Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of: <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/w/blogs/marshal-knight/2014/07/03/abc-we-got-trouble-my-friends/" target="_blank"><b>7/3/14 Marshal Knight's Blog: ABC: We Got Trouble, My Friends!</b></a>
Originally Posted By DlandDug In our house we'd like to see Toks Olagundoye of the recently cancelled The Neighbors join The View. Jamie has been following Toks on Twitter for months and thinks she would be a great addition.
Originally Posted By wa6oqc I don't watch daytime TV so let's take a look at Disney ABC primetime programing. Mon: 2 hours of The Bachelorette and 1 hour of Mistresses, it sounds a Disney is running a house of ill repute. Tue: 2 hours of Extreme Weight Loss and 1 hour of Celebrity Wife Swap, it sounds like Disney is making fun of fat people; let's get away from that and back to our house of ill repute. Wed: The Middle, The Goldbergs, Modern Family, The Middle, Motive, Disney has two of their poorest acted shows surrounding Modern Family and before Motive. It sounds like they are trying to kill off Modern Family. Thu: Black Box, Rookie Blue and NY Med, Disney give me a break a psychopath in prime time? Fri: Shark Tank, What Would You Do?, 20/20, Come on Disney even the unreal Undercover Boss will blow the socks off these programs.
Originally Posted By magic0214 Shark Tank is actually a HUGE ratings draw for ABC, almost always beating Undercover Boss and winning Friday Nights for ABC. Doug, Toks would be FANTASTIC! She is so great.
Originally Posted By DBitz2 There's very little on the networks that interests me anymore. I watch BBC America, PBS, Turner Classic Movies or DVD's of my favorites from days gone by. Besides the dirth of programming that interests me, all the distracting junk that is thrown on the screen during programs really, really irks me, further prompting me to stay away from much of television. It's extremely disrespectful of the viewers for networks and channels to do that.
Originally Posted By wa6oqc First off I have never had cable TV in my house. When it first started they said the reason you paid for the cable was for hundreds of channels and you would not have commercials. I waited to see if the latter was true, not true. Utahjosh - I used to really enjoy the Middle in the first season; it has gone downhill from there. DBitz2 - I too like PBS, many BBC programs, I also like MeTV and MyTV. Here is a start of what Disney can do on broadcast television on Friday nights. Starting at 8-10 PM they can show a Disney movie. Young couples like to go out; if they have kids tell the baby sitter this is one thing they can watch but they have to go to bed when it is over. If the parents are broke that night, what is better than to have family night? Add 20/20 to the schedule to bore / scare the kids into going to bed. I know you are going to say why should they do that when they have the Disney channel? I say move the Friday prime time broadcast programs to the Disney channel and then check your ratings.
Originally Posted By DBitz2 The sad thing about television today is that so much of it is segmented and targeted towards specific demographic age groups. Disney Channel especially seems to be guilty of this these days rather than having programming the whole family can sit down and enjoy together. Some of the best memories of my childhood and youth are my whole family sitting down and watching The Wonderful World of Color/Wonderful World of Disney together on Sunday nights. I don't have kids, but if I did, I can't think of anything coming from Disney or ABC that I could sit down and enjoy together with them. Truly sad.
Originally Posted By magic0214 They do nothing of importance on Saturdays, and with the lack of real programming on any channel, why not bring back Wonderful World of Disney? I know I would love to watch a Disney film on one of the many nights that I am not out and about.
