I spend more time on the computer than watching TV
 

I remember the good old days when there were only a few channels and lots of good tv programing and of course some bad ones too.

I have cable with around 1000+ channels and there is nothing but crap. Too much reality shows and shows that aren't funny.

I usually watch channels that show old TV shows from the 50s to the 80s, science and technology shows.

How do you feel about TV programming today.

Well, I like Justified, Hell on Wheels, and Continuum.

The Bridge is cool also.

I usually though spend most of time outside though and just record these for later viewing.

At least in the US, the reality of television is a reality of junk. Newton Minnow's vision of a vast wasteland has come to pass.

I'm a mystery buff, and I enjoy a few of the contemporary US detective shows (Elementary, Bones, NCIS, Body of Proof, Rizzoli and Isles) because I like mysteries and because they have a nice tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, but most of what we watch in this household is stuff we DVR to watch later.

I much prefer British mysteries (Morse, Inspector Lewis, Endeavor, Midsomer Murders, Pie in the Sky) because they are ever so better written, as the writers have to churn out eight to ten shows a season, rather than 24 or 26.

Any civilization that tolerates, nay, even encourages Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is doomed.

situation in Australia is same
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHvqncASrI

A TV programming? :D It programs us pretty efficiently.

I don't even have a TV at home. No TV at work. No TV at all in my life. All media is evil. Some are less, some are more. Newspapers 100 years ago also were evil, just less than today's TV. TV in 80s–90s was just about the same evil as today, it just was more interesting to watch. Today's TV... well... I don't even know what to say about it... Modern movies and TV shows (filmed last 2–4 years) are seed-plot of anti-nationalistic and anti-family debauchery and insanity. It's made to destroy people. No exaggeration here.

I watch very little TV, and to be honest it just isn't worth the money. I will not be buying any more TVs or cable/satellite service, it's just a waste of money.

I agree with you. In Italy too much reality,reality about music, about society, about cook...stooop!
Everything is a reality.

What I am disappointed in most are the "science" and documentary channels. They now contain virtually no science at all, just blowing stuff up, reality shows (mostly of the survivor type), and religious "mysteries" or religious philosophy disguised as a documentary on the universe. How useful, and it's getting better all the time. They seem to have completely downsized the Mythbusters from what I see. They now use a handycam and they seem to have fired most of the crew, or was it just a few episodes and they're going to fix it ?

I won't even mention the state of the movie industry at the moment. I wonder how much longer they will survive putting out such complete garbage.

I only watch TV through my computer using YouTube and the online players that the television companies here in the UK provide as well as DVDs I have bought. That means I get to watch what I want when I want and without adverts (due to Firefox plugins). So, I get to watch my Jonathan Creek, Midsomer Murders, Poirot, QI and others whenever I feel like it.
If you can cope with subtitles, and you can find it, I suggest you watch the original Scandinavian Broen.

sing it with me "99 channels and nothing's 'on'"
Come on! You know the words ;)

Another Cop|Lawyer|Legal|Medical|"Investigative" show? No thanks. Yawn.

Honestly, though, it is the commercials I can't stand.

This one being one of the few that make me laugh, every time I see it

There is nothing on TV.

Heh, "Thirteen channels of sh** on TV" was amplified a little, eh?
In the UK we're lucky that adverts are kept to a size less than the programming material -- Norway, for example, goes so much further that you seem only to see an advert after every hour. I think the US suffers from advertisement fever.

WoW, thank you all for sharing your favorite programs and/or your opinions. :)

Which I notice are all repeats of years old series.

If it's not repeats of old series, it's the same dozen or so films repeated over and over and over again: things like the Jason Bourne films, Mission Impossible series, Terminator 2, The Matrix, LOTR, and so on. And if it's not those same old tired blockbusters, it's singing or dancing reality contests, and property buying/renovating/selling reality shows, and Antique buying/selling reality shows, and lots of idiotic soaps. Oh and the never ending and out-of-sequence re-runs of US series like NCIS, CSI x3, Law & Order x3, etc.

Occasionally I'll find a "_________ live in Concert", or an interesting documentary on BBC4, but these also suffer from excessive repetition, so finding something both interesting and also not-seen-before is a rare occurrence.

