Writers Strike pissing anyone else off?

[flsurfkarma]

Wow TV is starting to really suck.... everything is going into reruns and this season has hardly started.

[tamecrow]

It can only serve to be a good thing as far as I'm concerned. The American programmes we get over here are generally quite awful.

[thehappysmoker]

Especially the "News" shows.

My impression is that US TV is based on LCD (not "Liquid Crystal Diode" but "Lowest Common Denominator"). It's just padding for carrying the ads.

[flsurfkarma]

Do you guys not get Nip\Tuck, Two and a half men, how I met your mother, the Big Bang Theory......

Thats just my Monday night lineup....

[flsurfkarma]

btw if I judged you guys by what I see on BBC I'd say the same crap. Whats up with people running after other people thru houses.... makes no sense to me.

[mjtaylor]

Wow TV is starting to really suck.... everything is going into reruns and this season has hardly started.

Starting to suck? American TV sucks so badly that I don't subscribe ... BBC, on the other hand, would get a cable fee from me in a heartbeat ... I watched a few episodes of Bob and Rose last night: brilliant!!

The only American telly I have watched in recent years is Gray's Anatomy on DVD ... I do like quite a few of the HBO series, as well ... but that's not TV, that's HBO. :eek:

Sticking to my Netflix, MJ

[tamecrow]

btw if I judged you guys by what I see on BBC I'd say the same crap. Whats up with people running after other people thru houses.... makes no sense to me.

It's cultural preference. I guess we're just bored of the crappy secret service/sci-fi/dramatic sweeping camera stuff now. There's nothing original on American TV. It's just over-hyped crap with no real substance.

Personal opinion, of course :)

[thehappysmoker]

Fox News, and CNN should get prizes for creative fiction.

I live in Denmark, so I don't need to defend the BBC, (which can also be a deadly shade of grey a lot of the time), but it's good at bonnet and shawl drama, and its fake viewer-competitions can't be beaten (or won).

[MarkGatESS]

Perhaps American writers have run out of ideas or imagination?

Although, even though I'm an American, I find that American television sucks too. However, you can't really go by me because I have specific tastes that differ from the mainstream.

I miss the "Science Fantasy" (what I can best describe it as) of the earlier decades such as the reruns of "Star Trek", (and the latter incarnations: "The Next Generation", "Deep Space Nine", "Voyager" and "Enterprise"), The 70's shows of "Battlestar Galactica", "Buck Rogers" (with Gil Gerard). Also the Americana shows of "The Dukes Of Hazard", "Starsky & Hutch" and later "Knight Rider".

THOSE shows were entertaining - especially the old 70's "Battlestar Galactica". Compared to the new SciFi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica", I prefer the old storyline that made the Colonists of the 12 planets seem human, yet developmentally different from us Earthlings. The new series is "too Earth-like" for my tastes - the Colonists are JUST like Earthling humans, which doesn't give me too much hope for the human race! The only thing that comes CLOSE to being good Sci-Fantasy has been the "Stargate SG1" series, but even that is getting overkill.

Probably why I watch Cartoon Network, and all the translated Japanese Animation (aka "Anime"). I find them FAR more entertaining than what's cranked out of the U.S. today.

Since our country imports everything else, perhaps we should import foreign writers to come up with better storylines for American television?!

[mikmik]

Perhaps American writers have run out of ideas or imagination?

Although, even though I'm an American, I find that American television sucks too. However, you can't really go by me because I have specific tastes that differ from the mainstream.

I miss the "Science Fantasy" (what I can best describe it as) of the earlier decades such as the reruns of "Star Trek", (and the latter incarnations: "The Next Generation", "Deep Space Nine", "Voyager" and "Enterprise"), The 70's shows of "Battlestar Galactica", "Buck Rogers" (with Gil Gerard). Also the Americana shows of "The Dukes Of Hazard", "Starsky & Hutch" and later "Knight Rider".

