Halcyon Days of Television

It’s no secret I love television, but I get very frustrated with programming trends. Have you experienced one of the following scenarios?:

-A new show airs with an interesting, complicated storyline that you watch and become very involved in-- only to have the show removed before resolution of the storyline or;

-Same scenario as above, but instead of removing the show they play around with the air times so much you’d have to be a psychic to know when it will be on the air next or;

-A new show airs with an interesting, complicated storyline, which you watch and become very involved in; it’s wonderful and has a satisfying resolution but when the show ends, you have no idea whether it will be on again next year or ever because the network hasn’t decided if it will renew it.

-Same scenario as above, but instead of not knowing if it will be returning to the roster, you do know it will be back---in a couple of years.

This is the state of television these days, but when “hector was a pup” or I was a child if you prefer, television looked like this:

-A new show came on and ran for 26 episodes, one time a week,
-Shows had definite air times, and interestingly enough they stayed on at those times. If there was going to be a change of time there was plenty of notice about it,
-Shows came on in the fall, and ended in the summer (like an old fashioned school year),
-Show story lines were complete in each episode.

I long for those halcyon days of television when I could turn on the tube secure in the knowledge my favorite show is where it should be…and all is right in the world.

This post was done as part of Sunday Scribblings