High School Reunion on TV Land
I have to be honest and say that I’ve been watching this cheesey show about a group of people reunited in Hawaii as part of a pseudo high school reunion. It’s the class of 1987, which I can relate to. Watching the trainwreck show, it makes me wonder if the people I went to school with in New Richmond, Wisconsin are that shallow, dumb and “easy” to put it delicately.
The thing I most wanted to touch on is the fact that Viacom (corporate media conglomerate) has seemingly filled up MTV and VH1 with crappy reality TV programming and now has been forced to move part of the stink to TV Land. We also shouldn’t forget the high-brow entertainment on Comedy Central as well, also owned by Viacom. This past Holiday season, Comedy Central was running the Steve Martin/John Candy/John Hughes classic Planes, Trains & Automobiles. I turned it on for the family, figuring that it had been edited for broadcast (minus Steve Martin and Edie McClurg’s naughty scene about rental cars). Lo-and-behold the movie was fine, however the promos for other Comedy Central shows forced me to turn it off. Congratulations to Viacom and its cable channels for slouching to gomorrah.
20 years ago I was still a little naive about certain things. With TV these days, parents don’t have to worry about that - VH1, MTV, Comedy Central and the rest will let your kids grow up real fast. 
This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 am and is filed under Television.
