Youtuber Shaun Dawson has uploaded pretty much all of the 1987 series of No Limits
www.youtube.com/@shaun-Dawson

I never saw these when they aired, it's an interesting programme MCR, it's a blast of the past with some of the bands. I didn't even know people cared about Cinderella in the UK.

Was just thinking how there are now zero programmes for the youth of today. Broadcast TV littered with Antiques in the Attic shows for the retired; soaps, banal panel game shows; nothing specifically for the youth. Criminal it really is.

I think it's due to most youths watch TikTok for short attention spans, YouTube is going to be like Facebook, it's popular for the over 30s, and Instagram and Snapchat are pretty much for kids.

Legacy media is pretty much dead.

Why watch rolling news when the news outlets post their 12-minute bulletins on YT? I saw a documentary about MTV, When I was younger you either watched The Box or MTV. Many tuned in to MTV for Headbangers Ball and Beavis & Butt-head.

MTV is just dumbed reality bollocks and celebrity worhsip garbage like Cribs.

VH1 is now BET. VH1 had some fantastic music documentaries, and they showed a lot of biopics and TV movies. They were mostly inaccurate, but they were entertaining.

I am shocked VH1 have lost a lot of Behind the Music and VH1 Legends documentaries.

lostmediawiki.com/Behind_The_Music_(partially_lost_VH1_documentary_series;_1997-2014)

lostmediawiki.com/VH1%27s_Legends_(partially_lost_music_documentary_series;_1995-2002)

Downing Street Cat wrote:
Was just thinking how there are now zero programmes for the youth of today. Broadcast TV littered with Antiques in the Attic shows for the retired; soaps, banal panel game shows; nothing specifically for the youth. Criminal it really is.

I agree fully DSC, but....

The youth don't give a fig about broadcast to air linear TV anymore though. Even us 80's teenagers don't anymore either! TV as we know it is dying out rapidly.

The TV of the 1970's and 1980's was merely a brief flicker of brilliance like an asteroid burning through the sky and then gone.

Excuse me Rich this asteroid is still very much here! No Limits was of course my show. As was Entertainment USA.

Rich wrote:
Downing Street Cat wrote:
Was just thinking how there are now zero programmes for the youth of today. Broadcast TV littered with Antiques in the Attic shows for the retired; soaps, banal panel game shows; nothing specifically for the youth. Criminal it really is.

I agree fully DSC, but....

The youth don't give a fig about broadcast to air linear TV anymore though. Even us 80's teenagers don't anymore either! TV as we know it is dying out rapidly.

The TV of the 1970's and 1980's was merely a brief flicker of brilliance like an asteroid burning through the sky and then gone.

In the 1980s and 1990s a lot of TV was catered for the youth that was not condescending and a lot of youths on TV spoke properly also even the Black youths.

Arsenio Hall was massive on TV. He had guests from all backgrounds and held different views, but race was rarely spoken about, and it was not woke. Having Jerry Seinfeld and Foreigner on the same edition was odd even back then. It was Parky for teens and young adults.

Linear TV is pretty much on life support. Old sitcoms are edited to ribbons and have trigger warnings, which is making TV much worse. You can have rampant sex scenes from films in their full glory, but the word "fairies" from Likely Lads is not allowed. Being a bi guy, I have never been offended by it.

There has never been a decent music show on proper TV since TOTP, but Pepsi Chart Show was full of manufactured pop bands. TV and music have gone downhill for many years. Many councils didn't and still don't support the local venues; they put on day festivals, which most are badly organised.

The bands are only from the pubs that do mostly covers, but there is very little promotion, giveaways or CDs to buy from the bands.

Remember when the smallest of pub bands recorded tapes and CDs to give out or you could buy cheaply from them as a memento? They just ask you to follow them on social media.