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Nick At Nite: Rest In Peace

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Braves2005

Looks like we might have a burial tonight of Nick at Nite thanks to what I just saw: No, not a classic show, but what do I see????

A movie!!! ::) ???

Grease with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John :eek:

This movie has been shown on ABC Family, AMC, TNT, etc. in the past few months.

I would like to just bury Nick at Nite and all the Viacom channels into the ground right now.

Comments, please.
 
younger audiences count, older audiences don't. Besides N@N and TVL killed themselves off some time ago ago, when they changed their original formats .
 
You're so right on that point. Nick at Nite and TVL signed their own death warrants with the format change. All that's left now is for the bodies to be carted off.
 
Both Nick@Nite and TVBland have taken their dirtnap for good as far as I'm concerned. The stuff they program now is utter dreck. I've already started to petition my local tv provider to find something like RetroTV to put on their lineup. If nothing else I'm just going to delete both channels from the receiver's programming so I don't even have to see a listing for them.

Two words for N@N and TV-Bland - utterly worthless!
 
The local TV guide and even some of the sites on the web did not even show Grease as Nick at Nite's programming for last night. They just showed the listing for the every night marathon of Fresh Prince.

Which brings me to the question of what will Nick at Nite do next besides showing George Lopez which will be shown every night on all local stations including Nick at Nite and on some locals, twice a night, and the upcoming ad nauseam all night showings of Home Improvement. Showing reruns of MTV's Cribs? More movies? Reruns of The Osbournes? Reruns of Jackass?

Nick at Nite (and other stations in the Viacom family for that matter) became a joke long ago when they started airing 90's sitcoms and then showing them ad nauseam the past couple of years. Every night the same thing, Full House-Roseanne-Fresh Prince, and now add Home Improvement to this. That's why I don't watch Nick at Nite anymore, I was just flipping channels on the remote and saw Grease and I said, What The...?
 
Nick at Nite is PRINCE at Nite....as in Fresh Prince of Bellaire and it sucks to high heaven.
I couldn't care less if Comcast took it off my line up. The only other good show is Roseanne.
The rest of it bites.
 
I liked them years ago when they made a great effort to go retro and was quite unique as well. They stood out. I remember when I watched more of Nick than the standard networks. They once had a great lineup of old shows. Not anymore though. Now they're just as bland as the rest of channels. No surprises.
It's so frustrating that there's such a wealth of old TV shows (old meaning "old"; 50s,60s and 70s old), that are now long gone and never getting airtime anywhere. I thought TVLand would have successfully brought some of them back.
 
TV Land needs to bring back Crimestoppers, shows like "The Rookies", "Adam-12" etc.
 
I completely agree with all comments here. It was bad enough that MTV Networks ruined Nick @ Nite by switching to 80s and 90s sitcoms (how many channels do we need The Cosby Show on anyway?)
Now the brilliant minds at MTV are doing the same F***ing thing to TV Land. It was bad enough that they started showing movies on Friday nights (tonights selection is the too often aired "Ferris Beuller's Day Off" but they have recently begun airing reruns of the insipid Exteme Makeover Home Edition! That show is barely two years old!!! They have now also added the tired Cosby Show to TV Land as well! I think that show is airing on both N@N and TV Land now, not to mention about six other channels in my area.

I would like to know who the hell is making the programming decisions at these networks. Must be some dumb ass fresh out of college. Of course, TV Land had grown stale anyway with the incessant airings of Bonanza and Gunsmoke. It seems that every time I tune in to the channel one or the other is on. And on Saturdays and Sundays we get a full 6 straight hours of both! They've been showing the same shows since the channel went on the air 10 years ago! Gunsmoke and Bonanza have never left their channel. Check it out. Someone taped the sign on for TV Land and has posted it on youtube. Nearly the same shows were on then as they have on now with the exception of That Girl. Why not bring that back instead of that damned Cosby Show?

If TV Land wanted to air movies, why wouldn't they have chosen to air those wonderful old ABC Movies of the Week instead of over exposed movies like Grease, Dirty Dancing, The Negotiator, Ferris Beuller, Parenthood etc.
How cool would it be to see thrillers like Crowhaven Farm, Home For The Holidays, Satans School For Girls, When Michael Calls, Five Desperate Women, Bad Ronald or memorable dramas like Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring and Go Ask Alice? There is a wonderful untapped library of those great ABC Movies but NO, TV land has to show crap.

