The excitement is gone

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by OvenMaster

What is it, are people so lazy now that they don't even bother to see in advance what is going to be on the boob tube, and just pick the least offensive show that's on when they're sitting in front of the set?

I think it was Paul Klein of NBC who came up with the "least objectionable program" theory, in the 1970's. And there was Newton Minnow who described broadcast TV as a "vast wasteland" in the 1950's.

I had quit buying TV Guides years ago, when they stopped including the one thing that made it worth paying for rather than using the free guides in newspapers: Program descriptions for shows in non-prime time.