Modern crime shows rely too much on sickening 'realism' for my taste. I have been watching GET TV lately, catching up on Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Kojak, Quincy, and Rockford.
Maybe an oldie I can't get into: Magnum, PI. Hot girls AND a Ferrari, and I still can't watch it after all these years.

I avoid those shows and it really makes me mad that they run their grisly ads during other shows I watch, especially sports.

Didn't care much for the original and never watched the reboot.

Any and all supposed "reality shows". I think they're scripted or at least there's a plan on what's supposed to happen. In any case, they make me sick to my stomach. It's the dumbing down of America.

It actually saddens me that people watch those! I have a dislike for Andy Coen anyway and one of the reasons is he's responsible for giving us The Housewives shows. I mean the entire premise is to get people to tear each other down...WTF is wrong with people????????????

Survivor, and that was enough for me. Never watched any other reality shows, except some American Pickers. I know that was staged, but I just like antiques.

unreal tv. the whole thing is a racket.

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the least fixed . What they do fix is having only people that can afford to be off of work that long. I don't watch or did I ever watch any besides the Amazing Race.

prime time game shows and competitions. Anything that doesn't require actors and writers isn't going to hold my interest.

In today's viewing environment, I'm not convinced it would be generating any buzz.
The fascination with the show was, in part, that ut was what was on!
When it started, only around 14 million households had cable, and a high % was still using RF conversion, so people still only had 12 channels tops.
Yeah, by the time the show ended there were 50+ million households with probably 60 or more channels, but people were used to watching it.
I think it would be just another show today.

All in the Family - never really went anywhere beyond a laugh track ...
And I hate to point out, Bonanza, even though well loved - wasn't really terribly strong in any department

(have to add - expectations weren't all that high for earlier TV - Honeymooners, Bewitched , I Love Lucy .. ? )

then and it is so not funny now.

I can remember in the early days of the show, CBS would carry content advisories on it and that was why I liked to watch it--I felt like I was getting away with something I shouldn't be doing. Nowadays, I can't make myself watch most of the reruns of "AITF"--I just find Archie too annoying.

but it was also true of that whole franchise of shows that were developed from Dallas. They were all over-rated soap-operas. A bunch of people made a bunch of money from prime time soaps

I hated Thirtysomething, though. Yawn.

I have heard that it had the highest rating of any show of all time. Nobody ever imagined a TV show could get those kinds of ratings.

......the production crew did an expose on him. Went on and on about incontinence, terrible smells, diaper changes and clouds of cocaine. Pretty funny.

......competing how great the prize for the winners would be. Dinner and a stay at Trump’s hotel IIRC. He was gushing about it and said it was “very, very class”, instead of classy, betraying his inept use of the English language.

While the show was well written, lots of very funny lines, I found the stereotyped characters to be extremely annoying.

Fans get irate when a character does something, well, out of character, despite the fact that real humans defy stereotypes and their own habits all the time (if only briefly or occasionally)

Personally found BBT very relatable, as I share traits with nearly all the main characters. But after a while, it became stale and formulaic.

Moreover, at first I felt I was laughing at myself, but later, I felt I was being made fun of.

That man is possessed or really needs to get to a bathroom, or some combination of both.

because everyone loves Lucy. Not me.

And I’m still working on it. But I do appreciate her groundbreaking role in entertainment. Much more than her comedy.

Again, props, for groundbreaking TV. But otherwise, meh.

...either as herself, or her character, had to act stupid or be manipulative/deceptive in order to succeed/have influence/get what she wanted.

I do thank her for making Star Trek possible.

staying up late and doing something that you can only do when you stay up late.

friends recommended it. We watched two episodes....wife and I looked at each other....and said, wtf? Just not funny to us...very predictable as well...

However we do like “Young Sheldon”.

In a 5 season span from 1980 to the end of the 1984-85 season, “Dallas” was the number #1 show in the Nielsen ratings 3 times. The other two seasons, it was rated #2.

It was on Friday nights for all but one season of its run (1978-1991) and Friday night is not a big night traditionally for TV viewing.

It spawned a successful spinoff, “Knots Landing” which enjoyed a 14-season run from 1979-1993 and was a Thursday night staple.

