N@N is the weirdest network on this planet we call Earth

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by storrs19
Well, my thoughts on N@N are simple: THEY SUCK !!!

Now for the diatribe:
This network has went to total garbage since all they show are stupid shows from the 1980's and 1990's and they show them way too much. I hated these shows when they were new and I hate them now. I sure wish TVLand would pick up some more B&W shows like: Patty Duke, Ann Sothern, Sgt. Bilko, Mr. Ed, Car 54 and others that they showed when they had a good network (15 years ago). Although I am a big Lucy fan, I'm sick of ILL and would much rather see Here's Lucy, or at least bring back the Lucy Show. I haven't seen Here's Lucy in nearly 20 years now since I didn't get PAX when they ran it for a short time a few years ago. I don't know who does programming at N@N but I suspect it is the same type of people who run Game Show Network and their attitude is appeal to the 18-34 year old audience and to hell with the rest of the people. Well, I'm only 33 and it sure doesn't appeal to me. Now it's time to go watch some good tv, something I taped 10 to 15 years ago...

Chad

I think I've already mentioned this theory, but yeah, here we go. Not all channels do this, but most are trying to get on the generation wagon. A few years ago the channels still catered towards the older viewer because the 18 and under in 2003 were still too young then. As the 18 and under now get older, channels start catering towards the younger viewers.

Okay, I'll take N @ N as an example. They must figure that an 18 year old would not want to watch something from the 50's, 60's or 70's. We want to go back to their year. We want to go and revisit the 80s and recapture that. Maybe bring it forward into the 90s, but we simply can't go back past the 80s. These teenagers just would not know who some of these people are. Some might be turned off by the 50s and 60s because the shows were in black and white.

Test my theory out. You go up to a teenager in your town and ask them who so and so is (insert classic tv star). I admit the teenagers and people on this site are very knowledgeable about classic tv. Before I even came to this site, everybody in my school prob. thought I was weird. Well, a few others in my school liked classic tv. Most of them just didn't know that much about classic tv and every time I brought up something from the past, I'd get these weird looks.

Well, let me get back to the original topic. Okay, fast forward a few years. Uh, lets go to 2015. That sounds like a good year. The 80s will be just like the 50s, 60s, and 70s to the teenagers of 2015. Most teenager prob. wouldn't know/care about the shows of the past. That's when N @ N will show tv shows from the late 90s through maybe 2008, something like that.

So basically the older viewer is getting the screw over now. You just wait a few years. The teenagers from 2003 will be joining that screw over line. jmo

[Chocoholic]

You have a good point there, Jenny. I must admit, I myself really don't care for a lot of the shows from the 50's and 60's, mainly because I just don't relate to them. They are before my time (I'm almost 22.) and they don't appeal to me at all. On the other hand, I enjoy watching shows from the mid 70's to mid 90's period because they are shows that I enjoy watching and I can relate to them.

I think there should be more shows for the older generation to enjoy though, both in reruns and in current TV.

[James]

They should reinstate their 1998 lineup of The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and The Wonder Years. (Keep Perfect Strangers, tho'!)

[LucyFan]

Originally posted by James
They should reinstate their 1998 lineup of The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and The Wonder Years. (Keep Perfect Strangers, tho'!)

The Nick at Nite Fall 1998 Line-Up is my favorite N@N schedule. I remember looking forward to The Brady Bunch at 9, The Wonder Years at 9:30, Happy Days at 10, Laverne & Shirley at 10:30, I Love Lucy at 11, Bewitched at 11:30, and Mary Tyler Moore at 12 all right in a row! That was the best one ever! I wish either Nick at Nite would go back to that line-up or have TV Land re-create it.

[Bonnie1983]

Oooer! N@N sounds like an awful station! I'm glad we don't get it here!

Personally I like both Wings and Punky Brewster. Wings especially, I always thought it was miles better than Cheers (which I also like but find kinda dull a lot of the time). And Punky Brewster was just cute. Sure it wasn't an award worthy show but it was sweet and gave the kids something to watch.