TV Musicals, Are They Coming Back?

[Liberalman]

TV Musicals, Are They Coming Back?

Back in the early days of television musicals was part of the regular programming grid.

Variety TV shows were watched by families all around the world.

Today it’s a different story you can see musicals on French and ethnic TV channels but for some strange reason the English channels abandoned it in the early 1990s

The TV musicals would have been gone forever if it wasn’t for the television writers strike that went on for a more than six months.

The TV networks had to come up with a new idea before they started to lose advertisers.

The Reality TV shows were born which was more improvisation so a dialog script wasn’t required.

The TV execs brought back the contest concept where a prize was offered to a winner.

The Survival brand kicked it off where a group of people were put on an island and given tasks to do and at the end of the show one person voted off and the show continued weekly until the last person won a prize.

Then all kinds of contests came and went dealing with all kinds experiences.

They even went as far as having a wife swapping reality show.

Then the musicals made it on the reality shows with American Idol that promised the winner a recording contract.

The TV execs took a chance last year and produced a weekly 60-minute musical TV show Glee and got a big hit.

I watched a couple of episodes and there are four to five songs on it with good singing and dancing although the script needs some work on it.

I am sure other networks will follow and produce musicals as well.

Since I am accused of partisan politics I just want to remind everyone that the Conservative government is always cutting funding for this industry because all industry people go to Galas and get drunk.

 

[El Barto]

Glee is not bad at all . Tho i just watch it from the corner of my eye while I am surfing.
I rather that show than Beverly 90210 drama crap.

 

[Walter]

I always enjoyed Carol Burnett, Jackie Gleason and Deam Martin when they had their prime time shows.

 

[YukonJack]

"TV Musicals, Are They Coming Back?"

No, because music as we used to know, is DEAD!

What passes for music nowadays is screeching, screaming, shouting and nothing but noise.

Music died when the drug addicted Rolling Stones infected/infested the world.

 

[Praxius]

Music was good in the 60's, 70's, then turned to crap for the most part in the 80's... then the 90's took off and went back to the classic rock/70's sound a bit.... then came the 2000's, then things gradually moved back to the 80's crap and Emo trash appeared on the map of society and now all we have are these whiny useless wankers who think they can sing and think they're talented when their voices are 98.8% digitally modified to sound like a robot with a carrot shoved up their exhaust receptacle.

They said it in the 80's and I'll say it now.... Music has lost its soul.

But it'll return again.

As it goes for TV musicals.... they can come back all they want, I won't be around to pay them any attention. And there's no way in hell I'll ever give Glee anymore attention then I already did.... I want my 10 minutes of life back.

 

[DurkaDurka]

"TV Musicals, Are They Coming Back?"

No, because music as we used to know, is DEAD!

What passes for music nowadays is screeching, screaming, shouting and nothing but noise.

Music died when the drug addicted Rolling Stones infected/infested the world.

No, Jack. Music as you know it is dead. The fact that you think that music died in the mid 60's shows how bloody ancient you are.

 

[DurkaDurka]

Music was good in the 60's, 70's, then turned to crap for the most part in the 80's... then the 90's took off and went back to the classic rock/70's sound a bit.... then came the 2000's, then things gradually moved back to the 80's crap and Emo trash appeared on the map of society and now all we have are these whiny useless wankers who think they can sing and think they're talented when their voices are 98.8% digitally modified to sound like a robot with a carrot shoved up their exhaust receptacle.

They said it in the 80's and I'll say it now.... Music has lost its soul.

But it'll return again.

As it goes for TV musicals.... they can come back all they want, I won't be around to pay them any attention. And there's no way in hell I'll ever give Glee anymore attention then I already did.... I want my 10 minutes of life back.

Don't you think you are simplifying it a tad bit, Praxius? There is good and bad music to be found in every decade, the good music isn't necessarily going to found on your average pop-station or MTV.

 

[YukonJack]

DurkaDurka, as usual, your response is based not on facts, but in typical, liberal fashion, personal attacks.

 

[DurkaDurka]

DurkaDurka, as usual, your response is based not on facts, but in typical, liberal fashion, personal attacks.

What are the facts, Jack? Please enlighten me.

Also, how does my post reflect anything "liberal".

Lastly, I didn't insult you, I stated a fact. If you think music died in the 60's, you are ancient.

 

[karrie]

If you think good music is dead, might I suggest not letting modern media spoon feed you your music. Alberta alone has tons of incredible folk artists, let alone the rest of Canada, the rest of North America.... etc, etc.

