Does anyone else get pissed off at the voice overs which come on during the credits of programs, telling you what’s on next? I mean I know it’s necessary but surely a 20 second gap after the program would be a better solution.
An example of just how annoying this can be is when, about two weeks ago, I was watching the Deer Hunter which, to my mind is THE most powerfully affecting film ever made, bar none and chances are that a not insubstantial number of people would put it up there with films like Schindler’s list in terms of it’s power to move. Now I’d just come to the end of this emotional roller coaster of a film and was totally spellbound (along with, most likely, quite a few other people up and down the country) and as the credits rolled, and the perfect theme music started to play I was busy marvelling at what I had just seen when all of a sudden this chirpy little git butts in on my reverie to let me know that a recap of the best of the Weeks Big Brother action (or something like that) was on next and after that some obscure little music show. WHO CARES??? I mean Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick, couldn’t they have waited another half a minute for this film to truly finish before wrecking the atmosphere??? Do they think that people’s attention spans are so short that they’ll instantly flip over to another channel as soon as the “boring” credits roll up???
An atmosphere of the kind which the Deer Hunter evokes takes threee hours hours to build up and these semi-retarded goons come in and shatter it like a Vandal throwing precious vase onto a concrete floor.
Ugh, Channel 4 and adverts…don’t even get me started. The worst thing about their cricket (or any of their sports) coverage is how they show the same “bumper” advert over and over and over and over again. They must have shown that StepStone advert eight million times over the course of the summer.
Well, why we’re whinging about tv ….the thing that really annoys the hell out of me is when news interviewers say something like “ Sorry, we’ll have to leave it there” when the interviewee is in the middle of a sentence and trying to extract him / herself from the dark brown stuff.
It’s not as if the next news item is more important and I understand each segment is timed but it just seems to me they are trying to add a false sense of urgency or importance to the news cast.
This is particularly rife on the beeb and is clearly a presentational policy decision. God, it drives me nuts !
Even worse than squashing the credits - and it’s not even half a screen, more like a third - is when they have the squashed credits roll by so fast that they’re nothing more than a blur.
Its great watching BBC Northern Ireland doing an interview with someone from the D.U.P. Its like the interviewer is waiting on him to say something rediculous. He works the politician into a corner and just before there is a major national incident the interviewer stops and says “Thats all we have time for” or “I’m going to have to stop you there”.
Let them Rant! Its only a matter of time before one of them puts their foot in their mouth. I almost want to
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