For the last few weeks I have been happily reliving my 20s by watching Friends on Channel 10. However, on two or three occasions now I've been disgusted when a particular scene has been edited or removed. Why would they do this? Simple, so they use the time to advertise The Biggest Loser and So You Think You Can Dance, or whatever other reality show happens to be on.
Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against those shows, but why do they have be advertised at every single ad break??? And the Dance ads go on forever. Surely everyone knows about the show by now!!!
Channel 7 does the same thing. I've noticed entire scenes missing from old episodes of MASH. Why? So they can give us yet another news update that tells us nothing new, or remind us that Ian Ross will be with us in a few minutes.
I suppose the fact that these shows are reruns gives the stations some justification for cutting them, but do we trust that they don't do the same with new shows???
It just drives me crazy that these stations bombard us constantly with the same adverts for the same shows. They seem to be so desperate for us to stay tuned and not switch channels.
Some days it annoys me so much I'm tempted to switch off and buy the DVD box sets!!!
Thanks for listening. Feel better now!
Morton