The Golden age of TV has gone

Marble just said this to me as she saw "Now that's what I call television" on the box.
Discuss?

[loulou]

  When i was younger I remember childrens tv being fun and entertaining and now it's pointless and full of violence. Saturday evening tv was always good and gameshows were always funny but now I can never find anything to watch.

Thank whoever for the tinternet.
I love watching Family Guy on You Tube.

[Forth Bridges]

Roland rat Saved Tvam Then it lost its fancsied pointless! 

[goldencup]

I watched that programme and thought all it showed was that TV has got no worse.  It is amazing when you hear some of the old viewing figures though - how many did they say watched Aveline get married in Bread???

[oldspice]

I agree that Saturday night TV is atrocious.  There should be a balance of programmes to reflect the taste of all viewers.  There is rarely a decent drama or documentary to look forward to.

 

I didn't have a TV when I was growing up so did not often see programmes like Z Cars and stuff. When I was a young adult however, I remember  enjoying dramas like Play for Today, Armchair Theatre and Within These Walls.  There is nothing similar today. I think the golden age ended when they stopped making things like Boys from the Blackstuff, GBH and similar.

Although there are still some good TV programmes like David Dimbleby's 'How we built britain' TV has generally lost its way. It no loger provides mainstream family entertainment. Shows which used to be good like Last of the Summer Wine went on for a minimum of 15 years too long because many characters died and/or the remaining ones ran out of ideas.   There is nothing to replace such programmes because that style of comedy and the actors in it are from a bygone age or at least one which is at the very end of its time.  I think there is real case for saying that TV is now more informative than ever before but far less entertaining.  Dr Who is a notable exception.  

24 hour TV inevtably mean it will be filled with dross.  Fortunately we have an alternative.  It's called the radio.

[smurfboy]

Viewing figures may have been higher in the seventies and eighties, but back then there were only three (then four) channels to choose from. Now terrestrial TV has to compete with satellite, the web and games consoles.

Sad as it may seem, it 20 years time the kids of today will be having a similar misty-eyed conversation about the 'golden age' of Big Brother and Shipwrecked...

[goldencup]

Yes that was what I meant.  There are so many more programmes now that they couldn't all be of a high standard.  People were much easier to please when there were a only a few channels to choose from.  You just have to be a bit discerning.

[Forth Bridges]

300 Channels and still nothing on! 

[loulou]

300 Channels and still nothing on! 

250 repeats.

This one is for Smurfy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crMacfExOws

[Pussycat]

I miss those good old family dramas like The Darling Buds of May and Shine On Harvey Moon. Lovely stuff.

[Scarlet Passion]

I loved Open All Hours and Dinnerladies, and thanks to Sky channels and UKTVGold in particular I can still enjoy them.

 

Fabulous.

And of course when there is nothing on I can always hit the off button and pick up a book.

[loulou]

I watch repeats of Only Fools and Horses on UKGold