What AMC is to movies, TV Land is to TV shows. The same shows you used to watch for free, you can now pay to see in 5 and 6 hour blocks. Five hours of "M*A*S*H", 6 hours of "Roseanne", 5 hours of "Andy Griffith". And all the commercials you used to get on free TV, you still get, only more of them. TV Land is the 21st Century's version of the Ludovico Technique.

TV Land is nothing like it used to be.

They use to play classic television 24 hours a day seven days a week. They promoted their classic tv offerings on a day-to-day basis. In addition, they would play retromercials (commercials that were made in the 60s & 70s). They offered a variety of classics for the viewers to see. At one point, they had the rights to almost 40 classic television shows. And back in those days, they aired about 23-22 minutes of the show. Also, they would do special blocks of their shows on a regular basis such as Box Set (episodes of four shows under one theme), Better Living Through Television (classic sitcoms from 60s ... most of them were in black and white), ect. As some would describe it, TV Land back in its glory days was "an oasis or escape from reality shows and modern programming".

Now (2009), it's just another station that has basically abandoned it's beloved format. They air reality shows, movies, and get this ... shows from recent decades (such as Cosby Show, Scrubs, Roseanne, Just Shoot Me!, Extreme Make-Over: Home Edition, Married ... with Children, 3rd Rock From the Sun, ect.). They also have paid programming in the mornings. Not to mention, they do not start a show in the usual :00 and :30 timeslots as it is a result of going "off the clock" and adding more commercials. They no longer play the closing credits of their classics shows ... instead we get a split screen with advertisements of their reality/original programming. And speaking of which, they run their reality/original ads like every one or two minutes. And so it's no surprise that we see the classics edited down more to 21-20 minutes. Also, the retromercials and the promotions of the classics don't get played at all anymore. Plus, this network offers no variety these days as they have a tendency to air their shows in blocks (2-6 hours in a row) or in double doses (two episodes back-to-back). The problem with this method of programming is that some shows get aired all the time (Andy Griffith Show - their absolute all-time favorite, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Roseanne, Beverly Hillbillies, M*A*S*H, ect.) while others get little airtime (Brady Bunch, Leave it to Beaver, Hogan's Heroes, Three's Company, All in the Family, Little House on the Prairie) or none at all (I Love Lucy, Green Acres, Munsters, Addams Family). As a result, their daily line-up consists of only a handful of classic shows (it's down to 9, I believe). In addition to their already growing list of modern shows, they plan to add more in the future such as Friends, That 70's Show, The Nanny, Home Improvement, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Despite classic television viewers begging and pleading TV Land year after year for the last five years to return to their old format, the network more or less has decided to ignore them and go down this new direction of theirs ... the very same one that Nick-at-Nite once took. It has basically come down to greed and the almightly dollar. This network would rather take up the advertiser's offer of getting paid more for an airing of modern/reality show than for an airing of a classic despite if the modern/reality show attracts less viewers than a classic.

i can't believe they even show these shows anymore. But that isn't the problem. My mom is from the 60's and she loves this channel, but they always show the same episodes of shows, as if some episodes were never made.

This network used to show only classic tv programming from the 50s-70s. Now they mostly show sitcoms from the 80s-today, reality programming & movies. They do still air some classics (I Love Lucy, Leave It To Beaver, Beverly Hillbillies) but they are hard to find many times. Viacom has pretty much ruined another channel.

PLEASE SHOW DIFFERENT EPISODES OF I LOVE LUCY/ANDY GRIFFITH;tvland ars same episodes OVER,OVER,OVER,......EACH SHOW MADE MANY EPISODES:SO PICK FROM THE INSTEAD OF "BURNING" A PERSON OUT ON THE SAME ONES OVER AND OVER.....AND WHAT HAPPEN TO "FAMILY" TV ......TVLAND IS FILTHY,GET RID OF THE "NEW WAVE TV"AND STICK TO THE CLASSIC TV,

