30.1.14 Suffering Mr Selfridge

ITV rams down our throats the message that it is "Channel of the Year" hundreds of times per day, with the on-screen logo.  I note that none of the previous winners of this dubious award have chosen to adopt such a tactic. Still, ITV is so far up its own arse, it commissions lengthy adverts for itself, and bored the fucking arse off me with the repetitive "ITV - Where Drama Lives" bollocks.  Repetition is of course a factor that can drive viewers insane.  I talk not of repeated programmes.  No, whole programmes being repeated is simply a fact of life now, and all channels are up to their necks in cheap TV and repeats.  I refer to other 'snippets of shit' that are drowning us all.

Mental Torture

Repeated showing of something short is an appalling abuse of the audience. For example, in my ITV region, the one-hour and two-hour dramas are sponsored by Viking River Cruises.  That's fine - to a point.  However, the tactic of starting and finishing every break in the main programme with a plug for VRC is mind numbing.  The adverts sandwiched between the VRC plugs actually become mild salvation.  The repetitive bollocks is removing brain cells from each and every viewer.  The whole phenomenon of 'sponsorship' is awful.

128 Cuntin Trailers Per Week

Worse, far worse, than anything else is the manic frenzy that takes over the CIC at ITV, those who sanction the ludicrous cunting policy of bombarding me with trailers for cunting Mr Selfridge.  This shite is aired on Sunday nights at 9pm.  However, there is a need to make sure we know this programme is on that rivals our need for fucking oxygen - so the CIC would have us believe. From Monday (yes, hours after one annoying episode) we are subjected to reminders that it's on again on Sunday at 9pm.  Arggghhhhh!

Yes, the award for most nauseating approach ever adopted by a terrestrial channel goes to ITV1 for its incessant cajoling of the UK viewers to watch Mr Selfridge.  This amounts to an infringement of my human rights, and I demand that the CIC have a rethink about how to act responsibly.


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