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Just when you think TV Land could not sink to new depths

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chrish

Could TV Land sink any lower? During the past couple of days I have noticed major chunks of shows missing so now they can run 15 minutes of the show with 15 minutes of spots. I DVR Andy Griffith and Leave it to Beaver. This morning I noticed the Darlings kindnap Aunt Bee episode missing a fair amount of the story and spot breaks that went on infinitum.
Tonight Everyone loves Raymond "Crazy Chin" (one of the series funniest) was also missing major segments
Soon these "A Holes" will be trying to pass off a 10 minute show with 20 minutes of spots.
If I were King this is deserving of the death penalty, the more you pay in cable or satellite fees the less you get.
 
Al Timiter said:
Thank goodness for Me-TV.
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Me-TV could be better though. The shows currently airing are much too old. I'm a big fan of classic tv but I can't find a single show I like on Me. They need to bring in some shows from the 80's.
 
I like the ME. They air the total show, credits and all and don't cut scenes. Even a few commercial
breaks are just one minute promos and then............back to the show.

If you're under 40 ME may not be your thing. But it probably wouldn't hurt them to go 5 years
into the future.........and pick up some of the early 80's shows.
 
My sole exposure to TV Land is to view or record and view some "Twilight Zone" episodes I haven't seen or forgot having seen or want to see again. I played one back recently, and by fast-forwarding through the ads, it took a little less than 20 minutes to watch. All the plot elements seemed to be intact though.
 
gregg75 said:
I like the ME. They air the total show, credits and all and don't cut scenes. Even a few commercial
breaks are just one minute promos and then............back to the show.

If you're under 40 ME may not be your thing. But it probably wouldn't hurt them to go 5 years
into the future.........and pick up some of the early 80's shows.
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from the viewpoint of a 60 year old man me-tv does it just right.for the reasons mentioned in the quote.they seem not only showing the programs to make money but they have a healthy respect shown for them and as far as i can tell the shows are shown in sequence.

i likw how they don`t shrink or speed up end credits.i hate it when they speed up end credits.
 
No offense, but y'all have been complaining about how crappy TV Land is for about a half-decade now. Why to any of even watch it, anyway. There are so many alternatives now for Classic TV - broadcast, cable, internet.

Just stop watching, already.
 
I don't like how they butchered The Andy Griffith Show on TV Land either.

For instance: In the episode where Barney buys his first car, TV Land cuts the whole scene where Barney arranges everyone a seating position in his car, at least five minutes right there is gone from it. The Darlings episode where Briscoe kidnaps Aunt Bee, they cut out the part where Briscoe is singing "Lo and Lonely" to Aunt Bee at her window that night.

I wonder how TV Land is treating Murder, She Wrote. Have they cut out parts of that show? And I also wonder how long MSW will last on TV Land since the only hour show that they respect more than others (Bonanza) they show four hours of it everyday. I wouldn't be too surprised if TV Land got Matlock and is fixing to show that. Probably better programming target since it would follow TAGS if they decide to drop MSW.

Another problem with TV Land is where they drop programs after about a month or so. They showed all of the black and white Bewitched episodes and only a few episodes of the third season and then it was gone.
 
TV Land, also, does not show the end of Andy Griffith - the kicker anymore. They used to brag about how they did show it and they haven't been seen in years elsewhere. I hope the contract is running out on AGS so some other channel (ME-TV) can pick it up. I think it's time for TV Land to go away.
 
therealjm12 said:
TV Land, also, does not show the end of Andy Griffith - the kicker anymore. They used to brag about how they did show it and they haven't been seen in years elsewhere. I hope the contract is running out on AGS so some other channel (ME-TV) can pick it up. I think it's time for TV Land to go away.
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I think that TV Land shows some episodes with the kicker (the episode where Opie supposedly barned down the barn when Opie was joining the Keeper of the Flame club showed the ending where Andy gave Opie a flashlight) but they probably had to cut some of the best parts in doing so.
 
Lkeller said:
No offense, but y'all have been complaining about how crappy TV Land is for about a half-decade now. Why to any of even watch it, anyway. There are so many alternatives now for Classic TV - broadcast, cable, internet.

Just stop watching, already.

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Good point.. but I think the answer is that a lot of us indeed have quit watching it. My wife and I loved it when it started in the mid-90s.
I can safely say I have not turned it on in close to a decade. Another channel has taken a different approach to providing more commercials during their programming. "Youtoo" (which used to be American Life) now runs some of their hour long drams in an hour and 15 minutes. Just lengthen the time the show is on the air and run more spots. I don't care for it, but it sure beats the alternative.
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Why is it that all the channels, Direct TV offers me, run one or two shows into the ground and do day long marathons of them?

Personally I'm sick and tired of it.

GSN, Boomerang, Hallmark, Science Channel, WGN, Cloo TV, TV Land and now INSP are the more notorious examples .

R.D.P. <><

P.S. I'm no longer impressed with TV Land.  That channel has become a joke indeed.
 
"The more you pay for cable/satellite, the less you get", then why pay for it? With all of the money you've wasted on useless, butchered and brain dead content you could have amassed a substantial video library, allowing you to watch any episode of any of your favorite shows commercial free, uncut and full length anytime you choose. About ME - TV, at first Nick at Night and then TV Land used to be the same exact way, full length uncut epsiodes with limited commercial spots. Sometime in the near future ME - TV will most likely degenerate into the same garbage that TV Land and the rest of cableland have rotted into. Give them time.
 
Thanks for the response.

I appreciate it.

If Direct TV keeps on jacking up their price, my parents may drop them.

I might miss them for a spell but I could get over it.

TV has indeed become a vast wasteland with hardly anything to watch.

So glad I'm now rebuilding my Classical Masterpieces collection.

At least I can enjoy the beautiful melodies this timeless music offers me and get high off of it.

R.D.P. <><

P.S. To GSN: I detest Dancing With The Stars.  Wish you wouldn't carry it.  That show doesn't impress me at all.

B.T.W. And yes I can sit back and watch the many DVD's that I own too.  At least I can listen to a master narrator read from the Bible, watch exciting Bible stories and learn more about our nation's history I can also read from the various books and Bibles that I own and still use.
 
I know I just don't want TV Bland anymore. The channel lost its roots with all the modern-day programming. I just have it locked out permanently.


R.D.P. said:
If Direct TV keeps on jacking up their price, my parents may drop them.
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Happiest day of my life was dropping DirecTV!
 
A poster on the Classic TV board brought this up -- in addition to an increase in commercials, TV Land is also showing the same handful of episodes over and over again, sometimes showing the same episode again the next day in its time slot.

This ain't no way to run a cable channel.
 
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