I watch most of my TV on DVR or over streaming internet but the shows I watched regularly and have dropped recently are:
House
CSI: NY
The Simpsons
South Park
The New Girl
My wife and I usually decide what shows we are interested in and set timers, there may be more I haven’t noticed that she has decided I don’t need to watch.
I’m only going with shows that are currently on and that I at one time watched several seasons of, only to lose interest in them:
Gossip Girl
Supernatural
Project Runway
Bones
I left American Idol when Simon left. I’ve haven’t watched this year’s The Amazing Race. I may not have watched last season either. I think I haven’t watched Survivor since Rob and Amber won the All-Star edition.
Glee- First season was great. Second season was annoying and I skipped a couple. Didn’t bother with 3rd.
The Daily Show -It just never really occurs to me and the correspondents usually strike me as unfunny.
American Idol
Bones
Criminal Minds
House
Glee
Heroes
Glee came first to mind
This may border on apostasy, but I was as excited as anyone about Futurama coming back from the dead but then the new season didn’t really click with me. I gave it up after a couple episodes. I partially blame the “movies” which all left me feeling “meh” for killing the buzz.
The Office
Hell on Wheels
Grimm
The River
Luck
I also got season one of The Shield from the library and couldn’t even make it through one episode. Why the series is so highly regarded is a mystery to me.
I have abandoned so many shows within the past few years.
If the first couple of episodes of True Blood don’t pull me back in this season it will be added to the list.
House - only a couple episodes this season
Downton Abby - recorded it but never quite got around to it and when my wife deleted it thinking it was on the other DVR as well I found I didn’t really mind.
Fringe - I give it a try every season because I really should like it but just don’t.
Big Bang Theory is close, I still watch it but often only once the DVR is otherwise empty.
Huh. I’d completely forgotten that I used to watch both South Park and The Daily Show regularly. I haven’t seen an episode of either of them in years. Craig Killborne was still host of TDS last time I watched it and Mr. Hanky was the new push-the-envelope character for South Park.
I’ve quit this one too. I still might get the DVD’s though. I have the first five seasons and it’d feel weird not to have all of them. I’d watch them eventually.
I didn’t make a point of catching the second episode of Mad Men’s new season, and I might just read the recaps. I guess I’m just tired of those people.
I watched two Housewives franchises faithfully – Atlanta and Beverly Hills – but have lost interest in them. Haven’t watched The Office at all since Steve Carell left. Don’t care about South Park anymore, and that used to be event TV for me.
I don’t include shows like The Killing or Touch where I only watched one or two episodes then decided not to bother with the show.
The Mentalist
Criminal Minds
Unforgettable
Fairly Legal
Necessary Roughness
Two Broke Girls
King (Canadian show)
Fades (UK show)
CSI has been on the chopping block for me for years but got a reprieve when Elisabeth Shue joined the cast. (She’s been been a favorite of mine ever since since she grabbed Jon Stewart’s junk 20 years ago on The Jon Stewart Show.)
Psych
The Killing (I still sit through it for the GF, but I no longer care)
Burn Notice
The River
The Walking Dead (I don’t want to be bored during the Zombie Apocalypse)
I don’t watch much TV as it is, so I haven’t much to add beyond what’s already been written (repeatedly, heh). I stopped watching American Horror Story once I realized that I was laughing at it but not with it; and after The Walking Dead’s excellent premier it got boring fast. It’s possible I’ll try to watch the second season of TWD when it’s on Netflix. Further, I should’ve quit watching that abysmal The Cape but gave it a courtesy view out of pity.
I thought I’d stop watching Grimm, but the quality’s gone up and it’s really not bad for what it is. (Noting that’s a very pregnant “for what it is”.)
As for the past. (a) I quit watching Lost, because — although effective early on at creating tension and mystery — it clearly started meandering. Vocal complaints about the last however many seasons tells me I did the right thing. (b) Farscape just lost me entirely at the beginning of its last season. Um, lessee … © I quit Buffy after three seasons; it never stopped seeming to me like a unisex-targeted version of those prime time soap operas (add a dash of the World of Darkness and a pinch of dialog too clever by half).
The Killing - it went downhill during the first season, kept watching to find out who killed Rosie, then they fucked me in the ass.
Hell on Wheels - It just didn’t grab me
Nikita, ditto
Awake, still recording it in case it gets miraculously picked up, but it doesn’t look like it will
Of current and recent shows:
House. I came into it a few seasons in, watched a few seasons and realized every episode was basically the same so I left.
Heroes. Couldn’t finish out Season 2
2 Broke Girls. I see the potential for a good show there but they decided crass=funny and wasted all the talent.
Survivor. The Horribleness that is Naonka chased me away (I had to Google to get her name, I must have blocked it from my memory). When I got an HD TV I tried it again thinking the scenery would be worth it but 15 minutes into the first episode I realized I just didn’t care.
Spartacus. I noticed I had four episodes clogging my DVR. Realized that must mean I didn’t like the season so far so I deleted them without watching.
Desperate Housewives. Realized I just didn’t care anymore and it is a very busy time slot. I will probably go back for the finale.
I haven’t exactly given up on Family Guy and South Park but I don’t feel like I need to watch every episode. I just watch the episodes that sound interesting from the description.
American Idol, the singers are boring
Psych, don’t really know why. I think it was the Juliet as love-interest thing
Leverage, just got monotonous.
I found during the Michael Jackson episode (always hated him), that its a LOT more watchable if you fast forward through the songs. Hell of a lot better, and more a 20 minute show too!
I want to give up on Hell on Wheels, but I just can’t. It is filmed locally and I know a bunch of the actors. I get too much of a kick watching Duncan be a bad guy, when I have worked with him a bunch of times and he is such a nice guy.
I also play a bit of spot the extra.
I have a bunch of shows waiting for me on my PVR that people have listed. Walking Dead and Once Upon a Time come to mind.
The Apprentice - Not sure it this counts because I never did like the celebrity version, and that’s all they have now. But after that awful season in L.A. where they made one team sleep in the yard, I wouldn’t be coming back anyway.
Desperate Housewives - I don’t recall which season it was, but due to a DVR screwup, I missed a 2-hour season finale that resolved a major plot arc… and realized I absolutely did not care. Never went back.
South Park - When it started, I didn’t get Comedy Central. A friend of mine recorded every episode and loaned me the tapes. When my cable provider finally added CC, I was *so *excited. South Park was an event, and I never missed it. Now… meh. I still catch it once in a while, and I actually still enjoy it, but it’s a victim of its own success. It’s not original, daring, or cutting edge anymore, not because the show has changed so much, but because everything else has.
CSI - When William Peterson left, that was that. I gave Fishburne 3 episodes but it was never to be.