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T.V hold a special place in people’s lives.
There is an old saying which goes, ‘They don’t make them like they used to’, but with regards to television today it is sadly true.
Perhaps, like many other people of my generation (aged 20 & upwards) I see older t.v as the golden age of programming, with too much reminiscence on good days gone by.
But with the sad state of t.v today, what are this generation of couch potatoes going to look back on?
Sure, there is still good t.v being made, award-winning shows like The West Wing, The Sopranos & The X-Files show that modern t.v can have pedigree.
However, I’m talking about the real memorable shows of years ago.
These cult t.v shows can be separated into distinct categories: kids/cartoons, action/adventure and comedy.
Firstly then, the kids t.v/cartoons:
Fact: kids t.v today is rubbish (apart from the odd Japanese anime) and it’s not just because I have grown out of cartoons because I haven’t.
I regularly watch anime, and I have younger brothers & sisters who watch lots of today’s shows, so I’m still in touch. (And I’ve never really grown up!)
Remember the cartoons of yesteryear? Transformers, G.I.Joe, He-Man, Thundercats, Cities of Gold & the hundreds of others I could reel off.
Many of those cartoons, He-Man especially, had strong moral messages & lessons, teachings that today’s t.v sadly lack. Where is the 21st century equivalent of He-Man?
What good cartoons are there today? None spring to mind. L
Where have all the funny puppets gone?
We had The Muppets in their prime, Fraggle Rock, ALF, Gordon The Gopher, and who can forget the Rainbow crew?
Take Rainbow for instance, it was such a simple concept: a man, Geoffrey, his three puppet friends (Bungle the camp bear, George the even camper hippo and Zippy the??? whatever), and his musical buddies Rod, Jane & Freddie (who always seemed to have matching clothes). They told stories, sung songs, played games and learnt important moral lessons about things like sharing & caring, but most of all, they had a lot of fun. (Thank God for the new Rainbow dvds eh.)
Why can’t we have this format again?
There was an attempt to revive Rainbow a few years ago, but it was awful.
People on t.v these days are too interested in their image and their so-called street-cred.
Was Geoffrey from Rainbow ever image conscious? No, he was always dressing up & playing the fool in his pink shirts and yellow trousers, talking to puppets.
The only kid’s t.v personalities around today who aren’t image conscious are the Chuckle Brothers. (But I do have a soft spot for Paul & Barry Chuckle and their accident-prone capers.)
Action/adventure:
We had The A-Team, Magnum P.I, Knightrider, Miami Vice, Starsky & Hutch, Minder and even older shows like The Persuaders, The Man From UNCLE, Batman and The Prisoner.
These shows all had great quirks and interesting characters.
The A-Team: Four Vietnam veterans wrongfully accused of robbing the bank of Hanoi, fight crime and injustice, while on the run from the U.S Army and Government officials.
Hannibal, the leader, chomps on cigars, master of disguise who always loved it when a plan came together.
B.A Baracus, tough talking (& acting) sucka, who drank milk, wore vast amounts of gold and could make anything out of a few pieces of scrap metal and told kids to go to school and choose education over drugs.
Face the suave ladies man and con artist.
And Murdock the mental pilot, who lives in the nut house.
They had a cool van and always got out of a tight scrape by using ingenuity and resourcefulness.
Magnum P.I: Set in Hawaii, cool Ferrari, Tom Selleck’s moustache, mysterious benefactor (Robin Masters) who lets magnum stay in his luxury mansion, butler called Higgins who owns two killer dogs called Zeus & Apollo. (And heh, Tom Selleck was the first choice to play Indiana Jones!)
Knightrider: More crime fighting, cool talking car and David Hasslehoff’s leather jacket & wonder head of fuzzy brown hair.
Miami Vice: Two charismatic leads in Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett who had designer stubble, wore no socks and had an alligator named Elvis, and Philip Michael Thomas (the man with 3 first names!) as Ricardo Tubbs.
They wore designer suits (with the sleeves rolled up) and drove cool sports cars.
The Persuaders: Another two charismatic leads, Roger Moore as the upper crust Lord Brett Sinclair, and Tony Curtis as the Brooklyn born tough guy.
Chalk and cheese, globetrotting, crime solving playboys.
Together with another two cool cars (pattern developing) and there was always loads fisty-cuffs.
All these shows had great theme tunes and fairly similar formulas.
I was unlucky enough to see Team Knightrider a couple of years ago, and I’m still in therapy trying to get over how bad it was!
