The State of Television

I'm sure many of you have noticed the new direction the blog has been gradually taking over the last year.  I am concentrating more on blogging about some of the great television shows I have been watching.  By doing this I hope to inform you, my readers and anyone else who may stumble upon these pages, about the great television shows that ARE still being made.

Television can be and should be once again, a great institution in the home.  It should not be dressed up in a cheap mini skirt and heels, stuck on the street corner that is the Saturday night 8pm reality slot, and told to dance, sing or fake anything for it's money.  It's time to say we have had enough cheap thrills.  We want more.

More already exists!  Television is not just a world of reality shows where orange Z-list celebrities get semi naked and have fake "some scenes have been dramatized" relationships.  Television is still about good old-fashioned storytelling, in the most, and the GOOD part.  Don't be a slave to reality shows that leave little to the imagination, and send your brain cells into a deep coma.   Rather stimulate them into a frenzy with impossibly imaginative twists and turns of thrillers, such as "Scandal".  Test them to their intellectual limits with political dramas such as "House of Cards".  Make them feel alive with joy and the laughter provided by comic genius from shows like "Community" and "New Girl".

Sadly, some of these shows do not get the press the reality shows are afforded and as a result I regularly see decent shows getting cancelled and replaced by yet more low budget television.  "Private Practice" cancelled after 5 seasons, "Fringe" cancelled after 5 seasons, "Zero Hour" cancelled during the first season.  These are just three off the top of my head!  There are many, many more and these are mostly shows that people haven't had the chance to even get to hear about yet.  That's where I am hoping this blog will begin to help fill the information void!

So if you are interested in finding out about some shows that I think you will enjoy, please feel free to subscribe and I will try to keep you all updated.

Thanks