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Exactly my point AJ.
Some people reckon that it also spoils their memories and love of the originals.
As for the general decline in the perceived quality of newer TV shows, I think it's partly down to the endless choice of multiple TV channels on offer today, coupled with the advent of 24/7 broadcasting. Quantity often presiding over quality, and all that, unlike back in the days of just 3 (and 4 since late 1982) TV channels, complete with only the testcards being shown between 12 and 6 or 7 am, where less was more in many peoples' opinions.
Sadly we're highly unlikely to see brands who excelled at quality programming such as Thames TV and the like ever again.
I do like the original too, but I never 'got' Steve Carrell until I saw him in the US office. I thought he was terrible before that.
Sadly, one of the reasons for a decline in quality of all media (music included) is that longevity is not desirable for the production companies. They want you to keep consuming new films, new TV series, new music and you're less likely to do that if you're satisfied with your back catalogue.
This is a known phenomenon. Keep throwing out new content, it keeps people on their Netflix/Spotify subscriptions.
Totally agree.
I'm sure I remember back in the 80s the Ceefax pages sometimes being broadcast live on the BBC channels during downtime, with instrumental library music playing over it, though I think this was more during daytime hours.
I've also just been reminded of when we got our second Sony Trinitron TV set in 1994 that had user-interactive Teletext capabilities and thinking that it seemed really high-tech and 'out of this world', despite said facility having already been around for quite a number of years as a user-switchable option on many higher-end TV sets. Technically a kind of forerunner to the Internet, albeit only specific to the (then) 4 main TV channels.
That set also had on-screen subtitle capabilities, which was also rather revolutionary at the time, but that particular model only could only reproduce its sound in bog standard mono, though the VHS recorder my dad purchased at the same time, incidentally, was our first VCR with NICAM stereo sound capabilities, whose audio outputs were connected to my dad's hi-fi setup. That also seemed really advanced at the time too.
There was a show in the USA called Night Court and it was on from 1984 - 1992. It is back on TV now with the same set and only one cast member, Dan Fielding. It brings back memories but it's not as good as the original and I don't think it will last long.
I remember Night Court.Have you seen the show I can’t remember the name but Jerry Springer is the Judge
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