Marlys Harris takes a shot at A&E and Dog the Bounty Hunter

Marlys Harris takes a shot at A&E and Dog the Bounty Hunter

Marlys Harris from CBS Money Watch dropped an article about not only A&E but Reality T.V Series Dog the Bounty Hunter being a waste of time. Here are a few quotes – we would love for you to chime in on our comments section.

Let’s Face It: TV Is Upchuck — and Not Worth Consuming

A&E, whose slogan used to be “time well spent” –hah! — now gives audiences three straight hours of Dog the Bounty Hunter. Does the public want that much of its tattooed, pierced, wife-beater-wearing stars’ encounters with pathetic, drug addicted losers?

Before I go further, let me say that I am not a TV hater. Just the opposite. Addict more accurately describes my sad condition. Seriously, I’ll watch practically anything on a screen, including “Book Talk” on C-SPAN. Even if I don’t like most of the choices at a particular hour, I’ll click to the LOP — the least objectionable program — and flip back and forth during commercials between the two top LOPs.

But both networks and cable channels have adopted programming with such Hobbesian choices that I find myself turning the TV off. What’s wrong? One problem: stations now run one program in a huge forever block. Take America’s Got Talent, an updated version of the Ted Mack Amateur Hour which I think ran on radio and TV before even my birth. Circus acts are not exactly my cup of tea, especially accompanied by an audience screaming more frenziedly than Darfur refugees receiving shipments of Kentucky fried chicken. An hour once a week, fine. But does NBC have to give it three hours a night on Wednesday and another hour on Thursday? Seriously, America doesn’t have that much talent. Same goes for “So You Think You Can Dance? on Fox.

Forever blocking extends well beyond the major channels. A&E, whose slogan used to be “time well spent” –hah! — now gives audiences three straight hours of Dog the Bounty Hunter. Does the public want that much of its tattooed, pierced, wife-beater-wearing stars’ encounters with pathetic, drug addicted losers? On other nights, A&E features three-hour blocks of CSI reruns, two-hour blocks of The First 48, a show that has real cops catching real murderers who are so pathetic that you almost sympathize with them, and two-hour blocks of Intervention, a program about users of heroin, meth, alcohol, cocaine, crack or all of the above being prodded into treatment. If instead you crave something more light-hearted, you can tune into three hour blocks of Reba re-runs on Lifetime or five- and six-hour blocks on Bravo of the Housewives of (name a city)

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