< rant >
TV is starting to give me the shits (or maybe
that’s still giving me). Maybe I’m getting old and crusty, but I miss the good
old days. It used to be that when they put a program on TV, they’d stick it in
a time slot and go with it. Occasionally something would end and not see out
the season, but at least they tended to fail on the night selected.
These days they manage to piss me off before a new show
starts. It’s the teasers that kill me; coming soon … a brand new heap of
reality trash (they seem to be the most prolific after all). Even the shows
that interest me start to piss me off because before they start they have to
tell you it’s coming. They have to whet the appetite and that’s fine, but they
start doing it so long before it starts that I’m almost ready to ignore the
show when it does finally start just because of those bloody ads.
Not only do they start a long way out, but when they do
start they don’t even tell you when. They can’t say coming June or anything
specific, just … soon. A couple of weeks before it finally airs they might give
you a date when it will start, but by then I’m over it!
Then when the show is finally on, they keep messing with the
times. TV Shows used to be scheduled to start on the hour, or half hour. Same
bat time, same bat channel. Not now. Oh no, now they move it about by 10-15
minutes here and there, or skip a week to broadcast some lame-arsed special
event. Even if life allowed me the consistency to watch a show at the same time
every week, I simply can’t be bothered finding out that they’ve decided to move
it or to put the finale on a different night to the rest of the bloody series.
Stop it already!
< / rant >
