I don’t watch any of them.
Yup. I tell people that my idea of a reality show is CPAC.
Anything with the word “judge” in it.
And I’d like to see Jerry Springer’s final episode consist of a battle to the death with Maury Povich with the winner getting a sex change and then air dropped into Saudi Arabia.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
Zeldar, if you take my fashion shows, you can kiss SEC football goodbye.
Sure, I like it too, but it will be worth it to see you try to get the color back in your face after reading this.
Heh. This entire thread is Exhibit A in the People’s Case as defined here. I’m pretty sure you’ve covered most of the popular stuff and damn near all the profitable stuff. Enjoy the re-runs of Masterpiece Theater and Murder, She Wrote…
At this point I’d kill for Murder She Wrote.
Still Standing WAS surprisingly good (“was” because it was eliminated) because the fat, clueless guy and hot wife were similarly assholish.
I’ve heard a lot of people express an intense dislike of Caillou (a show for little children, if you don’t know what it is). Why?
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
IMO sports coverage should only be on the dedicated sports channels. It pisses me off when my shows get preempted because some stupid baseball game is on, doubly so if the game runs long and they preempt the next time slot on the fly.
It’s easier for me to say: everything off TV except Major League Baseball, NHL hockey, Miss Marple, Poirot, and Are You Being Served? Oh, and Fry and Laurie and French and Saunders and The Vicar Of Dibley.
Everything else, especially, most especially, particularly especially CSI, should be sent on a rocket into the Sun. The one with David Caruso should be destroyed in such a manner as to cause Mr. Caruso to vanish in a puff of evil smelling smoke.
Every ‘reality’ show except for The Amazing Race.
I stopped watching local news, in part because of this. Unfortunately now CNN’s even worse. “BREAKING NEWS: Our panel of experts weighs in on the economy.”
“if your erection lasts for more than four hours, contact the Guinness Book of World…ah, er, your doctor.”
All the 24-hour cable news stations. They’re all garbage.
Tell them You Mean Business.
A certain part of the male anatomy.
I’m living my dream. I’m playing in a rock band.
Actually, pretty much all of it. I channel surf but I end up only watching movies.
Makes me think of Springsteen’s “57 Channels And Nothin’s On”.
American Idol
Professional wrestling
NASCAR
Bill Maher
MSNBC
Everything I don’t like should be eliminated from TV, since I am somehow compelled and forced to watch even the things I hate most. The world must be tailored to my specific tastes!
HLN, otherwise known as the Missing White Woman Network. Yet another cable channel that strayed from its nice, in this case going from wall-to-wall news briefs to wall-to-wall Caylee.
I wouldn’t mind reality TV so much if it didn’t encourage people to be so mean-spirited and evil. The nanny shows aren’t so bad – parents could learn from them. Wife Swap can be okay, because those people are generally trying to put up a good front. I liked Kid Nation and the one where they gave kids to teenagers. Baby Borrowers, I think it was called.
As for the 24-hour news channels, one thing I like about USA Today is the section where they have news items from all 50 states. Why couldn’t CNN et al do something like that? Show us snippets about what’s going on all around the country, or maybe even the world. There was remarkably little coverage of the fires in Australia, and I haven’t seen anything about the aftermath. I learned a lot more about them in the thread here than on the news.
I’d really like more NPR-type stuff on TV, like Science Friday. I’d watch Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, or even Prairie Home Companion.