God damn it, tbs!!!

The BBQ Pit
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I’m watching a rerun of The Big Bang Theory on TBS, and they break away in the middle of the program to start playing a Clippers playoff game.

Apparently some other event is running long, and they feel if the Clippers are going to be on the teevee, they have to put it on a different channel, one that HAPPENS to be showing a program that’s IMPORTANT.

Seriously, WHAT. THE. FUCK!!!???!!!

Don’t you fucking Georgians have any concept of PRIORITIES?

Not everyone who lives in Georgia; just the ones that make decisions in the CNN Center.

Fuck.

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Dude, it was a rerun. And the Clippers. I don’t know why you had TBS on in the first place.

3

Sounds like your show got clipped.

4

I can get behind this rant. Basketball? Really? Who gives a shit what mutant gland cases are doing?

5

KDOC does much the same thing - preempts worthwhile shows for hockey games, shows that would have normally come on well after the game is over but for some reason they cannot go back to their regular schedule. Pisses me right off.

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We now interrupt the Super Bowl to bring you Heidi.

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You forgot the dramatic pause to slap on your :cool:

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Yes they do. And their priority is to the programming they paid an assload of money to air. So despite a record syndication deal reportedly worth $1.5 million an episode, the cost of BBT pales in comparison to an NBA game.

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I watch a lot of Me-TV which is broadcast in the Atlanta area by WSB. One or two times a month, I’ll tune in to watch a show scheduled by Me-TV only to find that WSB has pre-empted it for – wait for it – a high school football game, or an awards show for high school choruses, the kind where everybody gets an award, or some other such foolishness. This usually happens on Saturday, and never once have I heard the station announce ahead of time that the regular weekend programming would be pre-empted. I’m missing way too much Batman, dammit.

High school football? Seriously?

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Where do they think they are? Texas?

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The Big Bang theory comes on approximately 250,490 times a week for TBS. Seriously, I’d never seen a single episode before this year and within a month I’d seen 90% of them.
Just wait another three days. Your episode will be on again.

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OP, are you serious? I can’t tell if this is an excellent example of doper mentality re sports or a tongue-in-cheek moment of mockery I can get behind.

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What do you have against tablespoons?

Reads OP

Wait a minute-- it was a fucking re-run? That you’ve seen before and will see again? Against something live that will probably never, ever play again? And you’re this upset about it? Wow, talk about self-centered.

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This is a joke, right?

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I can totally agree with this pitting. I’m sick of sports preempting my shows. They have a bazillion Espn channels, use those to show that crap.

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Yes, I’m sure TBS would be happy to give up their NBA rights so that you won’t have your 12 hours of continuous sitcom programming disturbed.

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I don’t care if they would be happy. I’m do care that I’m doomed to a life of having to know sports schedules so I have at least some idea of when fox, tbs or any of the others are going to air it instead of their regular lineups.

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They should be! On a “Value added to civilization” scale, reruns of Rosanne and Home Improvement far outweigh any “contribution” made by the NBA.

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That’s the thing that pisses me off about TBBT on TBS, it seems like they only bought a bare few episodes and are playing them over and over and over again. So you really haven’t seen 90% of them, you’ve just seen the same dozen or so over and over.

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This is untrue. All sports teams give a lot of money to charity. Roseanne re-runs gave us Tom Arnold. I don’t like hockey but I don’t bitch just because it’s on TV and especially if it is pre-empting something that I’ve already seen and will see again if I want.