Another actor/show ending
 

One of the few series I watch....major crimes. what a surprise! Last night episode was a shocker, now I read the whole series is ending...boo-Hoo......and yet some really mindless, juvenile things remain on tv....certainly becoming a vast wasteland! Jmho

Geri B- do you have Netflix or Amazon Prime? Netflix has some great series. We don't watch any regular TV, in fact, I wish we could ditch cable altogether but my husband likes to watch the news.

I find myself watching older shows (Andy Griffith, Lucy etc.) because what is on now is pretty disgusting. For me it's movies, hockey, and CBS News.

I was shocked at Major Crimes last night, too. I knew it was the final season but that never occurred to me. I watch a lot of the vintage TV shows. My cable company has several channels of vintage (reruns)but there are a few more I wish were available in my area. There is not much left in prime time that I will watch. Thank heaven for DVR!

yes, I do have/watch netflex and Amazon prime. But have cable for package deal....Internet, phone, tv, home security system...I do not watch vintage programs, most offered are so old the acting is so stiff.....just don't want to waste my time watching dated things...just wish current programs would be a little more sophisticated and intelligent...instead of knuckle-draggers

We pay nearly $100 a month for Dish Network, but still find ourselves with nothing worth watching, especially on Saturday night. I find I can't follow a lot of the newer shows because they talk so fast and the rapid scene shifting drives me nuts. And the background noise! OMG! It drowns out the dialogue! I guess that's why the old shows appeal to older folks like us, things are slowed down and not so obtrusive on our senses.
We live in a high-speed internet desert. Nothing. So our bandwidth won't allow us to download shows and watch them. Otherwise, I would ditch Dish in a heartbeat.

Our cable package has all different kinds of shows, I really prefer the older type shows. A lot of newer shows has an agenda. The older shows are from a more simpler time. To each his/her own.

I agree. The old shows were just entertainment. No agenda. I like that and watch a lot of older shows on TV

No cable here in the middle of nowhere so I have Roku, Amazon Prime and currently Netflix. But am finding I prefer to watch the local sub channels for vintage shows. Will settle into some movies after the holidays and hip surgery from one of the places I already have.
I do not watch current shows on the networks for the same reason Garden Gnome does, also seems their topics are an inside joke for those in Hollywood.

I totally agree with this as we also have Dish and most programs don't appeal to us. All the sports and kiddy programs and the selling shows--who wants or needs all that stuff. I'm even getting tired of the Christmas shows that all have the same simple story lines.

I, too, watch a lot of older shows because they are much better scripts than these newer shows. I don't like the reality shows either unless they are the music ones. I used to watch Dancing with the Stars, but their dance routines and costumes got so "sophisticated" that I didn't enjoy them. I have DISH basic, but half the channels are shopping programs and I only watch about about 15 or so channels and that is to see certain programs at certain times. There's not a channel I would put on and leave it on all day (or as long as I am home, that is).

The older shows I watch keep my interest from beginning to end, movies included. It seems no one knows how to do that anymore. I blame the education system for quite a lot of it. It seems they have watered down the standards we had when I was in school. I graduated high school in 1956. I may have been lucky to have the teacher I had, but she taught us the correct usage of certain words like effect and affect, the correct forms of verbs like when and how to use seen and saw, etc.

I have grandkids in the school system now, the youngest in 2nd grade. They are learning some things a little earlier than when I did, but the math being taught now, Common Core, is atrocious. I can't help when it comes to multiplication and division. The way they are taught to solve the problems is so much harder and less clear cut that I don't even understand it. Watch the way young people make change at the cash register. If they don't have the machine tell them how much to give you, some of them can't give you the right change. I could go on, but I won't.

I subscribe to Acorn TV. All British shows, series, and movies. I can get on Roku or on computer/tablet or smart tv. I think its $5 a month. The shows don't insult my intelligence even the comedies. I love love lover Ladies of Letters, funniest series I've seen in ages.

If you enjoy British shows like Masterpiece, Downton Abbey, Vera, and Doc Martin check out Acorntv.com. It's 4.99/month. There lots of variety.

