Indeed. Of course, we in the UK are, unfortunately, following the US broadasting trends and so we now get:

"Previously on..."

or

"Tonight on..."

or

Revisted episodes (45 mins of repeats and 5 mins of original). When I complained about these to one broadcaster I was told that consumers love the revisited format and thus they will continue. Oh really?!

All this coupled with extended ad breaks and interruptions to credit sequences. The upshot being, more advertising and less original programming...

I even read about how in the US they drop frames from original content so that they can recover frames to create longer advertising slots. Not sure if that's true though.

The upshot is that I increasingly choose to watch less "live" TV and prefer to purchase the DVD series of "worthy" shows so that I can watch them uninterrupted... Only problem with that is that the UK newspapers ABSOLUTELY LOVE to spoil programs by giving advance details of upcoming cliffhangers/revelations/etc and so it's often tricky avoiding spoilers while you wait for the disc set to be released, but that's another rant for another day.

Mark

Last edited by Mark_H; 2008-07-21 21:15.
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