What TV shows have you QUIT watching ?

[MrOrange22]

Is anyone still watching the shows they thought would be favorites at the beginning of the season?

I'd like to know which ones you found disappointing and thrown out of the mix, and which ones are you still watching?

Thrown out:

Bones, Medium, Supernatural, PrisonBreak.

Bones and supernatural were over-hyped, once I found out the formula, it bored me.

Prison Break has become very predictable, and I am jaded from how awesome OZ was in the prison drama category.

Medium is just getting "meh", boooring.

Still watching:

Apprentice this season, Psychic detectives, Real world (though i don't know why....), Parko P.I. (same night as Psychic detectives),Invasion (borderline lame), I can't think of others right now, I will update soon.

[R1234]

Real world (though i don't know why....)

its ok I do too, and I'll probably watch the gauntlet when it comes back..

I stopped watching Rescue Me this season cause it just got too ridiculous

[SirManchester]

I watched the entire first two seasons of The Shield, but for some reason I couldn't bear to watch any further than that.
I stopped watching ALIAS, Jennifer Garner is irritating and I can't take her seriously as an actress.
I haven't been watching Threshold after the first two episodes, its just too formulaic.

[Captain Splarg]

I watched the first few episodes of Medium, but the lead actress was so terribly bad that i couldn't stand to watch it anymore. She forced every single line, so the show just seemed like a joke. I'm extremely surprised that it got a second season. Some of the worst acting on TV.

Killer Instinct was terrible, and Bones is dreadful.

I could only watch 1 episode of Martha Stewart's Apprentice. depressingly bad.

[BayernWake]

I stopped watching "Head Cases" twenty minutes after it started.

[sarabella]

Desperate Housewives. I liked it at first, but then towards the end of last season, it just got too soap opera-y for me.

[bungadiri]

Bones is dreadful.
Boy I'll say. I suffered through one episode of completely preposterous nonsense just because there's an anthropologist in it. You want to know the most unbelievable thing in that whole pile o' crap? That an anthropologist would be so well funded as to have a state of the art laboratory at her disposal.

I stopped watching ER after about 1.5 seasons. Too many dying children.

I stopped watching 24 because the non-stop cliff-hanger motif requires too much suspension of disbelief/logical incoherence to stay with it. It also means character development gets a short shrift. The new season of Lost has started to have the same feel, but I am still interested in it enough to keep watching for now.

West Wing had been an amusing character driven show (somebody on these boards once called it soft-core porn for liberals, which was really apt) but was slowly getting old. However, it suddenly turned completely to irritating, unenjoyable crap once the writers from ER came on board and made the whole thing crisis central. My wife still watches it hoping, in vain I sure, that Josh and Dona will finally get together.

[CHICO13]

West Wing had been an amusing character driven show (somebody on these boards once called it soft-core porn for liberals, which was really apt) but was slowly getting old. However, it suddenly turned completely to irritating, unenjoyable crap once the writers from ER came on board and made the whole thing crisis central. My wife still watches it hoping, in vain I sure, that Josh and Dona will finally get together.
I've got the West Wing on life support. The writing's definately gone down hill since Sorkin left. The time change to Sunday night's the only thing that's keeping me watching.

[SoccerNova2009]

I've dropped Threshold and Ghost Whisperer. Getting really close to dropping Invasion if it doesn't get better soon. In fact I would have quit on it sooner but since it is paired with Lost I am giving it more time. Quit on Sex, Love and Lies after 2 episodes due to that annoying milo(?) character. Still iffy on Surface but might stick with it even though it is campy and cheesy. I've been hearing good things about Criminal Minds but have yet to check it out. Anybody?

I think your making a mistake on Prison Break. Great show IMO. Can't wait for it to come back after baseball ends. Over There and Rome are probably the best new shows. Sorry to see Over There won't be renewed. Anybody else here watching it?

Yeah, I watch Real World too. :o

[M9fanatic]

I can't bear to watch anymore Apprentice. First season was fresh and new. But its just tedious now. I haven't even bothered to watch any of this season's. I watched 20 miniutes of the Martha Stewart version... waste of time. I am so tired of trying to like the new stuff that I haven't bothered with any new ones this season. Except for My Name is Earl.



