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Old 03-23-2009, 10:16 PM
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CNBC has the most obnoxious on-air talent I have ever seen (except for Erin Burnett)

Bloomgerg TV is a breath of fresh air.

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MSNBC in the evening...Laverne and Shirley.

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Old 03-23-2009, 10:23 PM
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There is nothing sadder than seeing the lengths these people will go to just so they can be on tv. They even think that there is something compelling about how they act or maybe it's all a scripted act. Either way it is amazing that there is an audience for this. I'm referring to the reality shows like Survivor or Big Brother or the celebrity reality shows for the most part.

I think those are the smilies that cover it.
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Old 03-23-2009, 10:24 PM
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TV is a vast wasteland without BSG. However, you should give "Mad Men" a try - it's pretty good. I've also heard that "Breaking Bad" is good as well.

And I have a soft spot for "How I Met Your Mother" - Barney Stinson FTW.

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Old 03-23-2009, 10:32 PM
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Oh yeah, that is definitely one of the worst, because of the hosts.
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Old 03-23-2009, 10:44 PM
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OC, Hills, Keeping with Kardashians...do I have to name more?
Or, Bus of Love or whatever it's called. OMG! As bad as it gets.
The only reason that I like the Kardashians is because their daughter Kim is a little hottie. Heck, most of the women in that family are hot.....need I say more?
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Old 03-23-2009, 10:47 PM
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Agree with a lot of what's been named, I'd add Little People, Big World. That shows just ticks me off, it's so melodramatic, and their lives are not exciting at all.

However, Mad Men is surprisingly good, but I've just been renting it through netflix, can't take the ever-increasing amounts of commercials on cable, it's completely out of control. Oh, I like Nip/Tuck too, now that I've actually given it a chance, because it looks bad in the commercials.
Oh, man, forgot about Little People, Big World. Just because you're smaller than the average person does not make your boring life worth watching.

Madmen is great...even though I work in advertising and sometimes its like watching my workday.
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Old 03-23-2009, 10:51 PM
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Agreed. The only thing real about reality TV is that it's real-ly dreadful!
I totally agree!
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Old 03-23-2009, 10:58 PM
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The only reason that I like the Kardashians is because their daughter Kim is a little hottie. Heck, most of the women in that family are hot.....need I say more?
bernard mcgirk (imus in the morning) called them and their ilk, 'high maintanance hoes".!
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ditto.

I don't want to watch OR listen to that bunch.

if they had Kathy Ireland, Charisma Carpenter, Cheryl Tiegs, Molly Henneberg and Phyllis George hosting, I'd have it on all the time (sound turned off).
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Old 03-25-2009, 01:35 PM
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and PBS when they are not raising money.
When aren't they raising money.It seems like it's every other month.
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It seems the only thing I turn the TV on for anymore is Sunday nights on Fox. Everything else is garbage - even the "news" is so over-produced, it isn't news anymore - it's entertainment for people with very short attention spans....(PBS news exempted)

But did anyone see Family Guy this past Sunday??. A show on FOX that can poke fun at the disgustingly bad FOX News Network has my vote. Ann Coulter playing the refrigerator in their break room was, by far, the funniest moment so far that I've seen. I almost fell off the couch.

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Old 03-25-2009, 02:38 PM
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It seems the only thing I turn the TV on for anymore is Sunday nights on Fox. Everything else is garbage - even the "news" is so over-produced, it isn't news anymore - it's entertainment for people with very short attention spans....(PBS news exempted)

But did anyone see Family Guy this past Sunday??. A show on FOX that can poke fun at the disgustingly bad FOX News Network has my vote. Ann Coulter playing the refrigerator in their break room was, by far, the funniest moment so far that I've seen. I almost fell off the couch.

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HAHA yeah i saw that episode!
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I love reality TV...as long as it's live sports!

Also, the worst TV show EVAH would be "Small Wonder", a syndicated s#it-com from the early 1980's about a guy who builds himself a robot pre-teen "daughter" Awful...
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I'm with everyone, in detesting "Reality TV".

I read Niel Postman's book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (brilliant and highly recommended) in college and much of it really "STUCK" with me.

It focuses on the causes and affects of Television and communication mediums in general with social evolution...

Written in 1985, with many projections and predictions that could now simply be read as "History", one of the "absurd" predictions according to some critics was that eventually people in our society would be more interested in watching their neighbors or strangers go through their daily mundane lives, than to simply live their own. Perceiving it as "Entertainment"...

Absurd,?.. Ridiculous?, Stupid?... Maybe.. but now FACT!!!

We (general society) appreciated "Watching someone else experience life more than we actually appreciate experiencing it ourselves"

The fact that millions of people will sit down for hours a day to simply watch other people buy groceries, fix dinner, talk with family etc.. is Horrifying.

He was simply right.. And that was pre Internet Reality......

But there was ONE TV Show that was worse than all others .... EVER..

Super Bowl XXV.
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