Beginning to HATE Television!!

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Sayoc01

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New programs are...just boring or a waste of time!!Example: Big Bang Theory.....tired of same old plot & canned laughter!!If I had to room with Sheldon....he would have been shown the door along time ago....or......he would have gone to the hospital & I would have gone to jail!! I'm fed up with "anything "to do with the Kardash.family.News....forget it! I'm back to reading books & being retired...going to the Range more often to practice my shooting!! Am I the only one that feels this way?? Acting is no longer a requirement....all people care about is "Special Effects"!!
Jim
 
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I don't understand what the big deal is. If you don't like the show don't watch it....change the channel. ...move on. Plenty of shows I don't like, I just change the channel.

All shows work the same. They have the same storyline over and over.

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TNT has a new show,,, pretty close to "Breaking Bad" level acting in the first two episodes,,, :D

Animal Kingdom,,,, it premiered last night,,, I am sure there will be reruns all week,,,

"Smurf" does a GREAT job as the momma!!

I love the International Harvester truck,,,
 
Television has stank for a long time!!! And as Arik says either turn it off or switch channels! I do that a lot here of late! Some of these shows are just tasteless or senseless!:rolleyes: Some are even tasteless and senseless!
Any shows I take a liking to, the morons in charge take it off the air! :mad:
Two that come to mind,,,,Person of Interest and Longmire. and I will not sign up for another service to watch Longmire! :cool:
Some nights I don't even turn the news on anymore! ;) for various and some very obvious reasons! :rolleyes:
One show that's starting back and I'm looking forward to is Jay Leno's Garage. ;)
 
My question would be, how many medical/hospital shows can they come up with? They're all the same only with more blood and gore. When was the last time you saw an emergency room where family members and others are allowed to barge in to the treatment rooms?

The other question is how many cop shows can we stand when all the plots are the same?

It's interesting that someone remarked about the shows with a lot of canned laughter. I absolutely love humor but I find that, when the canned laughter starts, I'm generally not amused. Just doesn't seem that funny to me. I can, however, laugh quite a bit when watching Last Man Standing.

I agree that there are fewer good TV shows. I try the new ones for a few episodes and, most times, quickly delete then from Tivo.

My favorites: Better Call Saul, Hell on Wheels, The Last Ship (though it's getting old), Major Crimes. Those are a few of the ones I'll watch but there are many others I won't.
 
I hate the amount of commercials showed at onetime.

I'm more into the travel channel, discovery channel and the history channel. I purchased the Paladin and Wanted dead or Alive dvd sets.
No boring commercials plus I have a assortment of DVDs movies. Plus more movies on YouTube.(free).
 
BigBill said:
I hate the amount of commercials showed at onetime.

I'm more into the travel channel, discovery channel and the history channel. I purchased the Paladin and Wanted dead or Alive dvd sets.
No boring commercials plus I have a assortment of DVDs movies. Plus more movies on YouTube.(free).
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I have Tivo and love it. They have started a skip feature. Most TV shows are now recorded with the skip enabled. When a commercial comes up, you push a button on the remote and instantly skip the entire commercial. Great feature.
 
Sayoc01 said:
If I had to room with Sheldon....he would have been shown the door along time ago....or......he would have gone to the hospital & I would have gone to jail!
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1. It's Sheldon's apartment, Leonard is just renting a room from him.

2. Sheldon saved Leonard's life and kept him out of Federal prison. Leonard feels a sense of obligation because of that.


All that said I have all 5 seasons of "Quatum Leap" on DVD so I just watch that if there's nothing on
 
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I was flipping through the channels the other day and caught a few seconds of something called How I Met Your Mother. What they can say on broadcast TV nowadays is shocking and disgusting.
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You missed "Vikings", didn't you. The US version is a little raw, but the other is very interesting. Not for children.
 
A few years ago we cancelled tv and went just with Netflix and Amazon. Yeah we had to pay for some shows on Amazon but TONS less money than monthly cable bill.
We did not cancel for money though. We cancelled because of all the trash that is on tv and the potential impact on our kids. I don't need my kids (or even me) ingesting the trash the liberal media and advertisers have decided to spoon feed me.
Our bodies become what we eat and our minds become what we see/hear/read. Just as a poor diet will trash my health, watching/reading/hearing trash will affect my mind.
Closest I have ever been with my wife too during that time. We were not staring at a tv so we talked. Scary as that seems.
Also, Sheldon would be dead if not for Leonard. Penny would have killed him long ago. [emoji1]
Sorry for the rant.


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I look through the various menu's for up to a week or two ahead of time and at odd times of the day and night and find quite a few movies worth watching that I record. There are very few network sitcoms I watch any longer.
 
