View Full Version : TV Land- No more 80s?
tvparadise
03-09-2007, 01:32 PM
It seems like TV Land is making moves to remove all 80s and beyond shows from its schedule.
The contracts for 227 and Benson have been terminated in exchange for 60s shows.
Shows like Cheers, Night Court, Miami Vice, Highway to Heaven, and Wings have been taken off the line-up and their show pages have been removed from the website- making it look as if there are absolutely no plans for them to return. Highway to Heaven, Wings, and Night Court never really took off. Miami Vice formerly had a pretty good run on TNN/Spike. I don't know what happened with Cheers. It seemed to do quite well a few years ago, airing on TV Land, Nick at Nite, and Spike. I don't know if the ratings greatly dropped or if new acquisitions just outperformed it. It seems that with Cheers it got edged out of its time slots that generally fell between 11pm - 2am by newer shows and didn't really work anywhere else on the schedule so it just got knocked off all together.
The only 80s series still listed are Knight Rider, Simon & Simon, and The A-Team. The first 2 have hardly aired and seem to not perform as well as Miami Vice so I really don't know why they remain on the list. The A-Team seemed to be pretty successful so out of all 80s series it probably has the best chance of returning.
TV Land also removed "Classic 80s TV Moments" from its broadband player. If you click on it on the pull down menu it will just go to 70s clips. The above shows have also been removed from the theme songs page.
I guess the baby boomer research did not go in favor of 80s shows. Which to me is sad as there is really not a place to see many shows from this decade. It seems like they are kind of taking a step backwards and I don't ultimately see it working out. I do enjoy several 60s series, but like Oldies radio, within time, most of these shows will become to old to remain viable. It does not seem like TV Land is continuing with being a representation of classic television from all decades. I think TV Land is making some bad moves, I do however feel that Nick@Nite is making a good move with only focusing on family series.
catlover79
03-09-2007, 01:46 PM
Too bad they can't have more of an even mix of shows from the '50s-'80s. Time was, most of the '80s show reruns were on Nick At Nite.
TVFactFan
03-09-2007, 01:50 PM
Saturdays should be Variety Show day on TV land and it would be all variety shows from the 60's and 70's all day on Saturday like it is for the westerns, 12pm to 8pm
I sympathize with those that like the 80s shows...I like many of them myself, but they were really just out of place [Wings, Murphy Brown, Night Court, 227 especially], IMO. I'm personally glad that TV Land is going in the 50s-70s only direction, being a fan of those eras. I'd like to see a network catering to 50s-70s [TV Land] and a network for 70s-80s shows [ION seems to be the best bet for this]. TV Land's Switchboard list, which is usually a good indicator of what shows will join the line-up in the next two or so years, looks like they're not planning on acquiring any more 80s anytime soon, and I don't blame them personally.
ION Television has access to a good amount of 80s shows, like Silver Spoons, Perfect Strangers, Kate and Allie, The Wonder Years, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Amen, and I'm sure there are lots more. They're already showing Mama's Family and Growing Pains from the 80s. Hopefully they'll show them and stop airing things already on other networks, or, ultimately, expand their line-up.
omg65
03-10-2007, 02:17 PM
50's-70's direction?
Exactly what 50's shows do TV Land air?
catlover79
03-10-2007, 02:20 PM
50's-70's direction?
Exactly what 50's shows do TV Land air?
They USED to air Leave It To Beaver, which debuted in 1957. I believe they also aired episodes of Ozzie & Harriet and The Donna Reed Show, but I might be wrong.
omg65
03-10-2007, 02:24 PM
You are right about Leave it to Beaver.
TV Land was founded on those 50's and 60's shows.Then they started airing the 80's stuff and lost their core audience.Brilliant.
BensonFan
03-10-2007, 03:21 PM
Here's what I'm wondering: Did TV Land initially advertise themselves as being only a 50s & 60s station? Or was it just that 50s & 60s shows were what they began with? If it's the former, I can understand people being ticked when they brought in 70s and 80s shows, but if it's the latter then the criticisms are not really fair.
