US made telly shows are dying..

[Task Force]

yep, bbc does do a good job with there tv...

I think the only good channels over here are... (in my opinion.)
BBC america
Discovery
TV land
Vh1 puts some intresting stuff on sometimes
animal planet can be cool at times
err... and thats about it...

It's all about Family Guy nothing else.

[Cohaagen]

As much as I detest almost all US TV programmes that get shown in the UK (and that's a lot), it must be noted that there are some good shows amongst them - The Wire is great, though massively over-praised, and does feature a reesty smackhead who is a dead ringer for Hailie Selassie in a ripped cagoule . Monk is also good fun, Deadwood isn't bad for all that it is an artful self-serious swearathon featuring Lovejoy after some serious Just For Men treatment.

Sadly, there are no more series like X-Files (best show of the 90s), Homicide, NYPD Blue (cue shaky-cam), new Outer Limits, Star Trek: TNG, Babylon 5, My So-Called Life, and so on. I have also been banging on for years that TV, film and music took a serious wrong turn around 2000/2001, and that we've nothing to show for this rotten decade. It says a lot about our cultural bankruptcy that we've fallen back so heavily on crappy, threadbare tropes such as vampires, werewolves and zombies these last five years or so.

The BBC is still a "national treasure" [vomits at the phrase] and is at its best when it isn't trying to ape US shows (see Spooks as an example of this horrible practice). Even the new Doctor Who is a bag of balls. I wish someone would tell Russell T. Davies that crap CGI isn't camp.

The BBC was at its best during the 80s. If you want to see an example of the best it can do, download or buy a mini-series called Edge Of Darkness. Best thing the corporation has ever done

[Dowly]

Yes yes yes, there are some great shows. X-Files and Babylon 5 are hands down the best ever scifi shows ever made. (Star Trek fans please PM so I can insult you privately )

[MothBalls]

I save myself quite a bit of money every month because of American television. I refuse to pay for cable or satellite. What good is 900 channels if 899 of them are all crap?

I live in the US and the only thing I ever watch on TV is BBC. Mostly the news and a few comedy shows like "Waiting for God", "As Time Goes By". At least Brit humor is actually funny.

American television, especially the commercials, really insult my intelligence. How stupid do they think we are? I don't think I've watched an American sitcom since "Sanford and Son" went off the air.

[Task Force]

Yea, well you see, alot of americans dont request good tv, they will watch anything... sadly it is because as i mentioned before americas culture...

no wonder other countrys have somany stereotypes for americans...

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Yes yes yes, there are some great shows. X-Files and Babylon 5 are hands down the best ever scifi shows ever made. (Star Trek fans please PM so I can insult you privately )

+1 on the Bablyon 5 best science fiction show ever (I'll put it right behind Space 1999 season 1 though).
No need to insult Star Trek fans, just show them "Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning".

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Yes yes yes, there are some great shows. X-Files and Babylon 5 are hands down the best ever scifi shows ever made. (Star Trek fans please PM so I can insult you privately )

*cough* *cough* Firefly *cough*

That new show Defying Gravity isn't too bad, its at least trying for Scientific Accuracy. its got no no sound in space, a realistic spaceship with centerfuge grav. I just wish they would spend more time on the spaceship stuff and less on who was banging who back on Earth!

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

*cough* *cough* Firefly *cough*

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

*cough* *cough* Firefly *cough*

*cough*wasnt anything special*cough*

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Dowly

*cough*wasnt anything special*cough*

That's a matter of taste.

I can't help it if you don't have any.:rotfl:

[Overboard]

Hollywood has done lots of stupid things in all the years i can remember, but that don't make me mad or stop me from finding something i like to watch.
The problem is that they (hollywood) try to make it seem like one
generation just passes on leaveing the next so they change there programing to suit the younger ones.

Ok with that being said we either deal with it or stop watching the tv,
whitch neither one is what we want as consumers. (god i hope you can put up with my spelling), anyway the op needs to see that american movies were ment for an american audiance.

And with that in mind Why dose someone from another country complain about them in such a way?.. your not telling us something that we don't allredy know. Remember there just showes and you don't have to watch them. Do you not have moives made in your courntry by your people? and if not.. why not??

Its kind of like a mod for a game when you try it and don't like it and then come to a fourm and say... "This pice of crap SUX!!!!!!!, Well "imho" no one makes you download and and play the mod so why not change the chanel or deleat that mod from your hdd and go on to something else, but dont bitch about it.. Just don't play it, Realy is that simple.

And remember theres allways something better just around the next bend.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Well, pretty much anything which comes from HBO is good. Otherwise, I take things on a show-by-show basis. Some are good, others less so. No real mystery.

Of course, there's a HUUUUGE side to American T.V. I'll bet you don't see: Spanish language!!!! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL !!!!!!!!!

Well, I think I stretched things out like John Holmes.

EDIT: Darn. It autocorrected itself!!!

[SUBMAN1]

So what you guys are saying is that you hate reality TV shows. Join the club. All media in the US of A is degrading as time goes on. This is why I don't watch it much anymore either.

Why reality TV shows? They are cheap. No script writers need to be paid. No actors need to be paid. And the best part? People like them! It's all profit.

Terrible.

-S

[Sledgehammer427]

@ nikimcbee, YES!

I just got out of (graduated, i did not, but the credits are coming) high school, and let me tell you, I have developed a sincere dislike for anything on tv that isn't on Adult Swim, History or Discovery.
you could see reality shows taking over the whole school, so many people were fitting into their racial/ethnic stereotypes, it wasn't even worth going.
(but I did, thank god I'm finishing school in college where there isn't somebody screaming at their friends across the cafeteria in the morning)
I'm italian, I'm a guitar player, and I am an avid gamer (not HALO, but other games that require more brains than reflexes.) so where would that leave me?
I would be a fedora-wearing eyeliner-using guy who talks with a brooklyn accent (which I have adopted from my second home in CT) who has a fohawk, sixteen peircings, mainly on my face, and did I mention I would wear Tripp pants with lots of chains?
psh.
I wear band t-shirts and I talk in an average tone of voice with enough volume so my friends nearby can hear me.
I despise what TV has done to america. now we can't live without drama