Can A Show Be Over-Commercialized?

[Danny99]

Have you ever seen so many commercials for a show that it makes you not want to watch it?

Space Channel is playing commercials for Sanctuary with Amanda Tapping constantly, the same commercial fifteen times an hour every hour, so much so that I have the commercial memorized. So much so that I don't want to watch this show.

Space is also getting close to the same level of over-commercialization with the new Nikita.

Am I the only one that feels this way?

 

[cultcross]

The X Factor here seems to have an absolutely absurd amount of commercials. I've taken to watching it on the catch-up service where the commercials are vastly reduced (one assumes that the advertisers don't want to pay extra for their ads to be on the catch-up version)

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Pretty much all shows have too many ads nowadays. DVR and zap em.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Just watch anything on TBS or NatGeo. Every single commercial break consists of the same five commercials.

 

[auntiehill]

Commercialized: to manage on a business basis for profit; to exploit for profit.

Advertised: : to announce publicly especially by a printed notice or a broadcast; to call public attention to especially by emphasizing desirable qualities so as to arouse a desire to buy or patronize.

A TV show cannot be over-commercialized, as it's a business and is already "commerce." It can, however, be over-advertised.

To quote Princess Bride:
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

 

[FormerLurker]

Overcommercialized? I thought that was when the local syndication station took the syndication edits of shows and movies and edited them for syndication. You know, so they can fit in more ads. (Denver's 2, I'm looking at you!)

 

[wamdue]

The X Factor here seems to have an absolutely absurd amount of commercials. I've taken to watching it on the catch-up service where the commercials are vastly reduced (one assumes that the advertisers don't want to pay extra for their ads to be on the catch-up version)

lets be honest the whole show is just a commercail for whichever acts get a record contract out of it anyways.

 

[RandyS]

This question reminds me of when Friends premiered. For the first two years, you couldn't turn on NBC without seeing an ad for that show, or the actors doing commercials for other products. And, you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing that damn theme song. That got old real fast.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Have you ever seen so many commercials for a show that it makes you not want to watch it?

Space Channel is playing commercials for Sanctuary with Amanda Tapping constantly, the same commercial fifteen times an hour every hour, so much so that I have the commercial memorized. So much so that I don't want to watch this show.

Space is also getting close to the same level of over-commercialization with the new Nikita.

Am I the only one that feels this way?

This is why I'm considering getting rid of Space (and maybe Bell ExpressVu as well)-it's now too expensive, and Space is not what it use to be, what with it's constant showings of Star Trek: TOS and only Star Trek: TOS. It looks like Space is turning into SyFy North, with a possible change of format similar to what happened to Drive-In Classics (became W Movies) and Scream (became Dusk with less horror.) I also don't like Space News being gone, nor the getting rid of the little interviews in-between each show and the little quotes about sci-fi shows/novels.

 

[Danny99]

Have you ever seen so many commercials for a show that it makes you not want to watch it?

Space Channel is playing commercials for Sanctuary with Amanda Tapping constantly, the same commercial fifteen times an hour every hour, so much so that I have the commercial memorized. So much so that I don't want to watch this show.

Space is also getting close to the same level of over-commercialization with the new Nikita.

Am I the only one that feels this way?

This is why I'm considering getting rid of Space (and maybe Bell ExpressVu as well)-it's now too expensive, and Space is not what it use to be, what with it's constant showings of Star Trek: TOS and only Star Trek: TOS. It looks like Space is turning into SyFy North, with a possible change of format similar to what happened to Drive-In Classics (became W Movies) and Scream (became Dusk with less horror.) I also don't like Space News being gone, nor the getting rid of the little interviews in-between each show and the little quotes about sci-fi shows/novels.

I find that any Space person drives me insane, especially Ajay Wilson and Teddy Wilson, who host the SGU after show among other things. Their show seems so sanitized, even the questions they answer are clean and shed no really light or bear any kind of conversation out of it.

 

[Checkmate]

I hit that mark a few years ago, and I've pretty much given up supporting television, network or cable as a result. If I want to watch something now, I download it illegally if I bother with it at all. I feel bad about that, but it's the God's honest truth. The oversaturation of commercials plus constant and random changes in show times have completely driven me away from supporting them in any positive way.

I just wish there were a way for me to gain access to HBO and similar channels without having to support the shit networks.

 

[FormerLurker]

Space will only be Syfy North when they start airing wrestling.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

^By not having what it used to, I'd say that Space is there already.

 

[Rygel XIX]

By the way, this thread is not..

THE EVENT

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Remain indoors.

 

[FormerLurker]

^By not having what it used to, I'd say that Space is there already.

Syfy doesn't have what Sci Fi had, but it didn't become Syfy until it had wrestling.

By the way, this thread is not..

THE EVENT

Why would you want it to be?

 

[Joe Washington]

A show can get over-commercialized if it has longer breaks between acts of the episode involving commercials, had logos popping up in the bottom part of the screen during the showing of the episode, and had product placement going on in certain scenes of the episode. That pretty much describe a growing number of shows like that on TV.

 

[FormerLurker]

Repeats on Denver's 2 have the same problem, but without the product placement.