TV LAND!! What Happened!!

[eddie146]

geesh, tvland is almost as bad as nick at nite now!! little house ugh!! what happened!! their whole line up is stale,old and terrible...night court, come on!!

[Mr. Television]

While I agree that TV Land isn't as good as it used to be , Little House and Night Court are both classics.

[TV DVD Fan]

Night Court is a classic, it's one of the funniest shows around, why don't you like it?

Pat

[tvfan 2]

I think tv land should show different tv shows each day. that can put 50's
60's and 70's show different days.

[spunkygirl]

Yeah Little House and Night Court are classics. I don't see why they shouldnt be airing Little House, I'm surprised they didn't air it sooner

[Mrgman]

My problem is the originals. TV land confidental, 60 minutes come on now those are not classics

[ClassicTVGal]

Well "Little House On The Prairie" isn't a favorite of mine, I now find myself watching it sometimes. And I love "Night Court" now, it's a favorite of mine. I definatley think TVLAND is doing a *much* better job with shows than Nick@Nite has been doing. Goodness.

I do wish TVLAND would bring back some shows, including:

"The Mary Tyler Moore Show"

and three I haven't seen in a years:

"Family Affair"
"That Girl"
"Julia"

It'd be nice to see ones that we haven't seen in FOREVER.

And I *really, really* wish someone else would pick up "Who's The Boss?"! Esp TVLAND to get it when N@N drops it this May.

[cpmaz]

Originally Posted by eddie146

geesh, tvland is almost as bad as nick at nite now!! little house ugh!! what happened!! their whole line up is stale,old and terrible...night court, come on!!

While I have never been a fan of Little House on the Prairie, it *is* a classic show, and simply put, Night Court was a great show, perhap one of the 10 funniest sitcoms ever.

What's your problem with them? As another poster noted, TV Land's problems start with their "original" programming, most of which are just clip shows from the series on their roster.

They are in danger of coming down with MTV/VH1-itis - forgetting about what made them popular in the first place.

[treky]

besides their original programing, they show too many marathons and repeats sometimes. They've showed "The Dick Van Dyke show revisited" over and over again, and they just showed it AGAIN on Thanksgiving night, after they just showed it a couple weeks ago! Same with "Still Brady after all these years".

And, this weekend they're showing ANOTHER "Good Times" marathon! And I heard that soon they're going to have ANOTHER "What's Happening" marathon!! And in the past it seemed as if they were almost always showing "Cheers" marathons! Thankfully, they've stopped doing that.

[dawsongirl]

Night Court rules.

I dislike the constant reruns too. That's sooo VH1.

[ClassicTV4Ever]

I really liked it in the past when they'd air stuff that weren't normally on their schedule, like those "Time Warp" blocks that they'd air for two hours Saturday and Sunday mornings, or the themed Box Sets, or for holidays or specially themed programmed blocks (like the one time they had a mini marathon called "Baiowatch" in which they aired episodes of some episodes of shows that Scott Baio was in). They'd air a variety of older and obscure shows like "Angie," "Day By Day," "Working Girl," and so many others. It was so great.

[Number 9 Dream]

I thought I would hate Night Court because it replaced Three's Company, but I discovered it to be a pretty funny show. It's not so bad.

[friendsfan77]

I wouldn't want to see Little House on the Prarie on TVLand. Why? Because it already comes on the Hallmark Channel, the last time I checked. Just like for instance, Roseanne and Full House are good shows but why do they need to be on more than one channel? There are plenty of other shows in the vault that they could air if they had the rights or could gain the rights to airing them.

I haven't seen much of TVLand especially since they stopped the Kitschen, Box Sets, and took off three of my favorite shows: Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart Show, and Barney Miller. They've also done some cool things, like when John Ritter passed away, they showed pretty much every series he was ever in.

Although since Night Court is a highly popular and respectable series (and one of my favorites) even in reruns, I've been drawn back to the network. I'm also glad to see What's Happening!! come back into syndication, as well as another Merrython.

Specials such as DVD Revisited and Still Brady are nice specials, and it's cool to see how rerunning said specials is a good idea in case of people missing them, but running different series and things into the ground (a.k.a. "rerun abuse") is not a good thing. Like as I remember they kept airing the same 8 or so episodes of Soap over and over. If they don't have that whole run, I can understand that, but why cycle through the same few episodes over and over again?

[Mrgman]

please bring charles in charge to tvland

[Michael72581]

The problem with TVLand is "Good Times". I can't believe that this show got great ratings for its 48 hour launch marathon weekend when its such a dumb, ********, serious, dramatic, and depressing show that's not even funny. How could someone want to spend their weekend watching a show that is going to make them depressed. I guess people either have no life or are crazy and don't know any better. TVLand made a very bad decision acquiring "Good Times". It was the worst decision they ever made throughout the entire history of TVLand. They should of thought about acquiring "The Jeffersons" instead of "Good Times". It's a better idea to acquire a sitcom that people are going to want to watch that will make them laugh than adding a show that is supposed to be a sitcom, but instead is made to make people depressed and is very unwatchable. I believe in miracles, so hopefully TVLand will soon acquire "The Jeffersons" and get rid of "Good Times" permanently. I hate "Good Times" so much that if I ran TVLand tomorrow, "Good Times" is gone permanently and "The Jeffersons" is back on the schedule.