The television landscape is a disaster at the moment, with companies fighting over rights for shows to be on their streaming platform instead of live TV, or cutting production costs due to their failing platforms.

We still have gotten some fairly good shows in the recent years, but it has gotten so hard to watch! Personally, I only have Hulu and Prime Video, so if the show is on one of the 50 other platforms, I either don't watch it or use nefarious means.

I think this has hurt television as a whole. Weekly releases are mostly a thing of the past, and bingeing is the new fad. I enjoyed having to wait for some time (normally a week) to watch a new episode, instead of watching the whole series in a day or two. Not that there is really much to watch on live TV anyway.

So what do you guys think?

I haven't really watched television since I was a kid. I've never had cable in any of the places that I've lived other than my parents' house. I don't pay for any streaming services (though my mom has all of them and I can get her password if I want it). I watch sports using what you referred to as "nefarious means."

When I do watch the occasional show, I usually use my mom's accounts. But if she didn't pay for all of them, I probably just wouldn't watch any television shows at all. I'm not paying for a monthly subscription to watch 1 show every 6 months.

I haven't watched much TV in the last decade beyond sports and the occasional movies being played. Shows over here are disgusting, contests can be fun but inevitably get boring in the long run, news are a thing of the past with all other media we have, no exclusive series is worth anything in my opinion... I'm sure others think otherwise (even I have skipped local series labelled as iconic by many, but they're simply not my taste so no way I'm watching them), just that in my case the TV has been long dead.

I use the TV more for Youtube and sports apps. And even now I'm considering to use "nefarious means" to watch them because I'm tired of needing several apps to just watch a small portion of content, between other things. My girlfriend does use apps like Netflix and such, and while she won't accept it, she'd turn to "nefarious means" as well because she's fed up with exclusivities and price policies and more.

And yes, television is basically a thing of the past. There's nothing they can offer that we don't have in [insert a random platform here]. Hell, even traditional contests held for two decades on TV jumped to Prime Video to continue in the same format, so they can't even fight back with anything originally theirs. They're now something more of a niche, with good things here and there which may or may not resist the chop, and their only way to be powerful relies on milking beyond its limits the few jewels they can produce. Pathetic, imo.

Seeing you're doing similarly at the other side of the puddle, despite how different TV has always been there, is kind of interesting. I guess that local problems may also be a thing of the past nowadays, who knows.

I don't think MAX deserves any of the cartoons in the Warner Bros library if they are being treated this way, this is why Ketchup is distributing them now


now until CW Nancy Drew came along I didn't have alot to watch outside of that and Whose Line. Most of the time I was watching sports, then thanks to the COVID pandemic my viewing habits changed, mom got me hooked on Hudson and Rex and well as the 9-1-1 Universe (yes I was sad to see Bobby go (and yes I'm looking forward to the Nashville set spinoff as well), but the death of Diesel Vom Burgimwald in real life still hurt me more)

Even as someone who doesn't use Netfilx (I don't want to use Netflix anymore), I would say that there is always something worth watching depending on your taste in content. I'm someone who watches a lot of animated stuff, so, I've watched many cartoons throughout my life and maybe to a lesser extent, anime. I have cable TV, and in the last 4 years, from 2021 to the present day or something, I've watched Hello Kitty: Super Style! (all the episodes, I recommend it a lot), Kung Fu Wa! (Tencent is related, which...yeah, I don't like the fact that Tencent has something to do with that but the show is pretty good), Unikitty (not all the episodes but a lot of them at least) and Code Lyoko (95 episodes without counting the prequel), and one episode of Totally Spies at least for now, and that's just using good old fashioned TV channels, I live in Mexico, so, I have access to Cartoon Network, Discovery Kids etc...if we talk about streaming services and ''nefarious means'', there's even more to watch, and I've watched 5 Doraemon movies (available on Prime Video), My next life as a villainess: All routes lead to doom!, Fairy Tail (the first 48 episodes at least) and more.

Again, that's just the last 4 years, there's always something worth watching.

I miss the days when most shows had a consistent weekly schedule where it was 26 episodes in 26 weeks and then a 26 week break until the next season. Those schedules worked like clockwork for so long but now you can have seasons that range from 6 to 15 episodes on both TV and streaming and sometimes there's one to three year gaps in between seasons.

Streaming is a huge reason for that because now that all 12 episodes of a show drop at once, you're waiting longer for more than if you were watching for 12 weeks and then wait.