I think that's too many, and frankly, I would have a hard time naming what networks various things were on. I'd guess most of us Tivo folk are the same.

It also squicks me on a base level that I can't quite articulate, except that we're not a TV board.

A SciFi thread I can see, and would support. I could also probably get behind the cable/non split (merging VM and Lost and adding the non-cables there would be my suggestion).

That would tend to segregate the shows somewhat but limit the proliferation to a handful of networks.

Dude, you just suggested five threads. At least.

merging VM and Lost and adding the non-cables there would be my suggestion

Now I echo -t's question.

In a cable/premium split, what about those shows like Dr. Who that a lot of people ahem to watch?

Expanding on my last post, I'd really prefer making Box Set a SciFi network thread and using one of the other show threads for the non cables. Identifying simply as cable/broadcast leads too closely to the whole general tv thread idea, which I'm not a fan of.

eta: x-posted with ita

Dude, you just suggested five threads. At least.

Yeah, but versus every popular show for the next five years? seems like it'd balance out. There's a relatively finite number of networks but new shows are always coming out.

versus every popular show for the next five years? seems like it'd balance out

Lots of popular shows don't have their own threads or even agitation for their own threads. I'm reasonably confident that the next five years will be kinda like that.

Expanding on my last post, I'd really prefer making Box Set a SciFi network thread and using one of the other show threads for the non cables. Identifying simply as cable/broadcast leads too closely to the whole general tv thread idea, which I'm not a fan of.

brenda and ita have articulated quite nicely how I feel. I'm 1700 posts behind in Box Set because I'm trying to avoid the Heroes and SPN talk. I'm woefully behind on the first and I'm waiting for hiatus on the second. Otherwise, I'm up to date with BSG and DF and I'd love to discuss them on Sundays, but I am utterly incapable of skipping over what I don't want to read at the time. So I haven't ventured into BS since the beginning of January, and that makes me sad. By the time I catch up, there will be no point in responding.

I abandoned Lost in the first season, and I'm 4 episodes behind for VM. While I like the idea of the separate VM thread, I'm willing to compromise and throw my support behind a SciFi channel thread and a non-cable genre thread (Lost, VM, Heroes, SPN, and the ilk). General TV talk should stay in Natter.

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Lots of popular shows don't have their own threads or even agitation for their own threads. I'm reasonably confident that the next five years will be kinda like that.

Agreed, and I don't know why I'm beating this horse, but looking at the thread list, we have the following creation dates:

2002 Firefly
2003 LOTR
2004 Lost
2005 Veronica Mars
2006 Premium Cable

Just pointing out and giving everyone some perspective that at least one new thread gets created a year.

To follow-up, rather than spawning a new thread for each show that comes along that garners interest, it seems to me that the best course of action would be to retire the current television-related threads and replace them with a framework that allows for some separation of show discussion while at the same time limiting the possibility of thread proliferation. I suggested networks, but I'm sure there are other ways of creating the groups -- you could have the Red Thread with shows beginning A-M and Blue Thread with shows N-Z.