Both N@N and TV Land have lost their way. They need to stop hiring twenty somethings at these channels.

Any one of us posting here could put together a stellar programming line up for them.
 
My heart agrees with all the above posters above but.....
Last week my grandchildren (grandchildren yikes!) were over for a sleep over. Someone was running Grease. I think it was VH-1. They all talked about it all day. When it was on all the women in the house watched it. Not just watched it but were glued to it. Not a word was said. Think about it, five human females in the same room for two hours and not talking. This includes a six year old, an eight year old, a fourteen (going on thirty) year old,
a twenty something Harvard girl and my wife who is still within the right demos. The movie is on all the time all over the dial and we have it on tape. I know all of them have seen the movie at least ten times. Everytime I entered the room and tried to talk to my wife about something all I got was SHHHHHH -lights out at the reptile house. So what else could Nick at Night put on that would attract such an audience?
I would like to see My Three Sons as much as any of you - not the ones after William Frawley left. It definitiely jumped the shark by then. I would watch That Girl, Make Room For Daddy, Father Knows Best, Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, Dobie Gillis, or Route 66 but to be truthful, it would be occasional. It would be more curiousity thing. I have seen some of those shows in the last ten years or so and they really didn't age well.
I remember when TV Land started running Mary Tyler Moore. I thought it would do great. It didn't do well in syndication but neither did Cosby. Well, it bombed again. I remember watching it one night and enjoying it until my wife came in and wanted to change the channel to anything else. I said I thought you liked this show when it aired on Saturday nights. She said she did but now it so outdated. Just look at the clothes they are wearing and their hairstyles. I never noticed that stuff but it actually made her feel uncmfortable.
So I guess I have to just accept the suits or whatever they wear at Nick/TV Land are just going to air what is going to attract a younger, hipper crowd and could care less about what I want to watch.
 
Outdated hairstyles and fashions? I can't imagine that being a concern if the shows were good. TV Land still airs I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show. You don't get much more out of fashion than those two programs, yet they hold up because of the great writing and even better acting. Same goes for shows like MTM and The Bob Newhart Show. They were so well written that what was funny then is still funny today. I do agree that perhaps the people making the programming decisions at N@N and TVL are trying to go for a younger demographic. Probably to attract a greater ad rate.
I thought the original concept of TV Land was to have that be the more retro channel while they switched N@N to the more recently syndicated shows. Now wel have the same garbage on both channels.
They're runing their channels in my opinion. I never watch N@N and I rarely watch TV Land anymore.
 
Grindlfan said:
If TV Land wanted to air movies, why wouldn't they have chosen to air those wonderful old ABC Movies of the Week instead of over exposed movies like Grease, Dirty Dancing, The Negotiator, Ferris Beuller, Parenthood etc.
How cool would it be to see thrillers like Crowhaven Farm, Home For The Holidays, Satans School For Girls, When Michael Calls, Five Desperate Women, Bad Ronald or memorable dramas like Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring and Go Ask Alice? There is a wonderful untapped library of those great ABC Movies but NO, TV land has to show crap.

Both N@N and TV Land have lost their way. They need to stop hiring twenty somethings at these channels.

Any one of us posting here could put together a stellar programming line up for them.
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I wonder who owns the rights to those made for TV movies from the 70s? I would love to watch them again. Well I did check out "Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring" recently. From what I heard Sally Field wishes all copies of that movie would be destroyed. Cant always get what you want.

The beauty of these movies was that often they were filmed anywhere and often didn't pass off a location as someplace else like its done in many movies today like passing off Richmond, Virginia as Washington DC for example.

Remember the movie about that comet that destroyed Phoenix? "A Fire in the Sky"
The psycho who had a beef with the state of Colorado and to get revenge planted bombs around Denver? "Visions"
The amusement park in Norfolk, VA that was blown up? "Death of Ocean View Park"

I believe there was some murder-mystery movie that was filmed in Salt Lake City, forgot the title but scenes were flmed at the local Lagoon Amusement Park.

I would love to see them again !!

