Something I've noticed, while I've been home and idle so much recently, is the startling level of repeats currently running on TV.
Some channels run nothing but repeats.
I'm currently watching the same episode of QI that I watched sometime before Christmas, and have had to miss out on Mythbusters this week because they're running the same shows as last week.
The same movies run in the same week on several different channels.
WTF? Seriously.
OK, so obviously there are too many channels for the miniscule amount of new televisual programming that is generated these days, but if the money generated by advertising on these channels doesn't allow them to create something new once in a while, why bother? Why not cut their losses and ditch the channel?
Can it really be all about turning people into zombies whose memory span is so short that they don't realise they're watching the same shit over and and over again.
I've just seen a trialer for This Is Spinal Tap... how many times has that been on TV this year?
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