THOSE shows were entertaining - especially the old 70's "Battlestar Galactica". Compared to the new SciFi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica", I prefer the old storyline that made the Colonists of the 12 planets seem human, yet developmentally different from us Earthlings. The new series is "too Earth-like" for my tastes - the Colonists are JUST like Earthling humans, which doesn't give me too much hope for the human race! The only thing that comes CLOSE to being good Sci-Fantasy has been the "Stargate SG1" series, but even that is getting overkill.

Probably why I watch Cartoon Network, and all the translated Japanese Animation (aka "Anime"). I find them FAR more entertaining than what's cranked out of the U.S. today.

Since our country imports everything else, perhaps we should import foreign writers to come up with better storylines for American television?!

No, american viewers have. I cannot stand stargate, and sci-fi is pure fantasy. I love sci-fi, but to read.

If you are critiquing sci-fi shows, you must watch Fox and CNN.
We have CBC here. I have read 'A day in the Life of Ivan Denesovic' and also 'The Archies'. I like it when Veronica always teases Archie and goes for Reggie. That is deep.

No mention of why they are striking, only what you get to see on the tube? That is deep.

[thehappysmoker]

I love sci-fi, but to read.

"It's Full Of Stars"

I know what you mean mikMik, but there are exceptions. I remember reading Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey" and really enjoying it, but Kubrick's film was even better, for my taste. Before you tell me about them, I also read "2010 Odyssey Two", "2061 Odyssey Three" and "3001 The Final Odyssey" - but it was "2001" which had the real magic. The "2010" movie was crap.

There's a very old English TV series called "The Prisoner" which is worth watching, too (if you can find it anywhere).

[mikmik]

"It's Full Of Stars"

I know what you mean mikMik, but there are exceptions. I remember reading Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey" and really enjoying it, but Kubrick's film was even better, for my taste. Before you tell me about them, I also read "2010 Odyssey Two", "2061 Odyssey Three" and "3001 The Final Odyssey" - but it was "2001" which had the real magic. The "2010" movie was crap.

There's a very old English TV series called "The Prisoner" which is worth watching, too (if you can find it anywhere).
Yeah, I can't remember which was first for me, the book or the movie, but 2001:A Space Odyssey (is that word ever hard to spell!) was one of the most haunting pictures I have ever seen. The book was great, the movie surreal.

I have definitly heard of "The Prisoner" although I haven't seen any of it.

[flsurfkarma]

Sides talking but writers still walking | U.S. | Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2855201320071128)

pretty much they just want more of a cut.... and now more of a cut on shows on the net. Greed I tell you....

The only show on HBO I care for is Big Love. It doesnt come back on till this summer. Showtime has Dexter which is pretty good.

I don't really watch the news. I hate the fact that you can't trust any of the media. Hopefully that will all change when Ron Paul gets elected.

[mikmik]

Why should they work if they don't like their'cut'?

That is their right, isn't it? They want 8 cents per DVD instead of the 4 they are getting now.

I wouldn't work for that crap. Well, okay, I would. I get zero cents, and am well worth the price.

[thehappysmoker]

Odyssey (is that word ever hard to spell!)

Indeed. The Zombies 1968 Album is called "Odessey And Oracle". I imagine that they would agree with you.

[mikmik]

I don't really watch the news. I hate the fact that you can't trust any of the media. Hopefully that will all change when Ron Paul gets elected.
You gonna be alright? I am seeing signs of OCD here, my man.

the happysmoker:

My impression is that US TV is based on LCD (not "Liquid Crystal Diode" but "Lowest Common Denominator"). It's just padding for carrying the ads.
I bet the ads get more attention than the shows.
The Zombies, you say... That was quick. Thank you.

[flsurfkarma]

how is that being OCD?

[mikmik]

Nothing, sorry, you just keep mentioning "when Ron Paul gets elected" and it was silly joke. I do not by any means intend anything by that staement. Is is more an personal joke about how I always expect my team to win in hockey, or the NDP to get elected here.

It is a testament to my own musings that are basically like famous last words.

[flsurfkarma]

no worries. :P

[mikmik]

Oh, I am worried about some people around here.

That's what I think repetitvely, anyways.