Talk about filling a niche market. CBS is bringing back Big Brother next week for yet a fourth season. In case you cannot remember, Big Brother is the show that traps a group of strangers in a house and videotapes the three months of monotony that ensues. It is also the show that destroyed Julie Chen's credibility and career.

CBS used to offer Big Brother feeds for free on the internet, but started charging $25 for the privilege last year. From what I hear, they actually raked in a lot of dough. Don't worry too much if you don't have the cash, because CBS will be airing the series three times a week starting July 8th.

Personally, I don't think Big Brother will be a smash hit this year, but it should be profitable. These shows are notoriously low rent, and are sure to raise more money than summer reruns would. Still, I could do without it.

Here are some other shows (past and present) that I could do without:

M*A*S*H - Watchable, and sometimes laughable, but Mike Ferrell and Alan Alda just make me SO MAD. It didn't help that the show killed off most of the major players, and ran 4 times longer than the actual Korean War. Watch the movie instead.
thirtysomething - You just know that anything with that red-haired doofus is going to suck.
90210MelrosePlace - Weren't these the same damn show?
Fame - AHHH! The show has been off for 15 years, and I still cannot get that song out of my head. What's worse is that they are bringing it back to torture another generation!
Cop Rock - Do I really need to give a reason? I wasn't going to include this show because it had such a short run, however, I wanted to remind everyone of it's suckage lest we repeat history. (like we're doing with Fame)
One Day at a Time - One word: Bonnie Franklin.
Saturday Night Live - Had this show run 1975 to 1984 it wouldn't have made my list. After Eddie Murphy left, it was all down hill.
Donahue - Phil Donahue doesn't suck as much for his politics as he does for ushering in a non-stop phase of day-time talk show mania. During the 80s and 90s, talk shows were so plentiful that sets actually came pre-fabricated and stocked with mindless audiences just waiting for the applause light to turn on. All you had to do was "insert host here" and start the cameras.
Whose line is it anyway - It should have been called, how to fuck up a perfectly good Brit-com. I'm amazed that ABC could sink such a lovable British show, especially considering it featured many of the same players. That must have been the 'Disney' ingredient.
CSI: Anything - Lets rip off a hideous show, Law and Order, and combine it with another hideous show, Vega$, and see what happens.
Dateline NBC - Lets show how easily GMC pickups explode in a normal car accident when explosives just happen to be strapped to the gas tank.
Dragnet - This was actually a watchable show, up until the "Blueboy" episode.
JAG - HAHAHAHA!!

I'm sure I've forgotten several. I tried to touch on network shows only. Otherwise I'd have to list Jackass, and just about every show on MTV.