Anyone else hate new TV shows?

[Tony D.]

Here's my "walk down memory lane" list of TV shows I used to watch faithfully : The Rookies Ironside Kojak Streets of San Francisco Miami Vice Hawaii Five-O MacGyver Walker, Texas Ranger The X- Files

[Tony D.]

Here's my "walk down memory lane" list of TV shows I used to watch faithfully : Peter Gunn The Rookies Ironside Kojak Streets of San Francisco Miami Vice Hawaii Five-O MacGyver Walker, Texas Ranger The X- Files

[Stinger390X]

Reality TV bites in any form. I cannot live vicariously through the eyes of these losers on tv trying to be stars. The format is all the same with shots of action then quick cuts to the person sitting down and posed questions where they answer or speak about the situation like I can't figure it out for myself.Can't stomach any of it in any form.................................There are some REALLY GOOD Canadian Tv shows but sadly they get cancelled as they are too intelligent for the average viewer such as "The Border" or "The Bridge".Both Cancelled??????I do enjoy "Beaking Bad" and "Burn Notice" but sadly most other shows just fall along the lines of the buddy cop show or the sitcom scenario that bores me silly.Not much worth watching.Pink Floyd said it best in "The Wall" "Thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from"Not much better these day except there are about 500 channels and same crap just different times.

[ivoryjones]

Reality TV bites in any form. I cannot live vicariously through the eyes of these losers on tv trying to be stars.

One terrible thing I think reality shows gave the world was the celebrity-who-do-nothing thing. If I'm not wrong, since always to some date in the mid '90s or early '00s, whoever was famous, even not fairly, was famous for having achieved something (no matter if it was a bad album/movie/etc).Nowadays, people are famous for nothing at all. They simply breath.

[C Glide]

Look at the bright side, if tv today was any good we would all have less time to spend here. Loved Wiseguy that was mentioned and the character roger lacoco that was also in Evan with a similar scene. Great character in a great show. Mostly watch news and the history channel. Psych is funny and I watch Burn Notice for the locations but sometimes ya gotta overlook allot of stupidity in the story. I also like top gear. My wife watches allot of the same shows as I do but she also likes to watch stupid shows like reality tv and murder she wrote (dumbest ever) and I have fun putting the parental lock on those channels and watching her as she realizes I have blocked yet another channel.

[ivoryjones]

Loved Wiseguy that was mentioned and the character roger lacoco that was also in Evan with a similar scene. Great character in a great show. [/SIZE">

Yesterday in a cable channel I watched a fine documentary about the mafia and a guy from a "family" (now supposedly he's protected by the FBI) remembered Wiseguy TV series as a very nice portrait of the way things were when he was inside of it.He said that in the '80s members of the mafia he knew quit the "Sicilian tradition" (as he said) and didn't want to live "low profile" anymore (that is' date=' running a small restaurant during the day while making millions by night, for instance). No, as he said, they wanted to be like stars, and then he quoted Wiseguy as a good example of this (I believe he was somehow referring to Sonny Steelgrave character).I think Wiseguy was a very nice series with strong characters. I never had the courage to watch the last season eps, without Ken Wahl (Vinnie Terranova), as I always thought it would be quite like watching Miami Vice without Crockett and Tubbs.Not a specialist on Wiseguy, but I learned it was very bad treated on DVD (original pop music absent, and the series is still not completely released), and also learned Ken Wahl had very tragic events in his life after the series (check here )

[C Glide]

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Yes that always drove me nuts that they changed the music and they did not release all the episodes and do so in order.