And lo On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:11:24 -0000, Jim Henderson  
<nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake thusly:

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:51:08 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>> On 31/01/2011 3:39 PM, Invisible wrote:
>>>> Couple of decent ones recently. Though sadly they have gone down the
>>>> route of re-explaining things every five minutes. Either they expect
>>>> people to tune in late or they consider their audience
>>>> memory-deprived.
>>>
>>> Oh God, I HATE THAT! >_< Why do TV programs have to repeat themselves
>>> every 25 seconds these days?! I can only imagine that either they think
>>> the people watching are absurdly stupid, or it makes the program
>>> cheaper if they just repeat the same shots over and over again.
>>
>> Me too!
>> I had a job one where I had to have the TV on all the time in my
>> workshop. (To make sure that the satellite dish had not lost alignment.)
>> Sky News was the only thing I could bare to have on and it repeated
>> every 20 minutes. It drove me mad(er)
>
> The one that gets me is programmes that break for a 5-minute commercial
> break and when they come back, you get a recap of everything that
> happened before the break.  Just in case you forgot.

And the teasing pre-caps "coming up on..." that repeat multiple times  
during the show not just at breaks or at the end for the next episode;  
even the BBC have got into the act.

-- 
Phil Cook

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