don’t ask writes:

\> There seems to be a group of people in US TV who are determined to create an  
\> all African American sitcom - some sort of latter day Cosby I guess. Once in a  
\> while I catch one really late at night. They are all really cheap, really bad and  
\> interchangeable. I can never tell which is which. They seem to feature lots of  
\> young, good looking black folks in some sort of communal situation - living  
\> together, at college or some other wholesome schtick. I have never  
\> remembered one of their titles but I am sure I have never laughed at any of  
\> the “jokes”. The scripts are uniformly dreadful. I have often wondered where  
\> they were aired in the US.

There are a number of sitcoms over the past few years that fit this description, and some of them were aired on mainstream channels in the U.S.

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-programming-you-think-nobody-watches/452485/83 "2008-06-15T13:48:03Z")

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Lust4Life writes:

\> On the True Life Movie Channel there are films whos descriptions are… A  
\> couple grieving at the death of their young son take a shine to a young  
\> irreverant boy.  
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\> A woman on being diagnosed with terminal Cancer comes to terms with her life.  
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\> A divorced mother bringing up two children on her own remembers her  
\> dysfunctional childhood and her brutal alcoholic father.  
\> ???

This sounds much like the movies that are shown on the Lifetime Channel in the U.S.

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-programming-you-think-nobody-watches/452485/84 "2008-06-15T13:54:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Darryl Lict]  
Does anyone really watch QVC or HSN. I can’t imagine watching shows that sell garbage. Also, what’s the deal with infomercials? I’ve only watched one, because it had a sexy broad using a device that I actually helped design.  
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Older people love those shopping networks. They love calling and getting their voice on the air. When I worked at a credit card company about 10 years ago, I saw plenty of accounts where older people would order tons of stuff from the shopping networks and then return it all. Thousands of dollars worth of merchandise.

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