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Its not cable that is killing network TV. It is the networks themselves that are failing. There hasn't been a new or fresh program idea on TV with the exception of Dancing With the Stars and a few other programs. They keep rehashing the same old and copying programs from each other and they've been doing that for years. I'm of the age that I easily remember being so excited to read about the new season's coming new TV shows for Fall. Now the so-called comedies are all the same. The are based in the office, at home, in a bar, etc. The writing is horrible and nearly every "joke" or situation is based somehow on sex. Where are the family shows, the variety shows, the real family sitcoms that parents aren't afraid to let their kids watch with them? Where are the writers and programmers with insight, really funny lines, new ideas? I could keep going, but anyone over 40 remembers how good TV used to be. The writers aren't funny when they are supposed to be, not clever with drama plots. Nothing in their writing is new...no imagination. The bottom line is the only thing that matters to the networks and its getting that way with cable, too. Anyway, if the networks bigshots were honest with themselves and with us, they would realize what is wrong with network TV. Its not the actors--its the writers and the people who make the decisions. It takes money to make money. They've forgotten or they just didn't learn anything in college. Maybe they should forget that they learned in college and take lessons from the pros from the past that made, wrote and starred on TV. Just do what worked.
Nan