The last frontier is a damn good show

[egp320i]

Wrote by the same guy that did blacklist and it's full of twists, turns and drama

Next Thurs is 10 and final for the season, I doubt the story wraps up so likely another
which means they will end it with a cliffhanger

It should be kick ass, classic spy, betrayal, all that

 

[toobfreak]

Next Thurs is 10 and final for the season,

That is funny--- 10 whole episodes a season. Must be a whole lot of reruns!

When I was growing up, TV shows typically had around THIRTY episodes a season. It started right after kids went back to school and ran till they got out for summer break, with very few, maybe 1-2 reruns.

Reruns were mainly an entity of summer break, they would re-show some episodes over the summer as filler until the next fall.

But then, there were only four commercial breaks per hour, every 15 minutes, about 2 minutes long each. When a commercial came, you had to run to the kitchen to make a sandwich or go to the bathroom to run back to not miss too much.

Now, they have 6-8 commercial breaks per hour, each running nearly 6 minutes. Often, the commercial time exceeds the programming time with a 6 minute commercial break followed by maybe 5 minutes of programming followed by another 6 minute commercial break.

Not that the network cares. They get paid for AIRING the commercial, they could care less whether you WATCHED it, hence, no reason to put quality, intelligent, expensive programming on TV anymore like Star Trek or Babylon Five--- they fill it all in with reality TV shows (which is code-word for dirt-ass cheap).

 

[egp320i]

That is funny--- 10 whole episodes a season. Must be a whole lot of reruns!

When I was growing up, TV shows typically had around THIRTY episodes a season. It started right after kids went back to school and ran till they got out for summer break, with very few, maybe 1-2 reruns.

Reruns were mainly an entity of summer break, they would re-show some episodes over the summer as filler until the next fall.

But then, there were only four commercial breaks per hour, every 15 minutes, about 2 minutes long each. When a commercial came, you had to run to the kitchen to make a sandwich or go to the bathroom to run back to not miss too much.

Now, they have 6-8 commercial breaks per hour, each running nearly 6 minutes. Often, the commercial time exceeds the programming time with a 6 minute commercial break followed by maybe 5 minutes of programming followed by another 6 minute commercial break.

Not that the network cares. They get paid for AIRING the commercial, they could care less whether you WATCHED it, hence, no reason to put quality, intelligent, expensive programming on TV anymore like Star Trek or Babylon Five--- they fill it all in with reality TV shows (which is code-word for dirt-ass cheap).

hour long and 500-M per, this is not a 1/2 hour sitcom with a simple set

it's from apple, deep pockets, cable......not G rated and no commercials, an actual adult show

 

[toobfreak]

it's from apple, deep pockets, cable......not G rated and no commercials,

Of course it has no commercials, it is pay TV. YOU pay for the programming. All I need to do is subscribe to Apple, which I don't do. Television was conceived as a free medium available to all, all you needed was a cheap set and a pair of rabbit ears, everything was paid for through advertisers.

Now you need five accounts, cable, satellite, broadband, internet and a smartphone. I'm $2,000 in the hole before I even sit down and put my feet up on the footstool.

 

[Mack The Finger]

I don't watch TV except DVDs and Perry Mason every night.

 

[egp320i]

Of course it has no commercials, it is pay TV. YOU pay for the programming. All I need to do is subscribe to Apple, which I don't do. Television was conceived as a free medium available to all, all you needed was a cheap set and a pair of rabbit ears, everything was paid for through advertisers.

Now you need five accounts, cable, satellite, broadband, internet and a smartphone. I'm $2,000 in the hole before I even sit down and put my feet up on the footstool.

local tv sucks, you need to pay for better content because they need that money to make better shows

I don't recall the last time I was hooked on anything from NBC, ABC or CBS, probably blacklist

I'd rather pay 10 bucks a month not to watch commercials for products I'd never buy, don't care about, it's annoying

turn a hour show into a 42 minute show with fluff that unlike streaming you can't pause

reason streaming took over local ages ago 10x over

 

[BULLDOG]

Of course it has no commercials, it is pay TV. YOU pay for the programming. All I need to do is subscribe to Apple, which I don't do. Television was conceived as a free medium available to all, all you needed was a cheap set and a pair of rabbit ears, everything was paid for through advertisers.

Now you need five accounts, cable, satellite, broadband, internet and a smartphone. I'm $2,000 in the hole before I even sit down and put my feet up on the footstool.

Programming had to be free. Otherwise, nobody would spend the money to buy one of those infernal boxes.

 

[toobfreak]

local tv sucks, you need to pay for better content because they need that money to make better shows
I don't recall the last time I was hooked on anything from NBC, ABC or CBS, probably blacklist
I'd rather pay 10 bucks a month not to watch commercials for products I'd never buy, don't care about, it's annoying

I guess I lucked out. Where I live, I pick up 70+ TV channels easily over the air for free and I get better programming than when I used to pay DISH Network $150.00 a month. I also watch Tubi streaming for free and get their thousands of TV shows.
If all else breaks down, I have thousands more movies and TV shows (the best of the best from Hollywood and beyond) archived on various media.

 

[Auld Phart]

Wrote by the same guy that did blacklist and it's full of twists, turns and drama

Next Thurs is 10 and final for the season, I doubt the story wraps up so likely another
which means they will end it with a cliffhanger

It should be kick ass, classic spy, betrayal, all that

"Follows Frank Remnick, a U.S. Marshal in charge of the quiet and weathered barrens of Alaska, as he needs to deal with a prison transport plane crash full of violent inmates inside his juris..."

sounds interesting, but I don't stream apple