I love Grantland* because the writers there have an uncanny ability to take a Tweet-sized thought — “’90210′ is the least cared about show on television” –and expand it into a 2,000-word think piece. Such is the case with Steven Hyden’s longread explaining why “90210″ holds that title: Because most of us cannot name a single person who watches it.
It’s true, too. I don’t know a soul who watches. I’m a TV critic for two sites, and I’ve never seen an episode. Maybe that’s my own failing, or maybe it’s the apathy the very idea of the show provokes. I have no interest in watching plastic people poorly attempt to recreate the fleeting 90′s magic of “Beverly Hills 90210.” As far as I’m concerned, “90210″ doesn’t exist.
But I’m more interested in what the WG community might consider the least cared about show on television (“at least among shows with a reasonable expectation of being cared about”) and your arguments for why. My first thought was “NCIS,” but I know there’s a sizable population of middle-aged women with crushes on Mark Harmon that would beg to differ. I watch too much TV to be objective, so I put the question to all of you: What show do you care about the least?
* I do not have the same affection for Bill Simmons, but I’ve learned it’s best to keep one’s thoughts about the SportsGuy to oneself, as his following is as rabid, insane, and OMNIPRESENT as the following of Joe Rogan and Ron Paul, lurking in the shadows of the Internet with their Google Alerts and Twitter searches waiting to pounce on anyone who dares insult their leader.
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Pretty much anything on CBS. I have 38 shows on Season Pass, not one from the Eye.
38? Damn, LTF you need a job, a girl or a drug habit.
Fuck Bill Simmons. His writing is terrible, and his football picks are awful, and all the teams he roots for are a classless collection of cheaters and criminals.
/watches WG pageviews soar, hopes that authors will ching-ching-ching cash in as a result.
//doesn’t really have anything against Simmons, and is actually a Celtics fan.
I didnt hate Sports Guy until I read KSK…they opened my eyes to the light.
The show with LLCoolJ
“I don’t know anyone who watches this show for teenage girls.” All that means is you don’t know any teenage girls. (NOTE: I also do not know any teenage girls)
Still, that’s one of the most irritating fallacies a blogger can have. “None of my educated white friends aged 23-32 watches this show, therefore no one watches it.” It’s one thing to see that from some Blogspot chump, it’s hacky bullshit from Grantland.
Basically its just a matter of what demographic you aren’t in. Bring back Matt.
Isn’t saying hacky and Grantland redundant?
I am part of the 3% that will read Simmons, but don’t think he’s all that great (a guy’s gotta do SOMETHING at work).
I gave Grantland a chance, but after the ridiculous piece by Barnwell about “a formula to beat the Packers” and Greenwald’s hating on Community, it’s dead to me.
Why does the age cut off have to be 32? Can’t you have 40 year old friends? Ageist!
How about Mike & Molly? I love comedies, and have watched most at least once, if only to see if they’re as bad as my beloved Warming glow commentators say.
Yeah, I can’t think of a single person who has watched one episode of it, to be honest I thought it was cancelled. Though I do find AnnaLynne McCord oddly attractive. She’s just so tall and blonde and plain and frizzy, but she’s hot, I don’t get it. Also her sister is naked a lot on that show that’s she’s on. Where was I? Oh yeah Peter Gallagher should be on this show.
She played a seductress on Nip/Tuck (which I ashamedly admit to watching), and holy SHIT was she firey hot in that. You can probably YouTube clips of it. She really knows how to flaunt her feminine wiles for someone who’s flat as a board.
Bobman is right — AnnaLynne McCord was ridiculously hot on Nip/Tuck. And quite the seductress. Still not enough for me to sit down to an episode of 90210, though.
Anything involving ghosts and the process of hunting them.
But I totally heard something!
I do not have the same affection for Bill Simmons, but I’ve learned it’s best to keep one’s thoughts about the SportsGuy to oneself, as his following is as rabid, insane, and OMNIPRESENT as the following of Joe Rogan and Ron Paul, lurking in the shadows of the Internet with their Google Alerts and Twitter searches waiting to pounce on anyone who dares insult their leader.
FOUND YOU.
Scripted: CSI: NY. TV nerds hate it, and the people who would watch it, a.k.a. those who watch CSI and CSI: Miami, don’t like it, either. Because it’s not “as good” as CSI and CSI: Miami. The show’s ratings and episode count have both been decreasing, too.
Non-scripted: America’s Funniest Home Videos. It’s been on for a billion years, but I don’t know anyone who’s watched it since Bob Saget left, and that was in 1997.
My 4 and 6 year old love America’s Funniest Home Videos, and I watch it with them sometimes.
Maybe it’s an Albany thing then, like steamed hams.
I have a feeling Danger will contend with your choice of America’s Funniest Home Videos. That show seems right up his alley.
Royals Baseball games
2012 AL Central Champs! Book it!
I watch nearly all of them.
90210 is pretty spot-on, actually. Not only do I not know a single fan of the show, I don’t think I’ve met anybody who has every seen an episode. NCIS does actually have a huge fanbase despite the fakest piece of doodoo in the steaming pile of fake “police procedural” turds.
I think the only reason people care about True Blood is so that naked pics of Anna Paquin pop up when they do a google image search for her. Otherwise that show is stupid as all hell.
This probably doesn’t fit the proper mold of TV shows your looking for, but I nominate Last Call with Carson Daly. Nobody gives a shit about that show, and nobody ever will. Quit coasting off your TRL fame, asshole.