We gave up cable and are considering giving up internet with the repeal of net neutrality. If they get to pick where I go on the ’net, I just have no further use for it. I will be sad to say good bye here, but I can not justify keeping them. They will probably not allow it anyway.

would be sorry to miss you. Who is "they" and what wouldn't they allow?

we have directv, Amazon prime and Netflix. Also added acorntv. We share several of these with the two sons. They have access to some things through our DIRECTV account so we all benefit.

If I understand it correctly, now that net neutrality has been repealed, the internet will be run like cable TV. They (cable and satellite providers) will control what sites you have access to, just like they do with television. I cancelled cable because of spending over $100 per month just for the slowest internet and the lowest tier of programming. Not worth it. I love how quiet my home is now.

I dished my cable and got sling tv on internet. You can pick your channels I just got a box for local pickup.

Here's a great article about Net Neutrality by Kim Komando. It clears up quite a number of misconceptions:
https://www.komando.com/happening-no...y-do-you-agree

I recently dropped cable and signed up for SlingTV. It has options as low as $20 per month. But, if you purchase the 'orange and blue' options, it includes the local channels with all the cable channels I like (AMC, History, FX, TNT, TBS, Food, NATGeo, A&E, etc). This was the only reason I didn't leave cable, none of the other options offered the locals. The whole package costs me $44 per month (with 50 hours of DVR and use on 2 tvs) instead of the $125 cable was costing. I added Acorn for $5 per month and other than the local news, I pretty much binge watch Acorn programs while in my workroom. I love the British and Australian shows. Another thing we do is one of my kids pays for Netflix and has the rest of us listed as users, another pays for hulu and does the same and my kid who pretty much only shops on Amazon has Amazon prime and has listed us as users on her prime account. They don't care about local news so this is their only costs. I have a Roku, but we got them Chrome plug-ins for gifts so they can have access on their big tvs and their bedroom tvs (cost $30-one time fee, no monthly things). Cable has just priced themselves out of the market and you end up paying for 100 channels that you will never look at!

I understand the need (and have the desire) to drop cable tv, but for those who do that, like Klswift, how do you get your internet in order to view sling tv?

I am so sad Major Crimes is ending.

I was shocked as well. Will miss the series.

We don't have cable. We use an old style, outside antenna. We get about 170 channels. About half are in other languages, and shopping channels, kids, etc. We have roku for netflix and amazon prime which we connect thru internet. I was watching Decades channel this morning and Carol Burnett was on. They showed a Mama's Family episode, and a Mrs. Whiggins skit. Haven't laughed that hard all year!

I did ditch the whole cable thing. I still get all of my local channels and the reception is better than when I had cable. I have antennas on each TV and have tons to watch. I also have CBS, NBC, ABC, etc on my tablet that I can watch. I only have internet on my tablet, I pay 25 a month, my cable bill used to be close to 100 and I had the lowest package possible. I have my internet and my house phone thru Sprint. My cell phone, house phone and internet (unlimited data) cost me less than a hundred a month. Plus, I can take my internet with me where ever I go. If I want to work on my laptop or use my printer I just use the hotspot on my tablet. I'm saving so much money and not missing hardly a thing.

Susie, little antennas are a million times better than the old rabbit ears. About the size of a small picture frame. I think we paid about $50.00 for one at Best Buy, we get most of the Portland local channels. Rob is addicted to weather :) That is the only time the tv is on, I think there are 20 or more free channels too, couldn't say what they are as I've not scrolled thorough them. Try it! Kick that cable to the curb!

we don't stream anything, eats too much of my broadband. We get our telephone and broadband through ATT. It is possible that cost would eat up what you save on cable... :) But check with your phone provider, you might get a good deal.

I feel no pity for the cable companies losing business, their shady practices have confused and ripped off so many people.
And we dumped the landline phone at least 10 years ago.

Thanks for the info, Kalama. We are locked in to Direct TV until May (our bill is 128.00 for cable and internet) but I know the minute the contract is up the rates will go waaay up. I really have no use for cable. If I watched it, well that would be a different story but everything we watch is paid for- Netflix, Amazon etc so it's such a waste! I need to convince my husband that we can get cable news somewhere but I don't know where :) That is the only thing that he watches on cable.
We ditched our landline about 10 years ago as well. Our phones are through Verizon. All these companies are thieves in my opinion!