Annoying.

[zabado]

I'm watching a program and really enjoying it, the advertisements are coming up, then some fool cuts in to say " and coming up " then they tell me what the next part of the program is all about. It's like their telling me the last page of a book when I want to read the whole of the book. So then I have to put up with five or six minutes of PPI adverts or an idiot asking "have you had a trip or a fall that wasn't your fault". Okay that over and my program is about to start again when the same fool cuts in again to tell me what happened earlier, I know I was watching it. Is there any wonder why, I now record ALL my favourite programs.

[douglas9401]

Programme(s).

[Tilly2]

Watch the BBC instead.

[gness]

I know exactly what you mean, Zab.......and it's done part way through programmes too....not just in the adverts.....annoying it is....!

[jim360]

It's a shame this doesn't also happen in books.

"Coming up in the next chapter, Harry's death at the hands of Voldemort isn't as final as it seems! And Neville shows a side of him we never knew, as he stands up to the Dark Lord..."

[Tilly2]

No, Jim! That would be truly awful :-(

You made me laugh though. :-)

[jim360]

Bonus points for those who recognise that those were actually references to two separate chapters. (Dammit).

[gness]

Mmm....didn't like to say..... ;-)

[jim360]

On a separate note, gness, did you get the text last night?

[Cloverjo]

See The Gift Shop sketch by Mitchell and Webb for a great pee-take of this very thing.

[gness]

Oh heck...no, Jim.......will look for phone now.... :-(

[jim360]

for clover...

[jno]

it's aimed at people who channel-hop a lot. Take every chance to tell viewers who've just arrived what they've missed and what's going to happen next.

Means every hour-long programme only has to be 23 minutes. One of many reasons to record everything.

[Cloverjo]

Thanks, Jim. I love that sketch.

[gness]

Clover.....I'd not seen that....it's brilliant!

And as for the BBC, Tilly.....have you tried to watch Countryfile?.... :-)

[Tilly2]

No, Gness. I find it irritating. :-)

[gness]

And thank you, Zab...if you'd not posted this Jim wouldn't have mentioned the text and I wouldn't have found my phone with a message with a changed appointment on it....

Would Gness have missed her appointment......find out later.....but let's look back at how Gness discovered this text....... ;-)

[sunny-dave]

Coming next on AnswerBank - is gness a Keep Fit addict? - but first let us remind you what we've already seen ... [ cut to shot of gness with wine glass ] "I must remember to ask dave if his balls were still glowing when he got home last night" ...

[EDDIE51]

That really annoys me as well. I have heard there is a program that records a program and cuts out the adverts and them lets you watch the recording with no ads. Meaning that you can watch a 1 hour program in under 30 mins. Anyone got it,does it work?

[gness]

Don't know about that, Eddie......I can ignore the ads because I record most programmes I watch.....but

It's the repetition...going back and back again with reminders of what we've already seen during a programme that you can't skip that's so annoying....x

[Old_Geezer]

One thing that irks me, although I'm more used to it now, is at the start of the ad break some fool says, "And next on (whatever) is,", and goes on to mention a programme. When I first encountered it I thought that the end of the last programme seemed odd, as if something had been missed off. Then I realised they were just lying to us. On next, after the ads, was the next part of the programme I was watching. The programme they were talking about wasn't on until later that evening.