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When you look at weekend TV listings, it doesn't take long to begin to suspect the networks aren't even trying anymore. One of the beauties of services like Netflix and Hulu is that you can find a favorite television show and binge-watch. Unfortunately, without services like Netflix or Hulu, finding...

Cable network TV Land says it's shifting it's focus to attract a younger generation. Apparently I was born just a few years too late. TV Land, which built its viewership by touting classic television show titles — everything from I Love Lucy to The Andy Griffith Show to All in the...

Once upon a time, there was a network called MTV dedicated to music videos.  I don’t know if MTV shows any music videos these days.  I haven’t watched it in years, but the last time I did, all I saw was stupid reality shows that had absolutely nothing to do...

I can’t find any headline that suggests that comedienne Roseanne Barr actually wrote a big check to the TV Land cable network, but I’m beginning to wonder. I checked the schedule on my trusty old Tivo and counted 76 episodes of her 90s sitcom, Roseanne, airing from midnight Monday to...

It’s Saturday morning and TV Land is showing something other than Bonanza and Gunsmoke? n fact, it appears that they’re running The Andy Griffith Show through 8:00pm tonight.  Oddly enough, unless the listings are just wrong, every episode being shown today seems to have been produced in 1961.  It’s entirely...

I’m seriously considering something that I can’t believe I’m considering at all:  cutting my cable television service. My parents first got cable television some time around 1979.  Back in those days, there were only about 20 or 30 channels total, but that in itself was a great improvement over the...

I just watched the premiere episode of Family Foreman.  And I don’t really know why. Family Foreman, in case you haven’t heard, is a new reality show set in the home of former boxer and grilling machine guru George Foreman.  The first episode revealed his plans to return to the...