Why can’t we have some good new adventure series? A charismatic lead or two, cool cars, comic book violence, hammy villains and a sense of humour and fun.
Finally, Comedy:
We had Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, the best years of Only Fools & Horses, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Cheers, Happy Days, ALF and Different Strokes etc.
There has been some good comedy over the years, Father Ted, The Fast Show (but the last couple of series have been a let down) & of course One Foot in the Grave, but apart from that, today’s comedies are unfunny scripts acted by unfunny people.
Most of the sitcoms ITV & BBC have churned out over the last couple of years have been pathetic, and an insult to people who like funny comedy.
Take Friends for instance, huge success, but it’s not funny. Smarmy, annoying morons who think they’re hilarious, I’ve never laughed at Friends at all, the only people that do are probably 12 year old girls who love Pop Idol or Big Brother.
My family would prefer to watch thing like Fawlty Towers or Blackadder on dvd instead of trash like Friends.
I know this post may sound a little bleak towards t.v today, but that’s how I see it.
Thank heavens that most of the old shows have been or going to be released on dvd.
I do feel sorry for the t.v loving kids of today, because they will never have it as good as we did. In ten years time, when they look back at their childhood t.v memories what will they have to look back on? Not as much good stuff as we did.
Is it just that t.v 10 or 20 years ago was so good, or is that t.v today is so bad?
Has it lost its innocence and it’s sense of fun?
Thanks for reading my rather long t.v rant.
I’d like to hear other peoples ideas/opinions or if you disagree, and think t.v today is good.
There is an old saying which goes, ‘They don’t make them like they used to’, but with regards to television today it is sadly true.
Perhaps, like many other people of my generation (aged 20 & upwards) I see older t.v as the golden age of programming, with too much reminiscence on good days gone by.
But with the sad state of t.v today, what are this generation of couch potatoes going to look back on?
Sure, there is still good t.v being made, award-winning shows like The West Wing, The Sopranos & The X-Files show that modern t.v can have pedigree.
However, I’m talking about the real memorable shows of years ago.
These cult t.v shows can be separated into distinct categories: kids/cartoons, action/adventure and comedy.
Firstly then, the kids t.v/cartoons:
Fact: kids t.v today is rubbish (apart from the odd Japanese anime) and it’s not just because I have grown out of cartoons because I haven’t.
I regularly watch anime, and I have younger brothers & sisters who watch lots of today’s shows, so I’m still in touch. (And I’ve never really grown up!)
Remember the cartoons of yesteryear? Transformers, G.I.Joe, He-Man, Thundercats, Cities of Gold & the hundreds of others I could reel off.
Many of those cartoons, He-Man especially, had strong moral messages & lessons, teachings that today’s t.v sadly lack. Where is the 21st century equivalent of He-Man?
What good cartoons are there today? None spring to mind. L
Where have all the funny puppets gone?
We had The Muppets in their prime, Fraggle Rock, ALF, Gordon The Gopher, and who can forget the Rainbow crew?
Take Rainbow for instance, it was such a simple concept: a man, Geoffrey, his three puppet friends (Bungle the camp bear, George the even camper hippo and Zippy the??? whatever), and his musical buddies Rod, Jane & Freddie (who always seemed to have matching clothes). They told stories, sung songs, played games and learnt important moral lessons about things like sharing & caring, but most of all, they had a lot of fun. (Thank God for the new Rainbow dvds eh.)
Why can’t we have this format again?
There was an attempt to revive Rainbow a few years ago, but it was awful.
People on t.v these days are too interested in their image and their so-called street-cred.
Was Geoffrey from Rainbow ever image conscious? No, he was always dressing up & playing the fool in his pink shirts and yellow trousers, talking to puppets.
The only kid’s t.v personalities around today who aren’t image conscious are the Chuckle Brothers. (But I do have a soft spot for Paul & Barry Chuckle and their accident-prone capers.)
Action/adventure:
We had The A-Team, Magnum P.I, Knightrider, Miami Vice, Starsky & Hutch, Minder and even older shows like The Persuaders, The Man From UNCLE, Batman and The Prisoner.
These shows all had great quirks and interesting characters.
The A-Team: Four Vietnam veterans wrongfully accused of robbing the bank of Hanoi, fight crime and injustice, while on the run from the U.S Army and Government officials.
Hannibal, the leader, chomps on cigars, master of disguise who always loved it when a plan came together.
