Most overrated TV shows?

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Star trek and its spin off's.

Hey, NCIS is not overrated. It is a good show. But then, you said you loved it, so you agree with me.

Niptuck, Grey's Anatomy, new (Cell and Buu sagas) DBZ, Family Guy, Roseanne (I hate that show) and Naruto.

I also dislike most stand-up comedy, The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes, Larry King (Larry King should retire already!), Keith Olbermann and Glenn Beck Program (no offense, but he's an @$$h0!e)

I could also go into TV shows I think are underrated...such as King of the Hill, Avatar: The Last Airbender and the BBC World News. That's for a different topic though.

I've yet to find a procedural that I can stand, the numerous crime scene / medical / legal drama / police shows just have no appeal to me at all. The show that I had more people recommend to me that I just couldn't get into though was Firefly, something about it just didn't "click" for me. I've discovered that what I tend to go for is shows with very long story arcs and at least a modicum of realism, even if the show has a fantasy or sci-fi setting.

I Hate The Shows Which Are Truly CRAP. (If You Took Offense To That Word, I'm Sorry). The Shows Such As.........


X Factor. True, Complete, Utter Nonsense. Who Wants To Sit Around, Listening To Simon Cowell, Trousers Around His Neck, Insulting People?

Anything On Five. All I See On Five, Are Crime Dramas, Documetries About Crime Or More Documentries About Prisons.

Big Brother. It Lost Goodness Since The Series With Pete. (I Cabt Remember Which Number Series). Big Brother '08, All I Heard Was "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" And Some More "AAAAAAAAA!" Then A Bit More "AAAA". It Drove My Ballistic. The Person Who Won, I Cant Remember Who, I Cant Believe They Won. Every Time I Actually Tried To Watch, I Saw Her Sitting Around Doing Nothing.

Anything Where Someone Buys A House. Who Cares About Someone Buying A House. "Oh, I Need Somewhere To Live, But I Wanna Be Famous As Well. Oh, What do I Do?"
"Lets Buy A House On TV!! !" No, Lets Not.


And Lastly, The News. I Know, Its Not Intended To Be Entertaining, But, Surprisingly, There Are GOOD Things In The World To Talk About, Not Only Bad Things. "Interest Rates Are Soaring" "The Swedes Are Conducting An Experiment Which Could End The World." "Hostilities Between Russia And Georgia" "A Teen Has Been Recently Stabbed". They're Not Too Cheerful. If You Took Offense To Any Statement I Used, Mail Me Ad Let Me Know And I Shall Send A Personal Apology.

Oh, I so agree with this statement! I pretty much never watch the news; but still, I somehow hear about it or read about it anyway, you can´t really miss it- (not the big stuff anyway, and I guess I don´t care so much about the small stuff).

Most of it comes from the fact that only a handful of people under 40 who watch it, and I don't fully understand why.

Here's some more shows I think are overrated

Two and a Half Men. how is this the most popular comedy on TV?

Yes, Dear, Still Standing, King of Queens and the other bickering-couple-with-young-children shows.

Mad About You Like Friends, another extremely popular 90's show that i've never understood what all the fuss was about. I always liked NewsRadio alot more.

American Dad! Where bad Family Guy jokes go to die. However, this new season is a vast improvement

Any and all reality tv.

Yeah, I hear ya on that.

X-Factor It is s**t. Everybody knows that whoever wins will instantly get to number 1 in the charts and then vanish.

Britain's Got Talent It is nothing but X-factor but with a slightly wider variety of categories.

T4 Transmission At first I was like, "Oh, an x-factor like program with actual bands, I may have a looke". The majority of bands were s**t indy and pop bands with little to no talent who all sounded exactly the same (like the majority of indy bands today) and when they had a bunch of good bands, Jo Whiley (who clearly knows nothing about music) slagged them off. When she said "There is nothing worse than a guitar solo" I turned the tv off.

Skins Ugly scene kids, townies and trendies. Who gives a f**k? Ugh.

Dancing on Ice And the millions of programs like it. After the 3rd season surprise, surprise, it is still exactly the same.

Big Brother Used to be funny, but it is just full of stupid people. Channel 4 also feel the need to include at least one token gay bloke.

Gossip Girl
Why do people like this show?
It is nothing but teen angst & drama, which is what it is.
Pure 100% Drama!

Grey's Anatomy
The love lives of doctors & nurses
are intertwined with their profession
at a Seattle hospital.
Bad dialogue makes some scenes laughable.

Big Brother and Survivor
Why can't these two "shows" go away?

Lost
The first two seasons were great, then it turned into a big bore.

I agree with this. Chuck Klosterman agrees with this in his book Chuck Klosterman IV.

I still watch it, because it's Lost and I will never abandon a show I have strong feelings for even after it's jumped the shark, but after Charlie died, I just lost interest. I mean wouldn't you if your favorite character on your favorite TV series died, even though it was essentially foreshadowed for the whole season? And John Locke went from secreting pure weapons-grade awesome into being a huge ass. I never liked Jack (too smug), but I found myself siding with him that last season.

As for Reality TV: I only consider there to be one good person to ever be involved in any reality competition show: Rupert Boneham from Survivor. I hadn't watched the show since the second season (when the novelty wore off), but I watched the season with Rupert up until he got voted off and even though he was, he has remained the most popular and most likable contestant in the show's history.

I do like SOME Reality shows, but there mostly stuff like Trigger Happy TV (a hidden camera comedy show, essentially a surrealistically humorous version of Candid Camera, but without the whole "we reveal you're on camera" part) that are only called "Reality" for the sanity of TV Guide writers (Mythbusters is also called "reality" by TV Guide/many digital cable program guides, even though it's in the genre of science programming known as "popular science") as is BattleBots and Robot Wars, two shows that no one is allowed to hate.

Reality shows. If I want reality, I'll turn the TV off.

Sling, You Have The Best Opinion I Have Ever Heard Speaking On Tv Shows. If There Were More People Like You In The Reviewing Business, The World Would Be A Better Place.

We are all different ! !

I just love Seinfeld ! !! !!

Private Practice: Addison, the most annoying character from Grey's Anatomy has her own show. WTH? Give Patrick Dempsey or Katherine Heigl their own show, please!

American Idol: Boring times how many seasons this show has aired?

Two and a Half Men: Jake is now a brat. Alan is still a childish dumbass and Charlie is still a smug womanizer. The writers need to create something new OR the producers seriously need to fire all of the writers. The show has lost its touch.