Television In Decline?

fleet_admiral · 18-09-2014 12:30PM #1

....Or is it just me

I havent watched the telly in years and dont miss it. There just isnt anything intersting on any more and the only time I find myself sitting on front of it is to watch either At The Races or Racing UK if I have a bet on.
The wife watches it religiously but the crap she watches is unreal. Wife swap, Dont tell the bride, Supernanny, Fair City etc... . Awful stuff like that.

I find it much more entertaining to stick on the radio and listen to that

I dont feel im 'getting old' I just find tv crap now

Anyone agree?

SouthTippBass · 18-09-2014 12:32PM

It just cant compete with d'internet and streaming sites.

GLaDOS · 18-09-2014 12:32PM

Here comes the Breaking Bad fans

frag420 · 18-09-2014 12:33PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

....Or is it just me

I havent watched the telly in years and dont miss it. There just isnt anything intersting on any more and the only time I find myself sitting on front of it is to watch either At The Races or Racing UK if I have a bet on.
The wife watches it religiously but the crap she watches is unreal. Wife swap, Dont tell the bride, Supernanny, Fair City etc... . Awful stuff like that.

I find it much more entertaining to stick on the radio and listen to that

I dont feel im 'getting old' I just find tv crap now

Anyone agree?

:rolleyes: Just saying is all......

18-09-2014 12:34PM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Here comes the Breaking Bad fans

And Hannibal, and House of Cards, and The Blacklist, and The Walking Dead, and Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones and The Sopranos and The Wire and Mad Men many other standout tv shows.

I honestly think tv is really good at the moment, something older people seem to agree with.

The Backwards Man · 18-09-2014 12:34PM

I remember my Granda used to switch on the radio for the news and switch it straight off again after.

I used to think he was crazy, now I'm pretty much the same.

Badly Drunk Boy · 18-09-2014 12:34PM

I was reading on the radio the other day that a lot of the programmes people stream using the internetwork, is actually made for the television. That can't be true, can it?

Harry Palmr · 18-09-2014 12:35PM

In many respects TV has never been in ruder health - but with the good stuff comes a tsunami of bad. You just have to pick and choose.

phasers · 18-09-2014 12:46PM

Everyone says this but TV has been in getting better and better over the past few years. It's just that all the good stuff is airing in America so everyone just streams it online.

fleet_admiral · 18-09-2014 12:49PM

frag420 wrote: »

:rolleyes: Just saying is all......

I take it you dont the odd flutter?

Lucy and Harry · 18-09-2014 12:50PM

Love Hate will be back on soon that will liven things up.

gugleguy · 18-09-2014 12:51PM

Television: 'PUSH' Technology : Channels, let take RTÉ 1 broadcast (: broad-cast) or 'push' out, for instance the Late Late Show with Ryan Tubridy on Friday Night.

Youtube: 'PULL' technology: I search for a subject on youtube, and I find relevant material, and then watch it. Vimeo is pretty much the same concept.

ShadowHearth · 18-09-2014 12:51PM

The only time I "see" some of Tv is when I come over to my friends house for some chill out time.
I moved few weeks ago in to a new house and I don't have a single channel on my TV, but I have 3 consoles hooked up.

With YouTube, Netflix and just general movie library I got on pc I just don't see any point in tv anymore.

ancapailldorcha · 18-09-2014 12:52PM

Candie wrote: »

And Hannibal, and House of Cards, and The Blacklist, and The Walking Dead, and Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones and The Sopranos and The Wire and Mad Men many other standout tv shows.

I honestly think tv is really good at the moment, something older people seem to agree with.

Those shows are just a small fraction of what's on. You've got a huge amount of advertising along with generic nonsense, talent shows and soaps which would constitute the 90% of most channels.

PizzamanIRL · 18-09-2014 12:54PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

I havent watched the telly in years

Ehhhh. Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this and the thread subject?

Pawn · 18-09-2014 01:01PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

I just find tv crap now

Anyone agree?

Totally and 100%.

