Today,the best they can come up with is Survivor.
The networks lost me as a viewer 20 years ago.I can't,for the life of me,see how they could ever win me back.
They've spent thirty years dumbing down the audience. Now they're serving the audience they created. It's richly deserved.
When I was very young, the networks had a big cash cow in the tobacco commercials. When tobacco commercials were banned from television, the quality of programming dropped like a rock. That was even in the absence of lots of competition from cable and satellite services with lots of better alternatives.
I'm down to just "ER" on NBC when a new episode is available. I don't bother with the re-runs. My summers are usually totally free of any distraction from TV content from any source.