:mad: I wouldn't be surprised if this thread gets dumped but I just had to vent off some frustration with the way the television media treats us.

I was watching G4 tv last night to watch Star Trek and those popup ads that take up the bottom 20% of the tv screen with their own sound effects is driving me CRAZY !! Yaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! G4 Tv is advertising Star Trek even during a Star Trek episode.....

It's worse the the popup ads on the internet and you can't block these. If this trend continues, I may be forced to watch nothing but pay TV. I hope and pray that this crap doesn't carry over onto our DVD's in the future.

YYAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!

It was either TNT or Spike TV that had a permanent black scroll bar across the bottom of every episode of TNG. Drove me absolutely mad.
I wouldn't worry about this thread being dumped, unless the usual 3 or 4 whiners have a blind devotion to pop up ads.

Geez, no kidding. A few years ago I was watching TNG on Spike and they had the stupid ad for Barb Wire on the bottom right hand corner, complete with a moving helicopter that was extremely distracting. Whoever thought of the use of that crawl deserves to be shot on sight.

José

oh man , you've hit on one of my all time peeves here . as if there's not already enough commercials ( like what , every 8 minutes ?? ) . really annoying that we get crap while we try and watch the actual show .
the other thing that bugs me is , i'll be watching and can't figure out who a certain actor or whatever and i'll wait for the credits and they get squished up so they can run some ad for what's on next or they run them so %^$#$# fast ya can't read 'em .
ahhh , that felt good .
hb

ditto Beck!

Just wait until they start running those same pop-up ads during commercials so they can advertise two things at the same time! :freak:

Does anyone else remember watching Max Headroom and thinking Blipverts weren't very far from becoming a reality? :rolleyes:

Just wait until they start running those same pop-up ads during commercials so they can advertise two things at the same time! :freak:

Won't happen. Haven't you noticed how the station bug in the corner of the screen disappears when a commercial comes on? That's because the advertisers wouldn't put up with the station defacing their commercial. Remember, TV stations and networks are in the business of showing commercials. They only show programs so people will have a reason to watch.

Thought we wernen't supposed to uses stars in place of swears.

I got banned for a day for kidding around...

I assumed it stood for Gol Darn. I thought it was Dukes of Hazzard speech. Well flick my chickens and call me a barn door, I do feel silly now.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1a/Pop-up_ads.jpg/325px-Pop-up_ads.jpg

Dang!

. . . the other thing that bugs me is, i'll be watching and can't figure out who a certain actor or whatever and i'll wait for the credits and they get squished up so they can run some ad for what's on next or they run them so %^$#$# fast ya can't read 'em .
ahhh , that felt good.Remember when they just did voice-over promos over the closing credits on TV shows? Then they started running the credits so fast that you couldn't read them, and now they squeeze them off to the side of the screen to make room for a lead-in to the next program. I guess the networks figure nobody watches the credits anyway. Well, some of us do! Especially here in Los Angeles, where there's a good chance someone you know has their name up there!

Not to mention the fact that G4 is suppose to be about games, computers and the like, and they're starting to program anything but.

at least theyre only promoting other shows there for now..... wait till they start renting out that space.

Heck, Scott, I remember TV when they DIDN'T talk over closing credits! Really! Once upon a time, they just showed the closing credits and played the closing theme music. yeah, they even write separate, distinct closing songs for shows (I can still sing the Beverly Hillbillies and Gilligan's Island closing themes to this day) (much to my wife's regret).

First they started talking over them.
Then they started squeezing them and running promos.
Then the popups started.
Of course all the time the amount of commercials increased while the length of the shows decreased.

In the 60s they'd show the entire run of a show straight thru - all 29 episodes in a row. Then when summer came they'd either show the whole series in rerun straight through, or in the case of a variety show they'd create a "summer replacement series." Sonny & Cher started as a summer replacement (for Dean Martin?)

