Viewers have certainly taken notice of the senseless number of Pillow Talk shows and the fact that they have become stereotypical trashy fodder. TLC powers that be and producers of the 90 Day Fiancé ridiculous number of shows seem to have become so utterly desperate, they’ll air anyone or any thing! I mean it’s not like viewer input or feelings have ever mattered to them before, Angela is proof of that!
As they continue to do with the 90 Day Fiancé shows, producers of Pillow Talk continue to choose cast members without the slightest discretion or foresight what so ever. Not only are they notorious for recycling cast members to the point where fans find it more entertaining to watch commercials, ones aired on breaks during OTHER shows, but they also throw the worst of the worst on the Pillow Talk shows to fill airtime! Nothing against Brandon’s parents but casting Ron and Betty was yet another lame move on the part of producers. I still won’t watch any of them since around July 2020 when there was a light at the end of the tunnel and Tim & Veronica were reportedly leaving Pillow Talk, after Veronicas antics, starting her campaign drumming up sympathy and support with the poor her nonsense, producers backed off and changed direction. I guess it didn’t matter how detrimental it would be to cave to her tricks and allow the two to remain part of the cast. Need I remind you that Veronica wasn’t ever really part of the 90 Day Fiancé shows to begin with, yet they allowed her to manipulate them rather than let her take her toys and go home, she used such childish, predictable means in getting her way too!
The assets to the Pillow Talk shows that would have carried the show for many seasons to come are now limited it seems. Alexei & Loren, David & Annie, Molly & Cynthia, Tarik & DEAN ( a wildly popular duo on Pillow Talk). Then in typical 90 Day fashion all of a sudden they began testing the waters with any face or name so much as flashed on the shows screen, seeing how viewers would respond to them on Pillow Talk….. thus the spiral began! Tim & Veronica, again she was never even part of the show and viewers didn’t respond favorably to Tim when he was on the show, didn’t take a genius to have known that wasn’t going to rake in viewers, many die hard fans became disgusted too. Angela was probably the number one worst mistake that was made, not only allowing her to appear more than once on the show but to plaster the likes of her on Pillow Talk was still another grave, horrendous mistake ESPECIALLY since producers and the network itself knew that viewers couldn’t bear to have her rear end plopped smack in their living rooms on their drive in sized tv screens! Geez the mere thought of that made me ill. Who can forget Colt & Debbie, some fans were wigged out when they appeared on 90 D. F. but watching them sitting there on Pillow Talk it was stranger still, there is some odd vibe in the air with the two of them but as far as any entertainment value, like the majority cast….. a big fat zero! There are too many senseless choices of characters they have recycled on all of the franchise shows but I can’t move along here without mentioning Andrei & Elizabeth, really? Come on here, someone couldn’t have allowed so much as 3 seconds to really think that decision over before airing those two!
The number of Pillow Talk shows is ridiculous, it’s as if producers allow a show that may well be a “hit” for them anyway, to go directly to their heads and rather than consider too much of a good thing or if it isn’t broken, don’t try to fix it, so greedily they try to capitalize on it and end up with overkill! Just when viewers truly believe that they cannot possibly get any worse, lo and behold TLC gets raunchier, more desperate than ever and goes as low as they can with still worse “reality” dumpster fodder such as Darcy & Stacy and The Family Chantel. When I came across TFC (The Fam. Chantel) I couldn’t believe it, I really couldn’t believe that TLC has stooped to such utter desperation for crap to air. D & S just confirmed it all over again to drive the point home. I read that the head cheese of TLC was mesmerized with Darcy upon meeting her and that’s why he put her on 90 D.F. to begin with, personal feelings should certainly not influence business decisions but that’s just my opinion.
Life is more precious than anything it really is and sadly for all of us our time is limited. I wonder just how many former 90 D.F. fans suffer through The Family Chantel, Darcy & Stacy, Pillow Talk or 90 Day Fiancé and sit there afterward wondering why they just totally wasted an hour (or more) of their lives for what was once entertaining but has now become just another trashy supposed reality show. If TLC genuinely cared about it’s viewers and what the network is described as in one word, to most people familiar with it then they would make changes to their lineup of shows and force changes to the above mentioned shows. Yes shamefully it’s true that many people love a villain so having one or in these cases, several per show is fine but continuing to cast trash, the raunchiest, most disgusting, offensive, vile ones that serve only to honestly offend viewers to the point that they sign petitions and stop watching shows is a whole other matter. For a network to completely disregard the feelings of it’s viewers is unacceptable, greedy and not a good business move since the viewers ARE the show or shows! Without viewers a network might better try to sell than to sink, another point to consider is that there may not be many takers if a network did try to sell out after losing it’s viewers, how many buyers would there be if a network is known for ONLY trash, for sinking themselves by not caring about those viewers that essentially “put them on the map”, it isn’t the cast of characters that bring success, they are merely a part of it. Once the lions share of viewers decide they have had enough then, lights out because if no one is watching any of the trashy lineups there will be no need for advertisers either, then changes that should have been made won’t really matter will they because it’ll be too little, too late!
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