Merrython...No FOL?

[PanManX]

I'm not sure if this has been discussed already, but why isnt TV Land showing the FOL Christmas Eps during the Merrython?

[Czas na Zywiec]

Originally posted by PanManX
I'm not sure if this has been discussed already, but why isnt TV Land showing the FOL Christmas Eps during the Merrython?

Cause obviously Viacom doesn't have any good taste in tv and doesn' give a damn about what they show.

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by Original Prankster


Cause obviously Viacom doesn't have any good taste in tv and doesn' give a damn about what they show.

Ditto

I'm disappointed they aren't showing any FOL episodes during the marathon, but I'm happy they are at least showing 2 ABP episodes.

[Pavan]

Hallmark has the rights to the show since July 2002.

[jayman75]

Originally posted by pavanbadal
Hallmark has the rights to the show since July 2002.

Plus, they have been on in the past. They rotate the shows each year. Unfortunately, we aren't always able to see the shows we want to see. Sometimes Santa leaves coal in your stocking. Life goes on...

[Impressions]

It's too bad they will only be airing Screen Gem Shows and TV Land Shows only this year, I would have liked to see the Holiday episodes. Even if Hallmark aired them recently this year, it still would have been nice to see them during the Holidays, if by chance Hallmark would air the show I think we would've had a back-up, but otherwise I'm glad TV Land will be airing some shows they don't regularly air on the marathon, so that should be something to look into, this year.

[JethroSimpson]

I had all the Christmas episodes taped in last years Merrython.

[Rebel Queen 1980]

Ugh!,I hate TVLAND!
They just donna wanna our shows,it's no fair,our parents
get all the nostalgia they want!,and we get nada!
LET 80'S CHILDREN AND TEENS HAVE THEIR TURN!

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by JoCool
Ugh!,I hate TVLAND!
They just donna wanna our shows,it's no fair,our parents
get all the nostalgia they want!,and we get nada!
LET 80'S CHILDREN AND TEENS HAVE THEIR TURN!

I'm going to step up and say something about the above post. It is true that the old shows have had a pretty long run, but some old shows are starting to disappear on some stations. Let's go back a few years and take a look at TBS. When I was a little girl, I used to watch 'The Andy Griffith Show' and 'Sanford and Son' on that station. I think TAGS ran at 7 p.m. and Sanford at 7:30. It's been so long that I really can't remember times. I can't tell you how pissed I was when I found out they were replacing TAGS in exchange for Roseanne.

Let's step back into the present. Look at TBS now. You see any old shows like TAGS or Sanford and Son? Nope. Well, unless you count the few shows that are shoved in 5 a.m. time slots. The people that were born and raised in the 60s are getting older. My dad was 6 years old in 1960, and he's 48 now. My mother is 50 and I don't want to call them ancient old because they aren't ancient. They are getting older and some of the shows they grew up on are starting to disappear. You have a few select shows from my parents times that survived all the updating. TVL is really the only station that shows old shows and purposely does that all day long. The channels took the chance to restore that nostalgia with the children of the 50s and 60s, but as they grow older these channels are going to start catering toward other years. If you give it some time, the children of the 80s will get their little nostalgia period. We have to get older first. I say when I get 30 that's when the period might start and TVL might cater to 80s shows then.

The children of the 90s and beyond will get their nostalgia period too. They'll have to wait their turn though. The channels are trying to cater to what is hip NOW. Nostalgia was a big thing back a few years ago. Channels actually cared about the older viewer and the viewers that loved watching older shows. Teenagers are a big thing now. Channels are starting to cater more towards them in movies, music, and television.

I better stop for now because this post is getting kind of long. I'll come back if I think of anything else.