B.A Baracus, tough talking (& acting) sucka, who drank milk, wore vast amounts of gold and could make anything out of a few pieces of scrap metal and told kids to go to school and choose education over drugs.
Face the suave ladies man and con artist.
And Murdock the mental pilot, who lives in the nut house.
They had a cool van and always got out of a tight scrape by using ingenuity and resourcefulness.
Magnum P.I: Set in Hawaii, cool Ferrari, Tom Selleck’s moustache, mysterious benefactor (Robin Masters) who lets magnum stay in his luxury mansion, butler called Higgins who owns two killer dogs called Zeus & Apollo. (And heh, Tom Selleck was the first choice to play Indiana Jones!)
Knightrider: More crime fighting, cool talking car and David Hasslehoff’s leather jacket & wonder head of fuzzy brown hair.
Miami Vice: Two charismatic leads in Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett who had designer stubble, wore no socks and had an alligator named Elvis, and Philip Michael Thomas (the man with 3 first names!) as Ricardo Tubbs.
They wore designer suits (with the sleeves rolled up) and drove cool sports cars.
The Persuaders: Another two charismatic leads, Roger Moore as the upper crust Lord Brett Sinclair, and Tony Curtis as the Brooklyn born tough guy.
Chalk and cheese, globetrotting, crime solving playboys.
Together with another two cool cars (pattern developing) and there was always loads fisty-cuffs.
All these shows had great theme tunes and fairly similar formulas.
I was unlucky enough to see Team Knightrider a couple of years ago, and I’m still in therapy trying to get over how bad it was!
Why can’t we have some good new adventure series? A charismatic lead or two, cool cars, comic book violence, hammy villains and a sense of humour and fun.
Finally, Comedy:
We had Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, the best years of Only Fools & Horses, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Cheers, Happy Days, ALF and Different Strokes etc.
There has been some good comedy over the years, Father Ted, The Fast Show (but the last couple of series have been a let down) & of course One Foot in the Grave, but apart from that, today’s comedies are unfunny scripts acted by unfunny people.
Most of the sitcoms ITV & BBC have churned out over the last couple of years have been pathetic, and an insult to people who like funny comedy.
Take Friends for instance, huge success, but it’s not funny. Smarmy, annoying morons who think they’re hilarious, I’ve never laughed at Friends at all, the only people that do are probably 12 year old girls who love Pop Idol or Big Brother.
My family would prefer to watch thing like Fawlty Towers or Blackadder on dvd instead of trash like Friends.
I know this post may sound a little bleak towards t.v today, but that’s how I see it.
Thank heavens that most of the old shows have been or going to be released on dvd.
I do feel sorry for the t.v loving kids of today, because they will never have it as good as we did. In ten years time, when they look back at their childhood t.v memories what will they have to look back on? Not as much good stuff as we did.
Is it just that t.v 10 or 20 years ago was so good, or is that t.v today is so bad?
Has it lost its innocence and it’s sense of fun?
Thanks for reading my rather long t.v rant.
I’d like to hear other peoples ideas/opinions or if you disagree, and think t.v today is good.
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The A-Team.
One of the single best programmes ever made, ever.
You had action & adventure each week, with a story that wrapped up neatly.
And the stories were always about simple folk being hassled by "The Man" for some injustice. Honest people that were exploited by (usually) corporations or evil property tycoons.
And the characters, like you said were fantastic.
And the best, the only, the true icon Mr T.
This guy broke stereotypes and moulds without us even realising it.
We were kids, it didn't enter into our heads that he was anything other than B.A Baracus.
But he was one of the earliest black heros on television.
I don't mean the comical character that was the butt of jokes, this guy was up front and fighting for people's rights.
But us little kids didn't go "No, a black man is helping"
We used to fight over who got to be BA when me and my mates played The A-Team, because he was cool.
That's one of the reasons most people I know could never, ever be racist - Because we worshipped Mr T.
And he used to be angry to everyone but the kids.
He loved kids and used to befriend them and help them out, tell them to drink milk & stay in school to learn stuff.
He always had a lesson to teach a kid, and that kid listened.
And so did we kids watching.
And Mr T was just like that in real life.
He put most of his money into youth centres in the projects and funded special schools for inner-city kids.
And when he developed cancer, every school in the L.A district had a colletion for him to help pay for treatment.
And Mr T is so hard that he beat cancer and is back making tv appearances.
This man is a goddamn hero to millions.
And why The A Team is an all-time classic show.
LONG LIVE THE A-TEAM!
