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People always get nostalgic of the "good ole days" of TV, but was it really that better than it is now? We have more channels and more choices than anytime before. Sitcoms are making a come back. Reality TV shows are garnering audiences from across the board.
People always get nostalgic of the "good ole days" of TV, but was it really that better than it is now? We have more channels and more choices than anytime before. Sitcoms are making a come back. Reality TV shows are garnering audiences from across the board.
These are the "good ole days" of TV.
More channels and more choices are not equaling quality shows.
TV today is annoying as h*ll. We pay big bucks to be marketed to, too many crap channels, constant changing of times when I find a show I really like, the seasons are too short before reruns start, "related" channels showing the same shows/reruns as the assigned channels showed new, shows I like disappearing before they get an audience, I could go on and on. At least in "the old days" I could count on watching my show every (insert day) at (insert time), except over the holidays when a rerun was shown or a holiday special prempted it.
Mid 20s. I have a good recollection of how TV was in the 90s. It sucked!!!!
Well, I couldn't agree with you more. But trust me when I say that it was good in the 1970s. In my opinion, the last good show that was on the air was the Carol Burnett show back in the...um....when? Late 1980s maybe? If you have never seen All in the Family, or The Jackie Gleason Show or an episode of The FBI, then you haven't really seen good television at all.
Where's their version of Saved By the Bell? Boy meets World? Wonder Years?
All the tween shows now are like mini-soap operas or have really really stuipid adults.
And no more Saturday morning cartoons. Very few cartoons at all for those who are past Dora but not ready for Family Guy. Hey Arnold, Doug, and Rugrats were some of my fave cartoons in middle school.
Very few shows that I can imagine a family watching. No Full House, Fresh Prince, Roseanne. Now its all these smart mouthed kids yelling at their idiot parents about Ipods and Xbox's.
And EVERY show has to be PC. There HAS to be a black person, a gay person, every demographic has to be represented even if it doesn't fit into the storyline.
Most of the time I watch reruns of Old Shows: Cheers, Golden Girls, Cosby, Wings, Murphy Brown, Different World, Dick Van Dyke, 90210....and I'm in my late twenties if age matters.
TV is improving from the absolute low that it reached from about 2002-2008 when about the only thing on was reality shows. Even so, there are still too many of them. It would be nice to see a return to more sitcoms like in the 80s and 90s.
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