Is TV better than it used to be?

[pryor15]

well, the big thing to consider was that for the longest time TV was considered the clear second class citizen compared to movies. if a movie star did a TV series, it was a sign their star was fading. but, over the last couple years TV has finally figured out that there are things they can do better than film. they can have bigger, more complicated storylines and casts and do them justice, simply because they have more time to work with. Just think how a show like LOST or Deadwood would be as a film. they'd be 2 hours long and missing a lot of the character development and whatnot that really makes them so great.

In order to compete, the standard style shows have had to up the ante quality-wise, so that overall we have TV that's better across the board ([censored], cheap reality TV aside).

it also doesn't hurt that there's a lot more channels