>Cable TV has become almost unwatchable to me.
I've removed the "almost".
>- More and more Paid Programming. Who's paying for this mindless crap? Oh, right, me
And whoever paid for it first. It's paid twice.
>- 8 to 12 hour marathon of some show. I have been seeing more and more of this too.
But it's all re-runs, doing miracles for their balance sheet. So much cheaper than fresh stuff. Fresh stuff is not just expensive, it is also risky - what if you don't like it? The good old, you liked it last year, you'll like it even more the ninth time.
>- The same movie over and over again. Sometime one right after another. One of the stations I had in my paid package played the Abyss every day at the same time for over 6 months. For god sakes, who's wants to watch the same movie every day.
Same as above.
>- Showing the sequel to movies and never the original.
It wasn't that original anyway.
>- Religious shows are become more prominent also.
That's advertising and/or paid too.
>- Reality shows are popping up more too.
Really? I never managed to sit through more than two minutes of any of them in the last five years. Tried the Fear factor before that, stopped watching it after 2.5 shows.
>- Wrestling. Everywhere. Now on the SciFi channel. What does wrestling have to do with SciFi?
It's fake, 's why. All the fighting is just fictional, and they have to apply a lot of science to make it look plausible. So, where else but on SciFi?
>D@mn it feels good to get that off my chest.
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>Well, back to mindless TV watching. Whats on, Burn Notice marathon.
Make sure to report who won the medal there.