Has The Entertainment Industry Become Worse?

Jason Statham is a thespian,at the height of his game.

Don't worry OP the new Utv channel will be along in a year or so,that will sort it out

Complete nonsense,entertainment is getting better,it's just there way to much of it now, everybody wants to be a dj singer film star and there certain platforms where mediocre people get noticed and better talent doesn't shine.

I'm not getting into lists of what's great to watch or listen to but with the likes of breaking bad or Sherlock(BBC) or parks and recs I feel theres still allot of to look forward to.

Gee Bag wrote: »

There was? When was this?

Around 1947. There was only 1 channel. 1 is always better than none.

Comedy would be at a peak now I think. There are legends like Carlin or Pryor from a few decades ago which is great. But you also have today some of the best stand ups of all time in my opinion with Louis CK, Chris Rock, Dylan Moran, Dave Chappelle ect.

If you're going with tv you have The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Deadwood, The Shield, Sons of Anarchy and I could go on. All of these are from the past 10/15 years up to today.

Music is extremely subjective but some of my personal favourite albums ever made have been released this year, I dare say most of my favourite albums, about 3/4's, are from the past 10/15 years.


What we do have today is a higher overall volume of 'entertainment' than ever. It's easy to point at Jersey Shore or some other kind of chewing gum for the brain tv and say everything is just shit now because there is so much shit, but there's also never been so much quality. There's always been tonnes of rubbish music, it just populates the charts more today because the only people that pay for music in big numbers are teenage girls but there's still so much good music out there that will stand the test of time, it just gets drowned out by the 'noise' more today.

You're wrong op, very very wrong, or just old, but still wrong.

There has never been a wider range of entertainment on offer! It's likely that the same proportion of what you consider good and bad has remained the same, and the proportion of what you consider bad is much larger, thus it's harder to find the good stuff since there is so much of both available! Something like that anyway. :pac:

The 3 best Tv shows of all time have been within the last 10-15 yrs. The Wire, Breaking Bad & The Sopranos.

So no, I disagree. It's the same with every generation, people always say "It's not as good as in my day". You're just being an old grumpy sod.

BNMC wrote: »

Poll question makes no sense.

Polls used to be better in the olden days...

There's good music been made you just have to go looking for it.
Hollywood movies have become formulaic dross for
the most part .HBO is a guiding light in a sea of corporate spread sheets though.
We had Twink and Bunny Carr on the telly back in the day now we have Turbridy and Brendon O Carroll so no change there.

You could probably equate it to AH,not as interesting as it was due to political correctness.

Congratulations on the poll.Goes in the hall of fame.

Stan Marsh went through this stage at the age of ten.

hardCopy wrote: »

We now have the best TV shows since the invention of the TV imo.

I agree, I think the last 15/20 years has seen some of the best TV of all time, across all genres. This was when it was realised that TV had become a more profitable medium in advertising terms than film, so they started pumping those big budgets into TV programmes which would previously have been reserved for movies. Look at Friends - cast members earning $1m per 30 minute episode, when in the late 80s that would have been a full movie fee for many A-listers.

TV as a medium is dying on its feet. In the US, subscriber numbers are dropping rapidly as people switch to on-demand and FTA services. This was predicted in the early 00's that TV would die as people switched to on-demand, and tbh I couldn't see how that would work.

But it does. And what it will do is improve the standard of programming in many respects because so few people will actually want to watch "The secret life of Gypsy showjumpers" on demand.
But it may also have a groupthink effect whereby niche shows are smothered and cancelled because they're not hugely popular. But different types of content streaming (with ads/without ads/premium) will mean that different tiers of entertainment can continue to remain profitable even when they're blockbusters.

On the OP's question, yes you're getting old.

Music is going through a pretty poor phase, and mainstream cinema is going through something similar (in both cases because piracy has left them with no clear idea of how to reliably make money anymore), but television is in the middle of an absolute golden age. The Wire, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, The West Wing and Battlestar Galactica could credibly be described as the five best TV series ever made, and they're all from the last fifteen years.