What are the current "Popular", WORST shows on TV?

The worst programming these days are those shows which are not scripted (i.e. reality/competition/celebrity). Unfortunately, that's the bulk of TV these days.

Shows worth watching:
Top Gear
It's Always Sunny...
The Killing
Game of Thrones
30 Rock

...and 7 seasons of Trailer Park Boys on Netflix.:D
 
30 Rock -- I've tried to watch it, because critics and awards say it's a great show.

But I don't get it.

Perhaps it is because I cannot stand Alec Baldwin, and that dislike taints my perception of the show.

Noah
 
If I want to see "reality" TV--I'll watch a ballgame. For me, you can scratch anything reality based, and one thing I hate is when people (lowest common denominator folks) cuss and swear as tho' they don't know they're on TV. Why would ANYONE know (or care) who they were if NOT for TV?!
I mostly watch cable movies, very little network TV. I DO like very much the Simpsons, King of the Hill, SNL, and a good % of the hunting, fishing shows. I don't have much interest in LM bass fishing or turkey hunting. Those are 2 things I do little of, so am not curious about. Also caribou. I've never seen one and don't expect to.
I don't think my tastes differ too much from most on this question. I have relatives who seem to crave reality shows, but I think other people's business is theirs alone, and we shouldn't make heroes out of those who utterly don't deserve it. Soldiers, law enforcement officers, teachers, firemen--they're the true heroes, for me. Take them away and we have a MUCH more classless society. People like "Snookie" won't appear as the 2-legged trash they truly are.
I hope I didn't overstate my position, but, as I said, most network TV rubs me entirely the wrong way. And, Hollywood--don't get me started...!!
 
Shows I can't stand:

The Big Bang Theory
Any dance show
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Oprah/Phil/Maury/Ellen/Jerry/etc.
Any housewives, young mothers, etc.


Shows that I love:

Archer
Top Gear (UK version)
Game of Thrones
Tosh.O (I realize it's pretty trashy, but I find it humorous...I sure wouldn't have it on if any children were in the house)
Most shows on The History Channel or The Military Channel
The Walking Dead

Tim
 
Cop shows which feature autopsys. And invariably show at dinner time. Nothing like a decomposing body to pep up that meatloaf.
 
I can't watch anything with a laugh track. All sitcoms are junk. But the ones that portray the man of the house as a complete idiot and wimp and the woman of the house the leader are totally Hollywood brainwashing. I watch only reality TV which is rarely true. You Tube for me most of the time. Documentaries are fine.
 
My wife turns on the TV and I try to stick it out. But she likes reality shows like The Amazing Race and Survivor. The Golden Batchelor made me throw up in my mouth. She also likes game shows. Like all of them. Lately I find her watching the 1990's Newlywed Game. In our current offerings she somehow found a channel that reruns every game show ever filmed, 24/7. Plus there's always the never ending Family Feud. I disappear and go visit my Dillon.

Anything I put on she picks up her phone and she's gone. Though she's usually down for a modern-made western. We are TV-incompatible.
 
My wife is tired of me saying that, "There is nothing on", when she comes into the room.

I have seen all the "Sceens" of the new shows coming on for 2024 and there
is NOTHING that that pushes my button, or looks like worth watching.

Pretty bad when we sit and watch the CNN news, to pass the time, until something finally comes on.
 
where to start.

The "View" is where intelligent thoughts go to die.

We like "All creatures great and small".

90% of all television is mental pablum.
 
I don't like the current trend of every "action" show has to be a "diversity buddy show" and then run off into the weeds of every character's personal like.

The original Equalizer was great. One man with a few associates who came in from time to time. The movies were good. The new series sucked with all the extra "friends" and drama.

The same goes for SWAT. Good shoot-em-up parts but the rest of the show sucks. Why would the SWAT team be interrogating people about car theft. I've had friends who are SWAT officers and their description of work is either planning a raid, executing a raid, or training for a raid.

When I watched NCIS, most of after the first couple of seasons was total cringe. In one episode they drove to New Jersey to pick up a suspect and then drove him back to the Navy Yard to interrogate him. Or they had to go to Norfolk to investigate something that happened there because the largest Navy base in the world doesn't have an NCIS presence.

I like how in JAG the lawyers kept Berettas in their desks and got into gun battles.

Most TV is written by people who think that their audience is composed of idiots.

Shows that I do like? Downton Abby. The Gilded Age. Outlander.
 
Poor entertinment taste of many people today is the reason for so many bad shows on TV. You may not watch them and I may not, but many do. What other reason would there be for the proliferation and survival of terrible quality TV shows and movies?
 
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