has anyone else noticed this about nick at nite?

Question

In the last five or so years, Nick at Nite has gone from playing shows from the 50's, 60's, 70's, maybe early 80's...truly old, classic shows...to playing shows that originally aired as recently as 10 years ago (Roseanne's last season was in 1997). I mean, yeah, most of these are good shows that will become/are classics, but did they have to completely do away with the REAL classics that have earned the title? Pretty much the only shows that come on now are Roseanne, Fresh Prince, Cosby, Full House, and Growing Pains. Yeah, yeah, there's TV Land, but then TV Land started coming up with its own original shows...and it doesn't really evenly mix in the OLD shows that people still want to see, like I Love Lucy. Has anyone esle noticed this? Does anyone else just think that Designing Women is NOT a substitute for Facts of Life...and Facts of Life not a substitute for Bewitched (just for example)?

Answer 1

I have to agree 1000% with what you said. I was born in the 1980's and remember ALL the episodes almost word for word for the shows airing on Nick at Nite now. The entire lineup is a joke. I can say I enjoyed when Designing Women and Murphy Brown came on as Lifetime chunked them, but then N@N only showed them for about 3 months and killed them too.

TV Land is just as bad, the shows they have the rights to keep showing the same episodes over and over and they never show them in order.

My theory about N@N is that they assume people my age (mid 20's or later) are at home married now and have nothing on TV to watch so they want to relive their youth. The only way I'd relive my youth is if they'd bring back DW, Facts, Diffren't Strokes and Kate and Allie, then I'd love N@N again.

If I have to see Full House once more, I'm going to vomit. It airs on N@N and ABC Family.

Answer 2

I totally and completely agree. Does anyone remember the N@N Summer Block Party... Where Monday-Friday from seven (when Nickelodeon went off) until 11, they'd show eight episodes of classic TV shows... Like there was I Love Lucy Tuesdays and Bewitched Wednesdays and I Dream Of Jeannie Thursdays... I remember SBP most of all, because it coincided with the times when Stick Stickley was on Nickelodeon.. During summer break from school... *sighs, filled with nostalgia, and longing for an easier time*... Anyways, granted, I loved Golden Girls, Designing Women, Fresh Prince, The Cosby Show, and Roseanne... But whatever happened to honest-to-goodness classics like The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mork and Mindy, Mary Tyler Moore, Happy Days, All In The Family, Mister Ed, Newhart, Dragnet, Get Smart, The Munsters, Taxi, Laverne and Shirley, WKRP in Cincinnati, The Wonder Years, The Addams Family, The Odd Couple, Green Acres, Lassie, Flipper, The Monkees, Car 54: Where Are You, and Welcome Back Kotter!?!?... They just don't make TV like they used to... I noticed that they did the same thing with AMC though.. They used to play all the really good oldie movies from the 30's-60's.. And now all they play is 80's and newer... "The New Classics"... Blah, that's an oxymoron that I can't stand.. So all the good old movies got moved to TCM, which is about as mediocre as TV Land.

Answer 3

I agree... I think it "jumped the shark" when they started to show series that are actually newer than Nick at Nite itself.

I mean, they're now showing series that were airing around the same time as current shows. The Simpsons actually came out 9 months before "Fresh Prince". Law & Order came out at the same time as FP.

Now I learn that they're actually going to show "Friends" in a few years.

Answer 4

Yeah! I love Roseanne but don't care much for the last couple of seasons. Love Cosby too. I have been wondering myself, WHAT THE HECK ARE THEY DOING! WHAT HAPPENED! I thought it was suppose to be classics & oldies but goodies. They sure are messing up!

Answer 5

I only like the Fresh Prince and yeah i've noticed that too. Maybe they change things around because a lot of people aren't watching it. I think they don't even put sister sister anymore. Or is that from Disney? oh w/e

Answer 6

Yeah I completely agree, I mean the shows have been getting newer and newer, I think it's because they are getting desperate and need more viewers to watch their channel and they're hoping newer shows will help them, but it's pretty much backfired...perhaps we should write them an email?

Answer 7

Ya and this is ageing, George Lopez is hella humorous, yet Nick-@-night is over-doing it, I advise c'mon "success of the Lopez", it is not clever pondering he's Latino and not Irish...