West Wing had been an amusing character driven show (somebody on these boards once called it soft-core porn for liberals, which was really apt) but was slowly getting old. However, it suddenly turned completely to irritating, unenjoyable crap once the writers from ER came on board and made the whole thing crisis central. My wife still watches it hoping, in vain I sure, that Josh and Dona will finally get together.

There was a time that the WW was like crack for me. Not soft core porn. Crack. The 4th and 5th season. I too wait in vain for the Donna Josh thing. This season is better though. I did stop watching it in the 6th season, when it got dull. Came back to it when Donna was almost killed.

[blue32828]

watched "invasion" and lost interest after the 2nd episode

"prison break" i quit after the third i believe, the one where the guy was about to lose a toe at the end. never knew what became of that

"bones" watched about 15 min. of an episode

only shows i watch other than soccer matches & news is "house" and history/discovery/national geographic shows. oh! and cartoons

anyone have any suggestions for dramas that are worth watching? :confused:

[spejic]

I still watch "Bones". I hate the sci-fi lab, and I can certainly do without the CSI:Miami level gore, but it has some quick banter and I really do like David Boreanaz. And its fake science is way easier to follow that the fake medicine in "House", which I never liked as much as I felt I should.

I really like "Criminal Minds". It's like CSI:Las Vegas (the only good CSI) with psychobable instead of fake science. But it has some interesting characters, including a couple of truly socially inept characters, which I like (and seems to be a trend in new TV shows). And it has lots of Sherlock Holmes-style discovery of character through small hints unseen by most people - I'm a sucker for that stuff. And Mandy Patinkin is, of course, the man.

[vagegast]

I stopped watching the Bold and the Beautiful.

How can you stop watching Prison Break?

[catracha]

I stopped watching the Bold and the Beautiful.

How can you stop watching Prison Break?

i never watched it. :p

[vagegast]

You've missed out, dude.

[Captain Splarg]

I stopped watching the Bold and the Beautiful.



As did I. Tried downloading a couple episodes a few months ago, but couldn't get interested in it at all anymore.

[NoodlesMacintosh]

I don't really watch much of anything non-sports unless I'm stuck in a house in which I don't have control of the remote, but CSI New York is just flat-out bland. There's no real air of mystery; you're not left wondering how the pieces will fit, you're left waiting for them to pull more random pieces out of their butts and put them together in a very matter-of-fact way. There are too many sudden, out-of-the-clear-blue-of-left-field clues dropped in way too conveniently at the end of the show. I mean, seriously, who on earth would inject someone with synthetic Brazilian wandering spider venom and dump the body on a carousel? And I love it how the victim's ex-boyfriend just happens to also own a Brazilian wandering spider for the whole red herring effect. I can get more intellectual stimulation and entertainment out of an episode of A Pup Named Scooby Doo.

I don't watch the other CSIs either, but that's mostly because I've never bothered to notice what days they're on.

The only evenings I'm home are Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and there's football on each of those nights. Nothing on TV now has given me reason to change my habits.

I will, however, stop time to catch an Emma Peel episode of the Avengers.

[Quango]

I dropped the Amazing Race this season. I forgot to schedule it on my DVR and only caught the 2nd episode. It was boring, and I thought the new format was tedious.

I quit Survivor a while back. After Season 3: Africa, I thought it got too repetitive. They were always on an island. I think I watched the AllStars season, but haven't watched it since.

Q

[The Double]

Stopped watching That 70's Show a while ago. When the dialogue is reduced to one-liners back and forth, you know a show is finished.

[MrOrange22]

I stopped watching the Bold and the Beautiful.

How can you stop watching Prison Break?


Don't know, jaded by OZ. I am reconsidering...

I have thrown out Martha's Apprentice, it pales in comparison to Trump.

Another one I've lost faith in is Threshold.... its predictable to the point of nausea.

Still watching High Stakes, but its not very old yet. I love watching reality shows about rich folk with no spending limits. hehehe...