One of the single best programmes ever made, ever.
You had action & adventure each week, with a story that wrapped up neatly.
And the stories were always about simple folk being hassled by "The Man" for some injustice. Honest people that were exploited by (usually) corporations or evil property tycoons.
And the characters, like you said were fantastic.
And the best, the only, the true icon Mr T.
This guy broke stereotypes and moulds without us even realising it.
We were kids, it didn't enter into our heads that he was anything other than B.A Baracus.
But he was one of the earliest black heros on television.
I don't mean the comical character that was the butt of jokes, this guy was up front and fighting for people's rights.
But us little kids didn't go "No, a black man is helping"
We used to fight over who got to be BA when me and my mates played The A-Team, because he was cool.
That's one of the reasons most people I know could never, ever be racist - Because we worshipped Mr T.
And he used to be angry to everyone but the kids.
He loved kids and used to befriend them and help them out, tell them to drink milk & stay in school to learn stuff.
He always had a lesson to teach a kid, and that kid listened.
And so did we kids watching.
And Mr T was just like that in real life.
He put most of his money into youth centres in the projects and funded special schools for inner-city kids.
And when he developed cancer, every school in the L.A district had a colletion for him to help pay for treatment.
And Mr T is so hard that he beat cancer and is back making tv appearances.
This man is a goddamn hero to millions.
And why The A Team is an all-time classic show.
LONG LIVE THE A-TEAM!
T.V hold a special place in people’s lives.
There is an old saying which goes, ‘They don’t make them like they used to’, but with regards to television today it is sadly true.
Perhaps, like many other people of my generation (aged 20 & upwards) I see older t.v as the golden age of programming, with too much reminiscence on good days gone by.
But with the sad state of t.v today, what are this generation of couch potatoes going to look back on?
Sure, there is still good t.v being made, award-winning shows like The West Wing, The Sopranos & The X-Files show that modern t.v can have pedigree.
However, I’m talking about the real memorable shows of years ago.
These cult t.v shows can be separated into distinct categories: kids/cartoons, action/adventure and comedy.
Firstly then, the kids t.v/cartoons:
Fact: kids t.v today is rubbish (apart from the odd Japanese anime) and it’s not just because I have grown out of cartoons because I haven’t.
I regularly watch anime, and I have younger brothers & sisters who watch lots of today’s shows, so I’m still in touch. (And I’ve never really grown up!)
Remember the cartoons of yesteryear? Transformers, G.I.Joe, He-Man, Thundercats, Cities of Gold & the hundreds of others I could reel off.
Many of those cartoons, He-Man especially, had strong moral messages & lessons, teachings that today’s t.v sadly lack. Where is the 21st century equivalent of He-Man?
What good cartoons are there today? None spring to mind. L
Where have all the funny puppets gone?
We had The Muppets in their prime, Fraggle Rock, ALF, Gordon The Gopher, and who can forget the Rainbow crew?
Take Rainbow for instance, it was such a simple concept: a man, Geoffrey, his three puppet friends (Bungle the camp bear, George the even camper hippo and Zippy the??? whatever), and his musical buddies Rod, Jane & Freddie (who always seemed to have matching clothes). They told stories, sung songs, played games and learnt important moral lessons about things like sharing & caring, but most of all, they had a lot of fun. (Thank God for the new Rainbow dvds eh.)
Why can’t we have this format again?
There was an attempt to revive Rainbow a few years ago, but it was awful.
People on t.v these days are too interested in their image and their so-called street-cred.
Was Geoffrey from Rainbow ever image conscious? No, he was always dressing up & playing the fool in his pink shirts and yellow trousers, talking to puppets.
The only kid’s t.v personalities around today who aren’t image conscious are the Chuckle Brothers. (But I do have a soft spot for Paul & Barry Chuckle and their accident-prone capers.)
Action/adventure:
We had The A-Team, Magnum P.I, Knightrider, Miami Vice, Starsky & Hutch, Minder and even older shows like The Persuaders, The Man From UNCLE, Batman and The Prisoner.
These shows all had great quirks and interesting characters.
The A-Team: Four Vietnam veterans wrongfully accused of robbing the bank of Hanoi, fight crime and injustice, while on the run from the U.S Army and Government officials.
Hannibal, the leader, chomps on cigars, master of disguise who always loved it when a plan came together.
B.A Baracus, tough talking (& acting) sucka, who drank milk, wore vast amounts of gold and could make anything out of a few pieces of scrap metal and told kids to go to school and choose education over drugs.
