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Daytime TV

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e-dawg

Is it just me, or I find daytime TV to be boring and uneducated. The only thing is on in daytime tv are Courtroom TV drama, and Trash Talk show. Anything else is on daytime tv. The only channels that I found worthwhile watching is PBS kids.

Courtroom Drama
-The Peoples Court
-Judge Alex
-Divorce Court
-America's Court with Judge Ross
-We the people Gloria Alfred

Talk Shows
-Katie
-Anderson Cooper
-Ricki Lake
-Steve Wilkos
-Jerry Springer
-Maury
-The View
-The 4th hour of Today
-Steve Harvey
-Dr. Phil
-Dr. Oz
-The Dr's
-Ellen
-The Talk
-Wendy Williams
 
If I do watch daytime TV (not counting Antenna TV or MeTV), for me it's only game shows.

But even then, the added commercial time leaves little time for gameplay. All daytime shows, regardless of programming type, have the same amount of commercial time per hour. Waste of my time.

It reminds me of a quip on the Tom Bergeron version of Hollywood Squares---I forget which celebrity said it.....

(paraphrasing)

Tom: For every hour of TV programming, there is 15 minutes of----what?
Celeb: Actual program content!

It's sure feeling that way!

cd
 
e-dawg said:
Courtroom Drama
-The Peoples Court
-Judge Alex
-Divorce Court
-America's Court with Judge Ross
-We the people Gloria Alfred
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dont forget Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, that new one with Christina Perez too
 
nomadcowatbk said:
the educated people have jobs, unless they're stay at home parents
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*I* have a job....just not a nine-to-fiver.... :)

cd
 
Whatever the reason for Daytime TV's bland turn, you can bet it's rooted in money. Remember when Maury Povich hosted sophisticated, quality TV shows? Great shows like Current Affair must have become too expensive to produce. Look at the crap he's doing now. My suspicion is that the losers willing to sign off and appear in those whose-your-daddy dramas are cheap talent. Factor in the money-bag advertisers willing to sponsor such shows, and you have a profitable venture. Or am I just being cynical?
 
jfrancispastirchak said:
Whatever the reason for Daytime TV's bland turn, you can bet it's rooted in money. Remember when Maury Povich hosted sophisticated, quality TV shows? Great shows like Current Affair must have become too expensive to produce. Look at the crap he's doing now. My suspicion is that the losers willing to sign off and appear in those whose-your-daddy dramas are cheap talent. Factor in the money-bag advertisers willing to sponsor such shows, and you have a profitable venture. Or am I just being cynical?
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Even Jerry Springer's first few seasons were legitimate talk shows---topics to be discussed, and all that. Sad to see what has happened in this society. (Remember, even Phil Donahue came out wearing women's clothes once.)

BTW, talk shows, being cheap to produce, are one of the reasons that soap operas are going bye bye.

cd
 
cd637299 said:
jfrancispastirchak said:
Whatever the reason for Daytime TV's bland turn, you can bet it's rooted in money. Remember when Maury Povich hosted sophisticated, quality TV shows? Great shows like Current Affair must have become too expensive to produce. Look at the crap he's doing now. My suspicion is that the losers willing to sign off and appear in those whose-your-daddy dramas are cheap talent. Factor in the money-bag advertisers willing to sponsor such shows, and you have a profitable venture. Or am I just being cynical?
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Sad but true.

Even Jerry Springer's first few seasons were legitimate talk shows---topics to be discussed, and all that. Sad to see what has happened in this society. (Remember, even Phil Donahue came out wearing women's clothes once.)

BTW, talk shows, being cheap to produce, are one of the reasons that soap operas are going bye bye.

cd
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There is something to the idea that the lower production costs
of talk and courtroom shows have contributed to the near-demise
of the soaps; Procter & Gamble lost money on "Guiding Light" and
"As The World Turns" for years, and the two shows were cutting
personnel right and left in their last years. Likewise, "All My Children"
moved to LA because the union rates were cheaper than in New York
(not that it saved the show). And you may have noticed that all four
remaining soaps are taped in LA.
 
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