Bad Television Selling Badly

tvshowsondvd.com reported on an article appearing in Video Business magazine about bad television (eg. post-Odd Couple Garry Marshall) selling badly, as if this were a disappointment. If anything, it’s a sweet reversal of the days when the success of these badly-written, cheap-looking, preachy shows smothered any competing series that displayed any embryonic creativity. (Then again, David Lambert at tv/dvd openly salivated over The Love Boat.) Other than as documentation of the basis for SCTV parodies there is no justification for the continued existence of these horrible series.