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Name a show you think has overstayed its welcome on tv.

American Idol. Simon's tight tshirts,Paula's drunkeness,Randy's same old lingo, and Ryan Seacrest for being Ryan Seacrest are all great reasons for this show to be kicked to the curve. There is only so many times you can watch really awful people thinking that they can sing and find it funny.

Most of them.  I rarely watch tv shows. I agree about AI. All reality shows should go away.  what is that one with the two guys and the kid? I have never watched it but it seems like it has been on forever.

Every single infomercial I've ever seen. Ruining opportunities for late night movies everywhere.

Speaking of infomercials, anybody feel like throwing a rock through your TV every time you hear Billy Mays voice? AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhh   ... F&**king torture!!!!

What he said.  I don't make a point of watching any show on TV, at least not since PBS got rid of Last of the Summer Wine and started showing cartoons all day. 

My tv usually stays unplugged throughout the week, then I just watch movies at the weekend. I can't bear tv shows these days, they are just repetitive garbage.

Shows like "Gossip Girl" and the clones that are coming. I'm not a prude, but I do miss the time when being in public required a touch of manners and decorum, and people were somewhat put out by sexually promiscuity by either sex. Now it is practically branding and is glorified by these shows, and if you suggest a hint of modesty, you are denying someone their expression of self.

Sadly, I have to say "The Simpsons."  I loved the early years, but I think it ran its course long ago.  Ten seasons would have been enough.

married with children was a parody of the sort of mindless tv sitcoms that networks pushed out from the 50's to the 80's.  you'd think that would have ended that whole thing but it didn't.  they still make those horrbile family sitcoms  with the" brightly lit couch " as described in a zippy the pinhead comic once that people fight and then make up and make jokes in between.

I can't believe people still watch those thigns they aren't the least bit funny

Totally agree. I'm just as big a fan as the next guy, but the simpsons have always been good but the charm of the show has worn off. I think now all they really care about is to keep the record for the longest running cartoon going.

I love The Simpsons, but I fully can understand why you guys would want it to end since it seems to have declined over the years.  However, I still feel the show can still bring the hits with some great episodes, like The Enternal Moonshine of a Simson's Mind or something like that.

As for shows that should go away, any show that deals with a celebrity's life should go.  I don't care to know what they are up to and how much better or worse they are then me. 

Jon and Kate Plus 8 and any other show that featues screaming kids and parents exploiting them for 15 minutes of fame. 

Ozzymandias speaks: Poker After Dark! Ugh! Let's watch a bunch of people insult each other while playing cards.

After work, I need something to make me laugh. By the time I get home, the late night shows are all over. One channel runs tabloid news shows, everything else is infomercials (even the cable stations I receive). Thank God, I 've got DVDs.

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

Jag. It's like someone watched "A Few Good Men" and then said this would be a good show. If you've ever watched JAG you know that is so untrue. Jag is so cheesy. In a way I like it,but still its a car crash of a show. How it stayed on for 10 seasons is beyond me, I guess cause its military show they felt the need to leave it on.

Any kind of home improvement show that came out in the last 10 years.

Oh man I was off sick the past few days(and I was actually sick, dammit!) and daytime TV is worse than ever. They should just sign off the air until about 5pm. Even with Basic Cable there is nothing on. I guess they don't have to make good shows to make a good profit anymore.


Specifically, there are too damn many mindless talk shows. Learning ancient Sanskrit would be both more entertaining and more useful than watching Tyra or Maury or Bonnie  et al.

I used to like talk shows back in the early 90s, when they still had some variety in guests and topics. I used to enjoy Jerry Springer during the brief period after he stopped being too preachy and serious, but before his show went completely freaking nuts. For a while, talk shows were entertaining, but that didn't last.

Funny, I can't think of any current shows that have overstayed their welcome. These days, if I don't want to watch it, I just don't notice it. There's always something else to watch or something else to do. Unless something catches my interest, it stays off my radar. I usually have a few shows I make a point of following, and when they're not on, I'm watching a movie, reading or doing something constructive. I couldn't tell you what the current hit shows are.

