I gave up on TV seasons about 30 years ago.
I watched the online first episode of Orville last night. The previews looked promising. The show though was pitiful. Figure it will quickly crash and burn. Not sure what else if anything is out this fall—as I really don’t watch TV at all—but if this represents the caliber of production, then it will be a bad season.
My wife and I dumped TV in 1997. We just started using Amazon Prime a few months ago. The great thing is that there are no commercials and we can watch old shows from the past that are truly well done.
My wife is burning through Rosanne right now. I get a few glimpses of it and am amazing how good the writing was for that show.
And we got a REAL surprise last week. We started watching an older show that was nothing like what I remember from back in the day. It was really fun to watch and, again, was surprisingly well written. At least, we were very entertained by it and even enjoyed the message the show was promoting. It was called Petticoat Junction.
Get ready for the new Star Trek. Interview I saw made it clear they were going to push the “first black command officer” every chance they get. Also, they are going to draw parallels between the Klingon Empire and Trump supporters. So that we can observe why we are a split society.
Not watching it. Stick with Rick and Morty. That’s funny and an enjoyable waste of 30 minutes.
I remember when ‘Get Christie Love’ was followed by ‘The Love Boat.’
Could they be so bad that they are even worse than the garbage they put out last year? I don’t watch much network TV, but will sample a few shows as Mrs. henkster passes through them. Other than “The Middle” which has just about played out, it’s TV Wasteland (yes, I do sing it to the tune of The Who’s “Baba O’Riley”).
So I’m sure it’s the usual leftist PC propaganda masquerading as entertainment. I’ll pass.
Why we have YouTube and MeTV and other such alternatives. At the old family farmstead, I found old TV guides back to about 1959 or 1960. Got a kick out of seeing Westerns like Colt 45 or The Texan or Bonanza or Maverick being on most weeknights, along with Ed Sullivan and the Dinah Shore Chevy Show being both on Sunday nights, etc.
Three’s Company came out in 1977.
Nothing could be worse than that.
I recommend “Mr. Mercedes” on DirecTV’s Audience Network, if you are a fan of the books.
I’m looking forward to “Designated Survivor” and a new series “The Brave” on NBC.
Other than that, I can’t think of any other primetime shows ‘ll be watching.
The last season of a great great series starring two conservatives: Ray Donovan. (I need a blanket over my eyes for some scenes tho like last week with the whoopsie with the sensei...)
I said back in November 2016 that the entertainment industry faces a MASSIVE problem because movies and TV shows "greenlighted" or in production the 18 months prior assumed Hillary Clinton was going to win the Presidency. When that failed, the result was a lot of movies and TV shows "out of sync" with American voter sentiment, and as we saw this past summer with movie box office receipts down 16% compared to 2016, it really showed.
I haven’t watched a network TV show in a few years, haven’t followed one every week for much longer than that. They are all awful, poorly written, and they have to work a gay theme into everything. The TV shows on Netflix and Amazon are so much better in terms of production and writing, and some of them are good. I loved, for example, Hand of God and Goliath on Amazon, Bloodline on Netflix, and many others. Others may not like those shows, but there are many available, and just about anyone can find something they like. Or they can watch Beverly Hillbillies reruns, which I also love.
HBO has some good shows, too (Silicon Valley is hysterical and fills the niche of a sitcom) and Showtime has some great shows (Ray Donovan, Billions).
Each episode of an independent production is like a half a movie, not a cookie cutter TV drama or sitcom. It’s like how I feel about Budweiser or Coors now that I can drink good microbrews. I can never go back to that crap.
Hope the return of WILL & GRACE bombs. NBC...Debra Messing & Eric MacCormack. They despise Trump & are very vocal about it. The whole show will probably be about how much they hate Trump.
Why would anyone bother to check?
Its been a wasteland for decades.
There is no motivation for things to improve.
We cut the cable in June of this. We went to Sling to be able to get CBS via Sling, the SF Giants and more for local ABC to enable my wife to watch the morning Kelly Show with ??
We are thinking of cancelling Sling because of the crap that is on it and coming up this fall, the Giants are going no place, we don’t watch the NFL, we don’t watch any net or local news nor weather. My wife stopped watching Kelly as all she has is Follyweird and Broadway guests and CNN flakes like Anderson Cooper.
We use Amazon prime, the CBS with every show ever shown, Acorn via Prime, and an enriched PBS with a $5 donation per month.
So, we are enjoying putting the financial $crews to ABCNNBCBS and Faux News by cutting our Comcast cable.
Plus we are saving about $125/ month and will soon have the total bill down to a little over $100 per month.
I don’t watch any of it. It’s been years since I followed any show on any network. I don’t miss it one bit.
When I do watch it is usually something old like "Scrubs" which was actually funny or a "how to...." ranging from cooking to building a house.
I’ve been keeping tabs on all the new programs coming this fall, and mid-season, and the majority of them won’t be worth the time to record, at least in my house. I’ve also scratched several existing programs off my watch list because the writers have taken them to places I care not to go, and because they’ve become redundant.