I don't personally watch a great deal of 80s shows myself, but I think TV Land definitely needs a better variety (showing the same show more than once a day isn't providing said variety), or, like some have already suggested, have two channels for the two different eras. That probably makes the most sense and maybe that was the purpose of N@N but even that station repeats shows too often.
TV Land shows I Love Lucy and Leave it to Beaver, both 50s.
Dynomite
03-10-2007, 03:29 PM
That's really sad! 90's shows aren't safe, either. I had gotten used to seeing Wings come on a half-hour after Happy Days. Now, since TV Land no longer airs either, maybe we should lobby for CBS Paramount to re-syndicate reruns of both.
Madness
03-10-2007, 03:40 PM
The show which I feel should've never been removed from the weekday lineup is Cheers. That show has classic written all over it, 80's or not. And with 11 seasons, it really is more difficult to be rerun into the ground.
Makes no sense to not have this show airing on any of their networks.
bencasey
03-11-2007, 03:56 AM
They really don't need to air anything from later than the 70s. There are already enough networks airing 80s shows, like Nick at Nite, Sleuth, the new Chiller Channel, TBS, etc. If it was up to me they wouldn't air 70s either, just 50s and 60s.
TVJunkie101
03-11-2007, 08:17 AM
I think our best hope for any 80s shows is going to be ION for comedies and Sleuth and Chiller for adventure/drama/crime shows, IMO.
I bet you're right, TVJunkie. ION has a few 80s dramas, but who knows if they'll ever show them.
TVFactFan
03-11-2007, 01:25 PM
They really don't need to air anything from later than the 70s. There are already enough networks airing 80s shows, like Nick at Nite, Sleuth, the new Chiller Channel, TBS, etc. If it was up to me they wouldn't air 70s either, just 50s and 60s.
If TV Land was like that I would request to my cable company that they replace it with the Discovery Channel 4-lol
benjamoon
03-11-2007, 02:31 PM
In general, I prefer 50s-70s shows but it's lately it's just been the same ones (Lucy, Beaver, Andy, Addams Family, Munsters, Green Acres) over and over again.... I actually love 3 of those 6 shows but it'd be nice to see more variety
I'm shocked at what has happened with "Cheers" - it seemed like it was doing well and then was abruptly pushed to one airing a week then none at all
bencasey
03-11-2007, 03:10 PM
If TV Land was like that I would request to my cable company that they replace it with the Discovery Channel 4-lol
Too late. I already requested that 5 years ago when they stopped showing anything rare and just programmed common crap.
friendsfan77
03-12-2007, 11:38 AM
There are some '80's shows I like (Night Court immediately comes to mind) but there should not be an overabundance of those shows, or an overabundance of shows from any decade. If they just aired a clean variety of '50's to '70's (or '80's) series instead of airing the same shows 3, 4 and 5 times a day, then I'd have far fewer complaints about this channel. But, sadly any sense of variety is now out the window, and I hardly ever watch the channel anymore simply because of that. Now if only Ion would expand...
Though for the record, I'm much more into '70's than '80's when it comes to programming.
BensonFan
03-12-2007, 12:57 PM
There are some '80's shows I like (Night Court immediately comes to mind) but there should not be an overabundance of those shows, or an overabundance of shows from any decade. If they just aired a clean variety of '50's to '70's (or '80's) series instead of airing the same shows 3, 4 and 5 times a day, then I'd have far fewer complaints about this channel. But, sadly any sense of variety is now out the window, and I hardly ever watch the channel anymore simply because of that. Now if only Ion would expand...
:clap I agree completely. Thank you.
kambreesuncle
03-12-2007, 09:27 PM
I'm a fan of "Benson", "Night Court", and "227". I remember watching 227 and NC when they originally air. I watched Benson in syndication.
There among my favorites of all time.
It's just not cool that some people don't even give these really funny shows a chance and TV Land just bump them off unfairly.
If I was running that network, I would care less about the ratings and give these shows a fair chance.