Haven't watched TV in a couple of years, every time I walk into the room and it's on there is a:

1) show
2) show
3) UK celebrity with IQ 60 showing off her new shoes
4) show
5) films from the 80's
6) crap TV series
7) celebrity tells a deep story about her dog having great time in California where they went for a holiday
8) blind girl on a wheelchair singing heartbreaking song in X-Factor

Even good old Discovery went to the dogs, all they do now are just them bloody shows, Gold Diggers, Wheeler Dealers, Sons Of Guns, and so on.. Bull**** for morons who believe that its all happening for real. Fathers fighting with sons over a motorcycle, dealer trying to get a decent price for a car, Christ, even thinking of that is winding me up :mad: :mad: :mad:

gugleguy · 18-09-2014 01:07PM

Pawn wrote: »

Totally and 100%.

Even good old Discovery went to the dogs, all they do now are just them bloody shows, Gold Diggers, Wheeler Dealers, Sons Of Guns, and so on.. Bull**** for morons who believe that its all happening for real. Fathers fighting with sons over a motorcycle, dealer trying to get a decent price for a car, Christ, even thinking of that is winding me up

Don't forget US celebrity with IQ 60 removing his shoe and showing off his bare foot on Ryan Tubridy show, last LLS season just gone.

Pawn · 18-09-2014 01:08PM

gugleguy wrote: »

US celebrity = IQ 60

Must be a genius :rolleyes:

Lucy and Harry · 18-09-2014 01:08PM

Reality tv is pretty cheap chewing gum for the eyes and shows like Big Brother should be banned.The late late show is crap.But hay on the plus side we have HD channels so we can watch it all in HD now.

Game of Thrones
Love Hate
Champions league
Sky Movies
The Walking dead
All good TV right there.

elefant · 18-09-2014 01:10PM

I only watch 'Pointless' on television.

Everything else I stream online.

kylith · 18-09-2014 01:10PM

I think there's more good telly these days than ever before. We're seeing a lot of talented actors moving away from films and it's giving TV a real boost - Laurence Fishburne and Kiefer Sutherland for example.

kfallon · 18-09-2014 01:12PM

The best of the lot now is MTV....they are Music Television yet they don't show any Music at all

It's all "I'm 18 and up the stink!" or 'Reality' shows like Geordie/Jersey Shore that are more heavily scripted than soap operas :rolleyes:

gramar · 18-09-2014 01:18PM

The problem I see is that there are 73 millions channels so how can they all show decent programmes? The quality is very thinly spread over a vast number of channels and gives the impression that most of what is on is crap.

I haven't watched TV at home for over a year...just a few series, documentaries and sports on the laptop. This way I watch what I like and the only downfall is having to think about what to watch as opposed to just flicking around and finding something.

Fishyfreak · 18-09-2014 01:24PM

OP is just a non-tv watching Hipster.

TV is f*ckin great, and always will be!!

Bongalongherb · 18-09-2014 01:25PM

How anyone can sit through all of those adverts I'll never know. I dumped the TV in a skip yars ago and it was the best thing I ever did.

Akrasia · 18-09-2014 01:34PM

so now you watch all your television on a 15.6 inch laptop while I watch netflix on my 51 inch plasma and can still watch tv on the off chance there's anything good on (BBC still make good documentaries every now and then)

Who's laughing now eh?

18-09-2014 01:39PM

I watch tv all the time, love sitting down in the evening and flicking through the channels looking for something random to watch. I also watch a lot sport on tv and follow a number of series.

GLaDOS · 18-09-2014 02:12PM

Akrasia wrote: »

so now you watch all your television on a 15.6 inch laptop while I watch netflix on my 51 inch plasma and can still watch tv on the off chance there's anything good on (BBC still make good documentaries every now and then)

Who's laughing now eh?

Hook laptop up tv via HDMI, problem solved.

Shakespeare's Sister · 18-09-2014 02:23PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

I take it you dont the odd flutter?

Think they just mean you're hardly in a position to make such a broad statement about TV if that's the extent of your effort.

With the endless amount of channels, there is an increase in shyte, but that's just one "genre". There's also a wide variety of great series - more than ever. I find the amount of great series overwhelming as there's so much to choose from.

But you knew this, surely.

ScumLord · 18-09-2014 02:27PM

TV is dead, internet streaming is brilliant.

I got rid of my tv nearly ten years ago now and watch what I want online. Anytime I go to someones house and see what TV is I don't know how people can sit through it.

Shakespeare's Sister · 18-09-2014 02:32PM

Streaming's great but I still like the ritual of looking up what's on TV of a night.

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