Current Events > Hardly watch TV anymore. You?

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I remember in the 90s, there used to be something worthwhile on TV almost every hour of the day. I could get home from school at 3:00/3:30 pm and watch TV until 10:00 pm. Even in the summer, I could watch something interesting starting from about 10:00 am.

Nowadays, there's too many talk shows and game shows and reality shows. The primetime dramas don't seem that compelling either.
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Ill watch something like NCIS or Archer every now and then, but otherwise I rarely turn on my TV.
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I probably watch as much content, just via different mediums - e.g. YouTube channels and Netflix and Twitch.

I watch plenty of TV. I don't watch anything on cable though, who still does that lol

The irony is that now there are several retro TV channels that mainly show movies and shows from the 80s and 90s, so when I do watch TV I prefer to watch those than new programs.
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90% sports.
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If I ever watch TV nowadays it's just for the NBA
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TV is an outdated way to watch things. Being forced to watch on the network's schedule, with commercials, and paying for it on top of that? Lol fuck that. Netflix has you paying much smaller amounts to watch what you want when you want without any commercials

i'm a serial drama/comedy/movie junkie. i'm binging Shameless to catch up. previously I started marathoning Farscape again, it's such a great show

I don't even have it anymore.
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I don't even own a TV anymore. Stopped watching like, 8 years ago.
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When people say TV used to be better, what did they watch? The only thing I watched in the 90s was cartoons. The only thing I remember airing that I would want to watch a lot now is nature documentaries always on Discovery.

It makes me sad that people used to be exposed to that stuff by chance because maybe nothing else was on and everyone watched TV all night. There's some educational TV now... but I don't think anyone's watching it. It's crazy that something like Carl Sagan's Cosmos has a total viewership of 600 million.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

The Orville

what do you think of it? i like it a lot better than Discovery. Seth MacFarlane has won me over, it's a genuinely good spoof with a heart of its own

Talks posted...

When people say TV used to be better, what did they watch? The only thing I watched in the 90s was cartoons. The only thing I remember airing that I would want to watch a lot now is nature documentaries always on Discovery.

It makes me sad that people used to be exposed to that stuff by chance because maybe nothing else was on and everyone watched TV all night. There's some educational TV now... but I don't think anyone's watching it. It's crazy that something like Carl Sagan's Cosmos has a total viewership of 600 million.

Sitcoms were great in the 90s too. Seinfeld, Drew Carey, Fresh Prince, Married with Children, Home Improvement, Full House, Family Matters, The Nanny, Martin, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Boy Meets World...

I also liked PBS shows like Carmen Sandiego, Ghost Writer...
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In order to have unlimited data with AT&T on our cell phones we have to have their cable as well. We watch Walking Dead and movoes but other then that it's just there if we have run out of stuff to watch on Netflix or Hulu.
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I watch very large amounts of television. Far too much. Dozens and dozens of shows each year. Well over a hundred if you count old shows I still watch.
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I watched the first season of The Deuce, and I watch Curb on Sundays, along with Last Week Tonight (the beginning for sure, sometimes tune out if the main story isn't interesting).

And I watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Tuesdays, along with Great News on Thursdays (though that's on fall hiatus as of last Thursday).

But yeah, that's about it.

King Rial posted...

I watch very large amounts of television. Far too much. Dozens and dozens of shows each year. Well over a hundred if you count old shows I still watch.

Such as which?

I looked at the list of new fall shows weeks ago and almost none of them looked worth watching. All I watch is The Gifted and The Flash.
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i havent watched tv in 5 years. any show i want to see i either internet or netflixd
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Havent since 2014 lol.
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Vol2tex posted...

Such as which?

NBC
The Good Place
The Blacklist
Taken
This Is Us
The Brave
Chicago Fire
Chicago PD
Chicago Med
Blindspot
Superstore
Timeless
Great News
Shades of Blue

--Old or Cancelled---
Parks and Recreaction
Friends
Seinfeld
Grimm
The Carmichael Show

CBS
Bull
Hawaii Five-O
Scorpion (terrible show)
Blue Bloods
Elementary
Madam Secretary
MacGuyver
Life In Pieces
Code Black
SEAL Team
Superior Donuts
S.W.A.T.
Mom
Life In Pieces
Me, Myself, &a I
9JKL (awful)

--Old or Cancelled--
The Odd Couple
How I met You Mother
Angel From Hell
BrainDead(excellent show)
Extant
Limitless :(
Ransom
Under The Dome

ABC
Kevin Probably Saves The World (Favorite New Show)
Modern Family
Designated Survivor
Black-ish
Fresh Off The Boat
How To Get Away With Murder
The Middle
The Mayor
Quantico
Speechless
The Goldbergs
American Houswife (bad)
The Good Doctor

--Old or Cancelled--
Dr. Ken (horribly unfunny)
Castle
The Catch
American Crime (Excellent)

FOX
New Girl
Gotham
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The Orville
The Mick
The Last Man on Earth

--Old or Cancelled--
Bones
APB
Sleepy Hollow
Wayward Pines

As you can see I watch a ton of terrible television. But there are a few shows that are actually really good. Like the Good Place and Blacklist. The Orville was a surprise.

That's just the network stuff. There is way too much on cable to list it all. And a lot on Netflix as well, like Master of None, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, etc...

Lots of NBA and NFL. Kickboxing and MMA. Literally anything on HGTV except for Tiny House shit. I'm tired of tiny houses. DDD, Carnival Eats.

There are also shows that I don't currently watch, but will check out soon. Like Lethal Weapon and Ghosted. Lethal Weapon, because it's supposed to be surprisingly better than expected, like The Orville. And Ghosted because I love Craig and Adam.
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How do you have time to watch all that? I only have about 4-5 hours of free time in the evening.
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I wish I kept up with The Orville.
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yeah i cant get into much these days
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I watch for a while then get bored

When I do watch it's stuff like documentaries on discovery and animal planet and dw

Even on YouTube I only watch motorcycles and some other stuff but I've pretty much exhausted stuff I enjoy
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