As a spinoff of Your current top 5 TV shows I’m curious which shows have dropped off your “must see” list within the past year or so.
The show(s) should still be on – and you used to watch it/them some of the time – but you’ve just lost interest in following it/them anymore. It may not have been a “favorite” before, but now you just aren’t interested in it at all.
For me,
Survivor
Body of Proof
The Killing
Unforgettable
Person of Interest
Touch
I stopped watching:
American Horror Story;
Luck;
that AMC zombie show;
that AMC cowboy and trains show
I watched the first two seasons of Sons of Anarchy on Netflix Instant and when the 3rd one finally came out I just never got around to it. Maybe I will someday, but there was such a long period of time I just sort of lost interest. But I wouldn’t say I ‘quit’ watching it.
Once I start in on a show, I tend to stick with it. Hell, I’m still watching Ringer and now that I’ve seen a few episodes of GCB I’ll probably be watching it forever as well (and it’s not even that good).
I must have missed the “cowboy and trains” thing! 
I bailed on American Horror Story after the second episode.
I’d still be watching (and enjoying) Luck if they hadn’t chickened out and called it quits.
I haven’t stopped watching anything. (I don’t know what I’m going to watch once my favorites are off the air forever - reruns, I suppose. I get stuck on things, I find it hard to find ‘new’ favorites.) … Oh, wait - I’ve stopped watching late night talk shows. When David Letterman got into that whole brou-ha-ha about Bristol Palin, the whole thing just turned me right off. Never went back…I anticipate stopping watching the Today Show in the future if they get rid of Ann Curry.
Same here. Once I start watching, I’m usually there 'til the end. The last show I just quit was Lost.
Heroes
Glee
Pan Am
I also am slow to watch the second season of Treme. I might catch it this summer.
And, I also tend to stick with a show forever (hence managing to watch more Treme). But the three I’ve dropped were just particularly horrible to me and I didn’t want to waste my time.
House ~ Only seen a couple of episodes of the final season. From what I have seen it should’ve been canceled at the end of s6.
Bones ~ Honestly kept forgetting to watch it, so I haven’t seen anything past the episode where Bones tells Booth she’s pregnant.
Supernatural ~ I’ve seen 2 episodes of season 7, and from what I’ve seen it should’ve ended at the end of season 5. Season 6 just seemed tossed together, and from what I’ve read about 7, it isn’t much better.
Eureka ~ I stopped watching due to syfy’s way of doing their schedule. I might pick up all the seasons once they’re out on dvd, since the final season starts soon.
Warehouse 13 ~ See Eureka.
Now about the only thing I try to catch on a regular basis anymore is Storage Wars, Young Justice, Green Lantern, and Ben 10.
Whereas Ann Curry drives me crazy, and not in a good way; clueless princess with too much money. Plus, The Today Show has turned into nothing but a ball of fluff with little or no news. The Sarah Palin bit was the shark that jumped that tank and I think CBS now has a new viewer after decades of me watching NBC.
Fairly recent shows we have stopped watching:
Fringe
Grimm
New Girl
Also, it is never a good sign when I have multiple shows of the same series on my DVR that I haven’t bothered to watch. Currently I have:
Once Upon A Time
The Gifted Man
Awake
House, Glee, and after Monday, most likely Bones. My Southpark viewership comes and goes. I also gave up on that NBC show with Lucius Malfoy…Awake? Loved the pilot though.
The Walking Dead
Breaking Bad
Family Guy
The Simpsons
Back when they were still on I also abandoned The Sopranos and Deadwood before their runs ended.
Glee, definitely. And Pan Am, although that got cancelled.
The ones I gave up after a season or more:
Heroes
Glee
Biggest Loser
Survivor
Apprentice
I guess The Simpsons would go on that list too. I didn’t purposefully give it up, I just kept forgetting to watch it until I finally forgot that I was forgetting and one day I just wasn’t watching it anymore.
Recent shows I quit after only a few episodes:
Grimm
Once Upon a Time
Buffy the Vampire Slayer might fit on this list - it’s not a recent show but a few months ago I tried watching it on Netflix and only got through a handful of episodes before I decided I didn’t care.
I went and looked up Zeldar’s Nielsen Ratings Help where I had asked for help in determining which of my “then favorite shows” had a good chance of returning this past season. It was a bit of a shock to see that at that time I had Grey’s Anatomy on my list!
But I also see that I failed to mention (on that current favorites thread) Blue Bloods and Fringe, both of which I still watch and think of as good shows.
I guess the point is that my tastes change rather rapidly these days and I have limited tolerance for poor writing and silly plots. And I have yet to understand why Touch got such rave reviews after that pilot.
House - lost ‘it’ factor after cast shuffles
Desperate Housewives - too many rehash plots
Bones - asperger’s schtick is just boring
Criminal Minds - one too many totally gross plots
Happy Endings - don’t care about the characters enough to watch more
sure there’s more
I WISH I’d quit watching Lost. still bitter…
I thin it was called Hell on Wheels, I saw like two episodes and bailed.
Yeah. I think I made it to three episodes.
Spartacus: Vengeance
I got three or four episodes in to this seasonand then it somehow dropped from my DVR and I never bothered to re-add it.
I suppose I technically quit that one, but I don’t count it. My ex-wife started watching it so I watched the first few episodes with her and had no interest in it. So I gave up after two episodes on it. IMO, that’s not quitting a show, since I never really ‘watched’ it to begin with.
Thanks for the ID on the show. AMC has demonstrated that Breaking Bad is the only one of their original shows that really deserves praise, in spite of Mad Men having some good seasons before now. But they have shown poor judgment with too many efforts for me to buy their claims for good series. The Killing was the last straw for me.
I feel similarly about Showtime’s efforts.
I stopped watching 2 Broke Girls… it’s just not funny. I also have a pretty huge backlog of The Simpsons, but I haven’t quite given up yet.
I also stopped watching The Amazing Race. It’s a good show, but it puts me in this weird anxious/frustrated frame of mind so I just decided I didn’t want to deal with it anymore.