..and Smash up on Insterstate 5
 
Oh yes! I remember most if not all of those movies you mention. Certainly by plot if not title. Poor Sally Field. I wonder if she's ever come to terms with and has learned to embrace Gidget and The Flying Nun? Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring is nothing to be ashamed of. It was a movie of it's time and topical back then to be sure. She was also in one of the great movie of the week thrillers I mentioned in my previous post, Home For The Holidays. If I were Sally I'd be more embarrassed by movies she's done like Soapdish, Punchline, Beyond The Poseidon Adventure and any of the movies she did with Burt Reynolds.
 
As for the movie "Grease" it showed up on VH-1 Classic, which our cable system
recently put on their "basic" lineup, why?, i don't know!
For those who head "Nick At Nite" and "TV Land", maybe you should consider
creating some "digital" channels that would offer different decades of programs,
and since one of those likes to run "marathons", they could always put them in
12-hour blocks.
Most Cable Television networks must really want to annoy viewers by repeating
their programming over and over and over and over etc.
When are they going to wake up?
 
I gave up on Nick at Nite several years ago...Some great stuff on Nick back in the 80s..."Pinwheel" and Sharon,Lois and Bram I would put on for my kids when they were preschool age at that time. Dangermouse was witty and hysterically funny as was "You Can't Do That On Television."

All I watch on TV Land anymore is Sanford and Son. My wife acts as if she needs an exorcist when she hears the Andy Griffith theme song for the one millionth and umpteenth time.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST..THE DOWNGRADE OF VH-1...No music videos except early mornings...the rest is E!-like tabloid trash for the white trash community. My sons now in their late teens/early twenties watch Fuse instead of MTV after TRL went downhill....let's hear it for multi-media mediocrity....thank you Viacom for allowing yourselves being inspired by Clear Channel downsizing and wanton greed.

RTV and YouTube.com is much more entertaining and diversified without the 80/20 politics and the "kaizen revolution"....forced down our throats.
 
Braves2005 said:
The local TV guide and even some of the sites on the web did not even show Grease as Nick at Nite's programming for last night. They just showed the listing for the every night marathon of Fresh Prince.
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Nick at nite has been doing a full 2 weeks of Fresh Prince of Bellaire marathon, that was to end this Sunday. Followed by a home improvement marathon starting Monday. I know alot of people have been complaining about the all fresh prince, and I know that N@N own website didn't have grease listed, so I wonder if they made a sudden change as a result of complaints.
 
These marathons have to stop. I don't know which is worse, the incessant marathons or channels selling off hours and hours a day to those F'ing paid programming spots. Time WE cable subscribers are paying for by the way. Why are they allowed to get away with that? The cable companies get a % of all area sales from those PP spots. It isn't any wonder that Comcast places all the shopping channels in their basic cable line up (channels 2-30). So if a customer only wants to sign up for their cheapest package you're still stuck with the channels that Comcast will get a kick back from.

We are paying companies like Comcast for that time, the advertisers are paying the channels for that time and the channels are paying the cable companies a cut. Call me crazy, but shouldn't cable subscribers get a rebate for all the blocks of time that the cable channels sell off for those lousy PP spots! It infuritates me! Thanks alot FCC for relaxing the the TV commercial rules in 1984. That is when those half hour infomercials began. Remember "Amazing Discoveries"? That was the beginning to all the crap we've got now.

I know I am off topic but I just had to vent.
 
Braves2005 said:
Looks like we might have a burial tonight of Nick at Nite thanks to what I just saw: No, not a classic show, but what do I see????

A movie!!! ::)Comments, please.
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Well with fans like you they've got to do something.

No offense intended. But they've been doing movies since spring and you JUST noticed?

Where ya been?
 
This is the first time that Nick at Nite has shown a movie since the early days of Nick at Nite in the mid 80's when they showed 1940's movies like My Favorite Brunette, His Girl Friday and The Fabulous Dorseys, etc.

I ALREADY know that TV Land, MTV, VH-1, VH-1 Classic, CMT, MTV2, and Spike shows movies. They have been doing that for the past couple of years now. I was talking about Nick at Nite showing "Grease".

"Where have I been?"

I have watched bits and pieces of The Fresh Prince-Roseanne-Full House and now Home Improvement (which I am not watching either) Marathon show as they have repeated every episode from each show more than 100 times that I know of. Just was flipping the channels when I saw Grease on Nick at Nite.

Gee, what a grouch!! ::)
 
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