ONE DOWN, and counting....
POSTED BY: Ruxton
UPDATED: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:51
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yeah, commercials do keep getting worse and worse, especially McDonalds and Old Navy commercials- OMG...unfortunately, being a poor college student i cannot right now afford anything on any format, but someday i will load up on Buffy, Angel, Star Trek Voyager, etc. The only shows i really watch anymore are Smallville, Mythbusters and CSI. And even then i just mute the commercials and read a magazine or surf browncoated sites!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
You're ugly as a monkey
You should live in a zoo
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Originally posted by Ruxton:
Last night I added one to the list of NEVER AGAIN. That is "One Tree HIll."
But it's just so funny! I crack up every time I hear the theme tune singer go 'Latelaaay'.
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I have always hated the theme song of Tree Hill with a purple passion. I've made a point of turning the sound and picture off as soon as I hear "I don't want..." (Or whatever it is.)
Theme songs for TV shows are prolly a good subject for another thread. But there are mighty few good ones. Smallville's. Veronica Mars'. And that's about it.
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The British TV system seems to be excellent, compared with ours. They produce a show like, say, "Foyle's War," in four episodes of two hours each. The run the four shows (without commercials) and see if there's any interest. In the case of Foyle, there was lots of interest, so four more long episodes were produced; and after a while, four more. That meant British viewers and we (via PBS) were offered 12 shows of two hours each, the equivalent of about 34 hours of U.S. TV, which is like 1-1/2 seasons. (I don't know if the original Brit run included any commercials, but doubt it.)
There was no fear of the series being cancelled along the way, like Firefly was. Instead, the only question was whether we'd get yet another series. Like our good U.S. series, the Foyle series had a story arc that traveled through all 12 long episodes.
The benefits were excellent production, zero commercial interruptions, appeal to higher intelligence, etc. etc.
If U.S. TV producers could start over, this is what they could do, and we the viewers would benefit greatly. But that would take a massive revolution of disgruntled TV viewers. And all the money currently pissed away on costly but useless TV advertising could be given to me. Or something like that.
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Whenever the commercials start, I turn on the picture-in-picture and have the tiny screen set to my show and channel surf with the big picture untill the commercials are over.
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The real-life box droppin', man-ape gone wrong thing, now without the pesky falling boxes
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The only show I watch on TV now is Mythbusters, and thankfully thats on a channel that doesn't play commercials during shows.
I get my TV fix from mates at work. Being in Australia it takes us a good six months to get a new series, so I just end up watching it from nice quality AVI files. No commercials, no hassel. Buy the DVD's when they are released for the nice sound mix and better picture, and everyone is happy!
By that time it still probably hasn't been shown over here, has moved to a midnight timeslot, or postponed mid season for some lame reality TV show.
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Umm.. User malfunction.. please ignore!
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Originally posted by Ruxton:
The British TV system seems to be excellent, compared with ours.
The trouble is we have sod all variety. All we get in the way of original programming are murder mysteries and period dramas. Sea of Souls is the only genre programme I can think of at the moment (haven't watched it though) except Doctor Who (which is rubbish unless you are a) a Who fan to begin with or b) under 10).
And Foyle's War is shown on ITV1, so it did have commericals. Of the five terrestrial channels, only the two BBC channels are free of ad breaks.
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