Even though I don’t watch it, GAC (Great American Country) seems to be the only music channel that, by God actually plays music videos!
sigh
It would be the country channel that got it right :mad:
In MTV & VH1’s defense, they DID spawn MTV2 (which shows 90’s+ videos) and VH1 Classic (which shows 80’s and back videos.
Hey, Battlebots is my favorite show!
The old Discovery war/military stuff (like Wings) was actually pretty good, though recently it’s been lower quality. Now, you wade through hundreds of pseudoscience shows. Pseudoscience pisses me off anyway, but now it has a channel! Something about Ghost Hunters! “On the Inside” with the search for the Loch Ness monster! Does sasquatch exist?
:rolleyes:
Food Tv has apparently given up on the concept of teaching folks how to cook and has gone for
A) Shows about trendy or scary places that serve food
I admit that I like “A Cook’s Tour” but there’s like six too many duplicate shows. The creep from Survivor has one, the black lady and her her mush-mouthed partner (“wather” for “water” Speak clearly you twerp!) has one, that smarmy fucking asshole Bobby Flay has one, there’s that chick who talks about how to travel to luxury places for only $40/day, and now Emeril is gonna have one. :rolleyes: I don’t want to see assholes going to resturaunts to eat. How can anyone possibly be entertained by that? (excluding “A Cook’s Tour” where he goes to really exotic places and tries really wierd food. As opposed to the black woman and her mush-mouthed sidekick (enunciate, you worm!) who go to “The five best Philly Cheezesteak places in North Dakota!” yawn)
B) “All Emeril, all the time!” He wasn’t competent or interesting when he had one show. He now has um…four? which are repeated something like 3 times daily.
C) Fucking up existing shows: What the fuck did they do to Jamie Oliver’s show? It was mostly harmless, but now they’ve given him an obviously phony-looking set, scary boring people (as opposed to his boring Euro-trash buddies who at least looked real) and given the camera over to a spastic chimpanzee. Note to the spastic chimpanzee: A) take a pill and stop jittering B) stop giving me that framed-by-the-wine-bottles shot of Jamie Oliver’s puffy lips. Focus on the food. Jamie Oliver’s puffy lips aren’t all that appealing.
Fenris
Don’t EVEN get me started on how MST3K was screwed over.
Plus, lately the History Channel has had nothing but “Basic Training”. Looking at people entering the military. NO HISTORICAL STUFF!
C’mon, there’s more to History than WWII, the Cold War and freaking tanks!
You recall that there was an entire thread about the regression of Nickelodeon into a stupid network. We all lament the good old days.
On another note, PBS is still showing great stuff. The News Hour, Nova, Frontline, Mystery!, Great Performances, rebroadcasts of the BBC World News . . . . It’s the only channel I watch nowadays. I love it to death.
I must second that. Less Scooby Doo and more Adult Swim is definitely a * good thing!*
Adult Swim Rocks!
The History Channel, or as I call it the Hitler Channel, has the propensity to reach Nazi velocity in under an hour. After less than 60 minutes of watching, you will see the Nazi party mentioned at least once. And they are insidious about it. Example would be when the show about Gandhi that I was watching suddenly turned into a Nazi program.
On the other hand, Mail Call is one of the best shows they have. The Hitler channel, however, does not have a core of well-known shows that it can rely on for viewers. I don’t know the times that any of their shows are on, much less if they even have any regualr shows.
Discovery was excellent too. Anyone remember Invention? I think they started their decline with Shark Week. Now Discovery is “When Animals Attack” and “Ghost Hunters” all the time. There’s no discovery in that!
PBS needs to show Connections again. Many times.
TLC needs to drop all the hospital crap. Babies being born, eye surgery, gunshot wounds, open heart, the list goes on. These kind of shows appeal to a VERY SMALL SUBSET of the TLC viewers! Trading Spaces, although fun, has nothing to do with learning.
And I’m spent.
I lament the dumbing down of several networks: the History Channel and all the main Discovery channels (for me, that’s The Discovery Channel, The Hack ‘n’ Dice Channel (uh, otherwise known as Discovery Health), Animal Planet, and TLC). I am especially vexed by History/Hitler and TLC. Every time I switch to the Big H I see something WW2-related, the history of guns, or old Modern Marvel shows. TLC has Trading Spaces (which I like, but isn’t “learning”, really), the goddamned “story” shows, and stupid FOX special reject shows. I have heard that TLC has intentionally been just using their initials instead of “The Learning Channel”, because of their switch to less intellectual and educational programming. :mad:
We just switched from DirecTv to WideOpenWest Digital Cable, though. Already I’m happier. The Science Channel seems like it hasn’t fallen yet; I was able to see a documentary on scientists’ attempts to document and predict solar weather that wasn’t made for idiots. Of course, the production date was 1999… But another show had an interviewee use the word “superfluous”. I haven’t heard that word on television ever, I believe! History International looks promising as well… For at least a year or two. :rolleyes:
If VH1 and MTV played Videos, like they’re suppose too, VH1- Classic and MTV2 wouldn’t have to exist.
ABC Family, not FOX Family is going to have Fucking Power Rangers, wasn’t it a few of years ago that people trying to get kids to stop watching, WTF, not that MMPR’s are a good show anyway, it should have been over 8 years ago.
TV Sucks anyway, kill your TV.
Hell, last year I started watching a show on A&E about conspiracies.(I figured, could be interesting since there’s probably alot of good REAL ones that there’d be no need to bring up some rediculous one like the apollo hoax.) Anyway the first one was about how the US government and the oil companies conspired against a guy because invented a perpetual motion machine. Umm, yeah right. [click]
I just wish Cartoon Network aired more Looney Toons. Yes, I know they air them. I just want more.
At least A&E still has Breakfast with the Arts, although that can be hit or miss.
Last night I was watching a rerun of Freaks and Geeks on ABCFamily (the only show I’ll go near that channel for).
They bleeped out the word “crap!” THREE TIMES! Crap! I mean, that’s the word you’re supposed to say when you want to be inoffensive and not swear, isn’t it?!
USA Network- oh for the days of Captain USA (Sat afternoons) & Up All Night with Rhonda Shearer (sp?) and yeah, even Gilbert Gottfried
SCI-FI Channel- Where did the Classic Horror & the Silent Movies go? AND WHAT ABOUT DOCTOR FREDERICK RUEHL!?!?!?
Ditto about the screwing of MST3K.
And if Bill Maher had stayed with Comedy Central- PI would still be thriving. The ABC switch caused him to dumb it down & pander more.
FINALLY- why do I NEVER see on any MTV/VH1 “Video retrospective”
Bonnie Tyler’s video for TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART (with the demonic choir boys!)?
I am a science teacher and it kills me when I see what passes for “educational” television these days. I used to love The Discovery Channel and was thrilled when The Learning Channel first started. What REALLY troubles me is how they present pseudoscience and paranormal beliefs (aliens, the Loch Ness monster, ESP) as though they are just as credible as real science. Forget adult movies, if I ever have children, I will use the parental lock on the satellite receiver to block out The Animal Planet for fear of coming home to find the kids watching The Pet Psychic.
I especially like when the HISTORY channel plays “the history of rollercoasters”. Then “the history of amusement parks”, then “the history of dangerous amusement park rides” then “the history of dangerous rollercoasters”.
Remember when A & E stood for Arts and entertainment?
Arts you know like Plays, Opera and Ballet.
I want Shakespeare Damnit!