Not *all* episodic television is dreck. I can recommend Bones, Reaper, House MD, and occasionally Dollhouse. In another category is Mythbusters and Deadliest Catch, both of which are worth an occasional view.

So you're a cultural illiterate if you don't watch those TV shows? Well, as they say, you and me both.
I don't regret it much. I prefer conversations about the human condition, history, politics. If that makes me a dull conversation partner, so be it. It's a pity that so much of historical pop culture got lost. Apparently it wasn't considered worth recording. Since it illuminates what makes people of the era tick, it should be in the history books. But overvaluing pop culture to the exclusion of the opinions and attitudes not entertaining enough to make show topics is a more serious pity. It keeps people uneducated.

I'm proud to admit I can help you with only one, that is 'King of the Hill'. It's a cartoon.

Loonie-Tunes are way better.

Yet another thing we have in common. Our TV is almost exclusively used for DVDs. The reception in our neighborhood is so poor that we only get one network, and it's green and wavey. (Oddly, we live near the center of town. ??)We opted out of cable to save the money.
The only TV I've watched in the past 10 years is collections of show seasons on DVD. I've watched House (liked it a lot), but the only one of the listed shows I know is the Sarah Connor thing, and it never did much for me.
I think I'm the only adult American who has never seen a single episode of Seinfeld.

Whoops, I take it back. We watched some of Earl. Earl was ok, I guess. I've got a soft spot for Jason Lee- I've always suspected he can do a lot more than he's been asked to do, actor-wise.

I only know King of the Hill from this list. But it is a favorite show and I am sorry to see it go. It's been on for 12 years, so I guess it's not surprising it's being retired.

Given this list of cancelled programs I have a few questions:
NBC
Kath & Kim
Kings
Knight Rider
Life
Lipstick Jungle
My Name is Earl (may get picked up by Fox or ABC)
Medium (may move to CBS)

Does somebody at NBC programming have a K-L-M fetish?
Do all of the other programs on the network also start with one of those letters, or is it just the flops?

All I use for TV these days are sporting events, PBS British comedies, maybe PBS mysteries.

I occasionally saw King of the Hill over its 12 years. Maybe once or twice a year. It wasn't bad. A cartoon comedy about a TX suburban family. Some funny characters.

With the Internet, ads are much less intrusive and time wasters.

Of those on the list "My Name is Earl" is perhaps the best, and a personal favorite, although I've not followed it much the last season and it may well have gone down-hill, as the original premiss was somewhat self-limiting. "Without a Trace" was an ok cop show about missing-persons but was otherwise indistinguishable from a million "CSI" types like it. I only watched if I stumbled onto it. But if you put a gun to my head those are the only two worth keeping.