No One Is Watching TV
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Has the writer's strike hurt TV ratings more than expected?
Many of the former top shows have hit their lowest ratings EVEr just in recent weeks. Such as CSI: Miami, The Simpsons, and Grey's Anatomy.
Even reality shows are feeling the decline in viewers, such as American Idol and Deal or No Deal.
ABC prime-time research chief Larry Hyams says, "I'm not convinced people realized their shows were back. It's not like there was a premiere week."
Yeah, okay. Sure.
Whatever you say, Larry!
Maybe people are just watching TV online????
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Or maybe TV just SUCKS. Grey's has gotten ridiculous.
THIS IS GREAT! I hope all tv show's ratings continue to drop. We don't need to watch so much TV.
HA! I just got rid of my cable! you can pretty much watch any show online now, maybe a few days later but its FREE!! And with netflix, who needs tv???
Who watches live TV anymore?
Get a PVR man…no commercials and you can skip past all the boring parts.
I haven't watched live tv in over a year and never plan to go back.
Why bother watching TV? The freakin' actors will go on strike and just interrupt the rest of the "season" soon anyway.
Hate to say it, but Hollywood is going down in FLAMES!
maybe it because t.v. sucks now a days
How is this a bad thing? Television rarely does people good.
duh, they came back as the weather was improving. The viewers actually do have lives and they went on with them. Who cares if they miss a fucking TV show?
thats cus there aint shit on tv to watch!! they force you to watch that crap that is on tv now by not having anything else GOOD to choose from!! Im about to take up a hobby and ditch tv altogether
MAYBE IF YOU AN OBESE JOBLESS LOSER LIKE PIGREZ, YOU MIGHT CARE ABOUT THIS, BUT FOR THOSE OF US WHO LEAVE THE COUCH FROM TIME TO TIME, WE DO NOT CARE, AT ALL.
Yea I watch my shows online cuz I'm not home when they come on tv but I hate reality shows American Idol sucks
oooo yeah
THE ECONOMY IS SHIT, THE REASON WE ARE NOT WATCHING TV IS BECUASE WE ARE JUST TO DAMN BUSY WORKING 2 JOBS TO KEEP UP WITH THESE CRAPPY TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are all on on the same night….
Maybe people just realized that there are better things to do with their time…?
LOST IS THE BEST SHOW EVER!
Damn right…I haven't watched an actual TV set in a very long time…
I Download via bittorrents or watch the legal or illegal streaming sites. Anyway I can get my show. I feel no solidarity to a network or any particular machine that allows me to see my show. I DO feel solidarity to the shows I watch. Find a way to make money off of that, Networks. You guys dug your own grave. Everyone knew this day was coming. It's your fault for not taking the passed few years to COMPLETELY restructure how you make your money. You can no longer DEPEND on broadcast.
no one watches tv anymore because everything is geared toward 12 year old consumer brats.
Canceled the cable…(everyone's doing it) lol why pay for crap TV. If there is something you want to watch… it's online.
I lost all interest in TV during the writer's strike. I think it is going to hurt more than anyone anticipated. Guess it's time to fire those writers. Won't need them if no one is watching tv.
People were forced to go without new TV for so long so they found other ways to entertain themselves and now that TV is back nobody cares because what they were missing wasn't so good any how!
Also, when a new series comes on, people start to get interested and then after a few episodes it gets cancelled! Family Guy was once cancelled and now it's huge! When will the networks learn to stop cancelling things after not even giving new shows a chance!!
That's because shows like American Idol and Deal or No Deal are terrible wastes of airtime.
maybe because GAS and the cost of living is so high, people are forced to WORK more instead of relaxing on the couch in front of the tube.
Re: vsnod – No, I'm gloating.
