American Idol. Besides the non-stop talk about it, it screws with House and Bones’ scheduling. Hopefully all the others of its ilk would fall after the Zeus of lame Reality programing fails. If that means the only one I watch (Last Comic Standing) is also brought low, so be it.
Two and a Half Men. I’d like to see Charlie Sheen and Nancy Grace in a death match overseen by Sauron.
According to Jim is still on the air? There is no god.
I love American Idol, but I love InvisibleWombat’s response more!
Show to cancel… well, person to cancel… any show with Tiffany “New York” Pollard. She makes my skin crawl.
American Idol. Hands down.
I can’t decide, my first thought was The Apprentice and exiling Donald Trump to the Rancor pit (but that would probably be considered cruelty to Rancors) and then I remembered those shows with made up celebrities like The Hills and The Real Housewives of Anywhere and how these people keep appearing everywhere and are just famous for being rich bitches and isn’t one Paris Hilton enough? And now I can’t decide.
Sports. If I have to pick one, baseball. I never watch any sports, and they often pre-empt network shows that I do want to watch. They may as well be blocks of dead air that may or may not extend over the programming scheduled after them.
Baseball. I have no interest in the sport and seems to monopolize the TV and conversation when I am around people.
Perhaps being a non-sports fan in Boston has jaded me a bit.
If we’re limited to sitcoms, then “According to Jim” is easily the worst I’ve ever seen.
If not, then American Idol and Survivor are tied.
I’m afraid you and I have no future together.
I pick Big Brother. It is on 3 days a week for fuck’s sake! I can’t call my parents on Tuesday, Thursday, or Sunday nights because they need to be sucked into a bunch of losers attacking each other in a house for prizes. Stupidest show ever!
Football, if it means the local news will shut up about it too. Swear, it’s like the last third of the broadcast is football. And that’s in the off season.
But, without football, how will you know when it’s autumn?
And what will give your life meaning?
First thing I thought was Gossip Girl. Yeah, it’s only been around for one season…but yeah, it annoys me that much.
I came in to say According to Jim, but then, someone disses the man I pattern my rich fantasy life after, Charlie Harper. And then I’m reminded that not all TV is limited to badness because the channel can be changed. No, there is Nancy Grace. Not merely a disgusting sideshow like Hannity and Colmes or the O’Reilly Factor, but something so pernicious that it leaps out of TV Land and causes guests stupid enough to appear to commit suicide when the Persecutor Host starts accusing them of crimes over cable wires around the world for the simple reason that she thinks they are guilty. This is the most irresponsible thing ever put on television. It must die and Nancy Grace must switch bodies with OJ Simpson, and then Nancy Grace’s body must be forced to watch reruns of the Nancy Grace show and the first OJ Simpson trial for all eternity.
I don’t love Raymond.
Top Gear Australia, obviously. Embarassingly awful.
Definitely all local nightly news shows. They probably were a good idea at some point, but I can’t think of a single more obnoxious subset of television.
And I’d actually like to send the producers and writers (maybe not the anchors) to a happy place where nothing ever goes wrong and there are no problems. It’ll drive them crazy, having nothing to sensationalize and terrify the ignoratii with.
Dude, if you want to play football, ok, but don’t paint your face and sit on the couch and act like it’s a personal accomplishment when you team does well. Or at least shut the fuck up about it.
No one has mentioned the loathsome Glenn Beck?
Why does CNN air the King Of The Right-Wing Nut-Jobs in it’s attempt (I’m presuming) to provide balance in the political spectrum?
Deal or No Deal. This show makes me crazy because you could easily have each contestant pick his/her briefcases in about 5 minutes, tops. So it’s the filler that makes me insane – all the ARE YOU SURE? NO, REALLY, ARE YOU SURE? OMG, just pick a briefcase already. The passing of time doesn’t make any particular pick a better choice.
My MIL loves this show, so I see it far more than someone who hates it ought to.
Heh. I was going to come in to say “Football”—well, “Monday Night Football,” as that’s the only specific show I knew by name, though I’d go for all of it if I had the chance—too.
For the simplest, purest motive of all…revenge.
“That’s for preempting ABC’s Sonic the Hedgehog back in 1994, you useless, muscle-brained fucks!”
::Cue Dies Irae::