Do you find TV depressing these days?

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snowflake56

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TV used to be entertaining but now it's just depressing reality stuff. Recently I have not sat down and watched a tv programme all the way through. There used to be some brilliant shows back in the 60s-90s. There used to be bandstands, live comedy and you don't see that anymore. Watching TV was actually something, it would be an evening thing where we would see repeats of cartoons and new comedy sketches came out everytime, MTV used to show music videos and now most of it is just blank.

Back then there was always something you could relate to and look at it in a positive aspect.
i.e Grange Hill is one of my favourite shows ever. Some people may have got a bit upset because it portrayed school life but on the other hand, it was a good laugh especially the Tucker Jenkins years. But if you look at something like that now, it has people wanting to commit suicide instead of standing up for themselves. It's not something we want to be reminded of in real life.
What has happened to tv? Why did everything go from being content to melodrama?
 
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megbee1

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Nope. I dont find tv depressing, maybe because I have control over what I watch. I can watch cartoons or depressing crime stories, but it does not make me depressed. I think the internet is much more depressing because you go to your mail home site such as aol, or yahoo and first thing you see is the news on someone missing or murdered.Its in your face even if you dont intend on reading the news it pulls you in and before I checked my mail I usually read 3 stories about some sick crime.
 
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Depressing isn't exactly the right word - more like very sterile. All TV seems obsessed with younger presenters, constestants etc, and the abundance of reality TV shows is definitely a step backward. There seems to be no real progress in TV at the moment - it is all celebrity obsessed and very formulaic. There is no-one pushing boundaries like you had in the eighties or nineties (such as programmes shown on Channel 4 and BBC 2).
 
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dougieb1968

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My goodness - what channels are you watching?
What about Doctor Who, Spooks, The Killing, Inside The Human Body, Misfits, Sherlock, Downton Abbey, Miranda, all the arts shows on BBC4, science programmes, comedies, documentaries?
It isn't all Essex, Peter Andre and Jeremy Kyle.
 
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