Reality TV Kills Good TV Shows

It wasn't long ago when comedy TV ruled the evening hours. You'd come home from work/school and flip on your favorite show and be in a better mood within minutes. Then came survivor, the show that started it all. There is nothing particularly bad about Survivor, it's the never ending horror of new reality show copy cats being puked out by the dozens that Survivor represents that makes me hate it. After all, it created the genre anew. Sure these things had been done in the past, but back then society wasn't very accepting. They saw the shows as more unbelievable than anything else they already watched.

Society overall was more wholesome back then, and things like talk shows where nothing happens except the guests fight and curse the entire time never would have even touched the airwaves. Today our morals have been compromised, and our attention spans shortened. When a good wholesome show that's actually funny comes on, no one knows how to react. A large portion of people that watch them get lost because they simply can no longer follow 30min-1hr of a continuing thought. And if the show picks up each week where the last one left off its hopeless. So the results end up in lots of really good shows getting canceled and replaced with really bad shows. Are there exceptions to the rule, yes of course, aren't there always. But most of those shows are written with kids in mind so that even they can follow the story and plot lines. I guess those are just simple enough for the masses that complain about how bad TV is, but continually make it worse by getting all the good shows canceled.