What is wrong with A&E??

[Mega-Prime 316]

Like the title says, I am seriously beginning to wonder if A&E is on a self destruct mission or something? What I'm upset about is that they seem to cancel or threaten to cancel their top shows. Last summer they had a pretty good cop drama called The Glades. It ended with a cliff hanger with the main character shot and his bride to be waiting at the alter. I was eagerly awaiting its summer return and found out a few weeks ago that A&E had cancelled it!

Then we had the problems with Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson's personal views, and again A&E threatened to cancel the show or at least remove Phil from the show, but the rest of the family rallied behind Phil and everything seems to have quieted down and back to business as usual.

Now the latest casuality of A&E is another cop drama called Longmire. It has been pegged as a modern western and was a very interesting show and also this season wrapped up a lot of loose ends but it did end with a cliff hanger ending with a lone gunshot and black screen. Come to find out that this show as well as The Glades were there #2 shows behind Duck Dynasty and both have now been canceled! They seem to be shifting to an all reality schedual and getting away from the traditional script shows.

[skrilla 88]

I stopped watching A & E about 10 years ago. It's no longer Art and Entertainment. I also stopped watching Discovery and History. 2 of my favourite channels reduced to airing garage programs.

[Akroyer]

Originally Posted by skrilla 88

I stopped watching A & E about 10 years ago. It's no longer Art and Entertainment. I also stopped watching Discovery and History. 2 of my favourite channels reduced to airing garage programs.

Aint that the truth..

[Team Jetfire]

Pretty well why a stick with Teletoon retro and Star Trek re-runs.

TNG, Voyager, Tin-tin, Animaniacs and Batman FTW.

[grumble22]

Another good reason to cancel cable/ satellite and just stick with netflix or other streaming services. Beyond watching baseball and hockey I can't remember the last time I watched something on regular tv.

[Robimus]

Pretty sure a few folks are still watching stuff like The Walking Dead and HBO styled stuff, but the cost is very high.

Between Netflix and people pirating I'm surprised those channels still do as well as they do.

[MULTIPLEX]

The better question is why even have cable when it's all available to stream on the internet or over the air for free. I cut off cable three years ago, put up an antenna and got an unlimited internet plan. Best thing I ever did. Cable tv is old school. Pretty soon, Internet streaming services like Netflix will be the main way people access tv programming.

[Darth Cylon]

Originally Posted by skrilla 88

I stopped watching A & E about 10 years ago. It's no longer Art and Entertainment. I also stopped watching Discovery and History. 2 of my favourite channels reduced to airing garage programs.

TLC stopped being the The Learning Channel a long time ago. Just what do you learn from Jon & Kate plus 8?

And Discovery got really dumbed down with Mid US Syndrome with moves like getting Oprah to dub over Sir David Attenborough. It's like airing natural science documentaries from BBC is offending the people who live in Jesusland.

[Team Jetfire]

Originally Posted by Darth Cylon

Just what do you learn from Jon & Kate plus 8?

Not to marry a psycho!

Hey-oh!

[Robimus]

Originally Posted by MULTIPLEX

The better question is why even have cable when it's all available to stream on the internet or over the air for free.

The problem being that once enough people do this these cable networks won't be able to afford to produce their quality programming.

Netflix is a viable option, likely the way the industry is going to go no doubt.

Digital recievers sound good as well, but I'm little hesitant to get excited about the three channels I could pick up with one in my area. To me it feels and sounds more like 1983 than 2014