TVland has gotten terrible. I just watched an episode of Hogan's Heroes. 2 minutes into the show there was a commercial. It lasted from 3:32 until 3:38. Effectively about 6 minutes. At 3:44 another commercial lasting 3+ more minutes. Finally the show ended at 3:57. Shows from the 60's ran around 25 or so minutes. TVLand has effectively took around 6-7 minutes off that run time...Basically 18-19 minutes of the show. A complete hacking, so bad that it totally messed up the script(noticeably hard to follow). Don't even start me on the new programming. Absolutely pathetic... It seems to me like there would be enough of a following to start a classic show network (that actually showed classic shows) considering the absurd amount of channels currently available via cable. Hey, I am a 28 year old and I enjoy these old shows.

If you noticed AMC did the same thing. They started by adding 1 commercial in the middle of the movie (something that I didn't mind, gave me time to get a drink or go to the bathroom). Now they have become another network with the typical 15+ minutes of commercials per hour. It seems like the only network that has maintained its integrity is TCM. They still show the unedited movies in their theatrical aspect ratio (cropping of films really is annoying). Who wants to watch a 2.59:1 movie in 4:3, crazy! Enough of my ranting now...It ain't going to change anything.

Now, more than ever, TV Land is a victim of a debilitating disease that is afflicting the majority of cable/satellite television networks. This disorder is known as the "network creep." It starts out innocently enough, with a "special event" of a movie or a current TV show outside of the original networks mission. But, by the later stages, nothing can be done as the network changes logos and themes, ditches its original purpose and becomes a clone of fifteen other networks, most of which are also easily diagnosed with "network creep" themselves.

Ironically, TV Land began to offset the tiniest beginning stages of network creep seen on Nick at Nite. There were so many classic 50s, 60s, and 70s shows that TV Land was to be the 24-hour home for them, "guaranteeing TV satisfaction." These included a vast variety of rarely seen shows such as "Batman," "Green Acres," and "The Monkees" just to name a few. Up until 2004-2005, the show had a nicely variable lineup of classics that was exciting to follow and anticipate...

...and then it all came crashing down. The network has officially rebranded itself as a "baby boomers" network. Curiously, this seems to mean reality shows featuring Mr. T and George Foreman (!?), movies that are easily available on DVD just about anywhere, and a glut of modern shows. Over the next few years, starting this year, TV Land will add Friends (!?!), Just Shoot Me, and That 70s Show. Two of the latter are also disturbing examples of "shared deals," meaning another network also shows the *same* show. There are too many of these to count, sadly, from Everybody Loves Raymond to Friends to CSI and on and on.

TV Land does still show classic shows, but these are also easily available on DVD in their unedited-for-syndication form and usually syndicated in most local markets to begin with already, like I Love Lucy and The Beverly Hillbillies. Sadly, it would seem TV Land needs to spin-off another network, but likely, in a few years, it would also fall victim to that dreaded disease, "network creep..."

They do have some good programs, but what really gets annoying is when they take one particular show, and have a marathon of it all day. I think it would be a lot better if they mixed them up a little more.

Good, but they could definitely upgrade their selection of old shows. There is a lot of stuff out there that they don't play that is really funny.

My family is not happy because of your ridiculous reality shows and inappropriate
advertisements for the logo channel. If this continues we will block this channel.

I wish they cared about long time viewers who would still watch IF they would give us back our oldies shows!

For the most part I like TV Land...don't like some of the series they are running right now but they also play movies.  I prefer Nick @ Night for the series except TV Land plays a lot of Andy Griffith and Mash.

Too much editing going on - it's ruining shows such as Andy Griffith. They cut scenes crucial to the show, it's like they don't even bother to watch the show they are editing. I agree that quality of TVLand has gone down hill.

  I would have given TVLand a "5" but they are slipping, just as many of the others have written. I do not want "original" programming, like they are starting to do! We can get that anywhere, anytime. People who watch TVLand want the old classics (Andy, Sanford & Son, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, etc.). Personally I do not like to see recent shows on here (by that I mean Designing Women) since we can usually see these elsewhere anyway. True,  you can see Andy and some of the others on other outlets, but these are classics, which stand the test of time. I could watch Andy, Bonanza, Sanford all the time.

