The four TV-show food groups

pressboxer · Jan 18, 2007

Monday: Juco basketball doubleheaders
Tuesday: High school sports
Wednesday: The boss will find something for me to do
Thursday: See Monday
Friday: See Tuesday
Saturday: All of the above
Sunday: Football if I can wake up early enough, Venture Bros. if I can stay up late enough

Most of my TV viewing these days is History Channel or Adult Swim on Cartoon Network (odd that those are channels 50 and 51 on my cable package).

Having worked for morning papers most of my career, I haven't regularly watched primetime programming since some time around 1991. I never saw Friends or Seinfeld until syndication, and don't feel like I missed anything.

Michael_ Gee · Jan 18, 2007

Talent shows are as old as TV. In fact, they were among the first types of shows to be presented on RADIO! (Major Bowes, etc.) I don't watch American Idol because I don't like the style of music which shapes the competition, but the idea it represents some new depth of popular culture is absurd.

Dirk Legume · Jan 18, 2007

dog428 said:

I don't really know what I can't miss. I TiVo pretty much everything that looks interesting and usually, by the end of the week, watch all of it. I guess I can give the list of shows I'm up to date on.

Sun: Desperate Housewives, Brothers and Sisters (Easily one of my top five shows), The Apprentice, The Sopranos, Big Love/The Wire
Mon: Heroes, 24, Prison Break, Studio 60
Tues: Boston Legal, House, AI, Dirt/The Shield/Rescue Me/Nip/Tuck.
Wed: Friday Night Lights, Medium, Lost, Jericho
Thur: Ugly Betty, Earl, The Office, Scrubs, 30 Rock, Grey's, Men in Trees, Shark
Fri: Las Vegas, Justice

Seems like a shitload, but with TiVo, it's not much of a problem. Me and my wife sat down at almost 9 p.m. tonight to watch TV. We got in all of a two-hour AI and Medium by just after 11.
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Yep, TiVO makes more TV watching possible. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. There are some very good shows out there, programmed against some other very good shows. TiVo makes seeing more good TV possible.

Bad TV too (My daughter is a big BIG fan of "The Hills")

tommyp · Jan 18, 2007

These fall under the second food group:

MythBusters and South Park.

As far as can't miss, the obvious choice for me is NY Giants football.

Armchair_QB · Jan 18, 2007

I've always said the one guaranteed way to fuck up a perfectly good bar is to install a karaoke machine. You couldn't pay me to watch American Idol.

Other than sports, the only shows Mrs. Armchair and I watch are:

The Sopranos
24
Anthony Bourdain
Lost

That's about it.

Lugnuts · Jan 18, 2007

The can't-miss. Idol and Entourage are the only two right now that fit.

You get it, and it's good. Grey's. Project Runway.

You watch it with your man to keep the peace. NBA basketball.

No. Just no. WWE Smackdown.

Angola! · Jan 20, 2007

dog428 said:

Zeke12 said:

Yes, dog, and the cheerleaders work just as hard as the football players.

Doesn't mean that the latter should be in the sports page or that AI should be on my television.
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Hey, I said if you don't like the show, I understand that. I don't care much for it after the first few episodes, either.

But among those who aren't watching, there seems to be some need to convince everyone else that the people on this show are no-talent hacks. And that's simply not the case.

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Dog, it's not just a hatred of American Idiot, it's a hatred for reality TV in general. All would be if not watching the show would end my exposure to it, but it's talked about everywhere, even on this board, and the commercials are there on the very rare occasion I watch network TV. And they talk about it on the local sports radio station, and on ESPN, and on the news.

I don't dispute some of these people can sing...if you were to pull 200,000 people together, I'm willing to bet you could find half a dozen pretty good singers out of the group, simply by the law of averages.

It's the concept, not the contestants (to whom I pay little if any attention), which irks me. It reeks of mindless and not very creative entertainment put into place not because it really works, but because it's easy and lazy on the part of executives. And the viewing public is to blame, not expecting more out of their entertainment.

42 million people can indeed be wrong. Just look at the last two elections.
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I understand your issue there. But I will say, having watched some other reality program that attempted to copy the AI format, this show is much more entertaining. I can't put my finger on why that is exactly, but it just is. I don't know if it's that they just know how to spot the better stories or that they play up the better angles or what.

Regardless, if you don't like it, you don't like it. And that's fine. I wasn't bitching about that at all. Hell, millions watch that damned CSI show and I can't stand that shit. So, I get where you're coming from.
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You know what I like about you dog, instead of responding to the same hatred you threw to the Republican that they threw back, you try to say the Republican should answer the original question. That's what I like about you dog.

buckweaver · Jan 20, 2007

Buck said:

There is no such thing as a can't-miss TV show.
And I won't hurry home to watch any TV show.
If my GF wants to watch something that I'm not interested in, I'll nap, read or do something else.
TV just doesn't play much of a role.
I like to watch movies. I like to watch sports. I like to watch the History Channel, especially specials about ancient history. That's about it.
I used to like the Food Network, but I don't watch it anymore.
TV? Boring, Sidney!
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Angola! · Jan 20, 2007

buckweaver said:

Buck said:

There is no such thing as a can't-miss TV show.
And I won't hurry home to watch any TV show.
If my GF wants to watch something that I'm not interested in, I'll nap, read or do something else.
TV just doesn't play much of a role.
I like to watch movies. I like to watch sports. I like to watch the History Channel, especially specials about ancient history. That's about it.
I used to like the Food Network, but I don't watch it anymore.
TV? Boring, Sidney!
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Agreed, and that is why Buck is really poster of the year. Because he understands people on this site.

Herbert Anchovy · Jan 20, 2007

Agreed on everything Buck said. I went a year without cable and didn't miss it at all.

I was shamelessly addicted to Project Runway and Dog the Bounty Hunter, since cured. I watch a lot of PBS and CNBC. But that's about it. I can't remember the last non-sports related programming that I genuinely loved.

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