Emergency alert tests that interrupt what you're watching. Like they can't just put a scroll at the bottom of the screen?
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mrnocal
9 years ago Report
Just the tests. If it's an actual emergency, like tornadoes or an alien invasion...by all means interrupt.
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Top 10 Most Annoying Television Things
#2
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mrnocal
Networks that program shows to run 31 minutes or 61 minutes. Like they need another minute for more commercials?
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#3
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mrnocal
Shows/movies on specialized cable channels that have nothing to do with the cable channel's "specialty". Can anyone say "Ice Road Truckers", "Top Shot" or "Dirty Dancing" playing on the ABC "Family"
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#4
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Cable channels that show the same show so frequently and in weekly "marathons" that we have them memorized. "Pawn Stars", "Undercover Boss", "Golden Girls", "Reba", etc. ad nauseam. Not that I don't
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#5
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mrnocal
Cable channels spreading half hour shows to 40 minutes or so just to add more commercials. Hello TV Land on the weekends!
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#6
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mrnocal
Not really TV, but a TV accompaniment....TV Guide's change in 2005 from the small, digest-sized, useful magazine to the lame, useless rag it's become.
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#7
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mrnocal
When networks cancel a show with a continuing storyline without the decency to at least let them form a concluding episode for the fans. "Invasion", "Flash Forward", many others.
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#8
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mrnocal
Ridiculous, unnecessary "reality" and "reality competition" programs. Enough already! Some did it right, but 95% are just crap!
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#9
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mrnocal
Reboots of classic TV shows that are lame and so unlike the original show that it's just pitiful. "Hawaii 5-0", "Ironside", etc.
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#10
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mrnocal
"Live" studio audience applause at the entrance of a popular character that totally distracts and throws off comedic timing.