I live in Wisconsin. There are many many places where a 130 deer is very uncommon. Those are also the places where "brown is down" and shooting a fork horn makes you a man. I'm very lucky to hunt in an area where the farmers/hunters are starting to say "I'm not shooting a little buck this year, I'll shoot a doe and let him grow". Thanks to that kind of attitude I have seen 130 -140 bucks several times last year two that had to be over 150, and a 158 was taken off of our hunting property by bow. If the attitude changes the deer will change as well. About 3-4 years with proper nutrition should grow a 130 class deer. If you can go with out shooting a buck for that long, as many of us have, you too can have nice bucks walking around. It sure is more fun to hunt now than 20 years ago where a 13" wide 8 was a big buck.
As for the TV shows, Who's going to watch guys go out in the woods to shoot a little dink? What fun is that?