 

[YukonJack]

DurkaDurka, my dictionary defines MUSIC as: 'the art of combining tones into a composition having structure and continuity; vocal or instrumental sounds having rythm, melody and harmony; an agreeable sound'.

There is no evidence of any of that since the drug addicted Rolling Stones infected/infested the world.

 

[DurkaDurka]

DurkaDurka, my dictionary defines MUSIC as: 'the art of combining tones into a composition having structure and continuity; vocal or instrumental sounds having rythm, melody and harmony; an agreeable sound'.

There is no evidence of any of that since the drug addicted Rolling Stones infected/infested the world.

Jack, if you can't find a musical act in the last 40 years to fall under that definition, it's due to your ignorance & bias.

The Rolling Stones are not the be all and end all of modern music.

 

[YukonJack]

kerrie, country music and country artists are considered nothing but noise for rednecks performed by rednecks to the
"sophisticated" crowd who think that hip-hop, rap, modern rock-and-roll is music.

There is still good music to be found in Nashville, Branson, in any Opera house or symphony hall.

But the music that was light-hearted, melodic and sweet is gone.

 

[lone wolf]

There's just something about music that is referred to as movements....

 

[karrie]

kerrie, country music and country artists are considered nothing but noise for rednecks performed by rednecks to the
"sophisticated" crowd who think that hip-hop, rap, modern rock-and-roll is music.

There is still good music to be found in Nashville, Branson, in any Opera house or symphony hall.

But the music that was light-hearted, melodic and sweet is gone.

YukonJick, I would agree in terms of mass media. But, local folk festivals go beyond the 'country', and the mass produced music.

 

[Praxius]

Don't you think you are simplifying it a tad bit, Praxius? There is good and bad music to be found in every decade, the good music isn't necessarily going to found on your average pop-station or MTV.

Not exactly simplifying, more or less, generalizing towards the Pop music at the time.

There's still a few decent bands out there who have talent, there were some good bands in the 80's as well... but in reference to what the main stream seem to go nuts for and think are the best things ever just make me shake my head and wonder, "WTF are they snort'n?"

Black Eyed Peas??

They're apparently coming to Halifax, but I sure as hell ain't going near downtown while they're around.....

 

[Praxius]

If you think good music is dead, might I suggest not letting modern media spoon feed you your music. Alberta alone has tons of incredible folk artists, let alone the rest of Canada, the rest of North America.... etc, etc.

Agreed... I remember posting a thread a year or two ago about Crash Karma who just released their first album last month. They're made up from members of The Tea Party, I Mother Earth, Zygote, and Our Lady Peace, some of Canada's best exports during the 90's..... Plus Sam Roberts, Matt Mays & El Torpedo, Joel Plaskett, The Jimmy Swift Band, etc... there's plenty out there.

And while I don't let main stream media dictate what I like or don't, considering all the radio stations, tv stations, shows, movies, etc. all dish out the Pop music everywhere we turn, it's hard to ignore and that's where I have issues.

I just don't understand why they revolve around talentless garbage over all of the available and very talented artists out there.

But in time, like always, people will get fed up with the trash.... like people got tired of Disco & 80's Synth Pop, they will get tired of this crap too, and Rock will be brought back into the spotlight once again.....

Rock never dies, it just goes into rehab for a while

 

[Praxius]

Jack, if you can't find a musical act in the last 40 years to fall under that definition, it's due to your ignorance & bias.

The Rolling Stones are not the be all and end all of modern music.

Besides, the Stones sucked.

And so did the Beatles..... and so did Elvis.... and so did Jimi Hendrix.

There... I said it... you read it. You can't un-read it.

 

[Praxius]

kerrie, country music and country artists are considered nothing but noise for rednecks performed by rednecks to the
"sophisticated" crowd who think that hip-hop, rap, modern rock-and-roll is music.

There is still good music to be found in Nashville, Branson, in any Opera house or symphony hall.

But the music that was light-hearted, melodic and sweet is gone.

Light-Hearted, Melodic and Sweet?

Simon & Garfunkel are coming to Halifax in May for two nights y'know?

 

[DurkaDurka]

Not exactly simplifying, more or less, generalizing towards the Pop music at the time.

There's still a few decent bands out there who have talent, there were some good bands in the 80's as well... but in reference to what the main stream seem to go nuts for and think are the best things ever just make me shake my head and wonder, "WTF are they snort'n?"

Black Eyed Peas??

They're apparently coming to Halifax, but I sure as hell ain't going near downtown while they're around.....

You won't get any arguments from me about the state of pop-music, it's crap marketed at teens with a poor taste in music.