The Quality of TV Watching!

Hello lelin1123 I haven't had television in about five years. I haven't missed it, either. Every once in a while I'll be at someone's house, or in a public place with the television programming, and I see what they are watching and I'm just surprised that anyone finds this entertaining. I usually watch the DVD movie or documentary. Recently, I did start streaming video over my internet because I learned that there are lots of documentaries that I can see in this way.

Television quality has plummeted especially disgusting channels like adult swim. My kid was watching some guy eat a banana yesterday. Then they harassed some lady on the street in a frog suit. They were holding thought balloons above their heads like, "I don't wipe." This is funny? This get's someone paid? If I presented that to a channel as a premise I would have been thrown out and the cops would have been called. This is why I got streaming television. I pay Netflix 7 bucks a month. They even have television shows on there I like, newer and older. I bought a streaming box which also has other things on it like Netflix. I wish I had all the years of my life back I spent watching commercials and junk. The only thing I watch is Doctor oz, the news, showtime, Stars and a few reality shows like Bethenny ever after.

Hi. I'm 10 years your junior and I totally understand what you mean!Back in the day, there were dramas, not nighttime so called soaps. There were comedies with messages, not so called sit coms. And , if you wanted some culture, PBS would air operas and plays . Plays , not just lame documentaries! You know why there has been a huge turn? Money and " taste" and the Key audience. back in the day the owners of the big 3 channels were like the Movie producers of old, independent thinkers who went by their gut. That is why All In The Family and Maude even made it on air. No suit these days would Ever ok the pilot. These days there is no one man on top. The channels are owner by corporations and there is a committee who try to decide what people want to see . And then they will give it to them. And back then it was certain time slots for groups. daytime for the housewife , early evening for family , later men and couples. That is why Soaps were on in the day, light comedies and quiz shows in the evening and then the heavy drams at 10pm. But that changed with Dallas and Dynasty. Two of my faves . But that is when soaps took over primetime.Then the reality show took off and here we are. I must confess I do have my faves of reality shows but do I think there are Way too many? Yes. See without any imagination at the top, Or the freedom to go for it, the suits will just keep copying and copying. I take solace in the History channel and BBC America and in movie channels.

I am not a fan of reality shows either. I think that they have really ruined TV. If it were one or two, that would be different, but it is almost all we have to watch now.

I agree with you. I miss the older shows that actually had substance and kept you hanging on. I do not watch reality shows of any kind. I usually keep on Netflix and Amazon Prime and watch the older classic movies.

I keep seeing the shows you mentioned among the shows available in our cable channel but I just don't watch them. Just be optimistic and look at the bright side, it's cable so there's more or less a hundred more channel to turn to when there are few garbage show currently airing. There's discovery, national geographic, to name a few.

I can never find much that is good to watch. Most of the shows are plain stupid. I don't know how they stay on.

Lucky me, my television is only hooked up to a digital converter box. I would not watch that stuff even if I could get it.I agree that it is pretty mindless. I do like real shows, however. Things like "The Doctors" and things on the History Channel and HGTV

I have found its easier to record what is on and watch when its a better time for me. For example, one poster mentioned Dr Oz, which is a well done show. You really can learn a lot while watching. I have seen a couple episodes of The Doctors, which is a talk show like Dr Oz. You really can find quality shows on, but they tend to air when many people are working. Also I enjoy NCIS a top rated show, so many others are enjoying it also.

I don't watch any of them. Although I have cable, I only have the basic package which means just the regular networks and some local independent channels. I don't even get ESPN anymore although I do miss watching tennis on there. I like several of the shows that are on. Some of these are NCIS, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, Nikita, Bones, How I Met Your Mother, Revenge and several others. I don't even watch the reality shows that are on the regular networks.

I agree with you. I wondered when reality shows started why they even had an audience. I'll admit to one reality show--Extreme Makeover weight loss edition. I fast forward through most of it, stopping at the health and nutrition tips and seeing how the person is adjusting their attitude. It has really helped me in my battle with being overweight. Then I look at the ending results. I can watch the 2 hour show in about 15 minutes and I get knowledge and encouragement from it. Other than that, I don't see the draw of the average reality show like Jersey Shore (my son loves it because they are so stupid) or Ozzy Osbourne's show if it's still on. I don't like to see people fight or cry or argue and I certainly don't want to be in on some of their emotionally intimate moments. I have enough strife in my life without indulging in someone else's. I think we have a lot of voyeurs in this nation because people are so dissatisfied with their own lives and are too lazy to do anything about it so they watch others.

hehehe hello young old women,it was very nice to discuss with that kind of enthusiastic women,any thing if that have their positive points then obviously that having their negative points too,so if tv is helping us to gain something then obviously sometime that will waste our time too.