Programming Redundancy on TV Land

My husband and I do not watch a lot of network television, other than the news and weather, a couple of entertainment magazine shows, and "America's Funniest Videos". On the weekends we watch a bit more, since he likes to watch sports, and occasionally we will watch "Cops" and "America's Most Wanted". Other than that, we do not care for the usual network TV lineup.....too many reality shows (which my husband refers to as "soap operas," as he thinks they are all fake and rigged with excess hype and drama to gain an audience), too much in the way of crime shows, and too many other shows that are full of sleaziness, foul humor, or are just plain not interesting.

We usually tune in to channels like the local PBS station, History Channel, TLC, the Weather Channel (I love to watch "Storm Chasers" and other programs that show tornadoes, hurricanes, and other awesome weather phenomena), Discovery Channel, Nickelodeon ("Home Improvement" reruns)...but the main channel we watch, it seems, is TV Land, with all the reruns of the shows we used to watch when we were growing up.

I do have a gripe, however, about how TV Land does its programming. I do not understand why, with the wealth of TV programs to pick from, they constantly run the same shows over and over and over, ad nauseam. For instance, TV Land has shown "The Andy Griffeth Show" forever.....I like the show, but I do not want to see it every day, every week, and sometimes for an hour or more. Same with "I Love Lucy," "Bonanza," "The Brady Bunch," "Green Acres," and others. These are all shows we enjoy, but let's have more variety! Who wants to watch the same episode of a show over and over again? Not I.

I really wonder how many people have stopped watching TV Land because of the lack of variety of programming? Many times we will switch the channel because we have already seen what is being programmed so many times before.

Why don't they run shows like "Petticoat Junction," "McHale's Navy," "The Monkees," "The Big Valley," "The Waltons," "Christy," "Fame," (I loved that show back in the 80's----whatever happened to the cast members?), "The Partridge Family," (okay, I admit it, I was in love with David Cassidy!), "Eight is Enough," "Growing Pains," and "Family Ties"? These were all very popular shows in their day, and would find large audiences again, I'm sure.

Instead of running the same series each day at the same time, make it a weekly show and rotate other shows throughout the rest of the week. There are so many to pick from---I have not even scratched the surface with what I have mentioned above---and TV Land would probably gain more viewers.

Maybe the shows should be rotated according to time slots as well; instead of always showing a certain show at the same time, run it in one slot for maybe three months, then move it to a different slot and run a different show in the previous show's original time slot. Obviously people cannot watch TV 24 hours a day (nor should they!), and sometimes their favorite shows are not available when they are able to watch...although nowadays with new technology available, it is possible to record programs and watch them at a more convenient time, but not everybody is that savvy or ambitious to do that. If the networks moved programming around every so often, more old favorites could be seen and enjoyed by more people.

Also, on the weekends, run shows that were not in the lineup during the week. It aggravates me to see shows that were on during the week replay over the weekend, especially the same episodes. Why the redundancy???

I should say Nickolodeon and TBS could also stand to do the same thing. We have seen "Home Improvement" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" episodes repeatedly as well......time for those channels to expand their repertoire, along with TV Land.

I just don't see any good reason for all the redundancy when there are so many more great shows that could be rerun.