[mythtv-users] "Generational" TV, was: OT: 3D TV

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Jan 13 18:22:24 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 13 January 2010 11:09:43 am jedi wrote:

> > I have asked several law enforcement people what crime/police show is the
> > most realistic, the universal answer: Barney Miller, and I don't think
> > that answer was tongue-in-cheek at all.
> 
>     Based on my own conversations with lawyers and such, the 80's seems to
>  be the decade when television "jumped the shark" in this regard and lost
>  all touch with reality. Anything past that might as well have witches and
>  dragons in it.

Some older stuff was a tad off too, Perry Mason had nothing to do with actual 
courtroom scenes. Surprises are very rare in this age of pre-trial discovery 
and plea bargains, but every PM episode seemed to have an "Ah-Ha" moment.

I have to laugh at Judge Judy, it is not a trial, it is an agreed upon binding 
arbitration, and both sides wind up getting paid by the producers.

TV shows seem to happen in phases, we had the "Western" phase, followed by the 
"Detective" phase, now the "CSI" phase.

But none of it is reality. Angie Dickensen's show might have been titled 
"Police Actress".

Then there was Magnum, who would have had to be independently wealthy to put 
that many hours on a Hughes 500D.

But we're getting even more OT than we were.


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