Just about any T.V. show from 1990's to today sucks.
Agree TOTALLY!!!
I quit watching network broadcast TV YEARS ago... the last series I watched with any regularity was Star Trek, the Next Generation, and that's been off the air for a decade or so already... I liked the first couple seasons of DS9 okay, and then they got weird and I quit watching them. I basically just quit watching TV altogether-- I'd rather rewatch a Bond movie or Star Wars for the millionth time than any stupid crap that the networks could come up with...
Then we got DirecTV about 3-4 years ago, and that started out pretty cool... thing is, basically I only watch NASA TV, History Channel, H2, some of the Discovery-type channels (science channel, natgeo, etc) and don't watch a whole lot on those, because they air a LOT of crap... SyFy has become a declared disaster area and the ONLY time I'll watch it is if they're replaying Trek episodes or something from the 70's... their "original productions" are laughably stupid and a COMPLETE waste of time IMHO...
Kinda ticks me off, that there's like 200 channels and NOTHING ON... about like the old days... always have the fallback-- DVD's or Blu-ray and of course the internet...
I'd drop DirecTV and just go all DVD/Blu-ray except I want to watch NASA TV and RFD-TV now and then...
I DO like "Deadliest Catch" and some of those reality shows... Keira and Betty liked "Gold Rush" but this past season kinda sucked-- too much "drama". I used to really like "Swamp Loggers" but they're not on anymore-- I think the producers probably wanted to make it "more dramatic" and the loggers said "no" and so they nixed it... I used to like Ax Men, but that show really went bonkers this year-- utter crap. I see now why all but like one of the companies they started with have dumped them, forcing the producers to find new companies willing to do the BS they want to do to make it "dramatic". I do like Swamp People... thing is, when they DO get a good idea for a show, and start making it, if it's successful, two things happen-- 1) the next season the producers want to "make it more dramatic" or "pump up the volume" and start introducing a lot of fake crap into it trying to 'soup it up', and 2) about 2 dozen imitators of it comes out trying to get a piece of the pie, most of which are absolute crap. For instance, "Pawn Stars" started off pretty interesting and I've watched it off and on for a good while, but now it's getting sillier and sillier, and now there's about at least a half-dozen imitators of it... from the fairly interesting "Cajun Pawn Stars" (another show which isn't around anymore for some reason) to the simply awful "Hardcore Pawn", to spinoff ideas like "American Pickers" (which is pretty lame IMHO) to the new one, "Beverly Hills Pawn", which at least is pretty funny and has some very attractive shop girls in it that are easy on the eyes...
One things for sure-- if there IS a good show on, the execs will figure out a way to RUIN IT given time...
As for the housewife shows, honey doo-doo or Kardassians or whatever, you have to be brain dead to watch that trash anyway IMHO...
Later! OL JR