What Do You Want

[Shiny]

What do you want to see on television in terms of television programming? Are you in to comedy shows, reality/docu series, or sitcoms? What type of shows do you like and relate to? Moreover, what would you be interested in seeing on a music television network?

This is a consensus I'm doing for a targeted demographic that everyone falls in to.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

I know what I DON"T want to see. Reality TV. I hate it.

I am a big fan of superhero based shows. Smallville, Arrow, S.H.I.E.L.D, and the like. Also shows along the lines of Archer and Bob's Burgers, you know, adult cartoon humor. Crime Dramas are a hit and miss with me, but I would say I generally enjoy them. I especially enjoy shows like Supernatural and Grimm.

As for what I would want to see on a music television network. Music videos. That is pretty much it. And maybe documentaries about musicians careers. But I certainly don't want a reality show or some shit that doesn't even correlate to music. Looking at MTV's show line-up for today, there is: Catfish - a show about people who only date via skype, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Girl Code - a show about I dunno, sisterhood, Broke A$$ Game Show - a retarded game show of people doing stupid shit, and Ridiculousness - A horrible version of Tosh.0 with shitty host but great skater Rob Dyrdrek.

[Spuuky]

Fixed-length mini-series that tell overarching stories, like a very long episodic movie. But I don't really watch TV.

[Freya]

Compelling character dramas with interesting settings are what I like. Some of the series I've really liked recently(as in I've watched them recently) have been The Newsroom, True Detective, Walking Dead, Black Sails, Once Upon a Time, and Spartacus. I like the interaction of characters that carry the story more so than the crazy setting they are in. I also like overarching themes or stories throughout a season or series. Their character arcs are important too, such as me disliking a character to only have it grow and thus so does my interest for them. I like said characters to also have a lot of grey to their personalities. I relate with that as the world isn't black and white and if characters are just two sided then I don't relate and I don't tune in. A show can be in whatever setting but it needs compelling character drama for me to get hooked and come back each week.

As a show for a Music Channel, well music obviously but that's long gone from those channels now. If they were looking for a series, sitcom, whatever than I'd suggest something that deals with music. A show about some kids trying to make it as a band and all the drama involved with that. Not even their rise to success just them as a band. Or like the new show Empire, it's all the drama involved with producing music. Something like that. If you really want to get down to it, I'd watch a show about a Art/music school and all the drama with that. Like Gossip Girl but with music students. I would watch that. So character dramas but keep it to the channel's music theme at least.

[escobert]

Besides sports, I watch "documentary" shows on the History and Discovery channels. For scripted shows I prefer sitcoms.

[DanielCLFFF13]

A show that discuss gaming...

There was one in Indonesian local TV station, but now it's handed some other company. So well basically it's gone....
now my gaming resources only from internet.

I like to see some more gaming show in TV.

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Totally want to see some more....
But kinda hopeless since everything... Everything whether movie, tv series, cartoon and anime always dubbed to indonesian.
I rather watch it online with only subbed.

But since everything that isn't indonesian language get dubbed and also almost all, all movie, TV series, cartoon and anime censored by indonesia, It's really unnecessary censorship (or unnecessary censored?)
I mean even some Spongebob scene got censored by indonesian censorship watch or something, don't know what to call them :p Not like I care :p
Because of that, I stopped watching TV for about I think 6-9 months now, or even a year now.

So yeah Anime and a show that discuss game is want I to see. But it's really hopeless to see one in indonesia, probably impossible. Or never, to be precise.

But this is my opinion :)

[Slothy]

As a show for a Music Channel, well music obviously but that's long gone from those channels now.

Ain't that the truth. I actually used to discover some interesting stuff on Much Music back when MTV had long since abandoned showing music, and they were still getting bands playing live on their as well. Considering I live in a part of Canada frequently overlooked by major bands and I was too young to go to most shows that we did get that was a god send. Then Much Music went the way of MTV and the concept of a music channel basically died.

[Shiny]

Like Gossip Girl but with music students. I would watch that. So character dramas but keep it to the channel's music theme at least.

Sooo, Glee basically? Sans the "break out in to song and dance" part maybe.

This isn't for MTV. Just want that to be clear. That channel is long fucked. It's for a music driven network who currently have things like countdown shows for music videos, a show about a dancer, and a reality show about rappers produced by Eminem. They also at one point had a metal show though I'm not sure if that still going on. They're interested in different content since they already have that covered. Something that appeals to people between the ages of 18-35 which is a pretty broad spectrum I know.

[fire_of_avalon]

Is it Fuse? I'd it's Fuse tell them I don't give a shit about Rihanna.

[Shorty]

I would be interested in seeing Liquid TV shows again on MTV. That is the only thing that will get me to watch music television.

But as far as what I want in a TV series goes, Spuuky nailed it. Dark humor, mindsmurfs and plot twists, amazing and compelling story and character development. I like reality and docu series, but somehow the ones I watch always seem to be depressing. I want more Dexter and True Detective and Gotham with light adorable humor like in Pushing Daisies and Dead Like Me.

After bunches of stuff like Key and Peele, The Soup, and Tosh.0, I'm pretty over comedy shows.

[CimminyCricket]

I want to have more history stuff on TV. History books aren't presented in a way that keeps my attention, but back when the History channel showed nothing but awesome shows about history I was really learning a lot. Now I just have to hope that Netflix and Hulu+ have some awesome history shows up in there.

[Aerith's Knight]

Scrubs, FRIENDS, something I can watch for a short time and walk away happy, with a smile in my heart.

And perhaps something that stretches the dry landscapes of my tear ducts every once in a while, squeezing out that one manly tear.

