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TV Land ends (sorta).

TVLand has been a waste for a whole lot of years. This isn't going to make it better.
 
According to the article, in the works is a game show titled "What's In The Box".

Being shown in the evening and geared toward adults, I wonder exactly what kind of box the game show will be revolving around... ::)
 
Looking at the article, That '70s Show will be carried on its fourth cable network (simultameously)...The N, FX, ABC Family, and now TV Land. On some days, its reruns competiting each other, usually on ABC Family and FX.
 
"that 70's show is also in syndication on local tv as well. they run several shows a day in my town on more than one station. Since the same company owns 2 full power and 1 low power in my town they repeat the same shows on different stations. It gets confusining sometimes, especially when they run promo's for things assocated with the other stations.

For classic TV just dump the cable. Cable is nothing but the same old crap over and over. Most everything except for sports is just the same movies and shows that have already been seen for free over the air. CSI, Law and Order, Everybody Loves Raymond. Why pay for that? Plus too many reality shows. Booooring.

They have classic TV for free on the RTN network which can be seen with an antenna on some stations digital sub-channels in many cities. Lots of good stuff.
 
Yeah, I read about this on another site or something - but TV Land's been going weird for the last couple of years...thank God some of TV Land's FORMER shows are going to new homes and getting some much-needed R-E-S-P-E-C-T...

1) M*A*S*H* - going over to the ION Network - 4 and 4:30PM 5 days a week; somehow, I don't think ION's gonna screw around with this one - the only "war" comedy that ANYONE over the age of 12 could watch....

2) "I Love Lucy" - going over to Hallmark Channel - Hallmark will probably do a marathon on this one and get people's curiosity going about it - GOOD!!

Andrea
 
All you classic TV fans had better hope the Marlowe family's cable system never gets RTN. When we got TV Land, it started going south ("Bonanza" all day Sunday, "Extreme Makeover") Same with GSN ("PlayMania", no more "Match Game", "What's My Line?" at 3AM). Just don't tell anyone we can watch "Outa Site Retro Nite" Sunday on WGN, OK?
 
I'm not sure why anyone is the least bit surprised by this. The audience for the 50/60s/70s shows were just going to get older, and part of the revenue associated with them would be going to the studios that owned them. Just like TLC, just like A&E, just like The History Channel--original unscripted programming is where its at.
 
How reprehensible! TV Land will be producing original programming and employing more people in the industry, instead of running Sanford & Son episodes for the 4,000th time.

Doesn't Viacom own TV Land? They also own Comedy Central. Maybe they'll cancel that tacky Daily Show and ridiculous Colbert Report and start running Sanford & Son there instead. Those two shows are just dead weight, anyway.

Besides, what's more topical that a 30 year old sitcom?
 
If current cable offerings are typical of 'original programming' then count me out. I have yet to see one single new cable show worth watching for more than one or two episodes. That said, the network offerings are not exactly stirring my interest either but at least TVLand, at one time, was airing some of the best classic shows ever made. Now it looks as if they will go the way of most other generic cable outlets with nothing to define them individually. RTN can't come too soon.
 
I think old TV shows can be good for they give us a sense of our past.

Too many young people not only don't care about the past, but they think it's a waste to learn.

For instance I'm a WWII buff and I LOVE to hear old time shows, because those radio shows tell you what life was like in the 40s. I volunteer at a retirement home and it astounds me when I hear them tell me "Oh on hot nights in the 30s and 40s we'd go grab a blanket and sleep by Lake Michigan or in Humboldt Park. No one would do that now.

I'm not saying all the old shows are great art, some aren't even worth watching. For instance I find the sweet sickiness of "Gomer Pyle" too hard to take. Or "Mr Ed" so unrealistic. I mean have you looked at Carol? If your wife looked like Carol would you be spending all your time in a barn with a horse? :)

But even in Chicago Me-TV and Me-Too have started showing shows like Steve Harvey" and "That 70s Show."
 
Lkeller said:
How reprehensible! TV Land will be producing original programming and employing more people in the industry, instead of running Sanford & Son episodes for the 4,000th time.

Doesn't Viacom own TV Land? They also own Comedy Central. Maybe they'll cancel that tacky Daily Show and ridiculous Colbert Report and start running Sanford & Son there instead. Those two shows are just dead weight, anyway.

