Maybe it’ll get cancelled soon.
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Hopefully not cancelled, but rather a mid-season revamp with a different cast.
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It’s sad the way some of those calble channels slid. HGTV had one of my favorite shows ever: Modern Masters. Every episode profiled 3 professional craftspeople, actually making a respectable living with their hands. From glass artists to clay tile roofers to a guy who made giant roped columns for mansions out of whole trees with a chainsaw. I found it uplifting that not everything is crap.
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I find that House of Cards has more believable characters and a much more optimistic outlook on the nature of democracy and the human condition in general.
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I have now, thank you!
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I can’t believe the executives decided to sign the main character to a four-year contract.
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Did you mean to say “Game of Thrones”?
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Indeed, at least the Lannisters pay their freakin’ debts.
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The only problem is everyone is now starting to pay the Lannisters back what they’re owed.
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Unless you really enjoy the Robin Leach presentation style, and I do but only to mock it, it’s basically consumption porn like the later stuff you mention. I was a little kid, so all the boats and helicopters and big houses were neat, but I kept thinking to myself, “Yeah, but that’s only two people. Why do they need a palatial mansion for two people?”
Despite being able to do that myself, and certainly having the things needing such disassembly (yes, KLR650 carburetor and throttle cable remove-clean-reassemble, I’m looking at you), that sounds like a show I could enjoy. In fact, ever since buying my basement-equipped house, I’ve continually considered widening the basement’s exterior entrance door so I could fit a m/c or a full V-8 engine through there to do that very type of disassembly/reassembly. Ahhh, to have a drive-in living room…okay, if I were rich, i’d have that.
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I caught Honey Boo Boo once when I was at a hotel. The kid actually is very natural on camera. I got her appeal to a younger audience. She surprised me.
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Foot insert mouth. Hope I didn’t offend.
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I’ve seen exactly one episode of AHS. It was a season opener a year or two ago. It was over-the-top gratuitous gore, and a very cringe-worthy cover of a Bowie song. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out how this show was getting Emmy nominations every year.
Misnamed. Should be called Creepytown.
So they never have to see each other?
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Nah, nah, nah. Not at all. Even the show’s director, Jimmy Burrows, once said, “They can’t all be gems.” And yeah, it’s all a matter of subjective taste.
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DO IT.
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At least some of those episodes are on youtube.
Can I just say bbc4 is great. Also good to know I’m not the only person who watched that show.
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Try ed stafford. Gets dropped off somewhere for ten days with a camera and tried to survive no food no water no knife nothing.
Not exactly unwatchable, but falling in between the “post revolution shopping list” and “irritating white middle-class boomers” genres is the fucking Antiques Roadshow.
Posting here so as to not to pollute the nice discussion people are having about it. 
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