So much wrong in this post. Odd that you'd pick Emmy's night where we have the most diverse and amount of TV shows on TV at any point in history to show a clip of All in the Family. A TV show from the 1970s. When we have more options for viewing great talent and great stories more than at any time in history. I watch more content on Amazon and Netflix. HBO and Showtime than I do on the big three network Television channels. Where Movie stars are moving to TV in droves and TV budgets have swelled to $100 Million a series. We have westerns, fantasies, dramas, scifi and cyberpunk, comedies, dramedies, period pieces, more late night talk shows than ever before. Travelogues, limited series, cooking shows, and docudramas. Podcasts, audiobooks, political shows (not on cable news) and vulgar vile comedy that puts Archie Bunker to shame. Not to mention all the different novels that have been turned into TV shows since All in the Family.
We have big budget franchises that do better on TV than most movies do at the Box Office. We have complete universes where multiple TV shows collide and come together like a larger movie. We have spinoffs and prequels and continuations. Fans have saved TV shows from cancellation more times than at any other time in history. Four TV shows were saved from cancellation this year and indeed, even Roseanne will live on in another form. You may not like it, but I ask, what is there not to like? If you don't like something radical about one show. Don't watch it. There are 1000s of other options to choose from. That you think All in the Family is the peak of Television is truly sad. It proves that you have chosen not to look for other things, try other options, maybe cut the cord and go streaming.
Ironic that Archie Bunker is the caricature that I think of the most when I hear people talk on this form. (I was born in 1989) The guy who most conservatives have morphed into 110%! My boss worships this fictional character.
You wish society tolerated shows like All in the Family again? We've had TV shows that features drag queens, pop stars, and soft pornography. A superhero that protects the streets of Harlem (And yes the N-word is said many times) and a small town in Indiana that gets taken over by goo monsters. We have a new version of Star Trek and Star Wars is coming to TV in a few iterations too.
Plus! Lots of the shows from that era are actually being rebooted. There were even talks about All in the Family Itself but it appears to have not gone forward. To those of you who say that there is nothing on TV, it's insulting to those of us who follow the industry or work in it. It means that you haven't looked. Simple as that.
/rant.