I was a loyal watcher of the show (along with “Falcon Crest”) until after season 9 when Patrick Duffy was convinced to return after the show started to slip from its traditional top rating. This was where they had to erase the death of his character by explaining away season 9 as a dream by Pam.

Still, the show survived for 14 seasons and over 350 episodes. And Larry Hagman’s J.R. Ewing will always be one of TV’s all-time great villains.

... "Dallas" was nicely done. I would say very good, but no masterpiece. Of that genre, I liked "Knotts Landing" best. I think "I Love Lucy" is one of the best TV shows ever... I still laugh out loud! I'm seeing people post and say on talk shows that certain old shows are "classics" and worthy of adulation. There are so many... I wonder if "old" just turns into "classic" and becomes "excellent" by just being old? One example... "The Brady Bunch" - it has become greater than it was, just by getting old. I did like the performances of the parents - they hinted at a playful sexiness that was never vulgar, which I didn't see in a lot of TV couples. They did a good job with the material - they all did, but the show wasn't a masterpiece. I won't name more... don't want to put down stuff... but I think a lot of shows have become "overrated" by simply getting old.

Tried watching it, never thought it was funny and never understood the hype around it.

I watched it once to see what the big deal was. I found it to be boring & never watched it again.

I realize I am at odds with just about everyone on that. (That's why I say they're overrated.

I guess maybe it was "edgy" compared to everything else back then?

But to me it hasn't aged well at all.

Sheree Wilson

I was never much of a I Love Lucy fan. But she's the queen of Star Trek TOS. I think it was the best media thing she ever did.

I used to watch it when I came home from school. When I was older, I watched Dark Shadows. Yikes - talk about not aging well.

except for Mrs Roper who was a STAR.

For me, it’s the original Frasier. I can see how many would like it but it wasn’t for me. I did like the recent re-boot though.

I'm a YouTube watcher and most recently I received a recommended video by a Doctor Youn video about BBL smells. I watched this video about Brazilian Butt Lifts and I just sighed as the overly cosmetically enhanced Kards most likely helped made this cosmetic procedure viral by targeting their audience.



I've never watched this show, I have no desire to watch this show.


How it's been allowed to be aired for as long as it has is beyond me.


Disclaimer: I had to look up at how to spell the surname, I almost spelled it the Star Trek way. (Cardassians)

Don't care about them; don't have a secret desire to be one of them.

I loved the movie version, one of the best I’d ever seen and just couldn’t get into the TV show.

We get it, Alan Alda: War really sucks. Hope that sanctimony removal procedure wasn't too painful.

My favorite memory of watching the movie for the first time, in profoundly anti-war Austin, TX: The padre's "He was drafted" line---and the crowd's 5-minute standing ovation which followed it...

of MASH was televised, the ER waiting room (which had the TV) was packed with medical personnel - surgeons just out of the OR, nurses and physicians crowded in, the ER staff were in there - there was no room to sit, people were leaning against the walls or crouching...and everyone was silent. There were some teary eyes at the end.

For people working in this busy charity hospital, MASH felt very real.

I guess it was the times, but Lucille Ball was funny but the show made here out to be a second fiddle to Ricky,

Boring as heck. I know people loved it but I thought all three were boring. Needless to say I never finished them.

Very popular among the intellectual crowd, I never saw the attraction in any of them.

I don't know that "Lucy" is overrated taken in the context of TV at the time, but it doesn't hold up particularly well compared to later TV sitcoms.

-- Mal

..kindergarten show. The last one with the upside-down boat thing, was childish. (Gee..where did they get THAT script from)
I'll tell you..... The Poseidon Adventure.

I got about 5 episodes into the first season, and that was quite enough. Zombie slaughter. No thank you

As I already commented up thread, I didn't like it that a woman had to act stupid in order to succeed, to have influence, or to get what she wanted/needed.

Apparently I was an child feminist. One of my mother's favorite stories about me, at age 8-9, was me asking her if we could end our bedtime prayers by saying "Ah, ladies," instead of what I heard as "Ah, men."

I don't get the love this show gets.

To me, all it is is a bunch of profoundly unhappy people, constantly shouting at each other.
They just torture each other because they want to mask their own insecurities.

Never saw the attraction. My dad and brother loved that show.