Seriously, how difficult is it to end a show on time? Especially when 4/5th of your show is needless padding anyway…clips of contestant with their dog fluffy walking in the park, dragging out every performance with a pre-song clip, then an after the judges vote chit-chat “what did you think if them ripping you a new one?”
The elimination process of re-hashing every single comment made by every single judge - and then even pausing for dramatic effect - it’s getting real tired now.
Simon, I know it is common in Europe for shows to run overtime on a regular basis - but here in the US when a show is listed from 8:00 to 9:00 PM, we expect the show to be over at 9:00 PM - not 9:07 or 9:16 PM. Sure, Oscars run overtime, so do sports games - but those are not regularly broadcast shows with a set number of acts/pieces to the show. Dude - ya got about 7 songs - is that too hard to fit into an hour?
Any clown with a DVR can watch your show in 14 minutes, tops. So why the hell can’t you whittle it down to your scheduled time-frame?!
Heh - I was thinking about this a little bit. I recall Ryan warning people on Tuesday night that they had a full schedule for Wednesday, and to program your DVR for a little extra on the end. I agree with your rant, that someone somewhere should be capable of planning an event (to use the term loosely) like last night’s “American Idol: Won’t Someone Think of the Children?”, but I guess it’s hard to control that many people blathering.
We have national and local news on after AI; it can’t thrill these people to go on 16 minutes later, either.
Amen. I briefly gave in and set my DVR to record 5 minutes over at the end, and you know what happened? My DVR didn’t record LOST that week. Fuck that.
Like the Oscars and sports, letting the show run long lets them add another commercial break. Yeah, they’re doing it on purpose and the local stations know it ahead of time and aren’t going to complain about the ad revenue they bring in cause of it.
Hey, the same thing happened to me! Now I have to go to ABC.com and watch last week’s show before I watch this week’s.
And that brings up another gripe. My DVR used to tell me immediately if I tried to tape a show that put another recording in conflict. No more. Now, unless you go to “Scheduled Shows” and see the little broken record icon, you have no idea it’s not going to record until you try to watch the damn show the next day. This is progress?
And this week’s AI caused “Glee” to start 5 minutes late, which meant that my DVR stopped recording before “Glee” was over. Thanks, Fox!
This makes sense-- a few weeks back, Nickelodeon had the Kids Choice Awards, which was live, had a bunch of screaming kids, and Kevin frakking James leading it all. Not only did they let everyone finish their speeches (I always hate when awards shows don’t let more than one person speak), but they came in exactly on time.
My DVR reminds me, when I set up to record a live program, that I might want to add some time to the end, in case it runs long. Unfortunately, it can’t really remind me to do the same for a pre-recorded show that’s on after a live show. That’s how I missed the end of a couple episodes of “Fringe”, when it used to be on after AI.