Stuck in time

[charliesheen]

well my question is,why dont they show older rare programs like SHINDIG!,Topper, hell even Ozzy and Harriet.out in la early in the morning they use to show topper and ozzy,i mean they pulled shows out of the wazoo,but then they stopped in early 94.i mean in the ealry 90s it seems the big 3 (nbc,abc and cbs)showed early tv shows cbs with ed sullivan,abc with the flintsones and nbc with bonanza(i remember after nbc stop showing it it went to ktla).either way i agree with the whole pbs being crappy,like duane i use to love to watch nyws and this old house every saturday(then red skelton and ed sullivan)but they stopped showing all but 3 out here in dallas,only tos is shown.as for the music fund raiser shows i kinda like them,i know half the performers on there and its good to see them.

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by stereofisher

I love my HDTV, a 32 in Panasonic Flat Screen. The 7 PM time segment is a total waste!!!! I hate Access Holiwood and all tabloid TV shows. Who gives a crap whoses hosing who. I dont care about what actor is living with what bimbo. They will be apart in 6 months.

Wouldnt it be nice to get a decent indiependent station in each major market not affiliated with "Foul Fox" or Warner Bros. It would be great to have an 8 o'clock movie in 2 hours. This Christmas I would have liked to have watched "Its a Wonderful Life" Its a 90 minute movie. I tuned in NBC and with all the damned commercials it was 3 hours!! Forget it.

Sitcoms today are not funny. Stupid with sexual overtones. Who cares whose getting it and whos not. Dont care. Theres so much old stuff out there they could run. TVLand runs the same old stuff.

The networks keep running their primetime shows over and over. I used to like Greys Anatomy. But ABC reruns the hell out of it. Why can they take their old shows or miniseries and run them. Games shows in primetime.They are cheap. Its crap. NBC is cheap. Reality shows. Yech.

The networks would be better off running 20 year old shows. They have all these shows and its stupid not to use them. Why not? Get rid of the bimbos om the Tabloid Show and put on some real shows!

Eric

Well, we do have a station like that here in Pittsburgh on channel 59, low power over the air but it is on our cable system. It is run by the "Bruno Goodworth Group." They have repeaters all over the SW PA area too. They have a locally hosted horror movie show every Saturday night and they run old shows like "Hawaii Five-0" and "The Streets of San Francisco." When I can, I usually watch those shows but recently, Five-0 is out since I have to be at work at 6 AM so I have to get up early. The station itself reminds me of what I would find on an indy UHF station when I was a kid, circa 1975 to 1980. It is a breath of fresh air. Also since Paramount and WB collided and formed the "WB," that left one station here out in the dark, Channel 22 I think so I have seen stuff like Andy Griffith on it during the weekends.

[frenchy]

Speaking of TV not worth watching, today I saw absolutely positively the worst tv show I have ever seen in my life - "My Games Fever" on KCOP-13 in Los Angeles (they used to be a UPN station but were dropped by UPN and had to convert to the My Network TV network.)
It consists of a stupid chick walking aimlessly around an otherwise unpopulated game show set, taking phone calls trying to answer such thrilling quizzes as filling in blanks i.e. "Good (blank)". Horrid. She just keeps taking wrong answers like "good luck" and "good grief" while pacing around the set saying oh that's good but it's wrong, annoying sound effects like whistles and some guy saying "Ohhh Shnap!" over and over and over again till you want to kick the screen in. Lame prizes like 750 bucks. Or the letters of the word "exercises" scrambled around that even a two-year-old could figure out. Then she blabs for 5 minutes giving hints that nobody needs without taking a call so that thousands of people will call in with the obvious answer so they can make 99 cents on each text-messaged answer. It's on for 2 hours straight Monday thru Friday. It's just a 120 minute profit center for the phone calls with zero entertainment value. The worst EVER EVER EVER!