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We're living through a pretty great age for television right now but of all that really great TV probably only a few series will ever be watched by future generations.
Shows like Star Trek: TOS and The Twilight Zone still draw in viewers about 50 years after their original airdates. Which current TV shows do you think people 50 years from now will still be queuing up in their holographic DVD players?
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Everyone else will say Game of Thrones, but they are wrong.
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In the United States... NOTHING
In the UK.... Doctor Who (I would have added Life on Mars but Ashes to Ashes killed it)
In Ireland perhaps.... Love/Hate
For the most part the Internet killed quality TV shows and films.
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TV ratings winners like 'Glee' and 'The Simpsons' which are saturated with popular culture references and seem current now, won't be understood by future generations, who will probably find them to be unfunny and plain stupid, and with more and more people cutting the chord, I think 'primetime tv' is due to die pretty soon anyway.
A lot of kids in the current generation are growing up with reality tv shite, many of them aired on cable channels, so whether they continue watching them probably depends on the viewing opportunities of the future, but I sincerely doubt inane brainvomit like Tila Tequila will be remembered, let alone still watched by anyone.
I'd wager on the sci fi classics like 'Star Trek' and 'Doctor Who' dominating the watchlists in the future, and don't think any of the shows that I like and watch will be popular in 50 years time, because it's likely by then that other similar shows will have been made.
I dread to think what tv will be like in 50 years time actually, because if the trend in baring your broken, narcissistic soul for the world to see continues, we could be faced with macabre shows like 'Dignitas Big Brother', whereby the seriously depressed complete daily tasks and face a public vote to see who gets euthanised first.
Having said that, I don't think the future is all that dark when you consider that most kids still watch tv with their parents, and will grow up watching decent programmes like Doctor Who as their parents did, and will likely continue watching them once they've grown up and fled the nest.
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It's not exactly current, and I'm not sure about 50 years, but I can see people enjoying The Office (the UK version not the US) a generation or so down the line.
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None of them I mean come on what do you watch regularly from 1964?
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(Apr 24, 2014, 07:26 am)snilloc Wrote: None of them I mean come on what do you watch regularly from 1964?
Doctor who
Route 66
Voyage to the bottom of the sea
Gilligan's Island
The munsters
The Addams Family
Bewitched
I Dream Of Jeannie
I think that about covers most of what I watch.
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Aside from 'The Twilight Zone,' and 'The Outer Limits,' I don't watch anything from 50 years ago, but that's not the topic of this thread. OP is asking what current shows we think will still be watched 50 years from now.
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(Apr 24, 2014, 11:37 am)Spud17 Wrote: Aside from 'The Twilight Zone,' and 'The Outer Limits,' I don't watch anything from 50 years ago, but that's not the topic of this thread. OP is asking what current shows we think will still be watched 50 years from now.
I'm going to go with Grey's Anatomy.
Here's the reason why....
I read that Grey's Anatomy produced and sold the most DVD sets of any television show of the last 10 years. Now considering that the world is quickly falling into a toxic ecological disaster with wars breaking out everywhere and economic meltdowns....
The only thing from today that will be watched in 50 years will be stuff people find in the garbage dumps and played on stuff repaired from garbage dumps.
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