Monday, March 16, 2009

Can We PLEASE Put BET to Rest?


I used to be a long time lover of BET. What is better than coming home from school, watching two hours of Rap City: The Basement with Big Tigger followed by an hour and a half of 106 & Park hosted by AJ & Free? The answer is NOTHING was better than that. Those were BET's highlight years. Even after they got rid of AJ, Free, and Big Tigger, BET wasn't that bad. I mean, they played The Wayons Brothers and The Jamie Foxx Show in the mornings. I used to look forward to watching those when i woke up.


Now-a-days The Black Entertainment Network is just ridiculous. I can only think of three positive things on the "new" BET. And here they are:



  1. They play the TV show Smart Guy now

  2. You get to watch not one, but two episodes of Smart Guy back to back

  3. Rocsi on 106 & Park (Enough said)

Other than that, there is no reason to even keep this channel on the air. BET has become a ghetto version of MTV 2. They don't even deserve to be compared to the regular MTV station. All BET does is take ideas from MTV and place all black people in it (i.e. MTV=The Hills, BET=Baldwin Hills; MTV=The Real World, BET=College Hill). Real creative guys!!!!


One thing i can't even understand is how is the channel going to be called Black ENTERTAINMENT Television, and they only dedicate like one hour of their whole daily schedule to play music videos. 106 & Park doesn't even count. They only play like 30 seconds of a video before they fade out of it.


On top of that, how could they get rid of BET Uncut? Not that i have ever seen it or anything like that, but i bet it displayed some very good music videos.


I was looking at their current schedule of shows, and this season Judge Hatchett is in heavy rotation. Try six episodes a day. C'mon now!


And finally, i saved this complaint for last. I hate the term BlackBuster Movie. Who came up with that???? I want to personally headbutt them. And even worse than that, is the fact they always show the same movies over and over!!!! I can only take watching Baby Boy and Soul Plane but so many times in a week.


(Monday) "The BlackBuster Movie tonight is Baby Boy. Let's watch it man."


(Tuesday) "Soul Plane is on BET right now. Turn to it."


(Wednesday) "There's nothing on TV tonight. I guess I could just watch Baby Boy again on BET."


(Thursday) "Soul Plane is on again. Did BET make a mistake on the movie their supposed to be showing tonight?"


(Fast Forward to Sunday) "Man WTF!!!! Baby Boy is on BET again!!!!" (swing a bat thru TV screen).



To summarize my plee, I'm begging, PLEASE, let's take this channel of the air. I'm so sick of BET. The only channel dedicated to the black community is embarrassing us. Either make some POSITIVE changes, or excuse yourself from television. Is that too much to ask for???

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