WE TURNED OFF THE TELEVISION MANY YEARS AGO AND NOTICED THAT OUR INTELLIGENT QUOTIENT INCREASED, OUR WAIST LINES DECREASED, OUR ABILITY TO THINK FOR OURSELVES INCREASED, AS WELL AS, OUR CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS!!! READING WORKS WONDERS FOR 0-100+ YEARS OF AGE!!! WAKE UP AMERICA—–YOUR F*CKING TELEVISION IS MAKING YOU STUPID!!!
tv is too time consuming i just download all my shows to my harddrive and watch them when i have nothing else to do, like in the summer.
Ya I am now on a viewer strike HA
It's called Netflix!
TV is becoming obsolete. No one cares anymore. . .
ummmmm, gas prices are rediculous, shit is expensive.
I doubt people feel like sitting at home watch stupid shows.
Maybe we realize that television just sucks. All these shows are the same. How many 'CSI' shows can someone watch? I can only take so many cop and lawyer and doctor shows. And for god's sake, PLEASE no more reality t.v.. If you want reality get out from in front of your television and live your life. Doesn't get more 'real' than that.
Its tornado season in the midwest so we know the shows are on but all the channels are covering the WEATHER!
IT"S BECAUSE THEY ARE WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY TOOOOOO MANY COMMERCIALS NOW! WHAt DI THEY THINK WOULD HAPPEN?????
I only watch online!!
No…..we're not watching TV on the Internet. The shows on TV SUCK so much, that we only watch good movies on TV nowadays.
yeah i mostly watch my shows online. less commercials and i can voice my opinion immediately afterward. lol
Hell, no, I don't watch TV!
I've come to HATE TV because so many shows are similar to one another, and they all suck, so boring. I can't believe people get approvals for the garbage they write. As for PBS……"Public Television" …my butt!! PBS runs the stupidest show like "Carrier" and propaganda shows like Bush (father), where they could show a quality movie everyday at prime time, and another, right afterwards. Or one of the great British comedy series.
If TV shows were not bad enough, Network channels are full of medication commercials, colon cleanser infomercials and the rest of these appetizing crappy creations.
I canceled my cable, so I pay the lowest possible every month, and just use the TV box to view movies from Hollywood video. Enough!
Those overpaid idiots that run the studios picked a fight with the writers over nothing really, and got their asses handed to them by the audience. The only thing tv has going for it is that it is reliable. But the idiots that run the studios (who wouldn't sit down and watch their own programs at air time if you paid them) didn't realize that if tv programming isn't reliable, the audience will simply move on and do something else. Its not like there aren't a million other things to do.
I know what it is. Americans are sooo upset with the gas prices being so frickin' high that it has made them isolated from everything else. The economy,as we know it, is SHIT! People losing work and being laid off. Times are hard.
can't afford cable anymore! Had to get a second job to pay for gas and groceries! don't have time to watch it
ABOUT TIME PEOPLE GOT OFF THEIR FAT ASSES AND STARTED GETTING ACTIVE!!!!!!!! ITS GOOD TO WATCH TV EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE BUT NOT FOR THE ENTIRE EVENING!! THEN PEOPLE WONDER "HHMM WHY AM I SO FAT?" DAILY ACTIVITY AND A BALANCED DIET CAN HELP US LIVE A BETTER LIFE
Here's some research for Larry: Grey's Anatomy sucks now. That's why nobody watches it.
Been playing GTA IV. Fuck TV. When I get to enact my fantasies of killing as many cops as possible, it's better than anything TV can offer. Plus free porn on sites like 4chan is the bomb.
chron, pr0n, girls, music, partying, and some ultra violence is a much better release than watching Seinfeld reruns or getting lost in the plot development of some TV show that I missed the past 6 episodes of.
Maybe some science geekery from time to time.
–Lord c/nu
we're just not that into you anymore…t.v. is a bore!
I save money on cable cause i watch everything online, less commercials, i only watch tv at the gym
Everyone realized all those shows are shit, and tv actors get paid way too much……
OOORRRR we're too busy working our second and third jobs because thats what it takes nowadays to scrape by. I almost forgot that I pay for cable I'm unable to watch anymore! 1-20-2009, please make something happen!!!
No one watches tv anymore because we are all addicted to mmo's!