What Was the Worst Year in TV History?

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With the recent writers and actors strikes and the end of the streaming wars, the immediate future for TV is not looking great. So we wanted to take a look at all the worst years of TV and what made them so bad. It won't just be years that had the worst shows as that's hard to measure but instead what years had the worst impact on the industry. Also note that we won't be going too far in the past because most shows used to be just copies of one another.
We've found 5 years we think are some of the worst of TV and for TV. We'll be looking at the effect of a global pandemic, shifts in the industry, a genre we don't enjoy being pushed to the mainstream and when TV lost out to another form of media.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:51 - The Year With a Global Event
03:27 - The Year That Pushed a Genre
05:56 - The Year When Film Won
08:24 - The Year When the Industry Slowed Down
09:37 - The Year When Things Look Bleak
Worst TV Years. Best TV Years. Global Pandemic. Theatre Closures. Production Delays. 2020. 2021. Arcane. Squid Game. Invincible. Ted Lasso. Better Call Saul. Succession. Streaming Wars. 2001. Reality TV. Survivor. American Idol. Who Wants to be a Millionaire. 1975. Jaws. Spielberg. Writer's Strike. 2007 - 2008. Actors Strike. Breaking Bad. Heroes. 2023 Writers and Actors Strike. 2023 TV Delays. 2024. House of the Dragon. 3 Body Problem.
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@scapeagoat2520 4 ай бұрын

Has to be 2008-2010. The writer’s strike really impacted television

@FilmStack 4 ай бұрын

Yeah definitely affected TV much worse than film!

@chrisscanlan1533 4 ай бұрын

Only thing is Breaking Bad started in that time.

@princewellidk 4 ай бұрын

No one cares about The Writers Strike of 2023

@princewellidk 4 ай бұрын

@@chuuwantsomeofthis tell that to Hollywood 😂

@Jamietheroadrunner 2 ай бұрын

It destroyed my favorite show of my high school years: ‘Heroes’ 😢

@notaspacecow 4 ай бұрын

I'm so glad Severance made an appearance in this vid! Very underrated show

@brick6347 4 ай бұрын

In a way, TV is having another 70s Jaws moment. In many areas, independent content is far superior now. For instance, I like true crime, history, space, science... nerdy stuff. TV can't hold a candle to KZfaq or podcasts. There are KZfaq channels and podcasters who cover that stuff in long form, and don't dumb it down. And I lap it up. (Sometimes KZfaq is a bit draconian on the True Crime stuff though). The thing is, TV networks have the resources to produce to outstanding content: location filming, CGI, hiring decent actors for re-enactments etc. but they don't do it. It's all 45 minutes, a baritone narrator, a recap every 3 minutes... it's beyond banal. Which is why a history grad student with a laptop microphone and passion is far more compelling to me. It's really only drama, I think, where TV has the advantage.

@TheKyleLazarus 4 ай бұрын

The 80's & 90's TV was a lesser art form? I may be wrong, but I think those 2 decades hold like every TV record ever. And I'm talking about real viewers choice - cultural phenomenons that haven't existed since. MASH, Happy Days, Seinfeld, Cheers, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, Home Improvement, The Nanny, Fresh Prince, ... this list can go on and on. TV in the last 20 years hasn't done what those shows did previously.

@authenticpoppy 2 ай бұрын

You are forgetting all the truly awful shows that were a part of those decades. Add in the '70s (Happy Days, MASH) and that's thirty years of shows. The few you list might be good, but the majority were horrible. And there were so many of them.

@tsaageotrimm 4 ай бұрын

Blue Eye Samurai from last year definitely the highlight of it IMO

@FilmStack 4 ай бұрын

Missed out on that one, definitely will check it out soon!

@virgil52 4 ай бұрын

@@FilmStack after Arcane blue eye samurai is Netflix best animation

@Luciphell 4 ай бұрын

Uhh, the reality tv craze kicked off with MTV's Real World in 1992.

@sufsanin1917 4 ай бұрын

Hey do you happen to live in Kingston?

@avantgardenovelist 15 күн бұрын

Krofts Saturday morning programming alone prevents '75 from deserving to be on this list.

@yondie491 4 ай бұрын

How can you blame 2001 for modern reality tv? The Real World should get at least half the blame/credit and that's 1992. Or, if you want to point where it changed into what it is now, that would be 1994 where Puck changed everything. You cover 1975 so there's no reason why you wouldn't be fully aware of TRW's impact. You talk about "remember when The History Channel was about history?" The OG version of that was "Do you remember when MTV used to play music?" What changed that? The Real World. If you had stuck to the "we're going to focus on recent years" and kept it to the past quarter century then... fine. 2001 and Survivor is the correct choice. But you went back 50 years so... sorry... TRW wins. The *POINT* about reality TV is 100% correct, just attributed to the wrong show, to be clear. (and 2024 is a cop out but I kinda respect it on a certain level)

@yondie491 4 ай бұрын

@@waverlyking6045 You basically confirmed my point. The Real World is what started the modern iteration of "reality" tv. *of course* it didn't dominate the airwaves in 1992, because that was the birth of the era, and "a few years later" was Season 3 with Pedro and Puck. It's like how "found footage" didn't dominate movies in 1999 when Blair Witch (not the first found footage film but *undeniably* the progenitor of the modern era). The stated metric included "influence" and The Real World was the birth of the genre, not Survivor. The exact wording is just after four and a half minute mark is "the most significant influence " Survivor may have been the numerical peak, but The Real World was the cause. Now... if you don't want to include 92/94 because the seeds of horrible tv were planted but the actual content of those years was still great... that's fine.

@ryanmatthews3609 2 ай бұрын

tv's worst year: was 2020 for arcane

@waalex11 3 ай бұрын

Ironic how you used MCU as an example, which, today, yes, most of everything has been mediocre, but that 2021 lineup is still its latest best of its tv series. After that, most are awful.

@ploppill34 3 ай бұрын

Building a channel on constant negativity is not a sound model😂

@ajxx9987 4 ай бұрын

I haven't watchted tv in years

@alexduggan68 4 ай бұрын

2023 was an absolute shiat show.

@Celebrian13 4 ай бұрын

So… New season of Arcane always means worst year, I guess…

@ryanmatthews3609 2 ай бұрын

arcane is bullshit.

@ryanmatthews3609 2 ай бұрын

1:40 arcane is league of legends propaganda bullshit!

@C.DWoods 4 ай бұрын

💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

@blcjck8121 4 ай бұрын

TV has been the superior format for at least the last ten years.

@frankie3010 4 ай бұрын

Arcane is not a gem

@ryanmatthews3609 2 ай бұрын

exactly! arcane is nothing but a pretentious piece of shit and propaganda for league of legends made by riot games (despite the animation from Fortiche and Ella Purnell's acting performance in a way)