Am I the only one who think TV has regressed in the last 20 years

[jimbo45]

Hi there

While we have HD and soon 4K giant size TV sets it seems to me that the quality of the programs just gets worse and worse - apart from a very few exceptions.

I've been looking back at some of the stuff produced in the 1960's / 1970's via this site Crime | Television | DVDs and Blu-ray Films and some of these old series were INFINITELY better than modern stuff -- they had REAL STORIES with AUDIBLE DIALOG and not just made up of excessively loud special effects and stunts with half the actors / actresses speaking on mobile phones all the time.

Perhaps it's a sign of me just getting old but I can't stand any more of these endless "Reality TV" nonsense, incredibly hideous untalented "Musicians" spewing out stuff that would sound better in a cheap Karaoke bar or yet more "Celebs" trying to impress people with their Cooking skills (Or lack of them).

Enough to drive anybody out to the nearest Bar whatever the weather. !!

Cheers
jimbo

 

[dwarfer66]

Totally agree about "Reality TV" the worst of the lot. Here in Australia we have had for a few years digital tv, so now all the stations have FILLED them with all the same crap, Reality, Cooking, Auction shows. The 3 main stations here 7, 9, 10, they ALL HAVE there own version of those crap shows, my friends wonder why I watch so much of the older TV shows/Movies and they seem to be on at the SAME BLOODY TIME!. Finished my rant. Cheers time for my evening meal.

 

[boohbah]

i think the issue is that 20 years ago there were so few tv stations and media organisations, there wasnt social networking and technology for txting into the shows competitions ec, there is a new template for making shows that make money , previously 20 years ago this wasnt the case so the emphasis was on quality and capturing the numbers of viewers,
that said some of the shows today give others the opportunity to shine,
last night we saw this youngster on a reality show,





and this couple singing last year...


who are not talentless musicians.

 

[Ranger4]

I have to agree 100%. TV is slipping & slipping rapidly. Once one channel come up with a new program idea all the others follow with something similar until we are nearly driven mad. Variations between channels has got so similar that you often have to check which rubbish channel you are on.
Also news services now only seem to cater for the sensational & the quality of journalism has slipped so much that half the time the item being reported is completely wrong.
Advertising now nearly occupies 50% of the program time & commercial channels often run 10 minutes or more overtime because of so much damned advertising. If something is advertised repeatedly on TV I don't buy it as I will only be contributing more to their advertising revenue.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Definitely, broadcast network TV has been hurtling down a slippery slope. Between the so called reality shows (which are anything but reality), "talent" competitions in only one genre (that I detest) and with obnoxious judges, obnoxious commercials mimicking sitcoms or newscasts, increasingly stupid and/or raunchy sitcoms, schedules changing almost weekly, repeats in the middle of the season, and series being discontinued without warning or resolution, I've just about had it. I won't watch some stations anymore and I will not watch anymore new series because I'm sick and tired of getting hooked on them only to have the b*****ds discontinue it, leaving me hanging, wondering what was going to happen next.

 

[jadinolf]

jimbo, I would think that almost everyone who has approached adulthood would agree with you.

 

[ThrashZone]

There are a couple of exception,
Swamp people/ Pawn stars/ Counting cars and a few more that escape me at the moment that aren't too bad,
But Yes the majority are pure yuck and Fake as can be.

 

[jadinolf]

There are a couple of exception,
Swamp people/ Pawn stars/ Counting cars and a few more that escape me at the moment that aren't too bad,
But Yes the majority are pure yuck and Fake as can be.

Not familiar with any of them.

Thank you God.

 

[Solarstarshines]

TV has been bad I only watch a few shows at best I spend most of my time reading articles

or here on the forum TV is very boring with reality shows chopping it up on the airwaves every night

 

[Stephanie]

Reality and talent shows just do my head in, I tend to watch the News (and my local news) - weather and a couple of channels I subscribe to (maybe 4 hours a week). I don't do soaps - mindless cr*p !

 

[mjf]

I agree generally and I thought it was just me. I watch the news and the odd show but rely on library and rental DVDs for entertainment. There have been some excellent TV series produced in the last decade by the likes of HBO,BBC, ITV such as:
Broadwalk Empire
Downton Abbey
Life (really enjoyed this quirky LAPD detective series)
The Good Wife
Madmen
etc.

 

[Boozad]

I have despised the majority of TV for over ten years now, reality TV led the line and was/is an appaling excuse for entertainment. Then we had the second coming of the talent show and Simon Cowell's manufactured domination of the Christmas No. 1. And one thing that really, truly annoys me is how everything now features celebrities. I remember watching such gameshows as Family Fortunes and the like when I was a kid, it was great watching real people giving stupid answers under pressure while trying to win stuff, now we have Celebrity Family Fortunes, Celebrity Mr and Mrs, etc, what's wrong with the common person these days? As if these celebrities are not on the TV enough as it is...

Having said that, there is some very good drama being put out that I do enjoy immensely. Over the years and still, up to today, I've loved shows such as The Shield, 24, Walking Dead, Justified, Whitchapel, Ripper Street, Doc Martin, and a number of British one-off drama series' such as Broadchurch.
The majority of TV is braindead time killer for me which is why I spend so much time on my PC either gaming or reading and learning, but if you dig deep enough there is still some excellent stuff to watch.

 

[madcratebuilder]

Well there certainly more bad TV than ever before, but more good TV also. As long as the "off" switch works I don't care.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Well there certainly more bad TV than ever before, but more good TV also. As long as the "off" switch works I don't care.

The bad overwhelms what little "good" there is.

 

[SIW2]

Theatre is not in a great state either.

 

[Layback Bear]

TV programs is a two way street.
If the masses of people don't watch the trash it will go away. They will loose sponsors because not enough people are watching. As long as the viewer count is high they will continue to produce what I call junk.