I’ve been whatching ST: TNG on BBC america lately. What’s strange is they take only a handfull of episodes (like maybe seven or ten) and play them in a constant loop.
Why?! :dubious:
Also The G4 network spent an ass load of advertsising time to let us know: “Heroes power block on Moday nights!! See it from the begining!”
Two problems:
A) Really? Two back to back shows is a “Power Block”? :rolleyes:
B) YOU’RE NOT SHOWING THEM IN FUCKING ORDER!!
I was especially pissed about this one because I haven’t seen any of the Heroes episodes yet. (Don’t ask me why. I heard nothing but good things about this show.)
Maybe they’re only showing a limited number of episodes to emulate the whole British thing were they only make like 6-8 episodes or thereabouts at a time?
If you’re a regular viewer you probably want to see all of the episodes in order. But they may be aiming at a more casual viewer who’s flicking through the channels and happens across the broadcast. They want to him to think “Great, this is one of their best episodes” so he’ll stop and watch it. So rather than show all the episodes, they’ll just put the ten most popular episodes in rotation.
The real question is why the hell BBC America is showing “Next Generation” anyway? It was made by Paramount for American TV syndication. I thought BBC America was for the showing of British TV shows.
BBC America likes to show American programs with famous Brits in them. The cable syndication rights for TNG came up for bid a little while ago, so they went after it.
They also show both the British and American versions of Kitchen Nightmares. The Beeb sure loves ol’ Gordo.
I think they do it to piss me off. They only show around dozen different shows every week, so this just ticks me off worse. Why don’t they show things like Ideal or MisFits instead, that are you know, British? Frankly, I’d rather see My Hero again on that channel than Next Gen.
BBC America shows programs from a variety of sources. Anyway, far as most Amercans are concerned “British program” and “BBC program” are exact equivalents. No one has heard of Channel 4 or Granada etc. Unless they are ultra-Anglophilic.
There’s a subspace distortion in downtown London. Broadcasting the ST:TNG episodes from within this distortion released verteron particles, which have caused a recursive time loop at the studio. They have also led to other unusual phenomena affecting the continuum, such as the Con-Lib government.
Same reason TV Land now shows movies and reality shit, why Cartoon Network now airs live action shows, why AMC shows things that are not American, not Movies, or not Classics (sometimes even none of the above), why Syfy shows prowrestling, etc etc etc
Because they think they’ll generate more money that way than by sticking to their niche. And they’re usually right.
Actually I recall an article in Broadcasting & Cable magazine from around 2005 and it indicated rating do go up significantly when stations hold mini-marathons of movies or TV shows.