tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post1226202186862234630..comments2024-02-13T10:20:04.888+00:00Comments on David Hepworth's blog: Memo to TV: if you've got something to say, spit it outDavid Hepworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973053694541321308noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-77012498493177767272013-03-15T13:58:27.256+00:002013-03-15T13:58:27.256+00:00I watch a lot of TV documentaries. Commercial chan...I watch a lot of TV documentaries. Commercial channels have long been that way but BBC Four's getting the same: Three- or four-minute self-trailer at the top with all the best quotes and clips, as if desperate to prove you shouldn't abandon it. <br /><br />I can see the point in a live multichannel market, but like a lot I watch most of my TV on timeshift so I can't imagine I would suddenly decide not to bother on the basis of the first two minutes. Considering such usage is massively increasing, perhaps the pendulum will swing back towards considered programming.<br /><br />Meanwhile, YouTube are trying to get more like TV, and actively encouraging their "channel" owners to topload; the example they use is show the meal, then show the cookery. No big reveal. Gary Parkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14975876300557119572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-54888484455717571692013-03-13T09:23:17.841+00:002013-03-13T09:23:17.841+00:00Yes, there's an awful lot of self-trailering i...Yes, there's an awful lot of self-trailering in programmes these days, which multiplies on commercial television. Not only do you get the "Coming up..." voiceover at the beginning, followed by clips from the show you're already bloody watching, but then you get the same thing before each break. Returning from each break, we're then informed that "Before the break, this happened", and shown yet more clips we've already seen.<br /><br />So in an hour's show (which lasts about 48 minutes), you end up watching maybe 40 minutes of unique content, with some of the clips being repeated about 6 or 7 times. It's time-wasting flannel.DuffPaddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831500515489721893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-54154323786420684992013-03-13T03:10:13.190+00:002013-03-13T03:10:13.190+00:00I like the way Melvyn Bragg opens episodes of &quo...I like the way Melvyn Bragg opens episodes of "In Our Time" on Radio 4.<br /><br />"Hello...", he blurts hastily, and without catching a breath, he's off and into his stride.Tim https://www.blogger.com/profile/08572845656543218032noreply@blogger.com