Re: [ARSCLIST] Half-vast wasteland--was: Slides and inconvenient media (was spin it again)

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

House, Boston Legal, NUMB3RS, Studio 60 (okay..I'm the only person in the world 
who likes it and it's been on hold for 2 months).

And that's about it for my tastes.

dl

Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:
> There were always a handful of worthwhile shows on commercial TV, but IMHO,they began to seriously peter out in the late 90s.I have not owned a television for three years,and have no desire to.My all time favorites run the gamut from "Playhouse 90" (Which I only know from old VHS.) to"Upstairs Downstairs" to "Babylon 5".That said,I think there has been a major decline in programming in recent years.Even "Masterpiece Theater" has been painfully unwatchable for the past few years.I addressed this in a thread a few months ago,when I mentioned at one time,you could regularly see the likes of Toscanini, Vladimir Horowitz,and Charles Munch on regular broadcast TV,and that there are no parallels today.Half-vast wasteland is about right,but it might be a little generous,but like the major labels up until about 25 years ago,there was a broad enough spectrum of quality on television to justify its existence.This  no longer exists.The only  contemporary show I have been at all curiou
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>  about is "Boston Legal",based entirely on this : http://www.boston-legal.org/19-stickit/ep19-stickit.shtml one of the finest soliloquies ever delivered on American television.Is the rest of it this good ?
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>                                      Roger
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> Robert Hodge <rjhodge@xxxxxxx> wrote: Omnibus , NBC Playhouse , Project 54, CBS and NBC news documentaries by
> the score, Hallmark Playhouse, to nane a few !   
> Show me anything that's on the commercial networks that can compare
> today !
>  
> BH
> > > > stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 4/7/2007 10:00 PM >>>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Hodge" 
> > Obviously you never saw American television when at its' prime !
> When was THAT?! I started watching television on a limited basis,
> at a neighbour's home, in 1951...Howdy Doody and Captain Video,
> usually. Our family finally acquired a set in the fall of 1954...
> and I watched a LOT of TV until c.1960. After that, my viewing
> became more sporadic (although I was lucky enough to see early
> Monty Python, with Flemish subtitles, in a bar/cafe in Belgium
> in 1973...!).
>
> Don't recall seeing anything I would have thought of as "prime,"
> though (maybe "Senor Wences" on Ed Sullivan...?)
>
> Steven C. Barr
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