Taste in TV programs

[Jim Franklin]

What TV programs are so detestable that they prompt an immediate switch to something else? Mine our Entertainment Tonight (I really don't care) David Letterman and Jay Leno (to full of vulgarities and trashy inuendo) reality shows, Grimm, and most anything on NBC.

Sure glad we have the retro station of ME (which stands for My Enterertainment)TV with "Rifleman, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Happy Days, Bob Newhart, Lassie, Perry Mason, The Untouchables, Cannon, the original Hawaii 50 etc.

Enjoyed a good presentation last evening on The Jubilee Queen reviewing the 60 year anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's reign.

[Dana Grant]

We pretty much watch the Nat Geo, History channel, HGTV, DIY.

We also watch the ME TV.

Not much of a TV watcher other than those.

[Diane Likens]

Any and all reality TV is a no-go at our house. Nat Geo and our PBS channels are on most of the time.

[Dana Grant]

I guess Design Star is reality TV, more or less. But that is the ONLY reality TV show that I watch. Can't stand any of the other ones!!!

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Normally, we don't care for reality TV but we got started watching Coast Guard Alaska on the Weather Channel and enjoy watching it.

Otherwise - news and Astros baseball are our main TV shows.

[Vivian Cornwell]

We like History, National Geographic, The Learning Channel (certain shows only), A & E (certain shows only - can't stand Dog the Bounty Hunter, etc.), PBS, Home & Garden, Travel, Insp, and a few others. We are not fans of the usual network programs but do like news shows. I guess I could say there are shows on most of these cable stations that we find inappropriate but we do like a lot of their programs.

[Susan Unger]

Hallmark Movie channel, EWTN, history channel and once in a blue moon- Neil Cavuto.

[Paul DeBaufer]

I can't stand much of anything, yet my TV is always on. Anything on the CW, which I think is the old frog network gets turned. Rather fox news, which I'd rather a sharp stick in the eye than watch. As for news, I have people I actually like that lie to me, don't need it from the TV. Humiliation, I mean reality, TV is worst of all. In this I include American Idol and all that ilk.

Loved House, but its gone now. Harry's Law is okay. Two Broke Girls and Suburgatory. Oh yeah love Jon Stewart n Stephen Colbert. And South Park.

[Peggy Gray]

Other than our local news and the half hour CBS news at 7, we don't watch the networks. We only watch Fox if the Red Sox game is nationally televised instead of on NESN. We watch public television, RFD-TV, the occasional show on History, Weather Channel, HGTV, FOOD or SCI. Maybe something random here and there on other channels, but not much. There are too many to list that make us quickly switch channels.

[Benjamin Burch]

I can't stand much of anything, yet my TV is always on. Anything on the CW, which I think is the old frog network gets turned. Rather fox news, which I'd rather a sharp stick in the eye than watch. As for news, I have people I actually like that lie to me, don't need it from the TV. Humiliation, I mean reality, TV is worst of all. In this I include American Idol and all that ilk.

Loved House, but its gone now. Harry's Law is okay. Two Broke Girls and Suburgatory. Oh yeah love Jon Stewart n Stephen Colbert. And South Park.

House.... I will be sad for a very, very long time.

I watch Big Bang Theory and Modern Family at this point. Both are actually not bad at all.... that is if people don't mind watching a show where a couple of gay men have a baby....

Just started watching The New Girl.... We'll see how that goes.

[Mike Schutz]

At this moment, I am sitting in the lounge of a auto service department. On the TV is one of the local morning shows. Even though I have positioned myself so I cannot see the TV, I cannot avoid the audio. I can feel my brain cells dying just from the conversations on the show.

[Hans Deventer]

At this moment, I am sitting in the lounge of a auto service department. On the TV is one of the local morning shows. Even though I have positioned myself so I cannot see the TV, I cannot avoid the audio. I can feel my brain cells dying just from the conversations on the show.

You could try to sue them!

[Mike Schutz]

Thinking about contracting with them to broadcast our worship services.

[Peggy Gray]

What could be worse than being trapped in a place you didn't want to be in the first place (waiting room) with Dr. Phil on the tv and no remote.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

At this moment, I am sitting in the lounge of a auto service department. On the TV is one of the local morning shows. Even though I have positioned myself so I cannot see the TV, I cannot avoid the audio. I can feel my brain cells dying just from the conversations on the show.

I got caught a few weeks ago in a similar way with "The View" - and that while I had brought some devotional reading along. I think my IQ dropped 3 or 4 points (and I don't have any points to give up) in the 45 minutes I sat there.

