Reality TV...

[Father Demon]

I've been a fan of Survivor up until this season.  I have wathed the Apprentice (THE Donald's version, not Martha's), but haven'treally watched much of it this season.  Now there's some sh!t on there about convincing others to give you $1.5M instead of someone else getting it...   TV sucks.

Does anyone really watch any of this crap anymore?

[Geowhizzer]

I've been a fan of Survivor up until this season.  I have wathed the Apprentice (THE Donald's version, not Martha's), but haven'treally watched much of it this season.  Now there's some sh!t on there about convincing others to give you $1.5M instead of someone else getting it...   TV sucks.

Does anyone really watch any of this crap anymore?

I really only watch three things on TV:
1.  Football
2.  Baseball
3.  Hockey

I don't even watch ESPN shows anymore.  Just got tired of the tabloid atmosphere fostered by DisneySports.

[Father Demon]

That's pretty much where I am now...   although I have a few more shows:

(In no particular order):
Football
Hockey
My Name Is Earl
The Office
The Sopranos

My wife still watches a lot of that crap on TV (like Survivor, and {shudder} Sex In The City reruns).  Which is why I waste my life on the computer surfing for midget pr0n....

[Diomedes]

I connect cable at the beginning of the football season and I disconnect it after the Super Bowl.   Basically, I watch only sports..and only for the stretch of the year the NFL is under way.

Judging by the money these so-called reality shows make though, I'd say a lot of people must be watching.

[Sgt PSN]

I've never been a big fan of any of the so called "reality tv".  It's anything but reality.  It all occurs within a controlled environment and anyone who thinks that the people on these shows are showing off their true personalities and not performing in some way, shape or form for the cameras surrounding them is a freaking moron. 

Has anyone seen the new "reality" show on FX.....Black/White?  They take a black family and turn them into white people and go vice versa on a white family.  The only problem with this show is that both families are middle class suburbanites.  That's not the way to go.  If you really want to make this show interesting, let's get some upper class, country club white family, make them black and then just drop them off in the middle of Harlem for like a month.  And then take the most ghetto ass black family you can find, turn them white and drop them off on the Main Line.  Now that would be quality entertainment. 

[MDS]

only reality tv thats good is the surreal life. and flavor of love.

[Phanatic]

I've never been a fan of reality TV. Now that I have Tivo I watch more selectivly.
Mainly I like the new Battlestar Galactica series on SciFi. Nothing like the original. Much Darker!
After that I just tried the new Dr Who series on the same channel. Eh I'll try a few more episodes.
Daily Show is selected for when I feel like it.
After that it's probably Seinfeld reruns when they're on and whatever the kids are watching. Noggin and Boom are the awesomest...

[General_Failure]

SciFi has Dr Who now?

[Feva]

and flavor of love.

FLAAAVOR FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAV!! 

[rjs246]

Hunt and I used to go back and forth about reality tv. He loves it. I hate it. I used to despise it but I found a solution. Don't watch tv. Works pretty well when it comes to avoiding reality television. My problem with it that more often than not reality tv focuses on the ignorant idiots making iceholes of themselves or trying desperately to undercut others to win some sort of game. TV is supposed to be entertainment, I can see that shtein every day in my real life. Plus, I like fiction. More importantly I respect people who can create something from nothing and reality tv is so cheap to make/produce that it makes more sense for networks to put it on the air than it does for them to pay writers/actors/crew. Reality tv has cut the jobs available in the world of television significantly for that group of people because they negatively impact the bottom line for producers. So not only do I not like the content, but the deeper implications dont' sit well with me either.

There are a handful of shows I watch (actually the only shows I ever watch are Seinfeld/Simpsons reruns, Family Guy, Lost, Nip Tuck, The Office and My Name is Earl which is more than enough TV for me) but most of what I watch is espn/whatever channel is playing football/hockey.

[ice grillin you]

id watch the matrix and lord of the rings movies back to back before i watched even a single hour of a reality show

tv has sucked for the better part of ten years

[PhillyGirl]

I watched the first season of Survivor and TRIED to watch the second one, and couldn't. The only good season was the first.

[Father Demon]

I think I just finally realized I don't give a rat's ass what happens to these people.  I used to watch Survivor for two reasons:  chicks in bikinis, and my wife watched every episode, so it gave me time to spend with her without having to actually say anything.

When she started watching crap like Biggest Loser and Average Joe, it wasn't worth even spending time together.  So I started playing more with the kids, and doing Internet stuff...     I've thought about quitting TV except for sports, but haven't quite made the step yet.  I think it's just a matter of time....

[ice grillin you]

I've thought about quitting TV except for sports, but haven't quite made the step yet

do it...dont be scurred...i made the leap years ago....except for the wire and 60 minutes there isnt a show out there that i care if i ever see again

[Zanshin]

Football, Lost and the Sopranos pretty much cover it for me.  But I'll watch Scrubs, Family Guy, Simpsons, Daily Show if I stumble on them.  I can't really watch ESPN anymore unless I'm trying to waste time while running on the treadmill....it's gotten pretty trite.