With the huge wave of shows available on streaming platforms, do you believe that tv shows lose their eminence? Do you believe that the youngest generation has a harder time even finding out about 80s and 70s tv shows?
shareI binge a season and move on. i couldn't imagine watching numerous seasons of a show anymore.
shareTv shows will always find their audience eventually. Life is long and often boring, filled with strife and sickness. Sooner or later, you get looking for something to fill the time and distract you.
The golden age of television we've been enjoying the last couple decades is definitely over though. Short, prestige shows, basically mini-series, seem to be the wave of the future.
Kids these days will probably never know the thrill of watching a show for ten whole damn years of your life. Watching characters you love grow old with you.
Will there ever be another worldwide "Who shot JR?" phenomenon? Doubt it. Everyone knew about Dallas.
shareI was too young to watch Dallas when it was contemporary, but what I remember is that my parents, generally quite permissive in the area of bedtime, would insist we were in bed by the time Dallas and Knots Landing came on. Who shot JR was a big deal for me, even though I was only about 9 or 10 and had no idea what it meant.
shareI think a really good show will still be good today for the right audience. If your 8-10 years old, The Simpsons and Little House on the Prairie, will still entertain you. If your a 12-15 year old girl, I think Dawsons Creek still holds up. Shows like Cheers, Gilligans Island and Bewitched don't hold up because they weren't that great to start with.
shareI actually liked Bewitched a lot as a kid and I grew up in the 1990s. Not high art, but entertaining for what it is. It probably helps that I liked anything about witches back then, including Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Hocus Pocus.
I agree that anything that's good to start with will usually hold up over time. It's just convincing most people to watch anything older than they are that's the hard part.
I loved bewitched as a kid, but I'm not sure if today's 10 year old would enjoy it.
shareWasn't arguing whether or not kids today would like Bewitched (hell, I doubt most modern kids could sit through the 1990s shows I enjoyed as a child). Simply saying I disagree that it "[wasn't] that great to start with."
shareI still quite like Bewitched, but I doubt my 10 year old kid would watch it. We watched The Ten Commandments shortly before Easter and his only comment was that the women weren't wearing enough clothes. My kid, the prude! (Although, yes, I did notice the women really were underdressed!)
shareThe Covid debacle has contributed to this. One of my favorite shows, HBO’s Euphoria, had a 2-year hiatus between seasons. It came back like a Link Wray powerchord, and HBO, being HBO and smart, stood by it.
Another show I like, CBS’s Blood and Treasure, also had a 2-year interruption. It returns later this summer, for the 2nd and final season. It was a Summer replacement series that CBS, based on audience response, decided to move to full-on Fall prime time programming. C’mon: the SUPPORTING cast included Sofia Coppola and John Laroquette. Per this topic, CBS decided to air what was already in the can, but the male lead had covered himself to star on another TV show. Blood and Treasure reminded me of an Indiana Jones version of Remington Steele, but with the woman being Remington. Nah, that doesn’t sound good or anything, does it? With John Larroquette?! And the Coppola who made Lost In Translation?! Nah? Who’d watch that?
I watched a few episodes of Remington Steele a few months ago and I was actually surprised that it is actually very smartly written. The dialogue is very stylized to be like a 1930s detective story, especially in the cadence of Laura Holt's narration. The jokes are still really funny and the mysteries were really well done (at least in the first season episodes I watched). Pierce Brosnan was still gorgeous. Stephanie Zimbalist makes fun of herself way more than I remember, which I truly respect. They had, even in retrospect, really good chemistry. But I couldn't watch it because the sound and video quality were so fuzzy and the clothes were dated to the point of cringe.
I have avoided Blood and Treasure and all indiana-jones style tv shows because I'm still bitter about Relic Hunter ending after only three seasons. That show had problems, but there was a lot good about it too, and I've always felt it never got the appreciation it deserved.
There was a time when I thought Tia Carrera was 1 of the 2 most beautiful women on the Earth and, for that time period, I stand by my decision to this day. Tia was married to Avi Lerner, mogul of B-movies. They parted when Avi decided that she was “too old” for him. That gave her career a big hit. It also showed that Avi Lerner never deserved her.
shareI totally agree! She's really pretty and gives off a "down to earth" vibe that is uncommon in tv/movie stars.
shareSeveral years ago we were visiting my parents in Florida with our 16 year old daughter. One afternoon, my wife and I wanted to visit with dune of friends who had moved nearby while my mom was going to lunch with a bunch of ladies she'd been friends with for 50 years. We gave our daughter her choice and she went with her grandma.
After, we asked it out was boring. She said "It was so mycherrycrush fun. It was like hanging out with The Golden Girls!"
I was surprised she even knew the Golden Girls. She said "TV Land, Dad!"