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Old 27-02-2008, 08:15 PM
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I recorded `The tenth man` on `Hallmark` and have just watched it. Right at the end when everything was coming to a climax there was some bloody bloke with a voice over giving us a run down on what was on later that day!

I GIVE UP!
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Old 27-02-2008, 08:31 PM
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Why do people within television allow this to take place? What's the point of even broadcasting it? As a print journalist myself, its the equivalent of publishing blank pages...
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As someone has already said on another thread they do this so you buy the DVD instead of recording it to keep. Okkkkkkk.......well yes I would be prepared to buy the DVD but it would have also been nice to watch it this time on t.v without THAT happening and spoiling the end. Ridiculous it is!
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Complain to Hallmark - they then know that at least one viewer isn't happy!
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Complain to Hallmark - they then know that at least one viewer isn't happy!
Yes, but then they would assume that the other five viewers were happy.

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Did anyone see UK Gold last night? The Tribute to Morecambe and Wise was completely ruined by the crass talking heads they inserted in the middle of most of the sketches - including the wonderful kitchen "stripper" routine! They actually had the stupidity to cut into the fabulously timed and carefully worked out routines....

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As a member of Equity, we, that is Jean Rogers and myself and others, have been attempting to get this stopped for several years, without success. The whole point of reducing/squeezing/and LOUD Voice over along with direct cut offs is to ensure that the viewer sticks with the channel. They are not in the slightest bit interested in credits or indeed what the viewer wants to see. as long as they have your attention BEFORE you decide to switch over. They assume that the viewer has a ten second attention span, and that once the moving image has gone and it is replaced with mere words, the viewer will switch! Not so. We did have some success via a promise to look at the matter from the BBC, but that is all. One person high up in the echelons of TV control had the audacity to state that "Only actors and their families are interested in watching the credits"!
We keep on trying.
Personally, as soon as they squeeze or talk.....I'm off!
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As a member of Equity, we, that is Jean Rogers and myself and others, have been attempting to get this stopped for several years, without success. The whole point of reducing/squeezing/and LOUD Voice over along with direct cut offs is to ensure that the viewer sticks with the channel. They are not in the slightest bit interested in credits or indeed what the viewer wants to see. as long as they have your attention BEFORE you decide to switch over. They assume that the viewer has a ten second attention span, and that once the moving image has gone and it is replaced with mere words, the viewer will switch! Not so. We did have some success via a promise to look at the matter from the BBC, but that is all. One person high up in the echelons of TV control had the audacity to state that "Only actors and their families are interested in watching the credits"!
We keep on trying.
Personally, as soon as they squeeze or talk.....I'm off!
An equally annoying thing is the jokey voice-over at the end of a film or TV programme with a dramatic climax. It really kills the mood

A set of credits are just what you need to come back to normality - and you're often interested in who did that wonderful piece of work that you've just witnessed

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Personally, as soon as they squeeze or talk.....I'm off!
Thanks for trying to stop this.

I can't understand their logic. If they cut the end of the film by squeezing or
talking then the advertisement break is effectively longer so I switch over.

They are their own worse enemy though. Too many ad' breaks that are too long and I suspect that most people turn over and watch something else. I know I do.

Bring back 3 minute breaks every 20 mins.
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