Face the suave ladies man and con artist.
And Murdock the mental pilot, who lives in the nut house.
They had a cool van and always got out of a tight scrape by using ingenuity and resourcefulness.
Magnum P.I: Set in Hawaii, cool Ferrari, Tom Selleck’s moustache, mysterious benefactor (Robin Masters) who lets magnum stay in his luxury mansion, butler called Higgins who owns two killer dogs called Zeus & Apollo. (And heh, Tom Selleck was the first choice to play Indiana Jones!)
Knightrider: More crime fighting, cool talking car and David Hasslehoff’s leather jacket & wonder head of fuzzy brown hair.
Miami Vice: Two charismatic leads in Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett who had designer stubble, wore no socks and had an alligator named Elvis, and Philip Michael Thomas (the man with 3 first names!) as Ricardo Tubbs.
They wore designer suits (with the sleeves rolled up) and drove cool sports cars.
The Persuaders: Another two charismatic leads, Roger Moore as the upper crust Lord Brett Sinclair, and Tony Curtis as the Brooklyn born tough guy.
Chalk and cheese, globetrotting, crime solving playboys.
Together with another two cool cars (pattern developing) and there was always loads fisty-cuffs.
All these shows had great theme tunes and fairly similar formulas.
I was unlucky enough to see Team Knightrider a couple of years ago, and I’m still in therapy trying to get over how bad it was!
Why can’t we have some good new adventure series? A charismatic lead or two, cool cars, comic book violence, hammy villains and a sense of humour and fun.
Finally, Comedy:
We had Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, the best years of Only Fools & Horses, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Cheers, Happy Days, ALF and Different Strokes etc.
There has been some good comedy over the years, Father Ted, The Fast Show (but the last couple of series have been a let down) & of course One Foot in the Grave, but apart from that, today’s comedies are unfunny scripts acted by unfunny people.
Most of the sitcoms ITV & BBC have churned out over the last couple of years have been pathetic, and an insult to people who like funny comedy.
Take Friends for instance, huge success, but it’s not funny. Smarmy, annoying morons who think they’re hilarious, I’ve never laughed at Friends at all, the only people that do are probably 12 year old girls who love Pop Idol or Big Brother.
My family would prefer to watch thing like Fawlty Towers or Blackadder on dvd instead of trash like Friends.
I know this post may sound a little bleak towards t.v today, but that’s how I see it.
Thank heavens that most of the old shows have been or going to be released on dvd.
I do feel sorry for the t.v loving kids of today, because they will never have it as good as we did. In ten years time, when they look back at their childhood t.v memories what will they have to look back on? Not as much good stuff as we did.
Is it just that t.v 10 or 20 years ago was so good, or is that t.v today is so bad?
Has it lost its innocence and it’s sense of fun?
Thanks for reading my rather long t.v rant.
I’d like to hear other peoples ideas/opinions or if you disagree, and think t.v today is good.
There is an old saying which goes, ‘They don’t make them like they used to’, but with regards to television today it is sadly true.
Perhaps, like many other people of my generation (aged 20 & upwards) I see older t.v as the golden age of programming, with too much reminiscence on good days gone by.
But with the sad state of t.v today, what are this generation of couch potatoes going to look back on?
Sure, there is still good t.v being made, award-winning shows like The West Wing, The Sopranos & The X-Files show that modern t.v can have pedigree.
However, I’m talking about the real memorable shows of years ago.
These cult t.v shows can be separated into distinct categories: kids/cartoons, action/adventure and comedy.
Firstly then, the kids t.v/cartoons:
Fact: kids t.v today is rubbish (apart from the odd Japanese anime) and it’s not just because I have grown out of cartoons because I haven’t.
I regularly watch anime, and I have younger brothers & sisters who watch lots of today’s shows, so I’m still in touch. (And I’ve never really grown up!)
Remember the cartoons of yesteryear? Transformers, G.I.Joe, He-Man, Thundercats, Cities of Gold & the hundreds of others I could reel off.
Many of those cartoons, He-Man especially, had strong moral messages & lessons, teachings that today’s t.v sadly lack. Where is the 21st century equivalent of He-Man?
What good cartoons are there today? None spring to mind. L
Where have all the funny puppets gone?
We had The Muppets in their prime, Fraggle Rock, ALF, Gordon The Gopher, and who can forget the Rainbow crew?
