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14 years ago

Not sure how I will manage....but come fall I probably will watch Jay, the news and then head to bed. Finding Conan isn't wearing well.....and Letterman...well fogedaboudit.

That means I will be up with the birds....might even see what's on the TV before 7 AM!!

What do you watch late at night?

Linda C

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sushipup1
14 years ago
Late is anything after 9 PM. Thank goodness for the DVR that comes with our satellite! We watch local news (live) until 7 (never turn on TV before 6), then watch (pre-recorded) Chris Matthews, Olbermann, Daily Show and Colbert, Movies on the weekends.

Jim's snoring in his chair by 9. I read until 11, usually, both of us up by 6.

Jay who?
sally2_gw
14 years ago
The back of my eyelids.

Sally
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dedtired
14 years ago
Ditto to what Sally said. I'm under the covers by ten. I read in bed at night. I used to be a fan of Saturday Night Live, back in the John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase days, but I can';t make it to 11:30.

Has Jay moved to prime time yet? Maybe I'll watch. There is so little I enjoy on tv any more. It was better when it was free!
compumom
14 years ago
I agree with Linda. We're rarely in bed before 11:30, but don't care for Conan or Dave. If we watch tv anymore, it's only a few shows or news programs. Sad, isn't it? I will give Jay a try, we did enjoy his show semi-regularly. I think it's sad that we're seeing an end to scripted TV. Not that they're doing a very good job, but shows like "Monk" and lost need a place to be shown and writers need a job. Enough reality tv! It may be cheaper to produce, but it's so tiresome!

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lindac
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14 years ago
I'm old enough to remember when everything but old movies was live...oh and Kukla Fran and Ollie which came in from Chicago on the coaxial cable. Even drama shows were live. Certainly gave them immediacy!
Now even most "live" shows but for the local news is taped.
I have zero interest in people eating bugs, getting fired, winning some strange game on an island. I don't care who the bachlor chooses nor anything about bratty kids being transformed nor strange things decorators do to your house while you temporarily live in a tent.
I am still mourning LA Law, Seinfeld, Friends, Mash, Chicago Hope etc.
But I have watched mindless comedy after the news since Jerry Lester, Dagmar and Milton DeLugg invented the genre.....
But instead of mindless, it's been getting downright annoying.
Linda C
Terri_PacNW
14 years ago
I usually see the intro segement of Dave after the local news..but after that..It's morning....and sometimes I only make it past the weather on the News..LOL
lakeguy35
14 years ago
I'll miss Leno too. I remember hearing Carson on in the living room while trying to fall asleep as a kid. Watched him in my younger days too. I thought it was the end when he retired but Leno came through and kept it going. Don't care for Conan at all.

I check out Animal Planet, History, or Discover before going to sleep. That or a movie if there is a good one on at the time.

Prime Time TV just isn't all that great anymore. I've been watching Cash Cab after work rather than the news the last couple of months.

David
(who is not in the mood to work today..lol!)
annie1992
14 years ago
LindaC, like you, "I have zero interest in people eating bugs, getting fired, winning some strange game on an island. I don't care who the bachlor chooses nor anything about bratty kids being transformed nor strange things decorators do to your house while you temporarily live in a tent."

Since Food Network's last year or so, you can add any kind of food challenge, any cake decorating show and anyone competing to be the next network star or the next top chef or the next person to get their recipe on a TGIFriday's menu. Sigh. Ace of Cakes is absolutely the worst, I detest him.

I don't like Conan either, or David Letterman, don't care about the World's Sexiest Beaches or spookiest cities. Sigh.

I read. I have hundreds of channels and there's still absolutely nothing on TV.....

Annie
doucanoe
14 years ago
"57 channels and nothin' on..."

I sing that all the time when surfing and trying to find something worthy of watching.

Count me in on those that "have zero interest in people eating bugs, getting fired, winning some strange game on an island. I don't care who the bachlor chooses nor anything about bratty kids being transformed nor strange things decorators do to your house while you temporarily live in a tent"....

I absolutely HATE "reality" TV...it's about as unreal as it can possibly be!

I turn to TCM (Turner Classic Movies) often, because I love old movies, and I really miss shows like Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, etc. I like original ideas.

My kid loves "The Family Guy" and Tim likes "King of the Hill"....Personally, I hate all/most of those animated shows! LOL

Good thing I have gardening to do so I don't have to tune in to the mindlesss dribble that they air these days....

Linda
dgkritch
14 years ago
Got rid of the cable so we don't get any TV. Problem solved. Saved a whopping $21 bucks a month and hours of mindless drivel.
I read, garden, cook, or hang out here on the 'net.
Works for me!

Deanna
annie1992
14 years ago
Deanna, I didn't have TV for quite a long time because I couldn't afford it. I'd cancel it again in an instant, except Elery says he's got to have a TV to watch sports.

So, I keep it, but I seldom watch it. Well, I DO like Red Green on PBS....

Annie
brenda55
14 years ago
It is so true what they say that there were more good shows on 3 channels "back in the day" than there are on 200 channels now. I like to record what I want to watch, like some of the food network shows, a few movies and then watch on my schedule and zoom past the commercials or anything I am not interested in on craft or cooking shows.

Brenda
scott55405
14 years ago
I watch the news at 11, and leave it on for Nightline at 11:35 if it's about something interesting. That and Saturday Night Live, that's it! The computer pretty much took care of the time I once spent watching television by the late 90s/early 2000s when things were already well on their way downhill, and "reality" tv was the final nail in the coffin. No "must watch" stuff for me since probably sometime in the 80s. It was indeed much better when there were only a few channels.

That said, these new flatscreen digital TVs are the best thing ever invented. The picture with an indoor antenna is beautiful! That, and they double as a giant computer monitor! LOL I cut my cable bill in half having only the computer hooked up to it. There's all sorts of things to be found online plus Netflix if I want to "watch" something.
annie1992
14 years ago
Scott, I'm so glad to see you here again, I've missed you!

Annie

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