Now we seem to have this divided series crap - they run 10 or 12 episodes starting in the fall, then give us rerun hell for 10 or 12 weeks. Then they deign to give us 10 or 12 new episodes in January. Before you know it you're watching the season finale in March (SG-1's is the next 2 weeks). Then you get to wait about six frickin months for new episodes.

Thank yoda for tv good old TV series being released on DVD.

I haven't watched commercial television in more than 2 years. If I'm interested in a show I get the DVD, if it aint on DVD, I don't see it. Simple as that. I've seen commercial TV, briefly, when I leaving for work through the family room and Marg has it on, or when it's playing in the waiting room I'm doing triage. I just can't watch 13 minutes of commercials every half hour. Exaggeration? Chappelle's Show runs 17 minutes from the start of the opening credits to the end of the closing credits.

Yup. Some "1 hour" TV shows have actually gone shorter than 40 minutes of actual time.

Lost and Alias (Alias I've only seen on DVD) are 41 minutes.

In the 60s they'd show the entire run of a show straight thru - all 29 episodes in a row. Then when summer came they'd either show the whole series in rerun straight through, or in the case of a variety show they'd create a "summer replacement series." Sonny & Cher started as a summer replacement (for Dean Martin?)Believe it or not, there was a time when most TV series had thirty-nine episodes per season, of which 13 would be run during the summer (filling out the 52 weeks in a year). By the mid-1960s it was down to 26.

Yeah, I remember the "Gilligan's Island" closing theme — Sherwood Schwartz is responsible for an entire generation thinking Robinson Crusoe is pronounced Robinson Caruso!

— Sherwood Schwartz is responsible for an entire generation thinking Robinson Crusoe is pronounced Robinson Caruso!


The great tenor right? :p

I recently (last week) got Star Trek TNG seasons 1 and 2 (55 bones apiece) and they're 26 and 22 episodes each. A writer's strike cut the second season down. I'll go back to Chappelle (it's the most recent show I have) and it's 12 or 13 episodes per season.

I assumed it stood for Gol Darn. I thought it was Dukes of Hazzard speech. Well flick my chickens and call me a barn door, I do feel silly now.

You're close, it means "Gosh Darnit":thumbsup:

Heck, Scott, I remember TV when they DIDN'T talk over closing credits! Really! Once upon a time, they just showed the closing credits and played the closing theme music. yeah, they even write separate, distinct closing songs for shows (I can still sing the Beverly Hillbillies and Gilligan's Island closing themes to this day) (much to my wife's regret).Thank yoda for tv good old TV series being released on DVD.

Yes, also they didn't show credits for everyone except the janitor either.

It has definitely gotten out of control.

That probably explains why BSG has resorted to showing deleted scenes in their episode recaps ... Just to bring even the loyal viewer up to speed and so the episode makes sense.

It wont be long before all we get "on the air" is "Once upon a time ... The End" with 150 commercials ... 50 of those being for the "DVD version" that includes all of the deleted scenes. :freak: :rolleyes:

Purely ridiculous! :mad:

The one time it really hit me how bad the interuptions get was once when my son asked me to tape a Power Rangers episode off of Toon Disney and since I was sitting there I paused the tape during the commercials and at the end the show clocked in at just a smidge under 17 minutes.
My God, 34 minutes of shows per hour and they wonder why people Tivo or just tape the shows for watching later.

The good old days when the credits ran unintruded and finding out the actor's name did no good because....well, what the heck am I supposed to do with his name? I wanted to know where I saw him before....aw this is going to drive me crazy!

Now we have the internet. And DVDs. Tis better.

I've tried watching Alias, if it's this tedious at 41 minutes, I can't imagine if it was like 52 minutes.

Speaking of weird scheduling, I think that Scifi did that to counterprogram their stuff against the networks. So their shows would run in the summer and also during reruns....but now the networks are doing this too. I don't actually mind it. Sometimes I've got too many shows on certain nights or I'm just tired of it, so a few months break or having the season finale earlier in the year can be refreshing. You mean, I don't have to watch 3 hours every friday night anymore? Awesome!