I watch documentary TV and baseball almost exclusively. Sometimes "Hill Street Blues" and "NYPD Blue" reruns. Adult Swim is a guilty pleasure--the humor isn't sophomoric, it's downright freshmanic, but silly fun. I need a fix of the great old Warner Brothers cartoons from time to time.

I read news online. Never watch it broadcast except in cases of natural disaster. That way I can select as I go and not be irritated by the presenters. Usually I can read the lead of a story and decide whether it's worth following to its conclusion or is just fluff.

The Kardashians and others who are famous for being famous and tacky depress me. So do shows like "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette". They tell me too much about the priorities of a lot of the viewing public.

At least, thank heaven, "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" and "Jersey Shore" are gone. Now we need to lose "Entertainment Tonight" and "Inside Edition". I'd add Jerry Springer's show and Maury Povich's, but that garbage will go on forever.

I won't even discuss the "judge shows".
 
I was directed to the old classic Peter Gunn series awhile back as they can now be pulled up and watched on the Internet. One interesting thing I noted is that each episode is 25 minutes long with 5 minutes of commercials. We have now degenerated to the point today that a 1/2 hours show is 20 minutes long and 10 minutes of commercials. There's no way I'm sitting thru 10 min. of commercials to watch a 30 min show.
About the only TV I watch anymore is Football and NASCAR as it's truly a waste of time to sit thru all these commercials. . I am also considering getting one of those devices that let's you record the program and then go thru and skip the commercials.
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We dvr everything we watch. For an hour show if I start watching the beginning of the dvr 23 minutes into the show and fast forward thru the commercials we finish watching the show at the same time the show ends.
 
All I watch avidly are: The Walking Dead, TURN, History at the Museum, Antique Roadshow, Expedition Unknown. Other than that, sometimes I still watch, Forensic Files, Cops--but mostly DvD.
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Stopped watching TV 30 plus years ago. Only have the FIOS service from Verizon for telephone and internet. I checked to see what I would save by removing TV from the package. Turned out to be $5 per month. Just wish there was some way of making people who want to watch sports channels pay for them completely rather than adding the approx $8 per subscriber to the overall cost for everyone. If that ever passed congress/FTC by allowing a la carte choices, the noises from advertizing companies would be enormous. Dave_n
 
I have a Roku box for both TV's.

It gives lots of choices, not all of which are free. I like it mainly for Netflix, Amazon Prime, and YouTube.

I am never bored with TV! Two of my favorite series both just had new episodes added, and when I'm done with those, other series I like will be adding. Movies rotate, so for instance, in my Netflix movie list, today Ferris Beuler's Day Off may be gone, but Super Troopers is back. Netflix and Amazon both work like that.

When we first got Netflix, I had fun watching movies I'd heard about, but had never seen, like Death Race 2000 and Fritz the Cat!

A friend who still has network TV came over. I asked him what he wanted to watch. His favorite bands are Pink Floyd and The Beatles, so I found him a clip of David Gilmour jamming with Paul McCartney. He still doesn't have internet, but now he's thinking about it.

Sometimes I just want to have the TV on while tinkering around the house. I'll find an episode of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins. Or maybe a favorite from Hickok45, but you get the idea. There is never anything on my TV that I don't want there. Oh, the occasional YouTube commercial, but that's a small to pay for the TV freedom I enjoy.
 
My Wife loves those reality Shows like Property Brothers and I cant stand them so I get a lot of free time at night.
I watch the evening New's and if a good Movie is on I will watch that but I cant stomach the stupid Comedy's that most of the Stations seem to want to cram down Our Throats.
 
I can put up with a lot of what's being shown these days,but the fact that "alternative life-styles" are being rammed down our throats really bothers me. Even the commercials are promoting some agenda or other which I do not agree with. It's just a different world now,one which is plunging headlong into the abyss. :(
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I went OTA a few years back.You might find that the channels you thought you'd miss can be easily replaced.

I have a steady diet of westerns,sci-fi,comedy,mystery...etc...etc. It doesn't matter what day it is or the time of day."Rev'nTV " is great for all things automotive.The other night I watched 50hp lawnmowers race around an oval track.

The money I've saved has afforded me a lot of firearms and ammo over the last few years.
 
We gave up cable decades ago. No Netflicks, nothing but antenna TV.

We watch maybe three network shows a week and the rest of the time my wife watches Create TV (PBS) or METV witch is all oldies like Gilligan's Island or The Brady Bunch or Happy Days and Bonanza (I found 5 years worth of Bonanza in the 5 dollar bin at WalMart).

And now they've added something called Grit TV, all 70s/80's action movies (Chuck Norris)

I don't need cable
 
I haven't had TV at home in ANY form for 20 years and I don't feel the least bit deprived. A good book, a gun or bicycle or woodworking project are much better ways to spend one's time.
 
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