Why must you make a perpetual partial vacuum, Science Channel?

The BBQ Pit
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Why do you take perfectly good science documentaries, chop them up and call them a ‘program’? It’s not like you show these ‘programs’ like most TV programs-- once a week. No-- you show them one after the other. Almost like the original documentary, except chopped up in hour or half-hour pieces. And the chop comes where ever. There’s no accounting for narrative flow. The ‘program’ just ends whenever the hour is up. Credits roll and ten thousand commercial play only to have the ‘program’ come on again exactly where it supposedly ended.
And what is it with dropping commercials just about anywhere, even in the middle of a sentence? That is the most annoying thing ever. And what is with the stupid, stupid commercials? So you get such stupidities as: "The last ice age lasted. . .GET YOUR OWN PERSONAL AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM! THIS SUPER SCIENTIFIC PLASTIC BAND AROUND YOUR NECK MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE AN ESCAPEE FROM THE PRISON ISLAND OF MANHATTAN, COSTS ABOUT 150 DOLLARS AND DOESN’T WORK PARTICULARLY WELL. BUY IT NOW!!!. . .for 4000 years.

You supposedly change you name and sharpened up your image. Liars.

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I’ve never seen the Science Channel, but I heartily endorse your wordplay. Brava.

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TLC and Discovery does a similar thing that drives me nuts. They take take a particular documentary, slot it into hour(s) X, and refer to hour(s) X as their own show! So you’ll flip to TLC, see an introduction to “Adventure in Science” and then a second introduction for the documentary! It just comes across as a cheap way to pass off someone else’s program as their own. :rolleyes:

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I loved their “science classics” weekend when they were re-running old episodes of Mr Wizard and Connections, but DAMN! Are you ever dead on about the commercials! Mid-sentence and everything!