What is it with TV programme makers that they have to go and spoil everything by wasting five minutes at the end of each programme telling us what will happen in the next episode? I don't want to know! I'll watch the next episode to find out, so don't ruin the surprise for me now. Doctor Who and Torchwood are the worst culprits at the moment. Why give away most of the plot for the series at the end of the first episode?
Of course it could be worse. Some of the commercial stations have programmes that spend the first five minutes telling you what you're about to see, then they show it to you, then then spend five minutes reminding you what you've just seen and then spend five more minutes telling you what you will see after the advertisement break. Then you get what feels like quarter of an hour of adverts, and then the programme resumes by telling you what you saw before the break, what you're about to see in the next section and what you're going to see later on in the programme. I bet if you stripped out all of the repetitive material, there would only be ten minutes original stuff in the whole hour. I can't believe companies actually pay for this crap.
When I was a kid, there was a TV programme called 'Why Don't You?' and the programme opened with "Why don't you just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead?" I have been doing just that lately, and you know what? I actually get things done instead of allowing my brain to turn to grey goo. Great, isn't it?
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I LOVED why don't you :-) Full of great rainy day craft ideas
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