Is TV on the way out - at least for the younger generation?

There just isn't anything to make it stand apart anymore. When I was young, we didn't have one. Dad said there were more improtant things to do than watch that one-eyed monster. At the time I thought he was horrible for depriving us! Now, I realize he was absolutely on the money! M grand daughter 7 yo, comes here and the TV is hardly ever turned on unless i want her to calm down and rest. We are always doing something - LIncoln logs is one of her favorite things to do!

hi coffeebreak, yes, your right, when i was growing up we were only allowed certain tv viewing time and there were definite rules to follow!! homework had to be done, we kids also had to behave in front of the tv, not make loud noises, etc. one time my brother's got mad at me because we were all laughing so loud, and carrying on over the antics on a sitcom that our mom came in and demanded to know who was making all the noise in the living room? she shut the tv off and we neve saw the end of that funny, funny sitcom. boy were my older brothers mad at me for awhile. the tv had to be shut off during dinnertime, at 6:00 pm sharp! it was not turned back on until the table was all cleared desert was eaten and desert wasn't offered until our plates were cleaned off, of all the veggies etc.!!when the dishes were done, the tv could come back on and we could watch it if our homework was done, completed, and neatly written. i appreciated, now, so much the discipline my parents instilled in us, although i lightened up a little with my own child, but she's turned out g r e a t. bye, stanzi

I did those rules with my kids - homework, not during meals etc. And supervised what they did watch. I remember my daughter about junior year in highschool and wanting to watch 90210. at first I didn't let her then we watched it together nad then I shut it off once it got to the bed hopping of everyone.

I watch the food channel and DIY and TV land. Other than that I have the set of I Love Lucy and some others that I watch from time to time. Only thing I do like are the cooking and design reality shows - those guys have to be creative on the minute and work with nothing to make an inpact. I always wonder if I could do that - I'm pretty creative, but dont think that creative!

My son and I were on a 10 day fast once. We started watching the food network and drooled over it for 2 days. It was our downfall! We only made it 7 days on our fast.

That's what I am wondering. I am also wondering if it will cause the writers and producers and all to create shows for the "older" generation. They loose so many younger ones to the video and hand held and all that so are they going to target the older generation and give us something intelligent and fun to watch?

I don't see that there is anything on for age 16 kids. It is all focused more to 25 and over. Notes from the Underbelly? I mean, come on, is that what people want to watch these days? Is that where they get their fun? What a stupid show! But here is is back this season. I watched the first one, just to see if hte commercials protrayed how stupid it really was, and the commercials didn't do it justice in the stupidity department!