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Summer of fail: Why are new shows bombing?
The live feed ^ | 8/13/2009 | James Hibberd

Posted on 08/13/2009 11:42:53 AM PDT by Signalman

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To: Bobkk47
Movies, Netflix, Video Games, The Internet, Chatting, Social Networking, YouTube, TV on the Web (Hulu and what not), It's the summer (And not that hot outside, so lots of people are out having fun.) Live Music, Coffee Shoppes, Restaurants, Church Prayer Meetings, Town Hall Meetings...

Lots of other things to do than TV these days.

21 posted on 08/13/2009 12:08:57 PM PDT by PureSolace (Trust in God)
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To: sr4402
Last night I viewed a netflix copy of Grapes of Wrath with commentary by two Steinbeck scholars.

Very interesting and intellectually stimulating with beautiful black & white photography.

Makes everything else we're talking about on this thread seem like badly produced porn compared to this great doublesided DVD.

Get it on Netflix or like me I'm gonna buy my own copy from amazon, unless someone knows a better place for same.

22 posted on 08/13/2009 12:09:07 PM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: Disambiguator

We killed TV in our house about 4 or 5 months ago. It’s been nice. We still get movies from Netflix and most of the shows we like to watch are on the internet for free anyway.

The only thing I don’t know what to do about is football....


23 posted on 08/13/2009 12:10:33 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: Bobkk47

Because they are no good and not worth watching. Never mind stupid.


24 posted on 08/13/2009 12:13:29 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: Future Snake Eater
Well I'm a TVholic. However, now we rarely sit down and see what's on. We TIVO many shows between the two of us. When we have time, we sit down together and then watch somthing we TIVO'd.

I check the booktv schedule every week and wind up TIVOing 4-5 shows over the weekend. I can watch a 1 hour show with commercials in about 30-35 minutes. We used to arrange things around the TV schedule. Now we live our lives as it happens and schedule other activities. TV waits until and unless we decide to watch.

25 posted on 08/13/2009 12:17:25 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: Bobkk47

My TV viewing is basically comprised of The History Channel, The Science Channel, The Food Channel, Fox News, and occasionally a sporting event or a movie.


26 posted on 08/13/2009 12:22:55 PM PDT by Isabel C.
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To: Bobkk47
"Why are new shows bombing?"

Because television as we know it is becoming outdated.

27 posted on 08/13/2009 12:26:05 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Bobkk47

I turned on the TV a couple of weeks ago to see if the set still works. It does. I’ll check again in a few months.


28 posted on 08/13/2009 12:26:25 PM PDT by Grut
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To: Bobkk47
There's no clear trend that the titles have in common -- other than flopping.

And the fact that it sounds like they all suck.

29 posted on 08/13/2009 12:31:42 PM PDT by Sloth (Irony: Freepers who call Ron Paul a "nut" but swallow all the birth certificate conspiracy crap.)
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To: sr4402
Hawaii Five-O I can understand. But Hogan's Heroes?

; )

30 posted on 08/13/2009 12:36:54 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior
But Hogan's Heroes?

Ask my ER Nurse wife, she's the one who asked for it. We also have Fantasy Island, and have one and a half Love Boat seasons. We plan to have enough entertainment for six months that we forget what we saw six months ago.

BTW: We go on Love Boat (Princess Cruises). Then have a Love Boat landing sign on their Island in the Caribbean.

31 posted on 08/13/2009 12:46:47 PM PDT by sr4402
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BTW: We go on Love Boat (Princess Cruises). They have a Love Boat landing sign on their Island in the Caribbean.

Best Entertainment and Best food. We do the 11 day cruises.


32 posted on 08/13/2009 12:48:03 PM PDT by sr4402
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To: Grut
I turned on the TV a couple of weeks ago to see if the set still works. It does. I’ll check again in a few months.

I did that just for fun with the TV in my apartment in another city that I get to visit maybe every 2 months. I've had that TV for 20 years, but now it doesn't work any more. Oh, wait...it's the TV stations that don't work on it any more! Neverrrrminnnnnnnd.

33 posted on 08/13/2009 12:52:22 PM PDT by Erasmus (Barack Hussein Obama: America's toast!)
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Hawaii Five-O I can understand. But Hogan's Heroes?

It's great fun to watch them on German TV...dubbed in German...and marvel at the goofy voices the German producers chose for the characters.

Of course, several of the original cast members could have dubbed their own voices, but I don't think they did.

34 posted on 08/13/2009 12:56:44 PM PDT by Erasmus (Barack Hussein Obama: America's toast!)
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To: Isabel C.
My TV viewing is basically comprised of The History Channel, The Science Channel, The Food Channel, Fox News, and occasionally a sporting event or a movie.

I'm with you there.. except for the sporting event...

Add in the original shows on USA, FX, TNT and TBS, which are good (The Closer, Royal Pains, Burn Notice, In Plain Sight, Rescue Me, Monk and Psych).

About the only network shows I watch any more are House, Law and Order, and The Unit, which I think they cancelled.

35 posted on 08/13/2009 1:25:15 PM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot
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To: Bobkk47

Perhaps because it’s junk?


36 posted on 08/13/2009 4:04:55 PM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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