It seems that there is now a trend for programmes on TV to have overly long titles. Further, there seems to be no regard for breaking rules of grammar, meaning that there are examples of multiple colons!
I have counted the letters and punctuation marks, rather than the characters (to include spaces) in determining the results for this week.
In eighth place is the only entry with two sentences in the programme name. More annoying, though, is the fact that we now have to be told that there are normal people in the fucking show rather than celebrities. What a turnaround, and a bollocks end result for this tired old offering now.
8th - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? The People Play [38]
In seventh position, another listing that felt the need for further explanation after the first three words that would have been quite sufficient.
7th - Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas [40]
Sixth place goes to the dodgy 'double colon' entry.
6th - Perspectives: Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues [41]
Fifth spot is linked to someone whose films are extraordinarily long as well.
5th - Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States [43]
Fourth place goes to a film we've all heard of, this being the longest named of the three.
4th - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl [45]
Third position again features the USA and one colon with the forty-five letters.
3rd - The United States of Television: America in Primetime [46]
The runner up position goes to the other double-colon entry for the BBC2 programme.
2nd - Danny Boyle: Man of Wonder - Extended: A Culture Show Special [51]
But the runaway winner by a full seventeen letters is the marvelously titled show on BBC4 last Monday.
1st - Nelson's Caribbean Hell-Hole: An Eighteenth Century Navy Graveyard Uncovered [68]
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