I don’t fuck with any channels not called History, Travel, Cooking, Food, and Boomerang. Maybe Versus if an event is on.
Majority of Americans are lazy. So they rather watch others’ lives instead of living theirs to the fullest.
I’m not a fan of TV. I watch sports sparingly, and that’s it.
Don’t hate the players, blew arrow, hate the game.
Jersey Shore is only in your face because a ton of people watch and enjoy it. Direct your rage at them, if you wish.
It’s wack, reason I continue to not have cable tv. I’d rather do anything else on my downtime than watch that crap. But it’s easy and accessible for the masses, and people get hyped for it.
reality tv is dope, hahaa
but i dont watch tv no more
now i exclusively watch history/science/biogrph documentaries on netflix
and football
dont fool yourself, they all have similar appeal
people watch reality tv for the same reasons they watch regular scripted tv. for the most part, network sitcoms have been run into the ground so it’s not like it’s some great travesty that reality tv has begun to dominate them so much.
as far as shows, i watch real world (and the challenge) and jersey shore bcuz:
a) the people remind me of people i know or have met
b) the “houses” are like mini sociology experiments
is reality tv the lowest form of entertainment on the tube?
I think the bigger problem is everyone always talking about K-dramas
I don’t even know what a K drama is, and yes it is the lowest form of entertainment on the tube
low?
is there a metric you are using?
can you quantify?
or are you just insecure?
hahaa
and highbrow shoutouts to the he-man animated series as well as the reallity-based avaristas in here
Most people are idiots. That’s why these shows are popular.
Hey now, I enjoyed watching the Food network and found ways to level up my cooking.
As of late, they’ve only been showing reality shows on people becoming the “next cook” or something. Thing is, there’s a lot of different types of these shows, it confuses me why they can’t just have one big show cover them all.
The shows aren’t actually that popular, they are just cheap and high profit. TV is facing a major loss in income to the internet and streaming services, so to combat the loss in revenue they are cutting cost and raging profit margins.
I think they do a lot of different ones so the writers of the show can concentrate on the individuals and their personalities more. It’s like with large tournaments only a couple of the players shine while the rest are just fodder, but with small tournaments everyone gets their time.
Most of the food shows nowadays are all about selling a personality anyway. I’m sure there are a lot of people who watch Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives cause they like Guy Fieri (bleh) and don’t really care about where he’s visiting. I watch Bitchin’ Kitchen though so I can’t criticize anyone :oops:
Say now, don’t go knockin my Asian dramas! Haven’t gotten into any K-dramas, but I’ve gotten heavily into some J-drama. I hear K is just as good, if not better. Still, anything is better than the trash that is reality TV. I just couldn’t believe how shallow my own family was watching Joe Millionaire. My sister-in-law CRIED. Whatever, nigga.
I do enjoy a few reality shows that highlight people actually doing something, like the Food Network ones, and Clean House before they let all the cool people go. Just watching slightly-above average people go about their (horrible) day-to-day lives, however, not so much. I’m looking at you, Jersey Shore…
TV needs to bring back action-packed shows with mediocre acting and over-the-top plots. Let people do stunts again. Instead of just focusing on the simple and enhancing it, they gotta go cheesing stuff up trying to turn a $20m TV budget show into a $200m movie budget show. I’m looking at you, every recent sci-fi show to come out on a major network besides Fringe. It won’t work. Just keep it cheesy. It seems like what used to require cheesy special effects and a Deus ex machina niche (Kitt’s Turbo boost, General Lee’s jumping ability, MacGuyver’s god-tier resourcefulness, the A-Team’s camaraderie, etc.) is now requires a simple mixture of shock value and 1-sided moral degradation. 1-sided because even though there’s a group of “real” people, they all end up being different versions of the exact. same. person. but that’s what people want these days, I guess. :tup:
These shows are getting ridiculous. There’s way too many of them now and I’m not sure how they’re still popular after all these years. I hope they die down rapidly…
sees Nicole Scherzinger is a judge on one of them
But sometimes it’s cool to see the undiscovered talent hidden away and I think it’s just swell these give these people the opportunity to shine.
This is why the only TV show I watch is Top Gear, the original UK version. God bless the BBC and it’s licensing fee.
P.S. ThunderCats.
Korean drama. I don’t like drama, but thier comedy seems decent
I think I’ll dl this series. It’s funny, and it seems really popular with americans…so I think there might be sex.
I never imagined these shows would blow up so much. The only flavor of reality show I enjoyed was the ones that followed some interesting professions. I thought this was the direction for quality “reality tv.” However even that got so big, even boring professions like parking enforcement officers have their own TV show.
I’ve had to sit through a couple seasons of Top Chef from ex girlfriends, and while I don’t think its that bad, it just feels too contrived. I don’t care that its scripted even tho its in the reality show genre, but I couldn’t suspend my disbelief enough to actually think the challenges mattered, and they didn’t just eliminate people who weren’t drawing in viewers. Not only that, but its just so overdramatic. The Bravo shows especially make professions like chef, stylist, designer out to be the most difficult/important professions in the world when in reality, most the people in those professions were just too shy/fat to be strippers, and too lazy to go to college.
Yeah because people watch Dancing with the stars for the same reason others watch Curb your enthusiasm:rofl:
And if you think sitcoms nowadays have “run into the ground” you either don’t have cable, or are in the vast minority.
Curb
It’s always sunny
30 rock
Modern Family
Weeds
Eastbound and down
Reno911
Scrubs
And the list goes on and on.