I suppose there is The Simpsons. I used to be a big fan, but it started to run out of steam by the late 90s. To be honest, I haven't paid attention to the show for a few seasons now.

Any fake "reality" shows featuring ignorant spoiled rich kids and their incapable parents. "The Kardashians", "The Hills", etc. etc.

Also, what is with shows that take attractive women and somehow make them "stern"-looking via overdone makeup. I've never watched "Desperate Housewives" but some of those women were on other shows and very attractive. But now they look plastic. On this point, Jennifer Love Hewitt looks like Pinnochio on "The Ghost Whisperer." Makeup overkill. Sooner or later the more "natural" look will make a comeback hopefully. I still won't watch those shows though.

I can't recall too many home improvement shows in the last 10 years. I've seen lots of shows where you watch professionals do over a house with a lot of expensive stuff the sponsors provided. As far as shows where the host shows you how to do projects around your own house, I haven't seen too many. The only one I've liked is Holmes on Homes, just because it can be pretty funny watching Mike react to severely shoddy work.

I have to agree with the previous posters who said the Simpsons have overstayed their welcome. That's got to be the most glaring example - 20 years on TV and it probably should have gone out with some dignity ten years ago. I wouldn't know if they occasionally hit the mark with an episode, because I stopped watching a couple of years ago. But a good episode now and then can't make up for the fact that they've beaten the show to death and just about completely run out of ideas. Last I watched, there was one show after another that just looked like the writers were putting characters and situations together in any combination they haven't done before. And all of the characters have continued to do their same shtick, but in a way that has gotten progressively exaggerated, with any subtlety or complexity going out the window. The multi-layered and often intelligent jokes of the earlier seasons are nowhere to be seen. I've said it many times - The Simpsons has been running on pure momentum for years.

I think the Simpsons having been doing fine.  I hate it when people complain the newer seasons aren't has good as the older seasons (I fine some of the newer seasons way better than some of the old ones).  I've been watching the show since season 10 and I haven't been really disappointed with what've seen (Outside of that jazz episode in season 18).

Interestingly enough, I found some of the older seasons rather uninteresting, unfunny, and extremely overrated.  Like Season 8, everyone claims that is the best season of all times from the show, but I've watched all the episodes and I find that statement a complete lie.  Sure, the season had some fine episodes, but some episode weren't fun to watch. Especially Homer's Enemy (Hate that episode with a passion despite everyone saying it's great).  Personally, the only great old season was 5 and 6.  Season 1-2 were boring, Season 3-4 were dull and unimpressive, season 7 is lackluster, season 8 is extremely overated, season 9 was an improvement, and season 10 was awesome.

Back to the main topic, I personally don't find there any good reason to have Family Guy, American Day, most animated shows on Adult Swim, or South Park on anymore.  People say The Simpsons over stayed its welcome, I say those 3 shows overstayed their welcome.  They aren't really that funny or entertaining to watch (Personal opinion people!). 

Big Brother.


Make it stop.


Please.


 :bluesad:

Fuel TV seems to think I am as interested in wakeboarding as I am in street skating and i would tend to disagree with that assesment

the NEW Nick and Cartoonnnetwork.
Really, they need to show TV series like all that (and the 80's Nick shows, i don't know the names)
also, Law & Order. It's like on three stations! Seriously?

It's just been cancelled as of next year.  :thumbup:

Circus Circus can make your wishes come true.  Just rub his clown makeup off three times....

Personally I have never watched this show.  I do believe that it has stayed on the air because it is a terrorist plot to numb the world out of our skulls.  The terrorist will be able to take over the world much easier.   :bouncegiggle:

Later,

John

Rev Powell, sad to say, I will have to agree with you.  I loved the show in the ealier years.  I think that they are starting to stretch for stories now.  I think that they should end the show while it is still on top.