*despite being the fakest
Last Call with Carson Daly is the best answer. I can name one person I know who has tuned into any of the stuff we’ve mentioned in this thread, be it real or ironically. I honestly cannot think of a single person that has admittedly said they watch that show.
Anything on the History Channel that isn’t related to history.
/my wife watches “90210″, not grounds for divorce but close
A lot of shows that people used to care about, but haven’t for that past several years (e.g. Desperate Housewives, Gray’s Anatomy, Who Wants to Be A Millionaire)
Grantland has a Reality TV Fantasy League where grown men select participants from each show and they score each episode like Fantasy Football.Blackwhite’Planet.C0Mit’s the most effective place in the world to connect with, to find intimate encounters.There you may easily have free contact with charming girls or handsome men….Hope you like it!Good luck!
++++++Life is short. Enjoy yourself.Also Annalynne McCord seemingly spends about 50% of the show running around in lingerie or a bikini. It’s a good time.
There’s a difference between “worst” and “least-watched” and “least cared about.” It’s a toss-up between teenagers and Generation X’ers for who cares about stuff less, but Gen X’ers probably watch less TV (or will claim to), so I think it would have to be a show aimed at teenagers. So that means it will be on MTV or the CW. But most CW shows are
soap operasdramas, and people actually DO care about these kinds of shows. So I’d say it would have to be a comedy; but unfunny enough that absolutely nobody would miss it if it were gone. I guess I’ll throw in “Good Vibes” as a suggestion; is there a single person in the world who would consider that show to be appointment television?What’s that one on the CW about witches? That’s my pick. At least 90210 is a remake of something that was actually popular. The witch show is a rip-off of a shitty movie nobody saw the first time around. I can recall a “What’s on Tonight” on this very site that said “Have you seen the 1996 film ‘The Craft’? The CW hopes you haven’t!”.
Are You There Chelsea?
Just looking at the network primetime lineup for the next week and I was shocked to see 2 hours of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on ABC Friday night. People still care about that?
Whitney
Anything “Kardashian”, “Wives” or “With the Stars”
Really? I know people who watch all of those religiously. It takes poor taste, but they care about those shows.
Hell, Grantland has a Reality TV Fantasy League where grown men select participants from each show and they score each episode like Fantasy Football.
Either Secret Circle or Revenge. I know exactly two people who watch either of those shows, and for matters of my place of employment I do interact with more than my fair share of teenage girls. Also, note that the two people I know who watch Revenge are neither teenagers, nor girls.
fwiw, Jessica Stroup (the one on the left) is super hot.
I’m here to blow the mind and likely lose respect from you all: I watch 90210. I don’t know why but it’s a hot mess that I watch all the time and live tweet hatred and snark for it.
I’ve seen an episode. I reviewed the premiere for the other website you write for, Rowles.
You’re welcome, by the way!
*shrugs*
Who cares?
It’s really difficult for me to come up with anything that I care less about than American Idol. Maybe Grey’s Anatomy?
I like Grantland. I also like Simmons and Rogan. But please, bash away! I insist.
I complain about Simmons every chance I get, and then read everything he puts out.
I don’t care what anyone says, I am a 28-year-old educated woman and I watch the SHIT out of 90210. Where else can you go to when you want to see the guy who played Michael on The Wire going to rehab for a ritalin addiction? Or a storyline where some dude works on a crab fishing boat for a summer and his best friend dies so the dude shacks up with his best friend’s pregnant widow but then it turns out that oh snap, the best friend was alive all along having washed up at shore somewhere? And then he’s just all like, dude it’s cool that you started banging my pregnant wife cause I know you were just trying to do the right thing, so we cool. Also Annalynne McCord seemingly spends about 50% of the show running around in lingerie or a bikini. It’s a good time.
Let’s not forget the girl from Degrassi getting drunk and murdering a hobo with her car and eventually becoming a prostitute.
I also forgot about the time Lori Laughlin and her husband Principal Wilson accidentally got high on pot brownies at the hospital. Best epsiode ever? Best. Episode. Ever.
Uhh… the shows on Sci Fi or even less subscribed to cable networks? Right? I mean… I’m sure they have one or two passionate fans, but I don’t know who goes out of their way to watch Call Me Fitz or Pound Puppies.
I haven’t met one person who watches Dora, so it must be Dora.
Jesus, there are far too many shows on this thread that my wife watches/watched.
Basically anything on The CW
Who the dick shit loves Bill Simmons?
Modern Family, because, while it is funny and watchable, it is by no means appointment viewing anymore. And the show, as was noted on this blog, strives only to attract the middle/low common denominators of the television audience – it is never as ambitious as it should be.
I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m a Community fan.
The Middle
Blue Bloods. I don’t know any person who cares about this show, even on the internet.
I will be honest. I watch this show religiously just for the pure fact that I was excited to see Michael leave Baltimore and relocate to Beverly Hills where he has changed his name to Dixon and seems to living. I will hang on to “The Wire” as long as humanly possible screw you. Don’t judge me.
The Simpsons, and that makes me sad.
Big Bang Theory, any show in which spouses or weight are either traded, gained or danced off.
Community – come on warmingglow we know you liked it, we know it was a bad call not to renew it but you cant write articles for months on end which bassicly come down to “this show is complete crap, community was so much better!” its unproffesional and its getting old.