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VH-1 officially out of ideas for new programming

Can't wait to see their groundbreaking new show "Re-Popped-Up Video!"
 
MarcB said:
VH-1 is officially out of ideas for new programming. I'm sure we all remember the different incarnations of I Love the 70s, I Love the 80s, I Love the 90s and now their exciting and new programming? The Best of I Love (insert decade here).
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I take it it's still too early for "I love the 2000s", and the audience is too young for "I love the 60s" (and earlier).
 
These execs like their programming the same way they like their hookas. Cheap and easy.

Sad waste of broadcast spectrum if you ask me.
 
MarcB said:
azumanga said:
I take it it's still too early for "I love the 2000s", and the audience is too young for "I love the 60s" (and earlier).
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They already had it. It came out in 2008 so it only went to 2007.
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That was a stupid decision by VH1 to do that. They should have let the "I Love the ..." series take a break to avoid burnout, and then resume it later on after the decade was over.

When I think of the "I Love the New Millennium", I'm reminded of a MadTV skit where they parodied the "I Love the ..." series catching up with the current time.
 
MarcB said:
VH-1 is officially out of ideas for new programming. I'm sure we all remember the different incarnations of I Love the 70s, I Love the 80s, I Love the 90s and now their exciting and new programming? The Best of I Love (insert decade here).
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proving obviously that you can get third-rate comedians to work real cheap!
 
FreddyE1977 said:
proving obviously that you can get third-rate comedians to work real cheap!
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Larry Joe Campbell from According to Jim. Chris Booker formerly of the now defunct Blink 102.7 in NYC (I'm too lazy to look up what station he's at now). George Lopez and Constance Marie (who played his wife on his sitcom). The Donnas, Chris Jerhico, Michael Ian Black. Sebastian Bach.
 
The formula for "I Love The (decade)" is totally inane and built to capture viewers for a maximum of about 8 minutes. I love documentaries, heck, I would even watch documentaries about pop culture of specific decades, but what VH1 puts out there is total fluff. The problem is about 25% of the content is actual archival footage, the other 75% is marginal celebrities simultaneously remembering and mocking the footage. It's as if, the actual representation of pop culture is not enough, we've got to have some idiot explain why it is so "stupid" today. It's the worst dumbing down of society I have ever seen. But, the masses apparently eat it up. (sigh). Oh well.
 
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