I’m going to scream if I get one more email asking me to help “save the Canadian Networks”…For what? So I can sit in front of my tube and watch ANOTHER of these ridiculous “crime” shows?! Who watches these things anyway? Do you think you’re learning something?
The “science” used on these idiotic shows is beyond belief! Do you think an electron microscope really shows an image like that? It reminds me of the view through binoculars in a Hollywood movie for heaven’s sake.
One after another of these stupid American shows, every night of the week, why would I want to “save” that programming?
And the “reality” shows? There were funny at first 10 years ago, until every waitress and cab driving celebrity hopeful decided that this was a faster way to success, other than giving handjobs to second-rate agents…
I’ve got an idea fo a “Survival” show – put 20 Canadian network suits in a life raft in the mid-Pacific with no fresh water and lots of salty food, hmmm, maybe some beef JERKY or a cooler full of DONAIRS…and come back in a month…
And how the hell did our “national” network end up showing a bunch of money-hungry Yanks spinning a giant roulette wheel and trying to spell grade 7 words? WTF is this shite? What happened to the effin’ Beachcombers for fuck sake?
Save the networks, my arse!
Gulp gulp…wanna buy a vowel?
Good grief.
—baD mR fRosTy
This article appears in Aug 20-26, 2009.
I agree there isn’t much worth saving these days when it comes to television. I have pretty much given up on it recently, only to watch Dragon’s Den (probably the only Canadian show I really liked) and the news. But the news also sucks.
Haven’t had TV reception out here since I bought the place.
Don’t have cable, & won’t even bother to put a splitter on my high speed internet, ‘so I can get the basic cable for free’
TV SUCKS, why would anyone pay money out to have it in your home ? They want to put a cable signal into your home with advertising coming through every channel every 12 to 15 minutes, you get to hear about the latest feminine pad …THEY CAN BLOODY WELL PAY ME !
But sheeple can’t help but follow the flock, & the flock wants 100+ channels even if half of them are the same & the price goes up!
I totally agree. If we didn’t need the cable connection for the computers, we wouldn’t have cable. I can’t remember the last time I watched TV … seriously. I tuned out when CSI (insert city name here) became standard junk fill programming for every network. TV – the modern opiate for the masses.
the thing that ticks me off is the phrase “must have Canadian content” – you have to ask is any Canadian content with the Canadian made/produced dreck on TV
Quit TV years ago
Dragon’s Den used to be good, now it sucks…
When the concept started (back in the UK btw), all you needed was a cool idea, with or without a patent/sales/business plan…and make your pitch to the panel. They would then decide whether to invest or not….the money to be used, presumably, to come up with a business plan, patent, market research etc etc…that’s what people need the money for in the FIRST place!
Now it’s just some VERY annoying suits sitting around thinking they’re clever, and telling everyone their idea sucks (but they’ll buy it for a fiver)…
WTF would someone go on that show if they already had a million sales, marketing etc etc?! Every show is the same now – “How many sales you got? Got any sales? What are you sales numbers? “Your prototype for a build-it-yourself nuclear fusion kit is OK, I guess, but How many sales you got?”
I wanta punch that one guy in the face, right through my tv.
Any finally, why do some people seem to think that by stating that “yeah man, I don’t DO TV, garf garf…” that somehow makes us think they must be some deep-thinking profound intellect?
Yo, Aristotle…we only need to read your posts to see it ain’t so!
Fark off – put down the James Joyce and pick up the remote…Wheel’s gonna start in a minute! You could learn sumpin’!
Can I buy a vowel Alex?
Whoa chill out there jumpy mc-conclusions
I watch TV. Some of it is ok. I only read non-fiction.