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We like to watch football on Sundays. A lot. We usually have football on from about 12 noon till 11pm or later. We don’t sit in front of the TV that whole time, but it’s just on.
That said, we are super thankful for Tivo. Any time a commercial comes on we hit “pause” because mostly, commercials if not completely offensive, they’re just not so good for little eyes. (Or ours!) We have noticed though that the worst ones seem to be the ones advertising the TV shows on that network! And today I found it humorous that the line they add to every show promo is, “Viewer Discretion Advised.”
I think they could just slap that on TV in general.
I saw the new Knight Rider show this week, and though I thought it was a pretty good story, and I really want to like it, it just goes too far. Too much skin, too many inappropriate sexual references… and all TV is like that. We were longing for the “old days” when you could send your kids in to watch a show and not worry about it. Definitely not true today… the shows aren’t even “safe” for me 🙁
It’s OK. There are better things to do than watch TV, but I have found that you really could apply that phrase almost across the board on all shows on all networks.
Viewer Discretion Advised.
I am totally with you on the viewer discretion stuff…why is football programming prime time for sexually explicit and violent advertisement?…that really POs me…probably even more than the heaven stuff 🙂
When the heck is Congress going to force a la carte service from pay-for-TV providers like cable and satellite. We’d probably buy six or eight channels like PBS, Discovery, TMC, CNN, and some of those rarer science/education ones and skip the rest of the crap you get. With our basic cable right now, I really should just lock out everything except PBS…not that there isn’t some good content on the others, but the overrun of crap doesn’t make them worth it.
Knight Rider sucked huge, I thought, from the few snippets I caught of the premier…terrible story, terrible performances, disappointing effects…I’d rather they attempted a remake in the period (80’s) and skipped the CGI. It made me miss the Hoff’s cheese and I liked KITT much better with the voice of a nerd.
-heent