What happened to Indian TV?

Dil Sambhal Jaa Zaraa is sadly going off air on Friday and its sad that our channels have gone so downhill as to where regressive series do better than bold and in my opinion, Indian TV has gone downhill ironically after these new rebrands on Zee TV & Star Plus, as well as Sony/Colors. There were good shows at the time like Doli Armaanon Ki, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, Beintehaa, Manmarziyaan and more. Now since these rebrands very few shows are good ; this is one of the bearable shows now. I miss the good days when the idents were stellar like ''Umeed Se Saje Zindagi'' on Zee TV , ''Rishta Wahi Soch Nayi'' on Star Plus , and ''Ghar Aayi Har Khushi'' on Sony TV with equally stellar shows on from 7-11pm and even from 11pm-12am at times. You could watch Indian dramas for hours but now channels, despite having so-called forward rebrands, have gone backwards in terms of entertainment. Just a personal opinion.

Not just your opinion, mine too!

I've always said this, these days people prefer watching unreasonable shows. I miss those days of Dahleez, Manmarziyan e.t.c and now when I finally found DSJZ, the most reasonable show on Star Plus right now it's going off air and we can't do anything about it. But there will be another show that will interest me someday. 

It's like the only show which work are those with nonsense illogical shit 

The sad part is its deteriorating by each passing year. I guess even kyunki and kasauti had way better standards than the serials that are running now. 

So true.Miss those golden days of tv viewing when there was quality shows.Like initially when zee started they had very good show like hastarein,tara,banegi apni baat.After that 1998 to 2000 also they had some good shows like dollar bahu ,margarita which star milind soman,and also there was this very good show which was my fvt ankahi which  star vivek mushran in negative role.All this was weekly show so was good and ended after 6 mths.later on there was kareena kareena with kulraj randhawa ,also in 2009 there was some good shows like jhansi ki rani,12/24 karol bagh smiriti's debut show and Aap ki antara about autistic girl in which the little girl was brilliant.

Originally posted by: sujairohit

So true.Miss those golden days of tv viewing when there was quality shows.Like initially when zee started they had very good show like hastarein,tara,banegi apni baat.After that 1998 to 2000 also they had some good shows like dollar bahu ,margarita which star milind soman,and also there was this very good show which was my fvt ankahi which  star vivek mushran in negative role.All this was weekly show so was good and ended after 6 mths.later on there was kareena kareena with kulraj randhawa ,also in 2009 there was some good shows like jhansi ki rani,12/24 karol bagh smiriti's debut show and Aap ki antara about autistic girl in which the little girl was brilliant.

Also sony tv when it started they had good shows i remember hospital in which 2 journalist try to investigate malpractices in hospital ,Naved aslam a very good actor was in the show also bhanwar was very good.

Like wise even star tv had some weekly shows at 9 pm slot ,i remember kashmir in which gulpanag made her debut.but that show ended abruptly due low trp.After that it went downhill with ekta shows 

Now we have to be lucky to get to see some good shows,hopefully with the launch of new channel Discovery jeet we can see some quality shows ,and also that the channel doesn't shut down like zindagi tv in the trp rat race.

I came back to Indian television after 2 years with this show and now its time to leave it again..
Kuch nae sakta India and Indian television ka [:x]

Originally posted by: sujairohit

So true.Miss those golden days of tv viewing when there was quality shows.Like initially when zee started they had very good show like hastarein,tara,banegi apni baat.After that 1998 to 2000 also they had some good shows like dollar bahu ,margarita which star milind soman,and also there was this very good show which was my fvt ankahi which  star vivek mushran in negative role.All this was weekly show so was good and ended after 6 mths.later on there was kareena kareena with kulraj randhawa ,also in 2009 there was some good shows like jhansi ki rani,12/24 karol bagh smiriti's debut show and Aap ki antara about autistic girl in which the little girl was brilliant.

Also sony tv when it started they had good shows i remember hospital in which 2 journalist try to investigate malpractices in hospital ,Naved aslam a very good actor was in the show also bhanwar was very good.

Like wise even star tv had some weekly shows at 9 pm slot ,i remember kashmir in which gulpanag made her debut.but that show ended abruptly due low trp.After that it went downhill with ekta shows 

Now we have to be lucky to get to see some good shows,hopefully with the launch of new channel Discovery jeet we can see some quality shows ,and also that the channel doesn't shut down like zindagi tv in the trp rat race.

Originally posted by: azaanabbas

Zindagi had done quite well! Humsafar had reached 2.4 at one point. Its the fact that after they dropped all Pakistani content on their lineup the channel went from 100 to 0. The max reached with the non-Pakistani/Indian serials were 0.3. Sad how over-nationalism caused the failure of a network.