So popular shows are watched by a lot of people. Yet that’s garbage? Not to the purpose of the content creator. To them, that’s successful. Cougardue just wants more sex on TV!
Not to my wife. She loves Dancing w the Stars
My favorite reality show is Swamp People. Love that stuff
Taken out of context.
Nothing wrong with people liking that stuff……my issue was the poster equating ratings with quality.
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There’s no use….
I should have known better even responding……Law is the King of spinning things and infusing with so much non-sense people forget what the point was to begin with.
This thread was created to share information about quality TV or even movies.
If you have to explain to someone what good writing, production, acting, etc. looks like it’s wasted time.
If the poster bothered to actually read any of the thread before just posting he would have known that…maybe.
And yes, it’s garbage TV……it’s mindless and cost very little to make compared to things that are worth watching to me.
If you like watching shows like that I have no problem with it….but don’t try and equate popularity with quality….it’s lame….
Some of the best tv and film are shows that little to no one saw for a myriad of reasons….
To suggest that DWTS or any other reality show are better because they are more popular is something I would expect from a middle school kid.
This thread has been hijacked by Mr. Jibber Jabber yet again.
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Did you ever get to watch The Offer?
No sense trying to debate this clown.
In his mind he’s right about everything and will go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on…desperately trying to convince anyone that he’s right and you’re wrong.
Can you imagine living with this?
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Yes it was fascinating
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Price doesn’t equal quality either. There are lots of high budget shows that are a waste of money.
At least ratings show that a program is doing what it is intended to do: entertain the masses, and make money (that’s why it is called “show business” after all…in the end, it’s a business…and the priciest products aren’t always the best, nor or the less pricey ones necessary “garbage,” to use your terminology).
Dino DeLaurentiis’ Dune was the most expensive film of its time, and was both a critical and box office BOMB.
It probably takes a good deal less to make a show like DWTS…or The Masked Singer (and I don’t really know that…I’m just making assumptions based on what YOU said), but even so…those shows, as @norbert said…are achieving the purpose of the content provider, which shows them to be a better quality product than the more expensive show that flopped.
Ratings are a better measure of quality than production cost, in my view.
Just sayin’!
Oh good man.
What a look into the job of a producer and specifically what it took to get the Godfather made.
I had no idea how hard they had to push against the studio to get Al Pacino cast….crazy.
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Glad ya noticed!
You’re now the master of stating the obvious!
I had heard that the studio was telling them to get rid of Pacino while they were filming. Can you imagine if Coppola had relented, possible Al never becomes a movie star
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Even the producers of those shows know they are hot garbage, they laugh all the way to the bank.
Ratings have nothing to do with quality.
Are Skittles quality food.
No they are junk but junk food sales.
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Sam Houston( Stephen) already tried that approach….it obviously didn’t work.
Likewise, neither do production costs nor intellectual deepness (contrary to pollard’s theory).
In the end, it’s called show BUSINESS because it’s exactly that…a BUSINESS…a business where the bottom line matters, and ratings are the way that the bottom line is met.
That’s a better measure of quality than those other two.
Again…SamHouston’s argument was bunk.
No one here said that those were the BEST shows, any more than anyone said that MackyD’s burgers were the BEST burgers.
But if they were “garbage,” as YOU contend…then why have they been so popular and successful?
Obviously, fewer people regard them as “garbage” than you imagine, and it’s entirely possible that your view that they are “garbage” is a minority viewpoint…and as such…perhaps a bit weird.
Just give it a thought.
Certainly production costs don’t make a show worthwhile necessarily. Not sure why you seem to think that was a quality criterion.
Tell you what……why don’t you go through the first 700 posts before you came in with your reality shows/garbage.
Tell me how many posts there are in this thread recommending those type shows……
Then you will realize that you have needlessly ruined yet another thread….
Or even better, go make a thread about reality TV……I promise you, you have my word….I will never post on it or ruin it with jibber jabber.
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So?
Who says I have to recommend the same shows that anyone else here does?
The title of the string is “TV series.”
Those are TV series…which makes my posts on those two shows ON POINT, and moreover, they are series that ratings suggest that far fewer people regard as “garbage” than you might imagine.
Take that for what it’s worth.
Since you seem set on defending your take. Please waste our time and explain what makes DWTS quality TV. And don’t use ratings. Tell us what is compelling about it. Tell us what about this season has you interested.
In fact, please don’t. It is a complete waste of time to defend why you like eating junk food. Its not good, you know its bad for you but you just keep coming back. That’s addiction. The first step to curiing yourself is to admit you have problem.
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What makes it quality TV? Simple. It’s entertaining stuff. And both the show’s ratings and its enduring popularity demonstrate that a large number of people, including yours truly and the wife of @coachv regard it as entertaining stuff, and as such, as non-garbage.
In the end, that’s what TV programming is supposed to do: ENTERTAIN!!! If it entertains, then it’s obviously high quality. And how do we know it’s entertaining? Simple: FROM ITS RATINGS AND ENDURING POPULARITY.
A show that isn’t entertaining to many people probably isn’t high quality, precisely because it failed to achieve the network’s/producer’s objective: to entertain the masses and have a HIT, as demonstrated by the ratings.
Doesn’t matter how much money you spend on it (contrary to one guy’s theory here), or how intellectually deep or thoughtful the content may be…or even the intricacy of the sets, special effects, costumes, etc. necessarily, though those things can sometimes play a role…in the end, people tune in to see a show and be entertained.
DWTS obviously does a pretty good job of that…for a large number of people.
In the end…most people enjoy a good competition! ESPECIALLY one involving famous people!