They need to get rid of those boring westerns and bring back some damn variety to the schedule.:angryfire
The problem so many people have, and I definitely understand it, is that many of the 50s-70s shows that air on TVLand and other channels are the same shows that have been in reruns for years. Yes, they are television classics that should be reran, but they do need breaks, no matter how great they are. There are dozens of popular, long-running shows in the history of TV that barely see the light of day now.
I'm talking about "One Day at a Time," "Alice," "Room 222," "The Doris Day Show," "Our Miss Brooks," "Maude," "Julia," "Eight is Enough," etc. They were all hit shows with a good amount of episodes under their belt and they deserve airtime.
ultravox
03-17-2007, 09:34 PM
They should air 50,60,70 shows only. My god there is so many shows that havnt seen the light of day in many moons. here is some examples
my 3 sons
mchales navy
Voyage to the bottom of the sea
Little Giants
Family
Love that bob
Family Affair
Six Million Dollar Man/bionic woman
Hardy boys/ nancy drew
Hazel
Please dont eat the daisies
Heres Lucy
Ed Sullivan
Doby gillis
Life of Riley
I married Joan
Ozzie and Harriet
Sgt Bilko
Topper
Wagon Train
Rifel man
I can go on forever. so you see tvland there is SOOOOOOO many shows to fill the schedule
bencasey
03-19-2007, 03:09 AM
The problem so many people have, and I definitely understand it, is that many of the 50s-70s shows that air on TVLand and other channels are the same shows that have been in reruns for years. Yes, they are television classics that should be reran, but they do need breaks, no matter how great they are. There are dozens of popular, long-running shows in the history of TV that barely see the light of day now.
I'm talking about "One Day at a Time," "Alice," "Room 222," "The Doris Day Show," "Our Miss Brooks," "Maude," "Julia," "Eight is Enough," etc. They were all hit shows with a good amount of episodes under their belt and they deserve airtime.
And besides the dozens of hit shows that aren't seen anymore, what about some of the non-hit shows that were pretty good? That was what I loved about HA for the short time it was around. Not only did they run many of the classics but they also had time for Occasional Wife, CPO Sharkey, Captain Nice, The Charmings, Tabitha, Bridget Loves Bernie and several other short run series. It would be nice to see TV Land or any network for that matter mix in some rare shows. I understand that they don't get the ratings of the better known stuff but can't they find any space on the schedule?
TVFactFan
03-19-2007, 11:02 AM
And besides the dozens of hit shows that aren't seen anymore, what about some of the non-hit shows that were pretty good? That was what I loved about HA for the short time it was around. Not only did they run many of the classics but they also had time for Occasional Wife, CPO Sharkey, Captain Nice, The Charmings, Tabitha, Bridget Loves Bernie and several other short run series. It would be nice to see TV Land or any network for that matter mix in some rare shows. I understand that they don't get the ratings of the better known stuff but can't they find any space on the schedule?
CPO Sharkey don't have enough eps to be on the TV LAND schedule. Maybe One airing every Weekend
The best solution would be for TV Land to air shows from the 1950s to 1970s and Nick At Nite to do 1980s and 1990s. In the prime time hours from 7 pm to midnight, TV Land can show the usual group of classics (Lucy, Beaver, Andy Griffith, etc.) while saving the rarer stuff for the mornings and early to mid afternoons. That should keep the viewers happy for a while but it might not happen because it makes too much sense.
And besides the dozens of hit shows that aren't seen anymore, what about some of the non-hit shows that were pretty good? That was what I loved about HA for the short time it was around. Not only did they run many of the classics but they also had time for Occasional Wife, CPO Sharkey, Captain Nice, The Charmings, Tabitha, Bridget Loves Bernie and several other short run series. It would be nice to see TV Land or any network for that matter mix in some rare shows. I understand that they don't get the ratings of the better known stuff but can't they find any space on the schedule?
ITA!
They had a very good thing going on for most of 2002 with the TVLand Kitschen, Better Living Through Television, Box Sets, and Sunday Best. The Kitschen was the home to campy/cult classic-type shows, while BLTTV was for 50s and early 60s shows. They were both the perfect showcases for short-lived shows.
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