ORIGINAL: Dirt2
It's really nothing new where TV is concerned. The medium "dumbs down" anything it touches. Just look at politics!
x2 I agree with most of what's been said as well. I think there are a few shows that are consistently worse than others and vise versa. I watched one about a week ago where one of the guests made a poor shot on an animal and you could see that he was very upset with himself, that actually impressed me. More often than not, after the shot you have the host doing a fist pump as I'm sitting on the couch asking "Were his eyes even open?!". This show I had watched, after the shot, the guest looked right at the camera and it looked like he was gonna be sick.