Ah great.

Cable sucks around here anyhow, even the premium and PPV channels.

I like the Law and Order series, especially CSI and CI but I really despise 'Third Watch' because they've riddled a possibly good show with angst and personal problems for the characters.

I never liked Frasier or Friends, and Darma and Greg. I'm tired of 'Will and Grace' because the show is just too, tooo exaggeratedly gay and I can only stand just so many gay jokes. Nickelodeon is getting a bit packed with krappy kid situation comedies, like 'Jake and Josh' (why must they always include a fat, smart mouthed, stupid kid in everything lately)? and the 'Amanda Show' is too stupid and annoying even for my 12 year old niece!

Now they have a program on about life in a funeral home, which consists mainly of an obnoxious, ex-boxer, ex-drunk, dad, 3 argumentative daughters and two normal guys. Most of the show is spent showing how they squabble and make up. I wouldn't recommend anyone use their services in real life. (Oh, yeah. It's reality TV.)

Funkmaster whoever with his pimpmobiles sux!! (Another reality show.)

Scare Tactics on the Sci-fi channel sux. (You'd think, by now, their participants would know it's all staged.)

One more freaky reality 'weird people living together' show will probably make me barf.

Cartoon Network needs to cancel about 3/4 of it's krappy Adult Swim. I wouldn't mind the badly drawn and much too long lasting Pokemon to vanish either.

Monster garage had potential, but soon turned into a tattooed, chunky, black T-shirt wearing, biker/hippie/ex-con type of show where, sooner or later, they all start biatching at each other.

Junkyard wars used to be good, especially with the original British hosts, but it would have been nice to have them make something that didn't fall apart during the contests or resemble something out of Mad Max.

American Chopper with steroid muscled Dad and his mentally ill looking chunky son was interesting, until Dad started showing his temper and biatching at his son for everything.

I like the court TV shows, but a couple of them have degenerated into something resembling Jerry Springer's show, where fat minority women bicker and shout at each other, enforcing a racial stereotype, while the Judge sits there and lets it go on.

Monk was great! But they produced too few episodes and, if you watch the show, Monk always spots something kinda obviously out of place and THAT item will be the key to solving the mystery. Still, it's a good show.

I liked America's Funniest Video, with Bob Sagett, but now all they show are kinda krappy reruns of spinoffs and just how many times can you watch old folks loose their pants, drop their false teeth or do pratfalls outside? The newest version has a not-so-funny host trying to be funny. However, the nearly endless stream of idiot guys plowing expensive motorized vehicles into trees, streams, lakes and each other gets boring. (Though the extreme, no safety gear wearing skateboarders getting crunched up cheers me up. However, it makes me doubt the gene pool and certain parents when Mr. Macho does ANOTHER face plant and knocks his teeth out or smashes his testicles into jelly on a rail and points out how he not only loves the 'sport' but will do it again when the casts come off.)

'Shorties' a new adult cartoon on the Network for Men, is kinda interesting, but a bit extreme, but how they've not been sued, I'm not sure. (They did a cartoon parody of Jane Goodall (the woman researcher who lived with apes for a couple of years) and had a section where she drops her pants, dumps a load and flings shiat at a cop.)

Any show with fat guys, with beer mugs glued to their hands, wearing T-shirts or shirts unbuttoned, acting like stereotypical studs, hosting 'manly' shows annoys me.

South Park is wearing very thin.

MTV has just simply turned into major suckage.

Even the PPV movies suck. (That, plus after you pay your $3.95 to watch a show, a couple of months later it shows up on a premium channel that you already have and could have watched it for free!!)

Plus, I've never been interested in these reality TV shows, like 'who wants to marry a millionare' who is not really a millionare but plays one on TV.

Ah, for movies from the Greats like Gregory Peck, Carry Grant, John Wayne, Audry Hepburn, Bobcat Goldthwait, Dean Martin and their ilk.

(BTW. I watched the 'Hulk'. Interesting, especially how they bastardized the origin of the Hulk.)

NutznGum

I hope they make a combination of Ironside and Longstreet about a blind detective in a wheelchair. They could call it Ironstreet or Longside.

the only tv shows that aren't completly intellectually devoid are animated.

Yeah, what happened to Samurai Jack???

/Yeah, I'm old.

NutznGum

lol. And if he was fat and lived in a trailer on a sidestreet by the beach they could call it Rockford Sidestreet Cannon. Or they could make an Afghanistanamation show about a chimp with a butler named Johnny Chimpo.

/starting to get lightheaded at work after a rough weekend

The week after "Cheers" premiered on NBC, the Neilsens showed that it finished last.

Not last in the time slot. Last overall for the week. Granted, this was pre-FOX/WB/UPN, so last place was still only 87th or so, but this was dead last.

Today, that show would never have been given a chance to find an audience. Hell, even "Seinfeld" had to stumble along for a while.

If something doesn't get 15 million viewers out of the box, the asshat execs kill it. A farker upthread mentioned shows like "Greg the BUnny" and "Andy Richter...." Those could be the poster boys for this phenomenon.

Sadly, "Joey" will be huge out of the box and get the chance a real show deserved.

lycao

Exactly. Or it could be like the Ghetto Olympics scene from I'm Gonna Get You Sucka (great movie, btw, with a hilarious scene featuring a very young Chris Rock) where the guys have a race with a TV on their shoulder and a cop chasing them, and they get timed to see who can strip a car the fastest.

Tony Kornheiser project - This comedy, for which CBS hasnt settled on a name, stars Jason Alexander as Kornheiser, The Washington Post sports columnist and ESPN host.

Yay, yet another TV show about... PEOPLE ON TV!!!

Memo to the networks: Most of us AREN'T on TV nor do we know anyone who writes, directs, acts, or produces TV. (Unlike the sons and daughters of TV execs in TV-land).

I watch so little TV today.

Law and Order CI
CSI (Original --Marge Helgenburg IS "Stacy's Mom"!
That 70s show.
Scrubs

Monday Night's CBS line-up should be titled:

Plain Looking Guys with Improbably Good Looking Wives !!

Raymond
Yes Dear
King of Queens

Monday Night's CBS line-up should be titled:

Plain Looking Guys with Improbably Good Looking Wives !!

As a plain-looking guy, I am all in favor of this policy. The more that this concept seeps into the public consciousness, the greater the likelihood that an improbably good looking woman will find me attractive.