One other thing TVLand: Please stop editing the TV shows so much! This is our number 1 pet-pee. We want to see the entire show. So many classic scenes and laughes have been cut out it makes me mad! At least occasionally run a night of "un-cut episodes".

I don't watch TVLand as much as I used too mainly due to the changing of the schedules. I am glad they added The Hillbillies. It is a true classic. I'd also like to see "Gomer Pyle" and "Barney Miller". Some crime dramas they should add are "Streets of San Francisco" and maybe "The Rockford Files". Oh, also good would be "Barnaby Jones" and "Mannix"! Are you listening TVLand?!

Would of give it 5 stars but agree it has slipped.I like the old tv shows but they added movies and original programming.Want to see Eight is enough on tv land.

A great place to watch good clean family type of shows. I enjoy Happy Days when they have the show playing, I also love to watch The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, you name it Seventies, I love to watch it.

I could watch Andy Griffith 24 hours a day, everyday and never get bored of the show (as long as I'm watching the B&W era with Don Knotts).  It's also great to see Bob Newhart (the real one that ran in the 70's) again, too.

They should all this channel (the bonanza,gunsmoke,Andy griffith channel)IF they would change their line up more often,I might put it back on my channels.

do we really need to have 4 hours of bananza, then gunsmoke after. we need have tv land mix things up with sitcoms.

Ten years ago I would have given this station a 5 but, they seemed to have slipped.  They seem to be stuck in a rut and with the edition of their new "TV Land Original" shows this channel just isn't what it used to be.  I have tried, with thousands of other viewers for over a year to write the editors on their own site (programming sugestions) but, it seems to fall on deaf ears.  Although I do like the I love lucy, Andy Griffith and Leave it to Beaver shows, they have been played to death along with Sanford and Son, All in the Family and  Beverly Hillbilly's.  I have never been a big western fan although it was nice for awhile to see the old "Gunsmoke" and "Bonanza" series in rerun but, they have run those in the ground now.  As far as the "MASH" and "Three's Company" generation of shows they can be seen in rerun on all kinds of stations.  Why they don't bring back shows like "Please don't eat the daisy's", The Mothers-In-Law", "Family Affair", "Wild, Wild, West", "Maverick", The Nanny and the Professor", "Petticoat  Junction", "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", (well I think you get the picture, my list could go on way too long) is beyond me.  I'm not sure why they insist on the same 10 shows over and over again when there are so many "Classic TV" shows to choose from. 

TV Land broadcasts great classic shows that have stood the test of time: Andy Griffith, Leave It To Beaver, Lucy, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Munsters, Newhart, Beverly Hillbillies, Sanford and Son, All In The Family, etc, etc. Like the world we live in, today's shows are much darker, full of sex, violence and the other assorted ugly sides of the "human condition".

Some of my favorite TV shows come on TV land like Three's Company, MASH, Cheers, and I Love Lucy.  They just don't make shows like that anymore.

To start with tvland is not the same as it was years ago.My kids would come home and watch tvland faithfully everyday now they could care less if they ever watch it because of all the program changes.We feel shows like my mother the car,my three sons,petticoat junction,ozzie and harriet,father knows best,courtship of eddies father,and a host of many more like these shows I have named.The old commericals you all need to bring the back also for tvland to be named number one channel on television.Because right now in my household its the least channel that is watched because we never watch tvland now but we will if its changed back. Thank you Arlene Cox -Kentucky

Lucy is about all I watch, but they air that on other stations too.

I like classic t.v. shows like: Three's Company, I Love Lucy, Goodtimes, Sandford and Son, Happy Days and Bonanza.

