I have a question...
WHY in the age of TiVo and reality television - do shows insist on including the name of the person who got the boot in last night's/week's episode on the commercials for next week's episode??!!
it's gotten to where you can't watch tv AT ALL until you've watched the most recent episode of ANY reality series... once upon a time you NEVER saw advertisements for a particular station's programming on ANY other channel - now you just never know where/when ads for your favorite reality shows are going to pop up... and they ALWAYS contain revealing information - even if they don't actually show the last elimination (which they often DO) they show the remaining contestants... too much information any way you look at it!!
early this morning I was watching something on HGTV and they showed an ad for The Next Iron Chef that basically recapped last night's elimination!! WTF??!!
based on the occasional host swapping I'm guessing these networks are owned by the same company or something - but STILL!!
I understand showing them on their individual networks but couldn't they at least give us ONE day before they start plastering these things EVERYWHERE??
as long as I'm bitching - WHY with shows like this where they tend to re-run the latest episode several times the night it airs in case anyone missed the first airing, do they insist on running these revealing ads for next week's episode DURING that night's subsequent airings???!!
even WITH the ability to record two things at once I often end up having to record a later episode of something because of some scheduling conflict... and then if I'm not careful flipping through the commercials I'll wind up seeing stuff I didn't want to see YET!!
what about those of you who do not have TiVo or DVR service?? you can't even fast forward through these commercials... you're just stuck with them!!
it's STUPID!!
and ANOTHER thing... WHY do they have to have so much CRAP popping up and dancing across the bottom of the screen all the time??? it's distracting and irritating... and AGAIN with reality shows it's a pain in the ass... so often with these types of shows the mics don't quite pic up what the contestants are saying... either they're whispering or mumbling or just plain aren't used to being on tv - so they have to put up subtitles in order for us to know what's going on... but with all these fancy pop-up ads, half the time you can't SEE the freakin' subtitles!!
again... WTF!?!?!
anyway - I know this is all such ridiculous nonsense to be complaining about and I should just shut up and count my blessings... but it gets on my nerves!!
I mean pretty soon there probably won't even be a week between episodes... they'll just start doing a picture in picture thing with next week's episode running in the top right-hand corner of the screen... then between that and the pop-ups dancing across the bottom half of the screen we'll only get to see the top left quarter of people's heads and maybe some tree tops or window valances on the current show we're actually meaning to watch...
that is unless we get some breaking news, a special weather statement or some election results... in which case I guess we'll just be left with the muffled sounds of the contestant's microphones and our imaginations...





