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-Great Cultural Revolution
The top streamed shows are almost all old. Why?
2024-02-23
[Nexstar via The Hill] The most streamed show last year wasn’t the latest Netflix reality TV show craze. Nor was it the highly anticipated final season of "Succession" or the debut of "The Last of Us."

According to Nielsen, the most minutes last year — more than 57 billion — were spent watching "Suits," a legal drama that premiered 12 years prior.

The show, which is available to stream on Netflix and Peacock, stars the former actress Meghan Markle, now the Duchess of Sussex, and likely has her to thank for its second life. But "Suits" isn’t the exception.

Old shows, which debuted over a decade ago, dominated the top streamed list of 2023. Several of the programs, including "Suits," "Gilmore Girls," and "Friends" have been off the air for years.

According to Nielsen, the most streamed acquired shows of 2023 were:
Posted by:Besoeker

#17  Oh nooooooo, not Miss Elizabeth Bennett!
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-02-23 22:47  

#16  Speaking of sussed-me TV and poets lariat and whatnot... world's sure gotten weird when defense of lampooned religious falls to your humble tumbleweed, but here we are...

Post-Code or Post-coda? Or, Miss Bennett Runs for Senate?

New-dead to me: Jennifer Ehle
Of best Pride and Prejudice. Really!
"You're racists and rapists
And worse! [curses] Papists!
It's true, honest Injun!" [eyes steely]
Posted by: Shatle Jones4465   2024-02-23 22:09  

#15  Those of you who grew up with TMNT:
Donatello is now autistic. Not real autism, the magic hollywood kind. You're welcome.

Anyone up for a Princess Peach series starring Brie Larson?

How about a DIEsney re-imagining of the 90s X-Men cartoon?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-02-23 15:32  

#14  It was suggested to me that because I like Battlestar Galactica, give The Expanse a try.

Sure. Enjoyed season 1 even if they killed my favorite character, realistic action scenes, interesting points made.

Season 2. Uggg. Somebody must have noted its popularity and got their woke team inserted. They inserted a white grrrrl boss, and of course is lesbi@ned up with a black chick, and of course they have a child. Fine. Then on her way to tell president daddy what's what, she gets absolutely punched by an athletic adult male and just fkn tanks it - then proceeds on a lecture.

jeezhous. Click. Puts on Baa Baa Black Sheep.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-02-23 15:26  

#13  Everyone I'm sure is aware of DIEsney and Amazon's lack of quality.

What Apple TV did to Foundation was criminal.

I forget which cleveland streamer did it, but it was supposed to be a literal take on The Iliad. I was sort of able to get past Black Zeus. The casting was so diverse it was distracting. But my godman, the acting was horrid. The writing was shit. Production was loose.

Not even going to mention anything about The Doctor Who Christmas Special. I'll leave that to the curious cats.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-02-23 15:05  

#12  
Been enjoying a lot of older BBC, Australian, Indian & Japanese Crime/ Mystery/Comedy TV stuff and many seem to have been later copied by US TV.

Which then adds in the now usual token abnormal characters and story lines.
Posted by: NN2N1   2024-02-23 14:40  

#11  ^ And every form of media that does it says you are rayciss for not tuning in.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-02-23 14:04  

#10  The disproportionate insertion of blacks in all the historic settings is really offensive and dishonest, and the "stupid white male" stereotype is embedded in everything.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2024-02-23 13:54  

#9  When 'Friends' is superior to your work.

But 'Suits', nobody watches that except maybe the 50yo's at The Hill who smell like cat pee.

I found Lisa Simpson insufferable, so eventually the show was too as it seemed like 20 minutes of setting up a 1 minute Lisa monologue lecture.

Today's shows are so focused on The Message, its nearly an Inverse Lisa, with 20 minutes of focus lecture to set up an unfunny 1 minute gag.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-02-23 13:15  

#8  The article is talking about old shows I never watched - like 20 years 'old'.

Shows we watched, like Gunsmoke, are prehistorical.
Posted by: Bobby   2024-02-23 12:43  

#7  Sometimes I see Gunsmoke as I'm running through the cable channels and I can't imagine that I'd want to watch it but then can't find anything else that I'd want to watch either. So I tune in to Gunsmoke and then I find out why it's still on television. I'm not the only one who enjoys it. No profanity. No nudity. No uncomfortable sexual situations. The violence is actually minimal for a show with that kind of a name. It feels like putting on a comfortable old sweater. Yeah, but I watch the old movies on TCM too for all of those same reasons. Sometimes I come across original episodes of Star Trek with Kirk, Spock, Bones and Scotty. Sometimes I find reruns of the The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson who was always funny as he skewered both Republican and Democrat politicians without being nasty. Can't find that kind of humor anywhere these days.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2024-02-23 12:42  

#6  When I was young, we had 3 TV stations, and there was maybe 3-4 watchable hours of programming in a typical week.
Now we have 500 or so TV stations, and maybe 3-4 watchable hours a week.
I'm sensing a theme here...
Posted by: ed in texas   2024-02-23 12:24  

#5  BET isnt that racist?
Posted by: irish rage boy   2024-02-23 12:17  

#4  I looked up 'quality' and it said it is an obsolete term no longer used by correct thinking drones.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2024-02-23 11:43  

#3  First time I wanted to slap fat-lips or warty-face I stopped watching 'suits'. I get enough aggression triggers from reality.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-02-23 08:22  

#2  Cause they were designed to entertain.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-02-23 08:12  

#1  

In our case we fed up with constant Race, Color and Abnormality narratives added to every episode to be PC, WOKE, anti-cop, anti-white, or whatever.

Our Fire Stick loaded with Cinema HD and good Debrid is 95+% of what we watch TV on. We avoid the "Say 1, Say all" MSM propaganda Networks' for NEWS.

Posted by: NN2N1   2024-02-23 07:02  

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