Besides, what's more topical that a 30 year old sitcom?
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Oh, come now, you can't seriously think that reruns of material already in box sets and having been run endlessly for years to a shrinking audience isn't the best strategy!

Seriously, though, where many folks lose all sense of logic is in not realizing that channels don't have to age along with the viewers. For proof, look no further than the people in my generation still fussing over MTV not playing music videos for the most part now (helllllllo--ever hear of the Internet, YouTube and video-on-demand services?). Look, I loved MTV as a teen, but what worked for me as a teen won't work today. TV Land signed on years ago, and keeping most of the same shows, saw its median viewer age go straight up.

To be sure, some people in the target demo like the older shows, and they'll still have some place on the schedule. But the willful ignorance of the fact that 40 year olds didn't grow up with--and therefore generally, as a group, have less affinity for--the shows of their parents' generation is actually kind of amusing. The hit music of my teen years is now as old as the oldies songs were back then. It works the same way with TV.

The classics have found new life through boxed DVD sets, and there will likely continue to be lower-budget operations that have a business model that works with smaller and/or older audiences.
 
LibertyNT said:
Im Gunna Miss my MASH...
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If you have a channel out there that's owned by the Ion Network, I believe that MASH reruns are starting this coming Monday and will be on Monday to Friday from 4 to 5 PM EST....

Andrea
 
When FOX owned WTVT Tampa cant find a snake oil salesman for an informercial, theyll plug in M A S H. Are they still on Hallmark as well?
 
As far as I know, yes...that's why I'm glad "I Love Lucy" is going over to Hallmark - Hallmark KNOWS how to give these legendary shows their proper R-E-S-P-E-C-T!!

Andrea
 
If I have a choice of watching a "reality" show based on the wacky antics of the George Foreman family-yawn (or seeing a group of middle aged former beauty pageant runners-up, diva wannabes try to one up each other) or watching a M*A*S*H episode I've already seen ten times, I'll take M*A*S*H any day of the week.
 
andreajesus said:
As far as I know, yes...that's why I'm glad "I Love Lucy" is going over to Hallmark - Hallmark KNOWS how to give these legendary shows their proper R-E-S-P-E-C-T!!

Andrea
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However there is that rumor that has been going around for a number of years the Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. want to get their hands on the rights to I Love Lucy. If that would have happened the only way to watch I Love Lucy would be through DVD sales and online and reading about how Lucie and Desi Jr. are, even doing the latter would have cost ya. As recently as four years ago TV Land made a comment about this saying they would not be able to show I Love Lucy if Lucy's kids do get the rights and I remember a number of Lucy fans weren't too happy about it such as Lucie's "plan" on deleting all the scenes where her mother, father and even the Mertzes are smoking cigarettes. Considering that a lot of scenes involved smoking, I have to wonder how on earth Lucie Arnaz would have done THAT?

But that was then and this is now...within the last year Lucie Arnaz was forced out of her role as the director of the Lucy-Desi Museum in Jamestown, NY ( there are a ton of rumors as to why this happened ) and it even appears Desi Jr. has lost interest too ( no longer doing any Lucy promotional things and I assume he no longer wants those rights from CBS ) so I wonder if any of this is the reason why Hallmark picked up I Love Lucy?
 
radiochic05 said:
If I have a choice of watching a "reality" show based on the wacky antics of the George Foreman family-yawn (or seeing a group of middle aged former beauty pageant runners-up, diva wannabes try to one up each other) or watching a M*A*S*H episode I've already seen ten times, I'll take M*A*S*H any day of the week.
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I almost never watch fake "reality" shows. But I do believe that producing and running original programming is not a bad thing, even if I won't be watching. With so many cable networks needing product these days, sitcom reruns will not disappear.

Between cable and local channels, I'm sure you could see Scrubs about 50 times a week if you wanted to. And that's not including the endless "marathons."
 
DToTheJ said:
According to the article, in the works is a game show titled "What's In The Box".

Being shown in the evening and geared toward adults, I wonder exactly what kind of box the game show will be revolving around... ::)
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When I first read the title of that game show, I thought that maybe the show has a theme like the film Se7en, i.e. the loser winds up like Gwyneth Paltrow's character. ;D
 
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