Kids WB and Fox Kids. Pokemon and Yu-Gi-OH were my must watches for years. Digimon a little bit but as a kid it was always like off-brand Pokemon to me. Between 2000 and 2003 were the years I was really into Saturday morning cartoons so shows like Ozzy and Drix, Static Shock, What's New Scooby-Doo are shows I remember watching a ton.

If studios are tightening their belts I think the more traditonal sitcom jumps off the page as a solution. They're cheaper and faster. Look at the buzz a show like Abbott Elementary has created and I would have to guess it's made for a fraction of what some of the other Outstanding Comedy Series nominees were made for.

I think streaming is starting to figure out sitcoms too when they realized it's ok for some shows to just be comedies and not everything needed to be a comedy drama. Reboot on Hulu is awesome, Sex Lives of College Girls is super underrated, and I would almso guarantee with Girls5Eva moving to Netflix it's going to blow up.

Personally, I hope we see them move some of these shows back to 22 episode seasons, realizing it's more cost effective to produce 22 episodes of a popular and cheaper sitcom than to try and make 8 episodes of 4 shows that are never gonna last.

I think that's been proven time and time again with these streaming services, HBO (back in the HBOGo days) had tons of problems when people tried to stream live premieres of Game of Thrones (especially big episodes), Amazon Prime was in no way ready to handle Thursday Night Football this year, Peacock has been terrible with live streaming WWE PPV's.

I like the parade for nostalgic reasons and to me, "waking up and watching the parade", is a symbol of the relaxation of Thanksgiving.

But honestly, I'll root for any trivial live event to get big numbers on streaming to move us back to appointment viewing as the norm. The shared experience of watching a show premiere is what TV is all about. I really liked House of the Dragon and Andor but the experience of 9:00 PM on Sunday night when my social media was filled with "HotD time!" and running commentary is 1000 times better than Andor releasing in the middle of the night and either waking up at 5:00 am to watch it before work or looking at memes of the episode all day until I can finally watch it.

Psych

Pretty cool but I'm going down with the cable ship. This is a cool feature and I hope more streamers doing it (with all of their cable stations) and it revitalizes the "Live watch" of shows. But I like to channel surf, the other night one of my sports teams was exclusively on ESPN+ and TNF was on Amazon Prime and the closing of one app to wait for another app to open, way too much down time between entertainment.

That's why I like live TV and keep cable. TV lineups (both syndicated andfirst run) is a far more enjoyable watch than the binge model or the single episode of a signle show released that day.

Sports is why I kept cable for so long, and I still think streaming isn't prepared to fully take over the task of broadcasting the full slate of major professional and NCAA sports. But honestly I just like the format of cable better than streaming so I'm gonna stick with it until it goes down.

The interesting thing to me is when they aren't showing Ridiculousness, like on Saturday afternoons they have a pretty good mix of movies, especially early and mid-2000's comedies.

Playing the lowest common denominator is different than this.

>Did I miss something?

Yes, this has been covered a ton for like 5 years now.

I say this every time it's brought up. I don't get it, everyone was so giddy to to kill cable and now they go back to something like MTV and go "I don't get it, the only thing they show is like the cheapest thing to produce and re-run." This isn't what MTV became, it's what we made it.