Time Warner Cable Drops CBS + Showtime In Historic Move

My father works for (and I worked there for a period during my college days) a regional cable company. With no Comcast, TWC is the main competitor along with the satellite providers. Practically every year TWC struggles with negotiations with one of the major channels at either a local or national level and it always goes on longer than it should. Sometimes its TWC's fault, other's it isn't, but either it's pretty hilarious. I have to be grateful for their errors though, as their unsatisfied customers helped me get through college relatively debt free.

I still have CBS.

never bought Showtime...don't care for movie channels.

The Sexy Vixen wrote:

I still have CBS.

never bought Showtime...don't care for movie channels.

Oh but Showtime has some really amazing Series, best on all Cable Networks IMO like Shameless, Nurse jackie, House of Lies, Episodes, Dexter, Web Therapy, i watch a LOT of their shows, such great quality stuff. Shameless is still my #1 show on television, there is nothing that compares IMO, you should really get the DVD's lol.

They had great shows like Weeds, United States of Tara, The Big C, which i all highly recomend for lazy sunday afternoons, get the DVD's trust me, worth it, and with The Big C, have your tisssues for Season Finale 1 and 2, i cried like a baby.

Weeds was on way too long. The first few seasons were pretty good, but they jumped the shark by like the 3rd or 4th season.

Not to go off topic, but I think HBO > Showtime.

Nah I think HBO has really went down as of late, the only thing they have going for them are Game of Thrones, The Newsroom and Boardwalk Empire.

Veep is petty funny but their losing money with it, same with Girls, though both are award succes.

True Blood has great following but unlike all their other shows has lost all award momentum they have.

I think Showtime has really stepped up and is delivering real quality shows, Nurse Jackie, Shameless, Episodes, Dexter, Californication, Homeland, House of Lies have all been winning awards like crazy, while Web Therapy is super cheap to make.

Also their new shows seem very promising like Ray Donavan, Master of Sex and Penny Dreadfull.

I love their portrayal of female leads in their comedies and all have won Emmy's and Golden Globes for their roles, Mary Louise Parker, Laura Linney, Edie Falco, Toni-Collette all won awards in a row behind each other.

I think with alternative programming HBO beats out Showtime but with scripted original Programming, HBO has fallen a lot. All the other networks like AMC, Showtime, A&E have really stepped up in bringing quality programming.

Oh but Weeds, had a horrible 6th and 7th season IMO, especially the 6th that seemed to have no direction at all, but it ended well, so i'm happy with that.

The only highlight of season 6 was, i got to see Zack Morris' butt, and that's about it.

Yeah I was probably pretty selfish in my hypothesis that HBO > Showtime. It's kind of funny you bring up the dominance of female leads in Showtime programming, because I was going to make that connection between gender identity and the premium channels. I like HBO because of shows like Eastbound, Newsroom, Curb Your Enthusiasm, etc. Entourage and How To Make It helped me figure myself out as a young adult in college. They kind of made me recognize me the darkest parts about myself.

I don't really care for Veep, and Girls seems very well constructed from the episodes I've seen, I just never got past the early part of season 1. But yeah this all teaches me that I need to watch more tv.

Lol the HBO shows i watch are The Newsroom and Game of Thrones oh and Veep, but that's because of my love for Julia-Louise Dreyfuss lol. Girls is meh, I watched Season 2, was bleh.

Showtime i watch Shameless, Episodes, Web Therapy, Homeland and House of Lies.

Watched Season 1 & 2 of Nurse Jackie (still need to continue) and liked the Pilot of Ray Donovan.

and i watched United States of Tara, Weeds, The Big C, Dead Like Me, Queer as Folk, Secret Diary of a Call girl ...lol guess I like a lot of Showtime Programming

While HBO it used to be Enlightened and How to Make it in America, Hung and Bored to Death...and miss em all lol.

I felt like Bored to Death was going to be a show I liked, and then I ended up not really getting into it. I like all the actors involved, but I never found myself excited to see the show. It's on my to-do list along with The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and figuring out if Aubrey Plaza is actually funny.

I liked Bored to Death, it had it's momens, not consistent but when it was good, it was good.