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After hearing about the ratings dip on historically popular shows – DWTS, Biggest Loser and Survivor – I wonder if these are wearing on viewers. DWTS and BL for instance, just wrap up a season and then the next installment immediately follows.
I do think w/DWTS at least this time around, the cast list is actually pretty dullsville and I haven’t seen much great dancing.were popular? Wagon Train, The Big Valley etc.? And war shows? Hogan’s Heros, and Combat? Then it was a bunch of family shows like Happy Days and L&S, All in the Family, Bewitched, etc., then came all the Cop shows like Hill Street Blues and all those spin-offs, now they are back to variety shows like they had in the early 50’s and 60’s – and even reality shows of today remind me of What’s my Line (dating my self here), Dating Game, etc. They were just all more tamer back then.
The American audience has a short attention span (it’s true!) – When’s the last time you sat down and waded through a tome like "War and Peace" for a lark unless some High School teacher was grading you on it? We like to be entertained and then move on to the next big thing. I watched one episode of the X Factor and said, "ho-hum…Boring". Same ol’, same ol’ – Simon is just rinsng and repeating "American Idol". Now please bring me back a good ol’ John Wayne western with good guys and bad guys and I’m there!
I thought that’s what The Playboy Bunny Club and Pan Am were but apparently nobody wants to watch them. PBC has already been cancelled (after only 3 episodes) and Pan Am is in danger.
They were different, of an interesting era, good writing, good acting. Why don’t people watch?
always wanted to be a stewardess…ah, excuse me Flight attendent, or what ever it is they are calling them these days that is PC. I remember those days and I like the nostalgia (sp?) of the show. Too bad, it is a good show.
M*A*S*H, Everybody Love Raymond, Star Trek and a lot of other mega hits over the years were very low in the ratings at first and look what hits they became – but the excutives and producers today won’t give the shows the chance as the almighty $$$$’s are involved. If a show isn’t an instant sucess like AI, then it’s six episodes and the trash heap.
They also need to look at the shows they’re up against or the lead in’s. Maybe play around with the schedule a bit and move some of the better shows that are doing poorly in the ratings to a different time slot.
All the sitcoms today are dysfunctional families with smart mouthed kids. I want some good family shows that don’t teach the kids bad habits and rude behavior. Give me some more Happy Days, Dick Van Dyke, Bill Cosby. Even The Munsters and Adams Family. Those were good shows but I do agree the American attention span and tastes aren’t what they use to be.
I read an article years ago by Jackie Mason. He was talking about entertainment and how each has to out shock the other. He used Madonna as an example and how she does a tour and has some shock value in it and everyone is talking about it and buying her albums and videos. So the next tour she has to come up with something more shocking and outrageous. His theory is entertainment is dictated by the audience and if we stop watching or paying money to see it then the entertainment industry will have to change. The problem I think is there are more people enjoying this than not and that ruins it for those of us with taste, morals and values.
dunned and dumbed down by flashing boobies, cussing (even on cooking shows!), glorifying what used to be sins….and Madonna isn’t even cutting edge anymore, someone’s out grossed her now…I cannot say, being the old foggie that I am, "now, that’s entertainment".
So much of what passes for entertainment and amusement reminds me of the fall of the Roman Empire…which is where I think we’re headed…children don’t respect elders, are allowed to run willy-nilly in the streets (told you I was an old foggie)…I guess every generation of parents has said that from the flappers in the 20’s to the rockin’ roll in the 50’s but it just seems like we, as a society and a country have come apart at the seams, instead of pulling together as a great people and country any more. Maybe we just notice it more because of the instant communication that we have today, before a parent had to write a letter that took six days to reach grandma saying "Oh boy, that Johnny is in trouble for the music or the close dancing he did with MarySue at the sock hop"…now Johnny’s picture of his pants hanging below his butt and the "dancing" (as they call it – that looks more like the procreation act) is splashed in a nano-second on YouTube and the like.
I sometimes wonder what kind of intelligence enjoys watching some of the drivel on TV. I have tried to watch The Middle, the one about the extended family with the gay guys that adopted a little girl and the hispanic wife (can’t remember the name), Thirty Rock, How I Met Your Mother, and a couple of others and I just don’t find them funny…at all!
My son is a big fan of Adam Sandler and those old SNL guys and has to see all their movies. I ask him how he can possible find that stuff funny. (Dumb and Dumber is a good example.) To me, there isn’t as much humor in them as there is in a poorly executed pratfall. He says, "Mom, you’re just old fashioned." Well, maybe so but I should not have to be reduced to watching stuff I don’t think is funny or entertaining.
Another one I just can’t get interested is Two and a Half Men. Since it was the #1 rated show, I guess it must be me.
I really miss the old stage entertainment type shows. Like The Smothers Brothers, Sonny and Char, Perry Como, Carol Burnett, Donny and Marie, Dean Martin, and the rest of them. I used to laugh my butt off at them. I guess they tried but they weren’t successful. Well, the ones I saw that they tried weren’t very good…that’s probably why. Go back a little further still to Ed Sullivan, Sid Caesar, and Milton Berle; we’d NEVER miss those shows.
Okay, stepping down off soap box now.
what you said…so true! So very true! I can’t even begin to name all the great t.v. shows, Gunsmoke, the Honeymooners, Twilight Zone, Jack Benny,
1950’s Shows
running a Dick VanDyke marathon this weekend. I think those shows still hold up well. The cast was outstanding and the writing so good.
were canceled. I liked both of them and thought they were very authentic for that time era. I really like the actress, Christina Ricci, and she was really good on PanAm. Don’t know much about the actors on Playboy Club, but the show was interesting, and although I’ve never been to a Playboy Club, I was waiting to see the Heff and all of the scintillating scenes that were obviously in the works. Too bad it wasn’t given more of a chance.
end of the second and the beginning of this season, I just couldn’t stand to watch all the bullying among the students AND the adults! I have friends who are teachers and that is not what is going on in their buildings. During my 30 years in education, it wasn’t like that either.
either: Charlie’s Angels and Revenge! That figures! The ones they showed as doing well, I either hadn’t heard of or never watch.
We just saw that 2 shows we liked from last year were cancelled. Lie to Me and Chicago Code.
Just when I find a show I like and can’t wait for the return it’s gone. Human Target was cancelled as well and I really liked that show too.
but couldn’t get into it and deleted it from my DVR listings. Too bad too because it had a great cast.
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