The best part about the pop-ups on G4 is the sound level.

I'm listening to Picard and company when the pop-up blasts

from my TV at twice the volume!!! :mad:

I was still watchin MTV when the popup thing started. They would actually do po-up promos that filled the entire screen during a video, except for a small border around the edge so you knew there was still a video going on.

I'm guessing the artists or record labels put a stop to that right quick.

Heck, Scott, I remember TV when they DIDN'T talk over closing credits! Really! Once upon a time, they just showed the closing credits and played the closing theme music. yeah, they even write separate, distinct closing songs for shows (I can still sing the Beverly Hillbillies and Gilligan's Island closing themes to this day) (much to my wife's regret).

First they started talking over them.
Then they started squeezing them and running promos.
Then the popups started.
Of course all the time the amount of commercials increased while the length of the shows decreased.

In the 60s they'd show the entire run of a show straight thru - all 29 episodes in a row. Then when summer came they'd either show the whole series in rerun straight through, or in the case of a variety show they'd create a "summer replacement series." Sonny & Cher started as a summer replacement (for Dean Martin?)

Now we seem to have this divided series crap - they run 10 or 12 episodes starting in the fall, then give us rerun hell for 10 or 12 weeks. Then they deign to give us 10 or 12 new episodes in January. Before you know it you're watching the season finale in March (SG-1's is the next 2 weeks). Then you get to wait about six frickin months for new episodes.

Thank yoda for tv good old TV series being released on DVD.


" Now It's Time To Say Goodbye To Jed And All His Kin....Sit A Spell...Kick Yer Shoes Off...Ya'll Come Back Now Ya' Hear?"
Yeah I remember that one but what's Gilligan's again?

John/Lonfan

Now, this is a tale of our castaways
They're here for a long, long time
They'll have to make the best of things
It's an uphill climb

The first mate and the skipper too
Will do their very best
To make the others comfortable
In their tropic island nest

No phones, no lights, no motorcars
Not a single luxury
Like Robinson Ca-rusoe
It's primitive as can be

So join us here each week, my friends
You're sure to get a smile
From seven stranded castaways
Here on Gilligan's Isle

All of Sherwood Schwartz's sitcoms (try saying that when you're drunk!) had theme songs that explained the entire premise of the show — just in case anyone forgot it from one week to the next!
:hat: (Dunce cap, get it?)

^My wife loves it when I sing that just after we go to bed and turn the lights off.

NOT!

:lol:

Does she make snide remarks about your "little buddy"? :tongue:

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This has been a Film-ways presen-tation!

You can blame it on a lack of creativity in Hollywood, and too many TV channels.
Each network has about 2-3 really good programs, 5-10 fair programs and 5-10 horrid wastes of resources. They just HAVE to hype the fair programs to make money, pre-empt the good ones and put in seasonal garbage and 'specials' which are fair programs with short plots, and of course reruns from last season of the top notch shows.

TVLand and nickatnight play the old stuff from the 50's 60's and 70's because compared to todays poop, they are more enjoyable to watch. Even Gameshow Network is showing the old Matchgame '73 and later shows and I'd rather watch THAT than American Idle...(I spelled it that way on purpose).

Reality shows are barely better. American Chopper and the like are fun to watch while getting some insight, and the Science and Discovery Channels are pretty good
I even waste friday nights watching the Ghost show from the UK, "Most Haunted".

I hardly watch any national/cable nooze because it's 80% blather, but I'll watch local nooze. Other than Football and the Americas Cup Sailing I don't even watch sports because the players are too full of themselves.

I miss Sci-Fi channels playing of Dark Shadows(60's again) and I miss Babylon 5, Farscape, Alien Nation, Kolchack and Red Dwarf. I am sick of Dr. Who, really sick of all the Treks, and can't hardly watch any Irwin Allen shows. Don't like Firefly, Stargate, or most of the recent sci-fi shows. How about a show of space exploration as seen from the aliens perspective?