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I didn’t leave my apartment yesterday. Not even to take the trash out or sign for delivery food. From about 11:00 a.m. all the way to 6:15 p.m., I stayed on my couch watching The Americans and eating white chicken chili that I had made the day prior. Nearly 8 hours straight of one television show is a lot though, and by 6:00 p.m. I was starting to get restless of the subject matter.
I needed a change of pace for a bit — a breather from Soviet-U.S. relations and dramatic, incredibly intense acting. This is when I picked my phone up off of my coffee table and checked Twitter to see those three words that let everyone know the weekend, as we once knew it, is officially over – “tick, tick, tick.” Nothing gets the heart rate going like hearing that clock tick during a break in the action from the Jim Nantz-announced football game. Seeing it in print on Twitter might be even worse. It’s all over and you know it. Finito. Caput.
The official 60 Minutes Twitter account tweets that bullshit out every single Sunday just before the last NFL on CBS game is about to end and while I do appreciate the reminder, it almost always feels like someone just kicked you in the dick.
Now let me be clear – I love 60 Minutes. I just don’t love that their ads are widely known as a reminder that the weekend is finished.
I’ve been a fan since college, back when Katie Couric was a correspondent and Andy Rooney (RIP) was still doing a segment at the end of every show. It became part of my Sunday night routine and that will most likely never change.
But last night as the show went on I noticed something that I guess I haven’t really thought about before. I know Aziz Ansari has touched on this same phenomenon in a standup of yore, but I feel as though I need to address it. While Aziz had a cousin or a nephew who loved the show Burn Notice, I don’t know a single, solitary soul on this planet that watches NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, or God Friended Me.
Not only does CBS have one awful copycat of CSI called NCIS, they have two. Is there an NCIS: New York as well? I think there’s one other spinoff in a different city but I don’t feel like looking it up.
Two shows that (and I’m just guessing here) are very similar. Jim Nantz gets on during TV timeouts to shill for this shit programming on then on top of that they get primetime advertisements during each commercial break on 60 Minutes. NCIS: Los Angeles comes on immediately following 60 Minutes and I’ve got to think their numbers get skewed from all of the people that have fallen asleep during the last segment of the investigative reporting show that everyone loves.
Who in the hell is watching this abysmal programming other than people who have fallen asleep with CBS on the screen? I don’t want to watch LL Cool J solving crimes at 8:00 p.m. Central Standard Time on a Sunday evening.
I want to switch over to Sunday night premium programming on HBO, not watch a show about how God is on Facebook “poking” people and bringing friends together. What a crock of shit.
I just don’t understand the audience for this stuff and maybe I’m not meant to. Maybe there’s a giant swath of NCIS fans that I’m just not aware of.
I don’t have the first clue what it takes to advertise for a tv show and I don’t know what the Sunday night demographics look like. But I know good tv when I see it and I’ve got to tell you, God Friended Me and NCIS: Los Angeles do not look like they can be put in the “good tv” category. .
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The original NCIS used to be cool and Mark Harmon is a fucking legend, so watch your tongue. The spinoffs (Los Angeles and New Orleans) are hot steaming garbage.
David McCallum (Ducky) from the original NCIS is also a legend… those two could have their own run at the White House and win if McCallum wasn’t British
Get over it ncis all of them are the best shows on TV. With macguyver and Hawaii 5 o coming up next!!?they are great!!
Huge fan of Pauley Perrette/Abby Sciuto and stopped watching after I found out she left. NCIS was a great show when it had all the original cast.
Truth. Kate could get it.
Still ok. I really miss the characters of Abby and Reeves. Abbys replacement, is a hyper space cadet.
Heard that. Can’t stand the replacement.
No there not. LL COOL J, & CHRIS O’CONNELL are great actors, as well as Scott Bacula and Lucas Black.
Call your grandma. That’s how
This. The people who watch this are my mom, my aunts, my grandpa and my weird out of touch best friend (first year roommate who tbh we dont have much in common other than being drunken teenagers sharing a dorm for the first time) who things the Big Bang Theory is an example of hilarious comedy.
First year roommates just love those shows
What the fuck happened in this comment section
Yeah. WHOA this went off the rails.
How do NBC, ABC & other networks keep putting out all of hot garbage I see advertised while I watch Sunday Night Football? Who watches these things? I would rather yank teeth than watch Nathan Fillion star as a 44 year old police recruit in The Rookie.
I feel like I somehow stumbled into the local news station’s social media page comment section instead of PGP’s
I liked Burn Notice
I may or may not have rewatched it recently on Amazon prime.
Old people and nursing homes, next question
I’m 34 and watch NCIS. So, if that makes me old, choke on a hard boiled egg with the shell on.
As a fellow dinosaur, I do not condone this rhetoric.
I also don’t know a single person who watches The Big Bang Theory. Who is even supporting this garbage?
I’ve been compared to Sheldon Cooper and I NEVER found that show to be funny.
Weird flex but okay
Right. I can’t stand that show. In the mean time, several that I LOVE have been cancelled. Like GRIMM, QUANTICO, SCORPION THE LIBRARIANS, SHADOWHUNTERS and several others. I’m 57 & have a high IQ, so I don’t understand how soooooooo many terrible shows stay on and GREAT ONES r cancelled!!
One person’s Scorpion is another’s NCIS: LA
Russian bots out in full force for the mid term elections.
These Russian bots can comment but half the time mine won’t post. Come on Grandex
I may be 29 going on 59, but my husband and I watch 60 Minutes every Sunday night to get back in Adult Mode.