How Does Cable TV Find All Of These Crappy Movies ?

[billt]

........I watched about 5 or 6 episodes of the first year and my impression was "The white guy did it, the white guy is always the one who does it, the white guy is the one with the criminal mind!

I don't think this train of thought is limited to just television. It's pretty widely accepted throughout society in general today. Be it minorities or whacked out, violent religions.

[tombogan03884]

There are posts from people who claim to not watch TV anymore and at first I feel like those people are missing something. But there is so much lame programing maybe we should all cut back to just what we really want to see and do something else with the rest of our time. There are long running series I have never watched just because I choose not to spend my time on them. One I tried to watch may surprise this bunch, it's Criminal Minds. I watched about 5 or 6 episodes of the first year and my impression was "The white guy did it, the white guy is always the one who does it, the white guy is the one with the criminal mind! Sorry Joe.

Not that much of a surprise, when I was watching TV I liked "CSI", (the original) "NCIS", and "Law and Order" back when Cris Noth, Jerry Aurbach, and Fred Thompson were on it.

[mortdooley]

I never watched the CSI franchise and Law and Order lost me real fast. Watching a lisping thug play a Police Detective brow beating innocent Citizens to find the bad guy of the week was too much.  NCIS  New Orleans doesn't have whatever the other two have and I expect it to be the first one canceled. 

[PegLeg45]

I never watched the CSI franchise and Law and Order lost me real fast. Watching a lisping thug play a Police Detective brow beating innocent Citizens to find the bad guy of the week was too much.  NCIS  New Orleans doesn't have whatever the other two have and I expect it to be the first one canceled.

I agree on the NCIS: NO......
The original NCIS and the LA version are the only regular network (CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS) shows I bother to watch...... I DVR'ed the new New Orleans episodes and as I watch them, they just miss something.... I may stop them altogether.....soon.


As for "cable" shows......

I can DVR every show in a week that I like to watch and knock out watching them (since I can burn through the commercials) on Sunday afternoon between church.

I liked Longmire on A&E, and even though it was one of their highest rated shows, they cancelled it. There is talk about resurrecting it on another channel or online, so I'll wait and see.
Most of the other shows I watch don't stack up at the same time, season-wise....which means they are spread out around the year....so I don't watch a lot of TV per week....which is good, and allows me to focus on other things.

I'm trying to spend more time on load development and things reloading related.

[billt]

One I tried to watch may surprise this bunch, it's Criminal Minds. I watched about 5 or 6 episodes of the first year and my impression was "The white guy did it, the white guy is always the one who does it, the white guy is the one with the criminal mind! Sorry Joe.

There was a 1/2 hour police drama on prime time back in the 60's called "N.Y.P.D." starring Frank Converse and Jack Warden. A lot of the bigger stars today got their start on that show, like Al Pacino and Jill Clayburgh. It was produced by David Susskind who reportedly demanded that all the bad guys be white. This kind of crap has been going on for decades in television.

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[BAC]

We ditched cable TV back in June.  We bought a Roku and subscribed to HULU and Netflix.  Saved us a whole lot of money.  A couple months ago the cable company advertised a special rate that would double our internet speed and give us basic cable for only about $15/month more than we were paying for slower internet-only service before.  We had to fight the cable company to get that rate since we're not "new subscribers", but we did.  Now I can watch football games (no reception at all where we live), and in 6 months when the rates go way up we will cancel cable TV again.

The crappy thing that a lot of these internet channels are doing now is requiring you to give your cable provider's information before they'll let you watch streaming content.  I got the Roku to get rid of cable!  Luckily many of those shows are on HULU.

We will never go back to satellite TV after the screwing we got the first time.  Fool me once...

[billt]

What's a "Roku"??

[BAC]

What's a "Roku"??

Internet device that connects to your TV for streaming content.  There are thousands of channels available.  Most of them are free.  TV shows, movies, specialized content channels are available.  There's a channel about a guy machining an AR lower from a block of aluminum.  It's kind of like public access TV for the 21st century.

We don't have a smart TV, so we got one to watch Hulu and Netflix, and discovered all this other stuff.  The NRA even has some channels.

[billt]

Is that the thing Amazon is selling under their name? It looks like a memory stick that plugs into the TV's USB port, or something like that.

[BAC]

Similar.  Apple TV is another one.