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Does excessive advertising of tv shows turn you off of that show?

Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer

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While watching the Law and Order mini marathons on TNT this week they've been advertising the new Steven Bochco show Raising the Bar that premieres next Monday night ad nauseum. Every and I mean every commercial break they show commercials for this show. Not only are they doing that but they air the commercial twice during the break...back to back! I'm a pretty big fan of his stuff. I loved Hill Street Blues, LA Law and NYPD Blue. I liked Murder One. But all these commercials are driving me up the wall. Normally I'd tune in to one of his shows but the excessive amount of commercials have made me decide to avoid it completely. It's just too annoying and I'm sick of the show and it hasn't even aired yet.

Has there ever been a show you refused to watch because the overabundance of commercials for it feels excessive?
 
It has once.

When Sky One bought the rights to what they hoped would be a new hit show, Dark Angel (!), they plastered that evening's episodes of The Simpsons and Stargate SG-1 with a "Dark Angel Countdown" with a logo at the top of the screen. At the end of SG-1 they ran this very loud "countdown" over the top of the credits.

Suffice to say, I immediately changed the channel and I've never watched an episode of Dark Angel.
 
I never watched an episode of The Practice simply because I saw too many ads for it and they all had lawyers yelling adamantly..especially Dylan McDermott.
 
I zap ads so much, I barely notice the advertising. But the ads for My Own Worst Enemy look horrid. I hope the show is better than that.
 
Sometimes, it really can, especially now when the damn ads start to fill up half the bloody screen of the show I'm trying to watch.
 
Jack Bauer said:
Has there ever been a show you refused to watch because the overabundance of commercials for it feels excessive?
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Yes. I developed a mental block about 24 before it even premiered because of the carpet-bombing approach they took to promoting the show; every two or three minutes, there was an excessively loud, frenetic and boomy ad yelling at you. I've still never watched an episode, and it's never once occurred to me to do so because they'd bludgeoned out of me in advance any inclination I might have had.
 
No. The ad strategy is put together by the network completely independently of the production of the actual show, and I think it would be unfair to judge a show by however stupid or ubiquitous the ads may be (it might even keep me from finding a great show).
 
Advertising? On television? You must mean those things that race comically by at 4X speed between shows on my DVR.

Actually, TV promos - when I do catch them - are one of the few pitches that work. I've never switched my deodorant because of an advert, but I've given a few shows that look interesting a try. Recently caught one on FOX for Fringe I'll tape and check out.
 
It's not just excessive commercials, it taking up 35 to 45% percet of the screen with images and moving pictures, and sometimes even fucking sound effects!
 
"Electrical Superstorms! Electrical Superstorms! ELECTRICAL SUPERSTORMS!"



Anyone remember that annoying as fuck LOUD banner ad on this forum a few years back? :rommie:
 
Sadly, I do. Remember the dragon flying over? Remember THIS?:

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I made fun of it here, but that SOB, as I recall, scrolled with you!!!
 
Tharpdevenport said:
Sadly, I do. Remember the dragon flying over? Remember THIS?:

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I made fun of it here, but that SOB, as I recall, scrolled with you!!!
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*twitch twitch*

Yeah I remember that bastard!! I think I had blocked it out of my memory until now. And you're right, it did scroll with you. Ugh.
 
anyshow that is advertised by blocking 1/3rd of the screen of something that i watch (or pops up on here, or there was one incredible hulk (the Ang Lee movie from a few years back) ad that shook my whole screen a bunch of times then had the hulk just BURST out of the page i was viewing like the fucking kool-aid man, no way to stop the ad or close it until it's 5 minute diatribe ended) i do not buy or view or even care for, this kind of invasive advertiseing must stop
 
ya know, it's not a far leap from these annoying popup ads to having the bottom 3rd of the screen reserved for constant ads with sound overlapping the show, is there any way of making these popup ads stop now before they get out of hand?

and as for the pauseing the family guy thing, gimmie the name of the AD exec who thought that THAT was a good idea, and he will be dead in the next 38 hours
 
Excessive advertising of anything will turn me off the product unless I had some preexisting interest in it. This is one reason why I mute commercials, hardly listen to the radio, and avoid ad-clogged websites.

I can't stand being bombarded with marketing 24 hours a day, it makes me sick. Yet when I mute the TV, people say I'm the weird one. Feh.
 
Yes it did, 2 cable channels had us remove the entire packages from or cable package and resort just to the basic cable packages.....the 2 channels were the Sci-fi and the Paramount comedy channel, both seemed to have 10 mins of actual program then 10 mins of adverts, just became unwatchable.
 
Aragorn said:
^ Intrusive ads that take up the bottom third of the screen is the past. THIS is the future: TBS pauses Family Guy
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Fucking hell.

I will not watch anything on E4 over here - every programme they have, such as Scrubs, Skins, Reaper, The Inbetweeners and Big Brother, is advertised into the ground, with any given show being advertised roughly 1 in 2 ad breaks. Granted I like Scrubs and Skins anyway, but anything else I will have to accidentally stumble upon or I will never watch it.

Although that seems pretty pale compared to show pausing scum over the pond.
 
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