Later,

John

Maybe we could put "Jon and Kate plus eight" and "Seventeen and Counting" on "Survivor".  That would be very interesting.  Especially if we include Jon's no hoochie mama.   :buggedout:

Later,

John

I usually get sucked in by the early auditions, which are actually funny, then wind up watching the whole season. I have to admit, the classic songs they sing while competing are better than any of the crappy songs the winners are given to record afterward. And I do have to give the show credit for the powerful showbusiness machine it is, finding people who can sing, grooming them, molding them, conducting market research on them and putting them in a competition that builds them an instant fan base and pads their resumes by putting them onstage with music legends. In a couple of months, you get bankable new singing stars who are still naive and greatful for the opportunity. Diabolical. The TV show is worth more to the industry as a tool than it is as a TV show.

So it comes as no surprise that as the formula starts to get a little stale, even for a reality show, the producers are busily trying to keep it fresh. The last season had more manufactured drama than ever, and a level of tinkering that bordered on desperate. And they added the fourth judge, who was annoying even by American Idol standards, and added nothing but 33 percent more gabbing.

What has freshened the show for me is finally discovering the online critics of the show, who provide some very funny and spot-on analysis. I especially love http://www.votefortheworst.com (http://www.votefortheworst.com), where in spite of the name, they actually cheer on the most interesting contestants, while heaping abuse on the ones we are obviously being encouraged to like. Good fun. Adds a whole new dimension to the show.

Mercy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_(TV_series)) If you took a bad version of ER and added an overflowing amount of cheesy romance & storylines, you would have the awful Mercy. I wanted this show to do great because I remember watching Michelle Trachtenberg in Harriet The Spy, but after two episodes I just couldnt take it anymore.

I have to say, anything that is not music related on Mtv.  I'm sorry but The Real World and all the show like it have got to go.  Whatever happen to Yo, Mtv Raps, Headbangers Ball and MUSIC VIDEOS!!!!??????????????  What the hell happened to music videos???  At least Vh1 got some music related shows (outside those celebrity "reality" shows).  Now Mtv has My Super Sweet Sixteen and Road Rules.  I just wish the "m" in Mtv stood for music again.

If you took everything off MTV that wasnt music related that would leave about an hour of tv :)

My gripe is "Why is the same prime time tv show on 3 different channels at the same time?   :hatred:

The same could be said for a lot of specialty channels that lost their focus over the years. Remember when you could actually learn something watching The Learning Channel? Now, it seems to be all true-life drama crap that presents other people's daily lives as somehow more interesting than our own. What I wouldn't give for Connections, The Operation, or even American Chopper back when it was about building motorcycles. I don't actually mind the History Channel showing movies that bear no resemblance to history other than being set in the past. Those can be pretty good. Discovery Channel is still pretty educational, when they aren't showing sensationalized tabloid pseudo-documentaries that happen to tie in with a current movie. I have no idea exactly what the Arts and Entertainment channel is supposed to be these days. Seems to be crime shows whenever I watch it, but I suppose I was watching it mostly for the crime shows anyway, back when they had Columbo on every day. The list could go on and on.

About the only one that has remained true to its format is The Food Network, and I think that's only because there's less of a grey area. Harder to get onto that slippery slope when you don't have the intermediate steps between a show about food and a show starring people who presumably eat at some point in the day.

In Canada, The Women's Television Network offers about the clearest illustration of the slippery slope. I can't complain about that one, because it improved from my point of view. But just from looking at the movies they had in the listings, it seemed like over a couple of years in the 90s, they went from movies with strong female themes to movies with strong female leads, to movies with big female stars and eventually to movies with women in them.

Again, I probably would never have watched WTN if this hadn't happened, but not everybody has to watch every channel. I'm sure the original target audience didn't appreciate it as much. Really, why have these specialty channels if they're just going to become homogenized with everything else? It's like fast food. It used to be all right that people went to McDonald's when they felt like a Big Mac and KFC when they felt like fried chicken and home when they wanted to eat vegetables. At some point, it became necessary to please everybody all the time, rather than doing your thing extremely well for the customers who like it.

How I long for the days when McDonald's had burgers, shakes and fries (and fish for the Catholics), and the days when The Learning Channel could teach you something.