[Flash72]

I must confess that I am not quite sure to what exactly the starter of this thread is referring to. In fact, I find the current state of television to be quite the opposite. I am, to my dismay, finding almost daily that the beloved shows that I grew up watching in the 70's and 80's and the ones I watched from the 50's and 60's in reruns are disappearing at an alarming rate. Hallmark's abrupt and unceremonious dismissal of Facts of Life being a prime example.
Another case in point, TBS, as Jenny mentioned, once the home of classic tv like Sanford and Son, All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore Show, I Love Lucy, and Andy Griffith, now home to what? Home to shows that are currently running on network tv or have just recently completed their runs, and by recent, yes I mean Cosby Show's 1992 bow off NBC. The only show, aside from Little House on the Praire(whose days I bet are numbered), that was made before 1980, to air on TBS is "Good Times," and guess what, GT is on its way out the door in 2003. Also WGN, once home to classic tv, is also following the with it and hip trend, losing the rights to great series like "Hawaii Five O" and "Abbott and Costello Show." All across the dial, you find the same trend: from TNN to A and E and Nick at Nite. The latter is a great example of classic tv being replaced by newer fare. Nick at Nite, once haven for the great series from the 50's to the 70's, now a virtual rehash of NBC's Thursday night lineup of the 80's. I am sorry, but I have been there and done that, I want to see older shows. I guess I should be grateful that All in the Family, Three's Company, Brady Bunch, and Happy Days remain on the schedule, but how long do you think they will last when Full House, Roseanne, and others of the like join the lineup? As of now, TV Land is the only true place to find the older shows, and hope that they continue this practice. And Scifi channel, once a veritable paradise for classic scifi show watchers, now a wasteland, with the dropping of the original Star Trek being the final nail in their coffin.

One thing that bothers me, I hear kids say they wont watch certain shows because they are in black and white. When I was a kid, I loved the black and white sitcoms of the 50's/60's and reveled in watching them on Friday nights on, then CBN, now ABC Family. I have always favored the older shows more than current programming; I only wish that other channels would think in the same manner.

To quote a famous and lovely lady, "Will classic tv watchers ever get a break?"

[LucyFan]

Originally posted by PanManX
I'm not sure if this has been discussed already, but why isnt TV Land showing the FOL Christmas Eps during the Merrython?

Because TVLand/Nick at Nite lost the rights to them along time ago along with the rest of the episodes. If a network doesn't have a right to a particular episode or to particular series then they are not allowed to air it. They need to get the rights first before they air it.

[LucyFan]

Since the year 2000, I have realized as the years go by shows from the 50's and 60's are one by one disappearing. They are being replaced by the newer shows and the "classics" of the 80's and 90's such as Roseanne, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Full House, Family Matters, Step by Step, Cosby, Friends, Seinfeld, among others. You don't see shows from the 50's on much anymore. The only shows from the 50's that are currently airing national wide that I think of are I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, The Honeymooners, Burns and Allen, & The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. Before we know it, those could be next to get the axe. If you look back on Nick at Nite say year 1996 there line-up wasn't 80's but instead it had the real classics from the 50's to 70's on there. Now, it just about 80's and will continue to be 80's and eventually lead into 90's and then the 00's. I am thankful we have TV Land around because if it wasn't for that channel almost all of the classics from Happy Days to The Munsters to I Love Lucy to The Andy Griffith Show to
The Brady Bunch would probably not air anymore (nationally wide) or much longer. It is too bad shows like Mister Ed, The Addams Family, The Lucy Show, Family Affair, My Mother the Car, Dennis the Menace, Lassie, Flipper, Dragnet, Adam-12, Here's Lucy amongst others aren't around anymore. As the years go by it is just going to get worse and worse. I can already see the handwriting on the wall: half of the 70's shows no longer in sight and the shows that are on the air are nearly 80's to recent shows.

[Rebel Queen 1980]

What a load of bull****!!!,pardon my French!

[PanManX]

I taped them last year too.

[*ShortCake*]

i had them too.. bu ti think my dad taped over them for some football games . lol oh well.. he bought them, he is allowed to do that i guess!