[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Has Disney lost its magic?

[OctobersChild48 at aol.com]

Magpie:

With a channel to fill up, I'm not surprised there's a lot of  dumb
> shows
CJ:
Wow, do I agree! Until my two-year-old  started watching TV a few months 
ago, I hadn't watched TV at all in  the last twenty years. What little 
I've seen on DC convinces me I  haven't missed much. Or even less. I used 
to complain about shows  that made adults look stupid. What do you do 
with a show -- or a  whole channel -- in which EVERYBODY is an idiot?

We don't get  Nickelodean in Taiwan, however, so I can't comment on  it.



Sandy -  stepping up on her soapbox:
 
One of the  things I am finding difficult about growing old in America is the 
lack of  decent television shows and channels. We older folks, even though 
there  are so many of us now, just don't count. I have seen every channel I have 
 ever liked go to crap in the past few years, including the History  Channel. 
Garbage programming rules. The saddest and hardest loss was  A&E. I waited 
years to get TVLand and once I did it had  already tanked. 
 
About the  Disney Channel: Way back in '91, during the original Gulf War, I  
subscribed to the Disney Channel. Back then it was a premium channel that  you 
had to pay for. My son was 12 years old at the time, and sensitive to  and 
fearful of the war, and, quite frankly, I wasn't too thrilled with  sitting in 
my living room watching a war on television. I had a sick  husband, a sensitive 
child and a crappy job; I didn't need to watch the  war for entertainment. 
Once we added DC it was the only channel I would  allow the television to be set 
on. It was wonderful. There was something  for all of us to watch. Good, 
quality movies, Avonlea, Ozzie &  Harriet, the good Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes, 
old Disney cartoons - the  list goes on. It continued to be the only channel 
we watched long after  the war was over. It was when they changed the format 
and it was no longer  a premium channel that it started going downhill, and it 
has now reached  rock bottom. Thank goodness I am an avid taper because I have 
all of those  wonderful shows on tape and am now in the process of converting 
them to  disc.
 
I recently  called to cancel my cable because it just cost too darned much 
for the  little bit of good programming I was getting. I wound up keeping it 
only  because they offered me a two year price lock deal that lowered my bill  
$21. I would have missed Jon and Kate and some things on HGTV, but it  wasn't 
worth what I was paying for it. Even Court TV has gone to crap -  Tru TV, not 
reality;actuality. Whatever. It's my extensive tape and disc  library that 
provides most of my tv enjoyment now. I have lots of *good*  Disney shows for the 
grandkids when they are around, not that they  necessarily appreciate it. They 
are used to watching  garbage.
 
Sandy, who  didn't rant like she usually does about all of this because she 
just got  home from work and is too tired.











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