I remember when television felt more "family" like. It was like everyday or every weekday, we get to watch a family and we felt like we actually knew the people. Every weekday you get to watch families…..The Winslows, The Huxtables, The Jeffersons,now it's just a bunch of reality shows.
I miss watching the old comedy shows like In Living Color. They used to make fun of EVERYBODY. The show's been canceled for a good while now, but I still think it's funnier than these current shows they show today like Mad TV.
Arsenio! What a show. But all good things must come to an end I guess.
And what has happened to BET? VIDEO SOUL! I miss Donnie Simpson, I miss the videos and I remember a time when BET used to be a mature grown folk station with talented black musicians. Now it's just a bunch of BS on BET. They have good R&B videos, but the rap videos suck ***! Honestly, I like VH1 a little better.
There still are a very few good shows on TV. I like watching VH1. It's a music station and they show stuff like "Behind the music" and some good 80s movies that I like. Some of the stuff they have on VH1 is kind of interesting.
TV has gotten so bad to where I'm just starting to watch Oprah! As a man, I will admit that I do watch Oprah at times. I know Oprah is a woman's show, but she has interesting guests and topics. I like watching Lifetime too. I don't care if these are women shows. I just watch whatever interests me.
I love watching the news and sportscenter. It's funny how the news seem to be more intriuging than this silly mess they keep showing on TV. I've noticed that KET is interesting at times. They'd show documentaries of funk/soul/jazz/rock musicians. I also like checking out Tavis Smiley (when he has an interesting guest on TV). When he doesn't, I find myself falling asleep.
Martin is ok, but I find myself not wanting to watch it sometimes because it's old and outdated. I've been watching the show since I was like.. 7 or 8 and I think I've seen every episode. Still funny still.
One thing that I do miss about Friday nights is TGIF on ABC. I remember the line up very well. Family Matters at 8:00, Step by Step at 8:30, Boy Meets World at 9:00, and Hangin' with Mr.Cooper at 9:30.
I also miss the old cartoons and saturday morning cartoons. What happened to Peanuts?! Where's Looney Toons?!
TV has lost it's imagination and creativity. They ran out of ideas, and just felt to show something "real". There's more sex and violence on TV than there were 20 years ago. But people like that stuff and I guess that's what sells. TV ain't as good as it used to be, and you GOTS to have cable nowadays!
I'd say somewhere around 1996 was when TV was going downhill. That's when most of the actors were going through their problems and wasn't as funny.
I miss the old TV.
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I totally agree! How can there be so many channels and still nothing good at all on? I've tried explaining to my kids that we actually had to WAIT until Saturday morning to even see any good cartoons. They think I was raised in the stone age!
I totally agree! How can there be so many channels and still nothing good at all on? still thanks to im a celeb and co they totally messed up tv forever and now comedy's tell you when to laugh not laugh when you think its funny
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