Take Rainbow for instance, it was such a simple concept: a man, Geoffrey, his three puppet friends (Bungle the camp bear, George the even camper hippo and Zippy the??? whatever), and his musical buddies Rod, Jane & Freddie (who always seemed to have matching clothes). They told stories, sung songs, played games and learnt important moral lessons about things like sharing & caring, but most of all, they had a lot of fun. (Thank God for the new Rainbow dvds eh.)
Why can’t we have this format again?
There was an attempt to revive Rainbow a few years ago, but it was awful.
People on t.v these days are too interested in their image and their so-called street-cred.
Was Geoffrey from Rainbow ever image conscious? No, he was always dressing up & playing the fool in his pink shirts and yellow trousers, talking to puppets.
The only kid’s t.v personalities around today who aren’t image conscious are the Chuckle Brothers. (But I do have a soft spot for Paul & Barry Chuckle and their accident-prone capers.)
Action/adventure:
We had The A-Team, Magnum P.I, Knightrider, Miami Vice, Starsky & Hutch, Minder and even older shows like The Persuaders, The Man From UNCLE, Batman and The Prisoner.
These shows all had great quirks and interesting characters.
The A-Team: Four Vietnam veterans wrongfully accused of robbing the bank of Hanoi, fight crime and injustice, while on the run from the U.S Army and Government officials.
Hannibal, the leader, chomps on cigars, master of disguise who always loved it when a plan came together.
B.A Baracus, tough talking (& acting) sucka, who drank milk, wore vast amounts of gold and could make anything out of a few pieces of scrap metal and told kids to go to school and choose education over drugs.
Face the suave ladies man and con artist.
And Murdock the mental pilot, who lives in the nut house.
They had a cool van and always got out of a tight scrape by using ingenuity and resourcefulness.
Magnum P.I: Set in Hawaii, cool Ferrari, Tom Selleck’s moustache, mysterious benefactor (Robin Masters) who lets magnum stay in his luxury mansion, butler called Higgins who owns two killer dogs called Zeus & Apollo. (And heh, Tom Selleck was the first choice to play Indiana Jones!)
Knightrider: More crime fighting, cool talking car and David Hasslehoff’s leather jacket & wonder head of fuzzy brown hair.
Miami Vice: Two charismatic leads in Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett who had designer stubble, wore no socks and had an alligator named Elvis, and Philip Michael Thomas (the man with 3 first names!) as Ricardo Tubbs.
They wore designer suits (with the sleeves rolled up) and drove cool sports cars.
The Persuaders: Another two charismatic leads, Roger Moore as the upper crust Lord Brett Sinclair, and Tony Curtis as the Brooklyn born tough guy.
Chalk and cheese, globetrotting, crime solving playboys.
Together with another two cool cars (pattern developing) and there was always loads fisty-cuffs.
All these shows had great theme tunes and fairly similar formulas.
I was unlucky enough to see Team Knightrider a couple of years ago, and I’m still in therapy trying to get over how bad it was!
Why can’t we have some good new adventure series? A charismatic lead or two, cool cars, comic book violence, hammy villains and a sense of humour and fun.
Finally, Comedy:
We had Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, the best years of Only Fools & Horses, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Cheers, Happy Days, ALF and Different Strokes etc.
There has been some good comedy over the years, Father Ted, The Fast Show (but the last couple of series have been a let down) & of course One Foot in the Grave, but apart from that, today’s comedies are unfunny scripts acted by unfunny people.
Most of the sitcoms ITV & BBC have churned out over the last couple of years have been pathetic, and an insult to people who like funny comedy.
Take Friends for instance, huge success, but it’s not funny. Smarmy, annoying morons who think they’re hilarious, I’ve never laughed at Friends at all, the only people that do are probably 12 year old girls who love Pop Idol or Big Brother.
My family would prefer to watch thing like Fawlty Towers or Blackadder on dvd instead of trash like Friends.
I know this post may sound a little bleak towards t.v today, but that’s how I see it.
Thank heavens that most of the old shows have been or going to be released on dvd.
I do feel sorry for the t.v loving kids of today, because they will never have it as good as we did. In ten years time, when they look back at their childhood t.v memories what will they have to look back on? Not as much good stuff as we did.
Is it just that t.v 10 or 20 years ago was so good, or is that t.v today is so bad?
Has it lost its innocence and it’s sense of fun?
Thanks for reading my rather long t.v rant.
I’d like to hear other peoples ideas/opinions or if you disagree, and think t.v today is good.
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