All these TV show last episodes might be trouble.....
 

No more Sex in the City. No more Friends. No more Frasier. No more The Practice. This my friends could be a sign of trouble to come. Without such distractions might have to get out of the garage and spend some quality time with the Mrs and you know what a jealous mistress that p-car can be!

i for one will not miss one of the shows you mentioned, imo they are whats wrong with network TV. seems like the wife may control the remote at your house if those are being watched. the discovery channel, entertain your brain my man.

I thought the Friends finale sucked. I don't know what I was expecting, but it seemed like a regular, predictable Friends episode. As far as I'm concerned, Friends should have ended about two years ago when it was still good. I haven't even watched the last two seasons.

Friends was still on? Can't recall the last time I watched network TV...

aww, there's still Jimminy Glick.

All is not lost. Just getting darn close. I noticed a sad, sad article somewhere yesterday that said that the top 7 (count 'em - I can't) shows were of the reality variety...

Amazing the papshmear that people will watch.

Actually, even the Discovery Channel is going into the crapper lately, or is it just me? It seems like they're trying to compete with network TV with all this "extreme BS" and programs built around the attention span of 6 year old and the "bling, bling" needs of a teenager.

We must be turning into crotchety bastards.

She can cointrol the remote all she wants while I am in the in the garage. Point being, now that she does not have these shows I may tend to get called back inside for some QT. By the way I normally shy away from the idiot box and read or work in the garage, but when I do plop down, discovery is o.k., I tend to prefer the History channel though.

I'm a bad entertainment industry employee: I've never watched a single episode of "Friends," "Fraiser," "The Practice" or "Sex in the City." The only thing I know about "NYPD Blues" is I met the fat cop star in a bar just before he decided he was a drunk and quit drinking altogether.

None of these shows represent real people, so for me, they are a waste of time. I realize TV and the movies are an escape for people, but it works on the opposite for me as these shows, to me, are homogeneous iterations of each other, and utterly low-brow entertainment in the very end.

What is this "teevee" of which you speak??? :confused:

I guess my tastes are not refined enough to hate TV. I have a DirecTV/Tivo unit and love it. I won't miss Kiefer Sutherland's "24". The Hbo series "Deadwood" is great. Tivo makes sure I never run out of old Hitchcock movies, and there's always the history channel or old Seinfeld episodes.

Two places you'll NEVER see me; the ballet or the opera. I'll take a beer and a bag of peanuts at the ballpark anytime.

I would go to the opera but not the ballet. Not in Phoenix though, our symphony orchestra's skill level is 1 step below my high school band's.

My tastes are hardly cultured. Hell, I just bought a bunch of Clint Eastwood movies on DVD. Mmm....spaghetti..... :D

We just don't have cable and for the most part TV just makes my skin crawl. So I don't bother....

Deadwood is fantastic, and the Sopranos have been resurrected from the last two seasons' doldrums.
I liked Frasier, though I stopped watching it about two years ago (two years after I stopped watching Friends). I thought it was wry and sophisticated wit (as much as you'd find on the networks), w/o being pretentious. Just MHO.
There's not much on network TV that I like, for a variety of lowest-common-denominator/political bent of the networks reasons (which may be the same thing, actually).
The only "reality" show I liked was Combat Missions -- by "liked" I guess I mean ever watched. I can't get over the Survivor-menticide phenomenon. Literally 20 seconds of Survivor was all I could take and never watched it or any of its bastard spawn again.

24 is supposed to be great, but I don't have that kind of season-long commitment in me. Gotta get a TiVo.

JP

I'll always stop for "All In The Family" reruns, or "Mash;" pre Col. Potter days, which was when the show started going P.C.

You can rent (or buy) the first two seasons of 24 on DVD. The third episode of season two has about the best scene I've ever seen on TV.

i used to be anti ballet too. until i started dating a ballet dancer, then out of bfriend duty, i would see the occasional show. i actually started to like it. i miss that girl for alot of reasons. but i am glad she opened me up to the arts. i actually hold season tix to theater and some other venues. but i have to admit, i have seen some crap lately.

as for TV, i am into it for about 2 hours a week.

It was absolutely rediculous how much attention all the news channels paid to the last episode of friends. At the time when there are so many problems going on...all they can care about is some stupid show. Makes me sick.

the only TV channels I watch:

Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
Discovery/History
ESPN/NESN (during baseball season)

For the past half year, ive only watched tv at friends' houses. Before, i used to watch speed when they showed the american le mans series or what not.

Who needs TV when you have a shop with a lift?