Re: My thoughts on The Weekenders

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Evans
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is inexcusable though is the amount of crap that litters the screen
> (nice rant on your site BTW).

Why, thangyewberrymuch! :)

> Having said that, with seeing TW episodes from US Disney for the first
> time, we should count ourselves lucky - That we can actually just about
> see our programming behind the on-screen graffiti is a bonus. The
> Americans have to put up with animated 'X days to...' messages that
> shoot down the screen DURING the programme! Oh, and did I mention that
> they ran 'up next' messages on an annoying blue bar along the bottom of
> the screen? Again, during the programme.

That's already started. ITV2 has a similar "on next" banner, as does
Toonami, and Channel 5 has a strange looking robot icon that walks across
the screen during Robot Wars...

> > The down side... Adverts on UK television are on the slide. Especially
> > since the abolition of the IBA and some of the regs that were cut when
> > the ITC took over.
> >
> Yeah - how many more sodding loans adverts do we have to suffer?! 'Have
> you been chasing an ambulance in the last three years?'

Yup. Dial 4 an Ocean of Debt Busting Freedom Hotline. I'm sick of the
bloody things, and I doubt if the ITC would do anything to kill them off. 

That and the Famosa/Zapf Toy Tackyads.

> > > Well, later days.
> >
> > Hmmm.. perhaps Jennifer Love-Hewitt thinks she sounds like a dork
> > because she is...? :)

> I wonder how much she got paid for those three lines?

Dunno, but I'd do it! Just give me the chance and I can say it with the
best of them! BTW, is it me or did she look like she had had serious
plastic surgery done to her face in that ep?

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