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Good or Bad Television

The nineties have been plagued with networks scrambling like everyone else to increase profits for stock holders without any regard for the viewers, like the way big corporations have layed off good employees just to get a temporary rise in their stocks. The eighties are repeatedly referred to as the decade of greed, but it appears to the discerning eye that never has greed been any more present than it is now. A certain shaky politician got elected from the perception he knew how to create a good economy, even though from a impartial view point he would appear less than honest.

This page is ,however about television not politics. It does seem that the current political climate does affect the type of shows we watch.

A lot of good shows have been canceled during the nineties that weren't even given a chance to build an audience. Some of them may not have been considered great works of art, but they were a lot better than other shows that are currently on the air.

Shows like Time Cop, Strange Luck, Dark Skies, The Visitor, The New Fantasy Island were all good shows that were not given a chance to build an audience. An argument against Fantasy Island was it had already been done, but that is the most ridiculous statement one could possibly think of when you look at the dozens of copycat sitcoms we are bombarded with year after gruesome year. Not to mention the news magazine shows on every network that come on practically everyday on every network.

Dark Skies was definitely not given a chance to gain an audience. There may have been a lot a things already done on the X-files, but every sitcom on the air tells the same jokes and same situations over and over again, and these sitcoms are still there. Now, there have been some good sitcoms in the past like Family Ties, but most every sitcom on now is just plain boring.

Another show Vengeance Unlimited is an excellent show, but I haven't seen it in a few weeks.It almost seems that networks are afraid to trust their common sense about shows. You would think after years of experience they would figure out what makes an entertaining show that will eventually gain an audience.

The X-files didn't start out as big a hit as it is now. Happy Days a good sitcom started out very poorly, but today everyone knows who the Fonz is.

Well the one good thing about little being on I can get a little more work done.