For a music channel. Hmm, I dunno, music? :p

But more seriously, perhaps a live coverage of a concert would be cool.

[Leigh]

The only show I watch today that is still being made is Adventure Time. The rest have all had their day. I don't really enjoy America sitcoms as the humour seems too forced. However I adored Scrubs and Frasier.

American TV dramas I cannot get into. I can handle some British miniseries, because they generally have set start and finish points, and a storyline that doesn't take more than 4-6 hours to get through. American shows have a start, and then the rest just seems like filler for ratings and monetary bliss. Then they might finally decide to write an ending when he series has been milked of all its originality and folks have pretty much already tuned out of the experience.

More factual historical documentaries would be cool. Spare us of the pseudoscientific balcony pumped out on History Channel and Discovery. Even National Geographic has to be taken at arms length today.

Television isn't really that entertaining anyway. The serious stuff is too melodramatic usually, so I'd probably stick to films instead of the watered down crap spread over 100 hours of episodes, and takes 5 years to see an ending.

Music television might as well be phased out. There is so much legal availability on the Internet now, that it is pointless to have dedicated music channels. Theyre usually confined to Best 100....programmes these days.

[Pheesh]

My favourite all time TV show is The West Wing and my favourite show going around at the moment is House of Cards, so I guess that "Political Drama" would be the thing I want more of. I'll watch any show that I feel is well written though, genre isn't the deciding factor. On music television it would be nice to have an hour a day set aside for less established or undiscovered bands, and as more of a general point, it would be nice to just have some actual music on there (*cough*MTV*cough*).

[Sephex]

Who are you?

[Shiny]

Who are you?
This is CNN.

[Loony BoB]

What I don't want to see: Reality TV. I mean, some is okay. But the market is heavily oversaturated. News. There enough news channels. Gossip. No thanks. Shows with never-ending reels of YouTube videos and nothing else, or prank shows. Again, overdone. Shows that are at high risk of being cancelled just because of the channel they are on. Nothing annoys me more than a show being cancelled while I'm watching it.

What do I want to see? Comedy, cartoons (both family-friendly and mature), intelligent drama, fantasy, sci-fi, single-season shows a la True Detective.

What do I want to see on a music channel: A very large variety of music with not too many ads. Music videos with small tidbits of info going across the screen are okay if you want to make it interesting. But variety is what music channels lack. Most of them stick to just 1-2 very specific genres, or only music that was recently released. I like radio channels that give me music from the last four decades, not just the last two years. If they are going to have just the last two years, at least get enough variety. When three different songs were each played more than once in the past two hours, there's something wrong. A lot of music channels suffer from this.

I still play the music channels when I'm browsing the net or gaming on occasion. The top 40 is okay because that's 40 songs and I know each will be different. I really like up-and-coming stuff, too. I wouldn't be against a top 100 instead of just top 40, so lesser known songs got more exposure. You know how certain channels have themed evenings, like cop shows or comedy or whatever? Well, I wouldn't mind a music channel that played the top 40 Rock, top 40 Indie, top 40 R&B, top 40 Blues, top 40 Dance, etc. on different nights. And for the love of God, let there be ONE music channel that has the guts to NOT play the same music every other music channel is playing on a Friday/Saturday night. I swear it's dance or NOTHING in the UK, sans maybe one or two grunge/rock channels.

[Shiny]

These answers are great because they are mostly very different. The general consensus seems to be that music television should only play music or nothing at all. There seems to be opposition to branching out to doing any sort of music based shows that aren't just music video countdowns.

In terms of television, I wish people who are EPs in television would realize how over everyone is of most reality shows but apparently many people still like reality. Would you be opposed to something reality-esque like a docu series on an up and coming band who may or may not have been YouTube famous at some point? I know this question is oddily specific. <.<

[Loony BoB]

Let's put it this way...

Would I mind it being on a music channel? No, it's far more relevant than most reality TV shows.

Would I watch it? Probably not, because I'm tired of reality TV and while it's more documentary than reality TV, it's still got the same general vibe. It depends on how much you focus on the documentary side of things, I suppose, and how interesting the band is to me. Given that it's an unheard of band, it's unlikely it will be of that big an interest, hence me probably not watching it. I'd be more inclined to watch how a band that I did know rose to fame (regardless of the level of fame) and, if they did fall from fame, how that happened. You mention YouTube famous, so it's possible this show might interest me for that end, but yeah, overall there are probably not a huge number of bands I'd be interested in following in this way and most of them are pretty freakin' famous, so yeah...

[Old Manus]

I can't answer because we have le glorious BBC who decides what we want for us.

[Freya]

If I watched more tv, yeah, I might watch that.

My issues are that I'm busy, even with tivo, I still miss a lot of tv. Usually my way of catching up on things is by streaming services. Netflix is my best buddy. HBO GO is awesome. Hulu would be more awesome if I wasn't paying to still have ads. Often times I don't watch things live, I catch them later. I know this can skew ratings a bit though. I do, in fact, watch these shows I just am usually delayed in doing so. This sucks sometimes because I get into a show after it's cancelled cause it didn't get ratings the first few episodes. If a channel doesn't offer a way for me to access it in other ways than my tv, I'm usually less inclined to watch it. I watch shows while doing cardio at the gym. I watch them on my tablet when i'm cooking. If I have extra time I usually am watching something through a streaming service. If it was a documentary about a previous youtube famous band, i'd hope I could watch it on youtube.

I don't even listen to normal radio, I listen to pandora. If a channel offers me access to things other than just on tv, I'll be more likely to tune in... eventually.