[Greg Farra]

I like Turner Classic Movies. Hulu.com has a bunch of old shows on it, like The Time Tunnel and Alias Smith&Jones.

[Dale Schaeffer]

About the only thing I watch is live sports events...mostly baseball, soccer, and college football.

Otherwise there's just not much that I'm interested in...generally read a book instead of watching tv.

[Cam Pence]

How I met your mother, bones, modern family, community, new girl, parks and rec, used to love the office but it went downhill this season

[Kevin Rector]

A couple of days ago we cancelled our Dish subscription. It feels SO good.

Personally, I don't need TV at all, perhaps a show every now and then on Netflix, but I'm simply not that interested in what's on TV.

[Jim Franklin]

Since I do not have cabel or Dish this Geographer/Historian can not access either Nat. Geog. or the History Channels. There are no comedy shows worth watching that from their promos are too full of inuendos and I absolutely refuse to watch any program with known gays (just to repulsive).

Phil. 4:8 "Finally brethern (and sisters) whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellance and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things."

[Paul DeBaufer]

House.... I will be sad for a very, very long time.

I watch Big Bang Theory and Modern Family at this point. Both are actually not bad at all.... that is if people don't mind watching a show where a couple of gay men have a baby....

Just started watching The New Girl.... We'll see how that goes.

House ending is sad. I do like The Big Bang Theory, too.

[Billy Cox]

What TV programs are so detestable that they prompt an immediate switch to something else?

About the only type of show I consciously avoid is a reality show that has a dating/romance theme. (Bachelor, Bachelorette, etc.) A show that actively leads the audience to imagine which hottie they would choose, feels counterproductive to my marriage.

Inuendo doesn't bother me. Simulated violence doesn't bother me.

I especially enjoy reality shows where it follows people in interesting lines of work (Pawn Stars, Ace of Cakes, Cops, Gator Boys, etc.) or where people compete for some sort of dream job. (Food Network Star, The Apprentice, Hell's Kitchen, American Inventor, etc.) I also make a point to watch Survivor, although the formula seems to be wearing thin.

(I sincerely apologize if I totally ruined a thread celebrating how pure we all are. )

[Benjamin Burch]

I will second everyone else's suggestion that reality tv is just not wholesome enough to watch. It is also miserable tv.

[Paul DeBaufer]

I will second everyone else's suggestion that reality tv is just not wholesome enough to watch. It is also miserable tv.

Except for the humiliation part I don't care about the wholesomeness of TV, even of reality TV,but you are right it's just bad TV IMHO

[Gina Stevenson]

House.... I will be sad for a very, very long time.

Think each of us bring some history to the mix. Watched House once, & he was enough of a grump, did not need more "reality." Was interesting, tho', that particular episode being about his nose sometimes diagnosing things. Can tell a bit myself via the olfactory sense ... have sometimes even surprised myself. Sooo, figured it was too bad he was such a grump, b/c otherwise, I might like it OK.

I watch Big Bang Theory and Modern Family at this point. Both are actually not bad at all....

Like the scientific nerds, too, & Sheldon is esp comical ... but rarely get to see them b/c of the channel/network they are on. Only if Ma decides to go to bed early that particular night, as it is that TV that has the antenna hooked up to it, do I ever get to see Big Bang. In-house antennae do not pick up the Ka'zoo channel from about an hour away.

How I met your mother, bones, modern family, community, new girl, parks and rec, used to love the office but it went downhill this season

Bones surprisingly caught my interest quite awhile ago ... it is the genre that I normally shy away from.

House ending is sad. I do like The Big Bang Theory, too.

Have seen Barbara Moulton frequently mention Big Bang in the past, too ... Mentioned a few times here in this thread already, maybe it's a NazNetter "thang" to appreciate nerdy humor.

[Abram Book]

"Castle" is my one vice as far as TV watching is concerned - though sometimes I miss it because it's on so late. Other than that, if we don't get Me TV (which is up to our antenna on a day-to-day basis) and the old shows like Bonanza, Rifleman, etc., I don't watch much. I'd much rather read a good book.

[Dana Grant]

About the only type of show I consciously avoid is a reality show that has a dating/romance theme. (Bachelor, Bachelorette, etc.) A show that actively leads the audience to imagine which hottie they would choose, feels counterproductive to my marriage.

Inuendo doesn't bother me. Simulated violence doesn't bother me.

I especially enjoy reality shows where it follows people in interesting lines of work (Pawn Stars, Ace of Cakes, Cops, Gator Boys, etc.) or where people compete for some sort of dream job. (Food Network Star, The Apprentice, Hell's Kitchen, American Inventor, etc.) I also make a point to watch Survivor, although the formula seems to be wearing thin.

