I only agree with you on televised sports simply because of my own personal taste (I'm not a big sports fan). I think American Idol pretty much symbolizes all that is wrong with television today: not an overabundance of sex and violence, like some would have us believe, but a lack of imaginative storytelling, preferring to have low cost, rolling off the assembly line reality shows and competitions to pander to the lowest common denominator of audience. And I was always a game show fan myself as well, but they were cool as a niche, but now that they've fused with reality shows and taken over most of new programming, I'm livid.