When sooner or later my TV breaks-down I'm going to have a hard time trying to come up with a justification for buying a new one. The way things are at present, I'll likely just not bother -- and I don't mean that in a "I'll watch them on my PC instead" way either. I don't install flash so that precludes using any of the live streaming services most channels provide.

Oddly enough both Jonathan Creek and QI will have new episodes this year and there has been some new Poirot :p
You're right though.

Speaking of old stuff. I record when the come on being a sci fi buff.

LEXX

Farscape
Firefly

I for one don't remember everything in those series and was disappointed when they were dropped.

If ya want current stuff

Hannibal Rising was a good movie. (screw the low rating, I never listen anyways).

Hannibal the series is pretty well wrote also.

Also Bates Motel. I like the towns people better than Norman Bates in this one.

For a well written Horror show .American Horror Story is pretty durn good also. I have all this stuff recorded and really don't watch live tv much.

In the last week, I've watched NCIS, Antiques Roadshow, University Challenge, New Tricks, and the Burrowers, plus a couple of repeats of old programs: that's about 7 hours, and so less than the time I've spent on the computer. I've also just read Scott's Guy Mannering: much better than anything you'll get on TV!

The British mystery shows I watch may be repeats of old series to you.

When I watch them on my side of the big pond, they are new and fresh to me.

Hello

It's so pathetic that I finally dumped DirecTV altogether about 8 months ago and won't ever be signing up for satellite, or cable TV again. They spent half an hour trying to talk me into staying with them, but I finally told the sales rep I'd stay only if they would pay me to stay aboard. He said he couldn't do that, so I told him there was nothing further for us to discuss. I've not missed satellite TV one bit, although I do watch blu-ray movies in my home theater along with some of the better TV series that have been released on blu-ray.

Turn off your tv!
Read this:

http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/

I haven't had a TV set in my house for twenty-five years. I don't miss it. If I want to watch a particular program, I'll get it on my computer ... minus commercials. I have no problem paying-for the content that I wish to receive. I simply want to receive what I want, when I want it, un-interrupted.

I mainly watch the local channels since those are the only ones that can come in HD. If we upgraded to HD, we'd not only have to pay a higher monthly fee (which is outrageous as is), but we'd have to pay an an extra $10 month per box. Ridiculous.

I also watch a little bit of TV. Most of my watching is online and a roku LT box.

you are not alone! but sometimes i watch TV shows on the internet, so it's still kinda the same.

It's what I want to watch, when I want to watch it, commercial-free, and generally paid for. (I have no qualms about paying for content; quite the opposite, in fact.)

The old 'broadcast model' should have been dead-and-gone long before now. I can't stand commercials. The Internet is intrinsically a point-to-point delivery system with more than enough installed capacity now in most places.

I grew up, well from late teens, using a computer as a computer (with no internet) and watching TV... on a TV, so I've never really wanted to or even cared about watching TV on my computer...

It's been more than 10 years however since I've watched any TV regularly. I have a TV, an old 19" 4:3 CRT TV, but it's rarely used for TV - mostly for watching the odd DVD. There were some repeats of Columbo on some channel or other recently, so I watched a few of those - I can't understand anyone who has TV as part of their schedule and sits down to watch the same shows at their allotted time every night without fail. Even less can I understand the people who buy boxed DVD sets of these popular disposable TV series... my mind boggles at those who spend thousands on these huge home entertainment/home cinema things...

Most of the programmes served up this day and age are samey, dross, designed from the ground up to fit the lowest common denominator and based almost entirely on what advertisers want and with their ultimate success depending on ratings. Nothing is original, everything is recycled or it sets out to be original in the only way the idiots know how - by setting out to shock, which usually involves violence, sex, crude jokes, vulgarity, etc. People then assume it's good and entertaining because someone else told them so and "everyone is watching it"... Even the supposedly award winning series are much the same type of crap, that's even before you get to the reality TV, cheap documentaries and sensationalist pseudo history, natural world or pseudo science... The TV news has also suffered. TV news is no longer worth watching if you have even a handful of brain cells at your disposal... unless one actually enjoys news reels which appear to be targeted at pre school children.