(I sincerely apologize if I totally ruined a thread celebrating how pure we all are. )

For me, it has nothing to do with whether they're pure or not......they are VERY scripted, and there's nothing "reality" about them at all. they're just.......well.......STUPID (just my opinion). I can't believe that someone would believe any of it is "real."

[Valisha Trammell Hall]

I watch "New Girl", "Suburatory", "The Good Wife", and "The Big C". I also watch "American Idol" with my kids...they're vocal majors at a performing arts high school.

[Diane Likens]

House ending is sad. I do like The Big Bang Theory, too.

I thought the House ending was absolutely perfect! I'd been suspecting House and Wilson were going to do a Thelma and Louise and I was dreading the idea ...

[Diane Likens]

Loved House, but its gone now. Harry's Law is okay. Two Broke Girls and Suburgatory. Oh yeah love Jon Stewart n Stephen Colbert. And South Park.

Stewart and Colbert are my non-PBS "can't miss". I watch the re-run of the prior night's show at 7 and 7:30 p.m.

[Daniel Hamlin]

parks and rec, used to love the office but it went downhill this season

My wife and I love Parks and Rec also. We also liked The Office, but it's been a train wreck this past season.

[Jim Franklin]

Abram, with your last name, I can readily see why you would prefer book reading. I read about as much as I watch in my advanced doteage.

[Billy Cox]

For me, it has nothing to do with whether they're pure or not......they are VERY scripted, and there's nothing "reality" about them at all. they're just.......well.......STUPID (just my opinion). I can't believe that someone would believe any of it is "real."

I enjoy many reality shows, hopefully that doesn't make me stupid. I don't think it does.

I am savvy enough to know that there is a degree to which reality shows are staged -- not the same as being scripted-- and I accept that creative editing is used in order to tell a story using unscripted footage. I also accept that the producers probably encourage the onscreen participants to do/say things that make the finished product more interesting to viewers. I'm okay with all that.

I don't watch TV to experience reality, but rather to be entertained and sometimes informed. Most of the reality shows I have watched do quite well on that part.

[Billy Cox]

I will second everyone else's suggestion that reality tv is just not wholesome enough to watch. It is also miserable tv.

Even 'Extreme Home Makeover' with their preference for helping disabled children and other hard-luck, sob-story cases??

[David Parker]

We mostly record to watch later or watch what we like 'On Demand' through Comcast Cable. I WILL NOT sit there and watch commercials.

Of the shows currently on, we never miss:

Mad Men
Sons of Anarchy
The Walking Dead
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
Veep
Jeopardy

For news we watch: (but not all the time every day)

Red Eye
The Five
Ed Schultz
Hardball
Hannity

The realty shows we watch are:

Whale Wars
Sister Wives
Sons of Guns

And we are working our way through the DVD series set of Big Bang Theory. Our son is a 4.0 dweeb and he got us hooked on it...

[Benjamin Burch]

Even 'Extreme Home Makeover' with their preference for helping disabled children and other hard-luck, sob-story cases??

There is some wholesome reality TV, for sure. But a bunch of garbage, too.

[Benjamin Burch]

Think each of us bring some history to the mix. Watched House once, & he was enough of a grump, did not need more "reality." Was interesting, tho', that particular episode being about his nose sometimes diagnosing things. Can tell a bit myself via the olfactory sense ... have sometimes even surprised myself. Sooo, figured it was too bad he was such a grump, b/c otherwise, I might like it OK.

I know a lot of people who feel this way. That made the show, though. It was all one giant character development. However, I have a friend who is exactly like House, and I was his one and only good friend for most of our life growing up. I tell him I'm watching "Thomas", not "House." I swear someone met him and made a show about him.

[John Reilly]

I watched the Rifleman as a kid. I liked Lucas McCain. Also I loved Mayberry, RFD and bare footed Opie. Andy Griffith was the sheriff without a gun but with a deputy who should not have had a gun. But not a universal truth: Those who have not should, and those who have should not.

[Jon Bemis]

Our tv is resting until football returns.

[Jim Chabot]

I know a lot of people who feel this way. That made the show, though. It was all one giant character development. However, I have a friend who is exactly like House, and I was his one and only good friend for most of our life growing up. I tell him I'm watching "Thomas", not "House." I swear someone met him and made a show about him.

I'm really going to miss House, absolutely loved that show. I've got four seasons on DVD up in Maine though which should help the withdrawal pains.

No joke, one of my best friends growing up was the character that became Homer Simpson. I used to joke with him about suing Matt Groening.