And lo On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:44:51 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake thusly:

> Invisible wrote:
>> on One, etc. Now all there seems to be is "reality" shows. (Uh, 12
>
> I'm told by people in the business it's because you're more likely to  
> watch those advertisements. You see a sit-com, you're going to TiVo it  
> and skip the commercials and watch it tomorrow. You see a reality show,  
> you're going to want to gossip the next day about what happened with  
> co-workers, so you'll put up with the advertisements.  How true or not  
> this is I can only judge based on my opinions of the people who told me  
> this.

Perhaps it's because compared to "reality" shows the adverts provide  
higher production values and greater entertainment ;-)

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Phil Cook

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