What would you like to see on TV Land?

[The Toyroom]

What? You mean you don't watch The Real World XXXXXXVVVI anymore?

The last time I watched the Real World was when Puck stuck his fingers in Pedro's peanut butter...of course that's also the season that unleashed Judd Winnick on an unsuspecting comic book world.

[kingdom warrior]

TV land is Dead to me.......If i need retro i go to Official released Dvd's or Bootlegs......

[EmergencyIan]

Yeah, TVLand went way off their original format, in my opinion.

I'd like to see a lot of the shows that have already been listed. "Emergency!", of course is on my list.


- Ian

[thunderbolt]

Looks like I haven't missed much on pay tv for the last 4 years.

[SUPERPEOPLEHERE]

Superheroandmarvelheroes.

Superheroes And Marvelheroes. On Tv.land

[Mikey]

Ahhh,
The good old days of Nick at Nite's Block Party summers.
I miss those days ......
Even still have my free Block Party magnet
Today, Nick is crap

Crap Land.
They're just a crap fest too.
I wish they wouldn't play any more reality shows and nothing from the 80's and beyond.
TV Land smells and i've lost hope for them.

TV Land made me HATE ... The Andy Griffith show (by them playing it so much)

[Earth 2 Chris]

You can't even find Andy on there now. Just crap like George Foreman's Family Drama or whatever. Who honestly watches that crap?

I don't think there is a channel left that still follows it's original format. TV Land made huge ta-doos over getting both Batman and Star Trek, and then showed them for a month in prime-time and then shuffled them off to the god-awfulest hours of the night or morning. Trek is on at 6 AM every morning. What?

Boomerang isn't too far behind them. It's slowly turning into nothing but Cartoon Network's Recent Leftovers. I love JLU, but do it and esp. The Batman really belong on Boomerang? Johnny Bravo? Cow and Chicken? At least they've been running the Scooby Movies at night.

Chris

[mego73]

I want to see

The Patty Duke Show
Six Million Dollar Man
Batman
Emergency!
Cannon
Barnaby Jones

and more

[Collect 'em all!]

I'd come back to watching TV land if they played:

Batman
The Monkees
Lost in Space
Land of the Lost
The Rockford Files
Starsky and Hutch
The Greatest American Hero

and, heck, maybe even a little Gilligan's Island would be nice for a change!

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I would love to see some shows I've never seen before; or even heard of! You're looking at over 50 YEARS of tv, and all I see are the same few dozen shows. I think EVERYTHING on this list has been shown on one station or another in the last 5 years.

Except Barnaby Jones. That one seems to have disappeared.

Don C.

[Mikey]

Barnaby Jones reminds me ........
I miss the days when A&E used to play

Columbo (classic stories)
Banachek
McCloud
McMillian and Wife
... and more 70's police shows.

Today it's just one City Confindential or American Justice rerun after another.

[mego73]

Hmmmm....

I would love to see some shows I've never seen before; or even heard of! You're looking at over 50 YEARS of tv, and all I see are the same few dozen shows. I think EVERYTHING on this list has been shown on one station or another in the last 5 years.

Except Barnaby Jones. That one seems to have disappeared.

Don C.

Me too, I am interested in seeing old shows I have never seen before. I found The Patty Duke Show and Donna Reed Show in the 1980's through Nick At Nite.

I wish a channel would come on with a schedule of old forgotten favorites.

[megoat]

You guys act like these huge cable channels are shifting their formats to LOSE viewers. Believe me, they do their homework and research. They are in the business of selling advertisement air space. The truth of the matter is, yeah it would be great if TV Land stuck to showing classic TV and obscure TV shows but obviously NOBODY WATCHES IT. Blame it on the free market and the horrible taste of the American viewing public......

[mego73]

You guys act like these huge cable channels are shifting their formats to LOSE viewers. Believe me, they do their homework and research. They are in the business of selling advertisement air space. The truth of the matter is, yeah it would be great if TV Land stuck to showing classic TV and obscure TV shows but obviously NOBODY WATCHES IT. Blame it on the free market and the horrible taste of the American viewing public......

There is a successful way to market it (as Turner Classic Movies shows with movies). I find it hard to believe that the change is completely due to what will bring in more viewers. It may be an approach of growing a library of self made programming that can be later exploited beyond the cable network(i.e. home video).

If anyone ever visits the TVLand forums, the chatter is heavy with criticism over the direction of the channel. That represents less and lost viewers.

Is the approach of making unremarkable reality shows (with admittedly likable people like George Foreman and Mr. T) and showing edited, time compressed and commercial interrupted movies that if you already love you have on DVD and if you like have been on other cable channels recently (recent ones shown by TVLand include My Cousin Vinnie and the National Lampoon Vacation movies and those were on pay cable rotation less than a year ago and other channels such even more recently).

When Nick At Nite was really kickin' in the 80's, they had an advertising approach that built a kitschy coolness around their vintage shows. They were promoting it as counter culture to the counter culture.

This sort of innovative advertising took forgotten shows like The Patty Duke Show and Donna Reed and produced audiences for them from people like me who were not even born when the shows were on.

If audiences fell off, it was because both NAN and TVL drifted away from their own mission statement. Seeking to homogenize themselves to what other cable channels are doing is a fall back defensive approach. It may gain some some viewers but not as much as could happen if they revive the innovative approach that made NIN a success with material in the vaults that had been long believed to have outlived it's usefulness.

Also, there is the story of WGN. WGN started to have Sunday retro night with Newhart and The Honeymooners. They liked the numbers the shows generated and will be adding shows like Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie and WKRP in September on WGN. Some shows will be daily. They can generate numbers with the right promotion.