Still new at this, so I don't know if I can change subject titles. If I could, I'd probably write something like, \"GSN is dead?\" Not business-wise, obviously, but yes, I mean as far as what it used to mean to so many of us. Which I agree is a shame. Yeah, yeah, I know, \"They need to make money,\" and \"It's just TV, get over it.\" Still, as a person who is disappointed with the utter lack of entertainment in \"entertainment\" nowadays, it sucks to be more limited to my choices in means of \"escape\" back to the stuff I grew up with, or things from earlier decades (which I consider now to be \"back when people cared about making good TV, music, etc\") It's happening with GSN like it did with the AMC before it, and with Cartoon Network (though the weekends are great, what with He-Man when it's new, the DC related shows, Popeye, and Adult Swim. And they DO have Boomerang, another hint hint! ;-)) To a lesser extent, and if I remember some of you from ATGS correctly, you'll flame me for this, there's wrestling as well. WWE is abyssmal now, and I don't even watch it regularly anymore, opting instead for my old tapes and the occasional indy.
I guess what I'm saying in so many words is that I guess my disillusionment with the media today aggravates what GSN is now and what it might become. Call me a prude, but seems to me that people make TV shows for trend hoppers, 6 year olds, and perverts. Same with music. You can see how I feel left out in my little world of TV Land, GSN (when it's good), and British TV on PBS.
J.