The standard of tv in general.

Checkmate19

Is probably the worst i have ever seen in my entire lifetime. Reality, house shows, cookery shows make up the most of it. Just watching alot of old sketch shows like I'm Alan Partridge, Hale and Pace etc. These shows are to expensive to make. Easier and cheaper to put a camera in front of a few clowns. I think tv is on its knees.

lertsnim

It's been like this for nearly 20 years.

Agent Coulson

There is some amazing television shows and made for tv movies but most are on subscription based services.

5starpool

With more channels there is more junk tv, but there are also great tv shows as well as much more choice in general, especially in tandem with the internet and/or subscription based services.

I remember from my childhood in the 80's how grim telly was especially on Sunday evenings, and I was lucky in that we had 6 channels, not just 2. When Glenroe and Where in the World was something to look forward to relative to the crap from the few hours before that it shows how grim it was.

heavydemon

5starpool wrote: »

With more channels there is more junk tv, but there are also great tv shows as well as much more choice in general, especially in tandem with the internet and/or subscription based services.

I remember from my childhood in the 80's how grim telly was especially on Sunday evenings, and I was lucky in that we had 6 channels, not just 2. When Glenroe and Where in the World was something to look forward to relative to the crap from the few hours before that it shows how grim it was.

Don't forget murder she wrote.

Potential-Monke

heavydemon wrote: »

Don't forget murder she wrote.

Don't forget Gladiators!

Depends on what you watch. Right now, i'm delighted with TV, with shows such as Game of Thrones, The Blacklist, The Flash, Gotham, The Walking Dead, Arrow, Agents of SHIELD, Black Sails, Vikings. I'm in my element.

I'm not looking for those Emmy and Oscar winning shows, because they always go to something that's heartfelt, realistic or, in my opinion, dull. Take Breaking Bad for example. I'll even admit it's a great show, but only because how they handled it. For the most part, it was boring as fook. The overall story, and Brian Cranstons acting, were the only thing that kept me hooked.

This year, The Flash has been an outstanding breakthrough success, and deserves a lot more praises than, say, House of Cards. But, that's my opinion. Those shows are excellent to me. So, for me, TV standards are improving at a great rate. I just don't let the likes of Fair City, Red Rock, TOWIE, Big Brother or any other of those eye-cancer causing tripe skew my view of TV in general.

Drexel

I think you couldnt be more wrong OP. TV is at the best its been in years. So many quality shows out there to watch. If you are having to watch cookery or reality shows you are watching TV all wrong.

Wanderer78

only news tv for me the rest it total tripe

lertsnim

heavydemon wrote: »

Don't forget murder she wrote.

That's a show I will watch if I find it showing somewhere

The_Honeybadger

As above, there are some amazing shows available these days, game of thrones, house of cards, mad men, walking dead, breaking bad, and my personal favourites Rome and Spartacus. All released in recent years and among the best shows you'll ever see.

There is of course tons of complete and utter rubbish as well. I just don't watch those shows.

efb

lertsnim wrote: »

That's a show I will watch if I find it showing somewhere

ITV Sunday mornings

Lovely Bloke

A line starting at The Sopranos, going through The West Wing, Lost, Six Feet Under, Early Dexter, The Wire, The Shield, Arrested Development, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Fargo - these have all been in TV in the last 15 years or so, TV has seen nothing like it, and there are others too - Deadwood, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Sherlock, House, Community, 24, Homeland.

All of these, and more are Event TV usually, not just cobbled together sitcoms with repeating schticks, or over-acted dramas.

TV has never been better.

Big name stars moving back to TV to get the best scripts and directors because Hollywood is obsessed with churning out Fast & Furious 42.

Euphoria Intensifies

I don't think you could be any more wrong OP. Yeah, there's a lot of crap on tv, but it's easy to avoid. There's a world full of amazing tv shows out there, most of them available at your fingertips.

mikom

Checkmate19 wrote: »

Is probably the worst i have ever seen in my entire lifetime. Reality, house shows, cookery shows make up the most of it. Just watching alot of old sketch shows like I'm Alan Partridge, Hale and Pace etc. These shows are to expensive to make. Easier and cheaper to put a camera in front of a few clowns. I think tv is on its knees.

I'm Alan Partridge is not a sketch show.

As to your title topic.....TV and the choice of shows has never been better.
I suggest you check out the recent show, Peter Kay's car share (not a sketch show either).

TerrorFirmer

On the contrary, TV is the new medium for hollywood quality productions.

What you've mentioned does exist, and perhaps far more so in the past number of years, but that has to be correlated with the rise of TV in general, which includes an innumerable amount of incredible quality series.

In closing, TV is in a better state now more so than ever before and as a film fan, I've found that TV is now in pole position these past few years.

I don't want to get into listing quality TV shows, but even if I did, I couldn't even subjectively, because there are SO many of them now that any one persons list couldn't do the medium justice.

darkdubh

O.P. is right in a way,yes theres more choice than before but when youre visiting your other halfs parents on a Sunday and her elderly mother only ever has RTE on you realise how far downhill a lot of TV has become.Not just RTE,Channel 4 used to be relativly innovative and edgy but apart from Peep Show can't remember the last time I liked anything I saw on it.There seems to be an absoloute glut of cheaply made "reality" crap thats only of real interest to the people in them and their families and 20 years ago it was sufficent for each channel to have one flagship cookery programme wheras now the schedules are filled with them.

Checkmate19

I may have got my wording wrong. I know there is great tv been produced. Breaking bad, the wire etc. I don't watch reality tv etc however on the normal channels bbc, rte, c4 they seem to be filled with more of cheap to make programmes. Netflix, Sky Alantic has great stuff and its what i watch but it seems most channels now are going for reality tv crap. Rte should have their license removed as the amount of crap they are making is beyond belief.

mikom

Checkmate19 wrote: »

Rte should have their license removed as the amount of crap they are making is beyond belief.

Amen to that.

somesoldiers

OP is right in so much that anyone scrolling through the sky tv guide will be surely stuck for stuff to watch but anyone who relies on that nowadays is missing out greatly.
Find alternate means, hook up to your tv or get a smart tv and off you go, you will never look back....

don ramo

tv is crap these days, unless your online, other than that it simply just takes to much of an insane effort to find something that you want to watch,

ive got boards here to point me in the right direction whenever i get lost, the people below my level probably have sky+ to rely on, but anyone below that is ****ed if they want to hunt down some quality programs,

like person of interest has aired 4 full seasons stateside, yet RTE or any channel on sky (to my knowledge) have only aired season 3, and 4 hasnt started anywhere here, and person of interest is in my opinion the best show currently on network (not cable) TV,