Is television dying?

Question

Dodgy phone-in competitions, framing the queen, lying about old geezers dying onscreen, etc etc etc.

Blimey Charlie! Television isn't very good recently is it?

What do you think? Has it always been as bad as this (and we just didn't know it before)? Is it trying to be more edgy because it's "old media" to the internet's "new media"? Is its useful life-expectancy running out? What on earth is going on eh?

Answer 1

Its the beeb dumbing everthing down that's the problem. The BBC used to set the standard, now it copies the junk from the comercial stations.

What is frustrating is when they get a good format like "the apprentice", and instead of improving on it, they turn it into a sad version of "big brother". Question Time, would be much better if it wasn't scripted to match the news. Chat show hosts should be interviewing real people not each other and d-list celebs.

So why has it gone bad? I think its because of all the incompetent women in charge. They always want to play safe, show lots of contrived bitchyness and drive us nuts with disgusting pink and blue backgrounds. They have done it to Radio as well. The Archers is now Eastenders in disguise.

Answer 2

Put it this way, if the tv licence folk came knocking they are unlikely to catch me out. Most of the stuff I watch you can get on the net. Plus tv has gotten rubbish. I only really watched the history channel anyhow. TV has been rumbled for conning folk and they would have a hard time prosecuting for tv licence evasion when they have been conning the public out of millions. Their reputation is down the swanny and they know it.
Remember the tune video killed the radio star?
It should now read internet killed the tv star
ha ha ha ha ha
...I predict internet licences within 2 years.

Answer 3

What we have here in UK is what is known as the Thatcher generation. Kids born in the 1970s now starting to take over and run things.

These kids grew up in a climate of Thatcherite self. Self serving, selfish, self greed and just plain me, me, me. They are completely without morals and have infiltrated the bastions of such as the BBC and other companies.

Their aim is to get rich quick at someone elses expence, we the public who are daft enough to phone in to an expensive 0900 number in the hope we might win something or get invited to the studio to take part.

This sort of greedy corruption is now widespread in society and people think it is normal. It is not.

Let me explain! I was born in 1941 and grew up in a UK which had extremely high standards of honesty. A gentleman in the City of London buying shares would simply say, "I'll pay you tomorrow, my word is my bond" and he would. It was accepted in English Law as a verbal contract.

Today too many people just lie and cheat. And it's not the guy who owns the corner shop, who is as honest as the day is long; no, it's people who we ought to be able to trust but now know that we cannot.

Does anyone really trust the TV broadcasters any more? Just how widespread is this problem of cheating?

I heard on the news yesterday of some thieving woman in London who put fake holiday deals on e-bay. She ripped people off to the tune of £45,000. She got a short jail sentence. Why? People like her should go to jail for at least 10 years, with no chance of parole what-so-ever. I mean it. Make an example!

Answer 4

It has gone from Big Brother downwards. It speaks for it self when the unknown participants are then declared to be celebrities - For doing what ? Without DVD old films I suspect most of the time we would be back to the ' Test Card ' for most of the day.

Answer 5

well i havent watched telly properly for about 6 months has i can never find anything interesting to watch, im not into the soaps, the documentaries used to be good, but not anymore and the reality shows are all going over the top. i find it more interesting to go out and buy all the good old series that used to be out in the 80s and watch those, magnum, t.j.hooker etc! im only young but todays telly is very boring!!!!!

Answer 6

Television isn't dying, it's adapting. In America, many people have dozens and dozens of stations to choose from. That means that networks have to take chances in order to grab a declining share of the audience. Some times, OK, a lot of the time, those chances don't work out.

Television is still everywhere, and will be indefinitely.

Answer 7

I believe that TV & the Computer- are in the process of "Morphing" into ONE entity. Pretty soon we'll ALL be able to watch "TV" on our Computers, and sign onto the Internet- on our TVs!!! -Afterwhich we'll only have ONE- or the other, to do the SAME thing.

Answer 8

If you are not into phone ins & reality tv theres not much more, a lot of these progs are fake anyway, its going downmarket more & more, but if thats what the people want, thats what the people will get.

Answer 9

I have over 150 channels and all but about 5 of them is junk. We are sure being taken for a ride by the cable and satellite services.

Answer 10

no just that the people who do the programing seem to have lost touch with what people would like to watch.why are" reality programs" so unlike the real world.bring back the wooden tops.ooo they have they are all producers now.ha well back to my magic roundabout videos goodbye florence said zebadee ----