If I could give it zero stars I would. What was once a great network in the late nineties has become Toilet Land. This is all because they no longer show 50's and 60's shows. Youth is where the money is and us baby boomers no longer count. Have not watched this garbage programming in over a year.

too many commercials, doesn't really stick w/ old television shows

I was appalled on October 23, 2005 at 1:20am to turn on TVland to find that the channel that our son and our family watch was running a commercial for a Gay man phone center where they can meet other gay men. What happened to Nick at Night and TVland providing good wholesome family entertainment. As a christian white family who has no one to protect our rights I am sickened that no one is out to prevent our rights being infringed on by the gay activists and ones who do not believe in God. When will there be someone out to protect our rights.

the only good shows are all in the family and threese company(i love that show)

I like Retro TV.

Good for some nostalgia. One of the things I like is they air some of the shows that haven't been run into the ground through syndication already. I watched The Rookies awhile back, a show I'd completely forgotten about.

Great nostalgic fare.

TV Land is now similar to what Nick-at-Nite was some years ago. While Nick-at-Nite does have a couple of programs I enjoy, TV Land seems to be, in general, much more superior and higher in quality than NAN. TV Land shows more of the '50s and '60s programs, where NAN doesn't do that anymore. TV Land even offers a few classic advertisements for nostalgia's sake -- for example, I saw an old Messy Marvin (Peter Billingsley) commercial for Hershey's Chocolate Syrup that really unleashed some of those childhood memories (and if you're a thirtysomething like me, you'd identify).

I am going to have to chang my rating this past year was one of the worst they moved i love lucy to 10:00am they put the worst realty show on. But what I do like is they put on All In the family. If you ask me they have to put on more shows like The Lucy Show, ChIps{cop show} Differnt Strokes, Family Ties, Facts of life.

This and Nickolodeon are pretty much the only channels where you can watch the classic 60's and 70's comedys like Bewitched, Sanford and Son, All In The Family,Gilligan's Island, etc.

i love three's company alot

Great to watch Andy and Barney as well as Beaver with my own 9 year old! Too bad they don't make any shows like those today!

A huge dissapointment.I've seen most of the shows they air dozens of times. When i want to watch a good, old western, I watch the Hallmark channel.

Definatly one of the best stations. They have great shows and every month change them to new ones. LONG LIVE TVLAND!

If you want to be nostaligic and watch some of your old favorites than this is the channel for you. Thats all they show is old TV shows and they can get repetive at times but it is good to watch the old favorites every now and then.

Love it, need to get some more different shows, bring back the Honeymooners and I want to see more old commercials.

A long time ago ( and I do mean long), when I first got cable, the first channel I turned to was TV Land. The show that was on was the Brady Bunch and I got hooked to the channel instantly. But as time went one, I've noticed that all the great classics have been dropped or moved to obsecure time slots and in their place are immature original programming or just shows that are not really classics. They've really dropped the ball and at the pace their at now, they may never be able to pick it back up.

I love watching Bewitched, I Love Lucy, The Munsters, Mister Ed, I Dream of Jeannie, and the Brady Bunch on this channel. It lets adults bring back memories and share them with their kids...and the kids enjoy watching it! I only give it 4 stars because of its Andy Griffith obsession.

Continues to be on a very serious downward spiral. Too many lineup changes and are now doing original programming. A formerly excellent bastion of classics now just another channel showing some old shows.

MUNSTERS!!!

It is great because I am from the old school, but are there not any black shows that are old school too? Like Fredd Sandford, George Jefferson, and Good Times! Thanks!

Weeeeee! No reality tv, just good old classic television!

I love TVLAND. Now they are showing Green Acres which is so funny ! The only thing I can't figure out is here they have all the classic black and white Andy Griffith shows and they don't show them. They just show the bad color episodes instead. Please start showing the great black and white Andy Griffith shows again !!

It used to be incredible, but now all they show is Happy Days, Bewitched, and the Brady Bunch 24-7. Where's Adam-12, or Emergency!? TV Land has slipped considerably, probably ever since the first TV Land Awards, which aren't funny and are sometimes excruciating to watch due to lack of humor. Bring I Dream of Jeannie back at a reasonable hour, or do Twice as Nice with shows other than Bonanza or Gunsmoke! Please!

Screw TV LAND