What became of syndication?

[wwfpooh]

Good idea. Any ideas on how to get it back?

 

[Drtooth]

Maybe the question should not be what happened to syndication, but "How do we get it back?"

Hey, I'd love to say something here, but no matter how hard we try, they won't listen to us. We're to smart and choosy about what we watch. besides, no one in the television business wants their job, and clearly doesn't care what they're doing. They just want to compete with every available option, and do the same crap everyone else is doing, thus rushing the death of television...

CN has just killed Toonami, and replaced it with MORE live action movies you can see ANYWHERE ELSE that are from 5+ years ago... TVLand is a dumping ground for crappy movies... and the channels that run nothing BUT movies stopped running movies, because they all want to make the next Sex in the City or Supranos.

We have nothing but greedy, jaded idiots running things, and they could care less about the viewers they hurt.

Syndication is just as bad. We get lazy station managers running infomercials all day long, and to fill the TV EI requirement, they air crappy 1990's nature shows at 7-8 AM sunday morning when no one is watching. Oh yeah! That's REALLY thinking of the kids.

 

[wwfpooh]

Indeed. And even public television is suffering, because as good as some of the new shows are, they--like the ones they succeeded--are shown at horrid hours.

 

[Drtooth]

Indeed. And even public television is suffering, because as good as some of the new shows are, they--like the ones they succeeded--are shown at horrid hours.

Sadly PBS's kid's line up is really one of the few decent things on TV....

 

[wwfpooh]

Sadly PBS's kid's line up is really one of the few decent things on TV....

If that. For some, it's the only thing decent on TV. Dohohoho! I mean not only do you have constant half-baked court shows in prime time, alongside soap operas that should've ended ages ago; but you also have the same tired old gameshow routine; shows involving people willing to be humiliated just for 15 minutes of fame; kid's shows only being quality fare if they follow either the Dora model, are tied to the teenybopper crud, or involve poor attempts at humor by merely thinking stupidity is the answer to everything comedic; shows showing how families can't do their own flippin' jobs and must hire "professional help" as a result; and adult shows only being consider top level if they have [adult swim] style toilet humor.