Horizon
has been dumbed down, along with many other television programmes.

Ever watched Scrapheap Challenge? It's a good bit of light entertainment with people making functional (sometimes) machines out of scrap. It has an American equivalent, made by the same people, called Junkyard Wars, which was also shown here.

Despite the fact it's essentially the same programme, the US version does many things differently. For one, they show a teaser shot of the final machines right at the beginning, and keep on doing so throughout. They also repeat several scenes after each ad break, just in case you weren't following what went on. And at the end, if there's a crash or an incident of any sort, they show innumerable repeats of it.

All of this really gets on my tits.

It's like we're not smart enough to follow what's going on without it being repeated a dozen times at every opportunity. And there's that little teaser bit to make sure you keep watching to the end.

Aaaaarrrggghhhh!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 11:52, Reply)