When local commercials cover a show.

Short post: I hate when local commercials either start too early or end too late and cover up a meaningful part of a program.  Usually a pre-recorded show is fine because they offer buffers that usually catch up people who just started watching, but live programming can be totally ruined.  Sorry for the short post, but I'm not feeling the best. p

P.S.- I couldn't find a picture to match this post, so a little comedy:

Daughtry.

So as with quite a few Americans, I watched the American Music Awards last night.  This happens to be one of my favorite awards shows for one reason: it is mainly performances.  One of the many performances was by Daughtry.  We all know that quite a few artists out there have no singing ability whatsoever, but this performance was just terrible in my opinion.  Not that they were messing up or anything, just the voices sounded so bad I muted my computer and waited until they were done to turn it back on.  What I also discovered last night, Nicki Minaj is not that good of a live singer, and should really stick to her rap and 'English' voice.

How I can't watch 90s TV shows online.

So today I was feeling nostalgic.  For some reason, The Amanda Show popped into my head (probably since I watched 'She's the Man' the other day), and I wanted to watch some re-runs.  First I check Hulu, and it forwarded me to Nick.com.  "Sweet!", I thought.  But no, it was one segment of Moody's Point.  So next I went to YouTube.  I found an account that had uploaded the entire first season, with each episode split into 3 parts.  Success....right?  Nope, Viacom (the company that owns Nickelodeon, CBS, etc...) requested that YouTube remove the first part of every episode.  Not the 2nd and 3rd parts, just the 1st.  Pardon my French, but that was a bitch move.  If they're never going to air the episodes again, why not allow them to be posted online somewhere?


P.S.- If anyone knows where I can watch them online, TELL ME.
P.P.S- Has anyone heard from Amanda Bynes lately?

When TV shows get covered by something else.

You know what sucks?  I set my DVR to record Fringe last Friday right?  Well, apparently, Fox seems to think that the World Series is more important than my entertainment.  Not to sound rude, but they were wrong. What's even worse is when the local affiliate thinks that some message of theirs is more important than the scheduled show.  The local NBC station here has been putting a non-transparent ticker across the bottom of the screen about their upcoming deal with Dish Network for over a week now.  It stays on the screen for almost 3 minutes, and never during commercials.  Another example: a few years back, ABC had the finale for the show 'American Inventor' scheduled for a Wednesday night.  KEYT (the local ABC affiliate) decided that Fiesta dancing was more important, even though anyone that lives in SB could just go downtown to watch it for free.  This was back before they put their shows online, so to this day, I haven't seen the finale to that show.

ABC Family and straight-to-DVD movies.

You know what bugs me?  Wait, you do.  Ok, lame intro aside, I get terribly annoyed by ABC Family movies, and their predictable nature.  You can assume they took a good movie, example: Mean Girls, throw in similar characters (sometimes a near relative), and modify the plot a teeeeeensy little bit, and BAM! New made for TV movie!.  Even worse are the straight to DVD movies.  Although I have never seen a single one, I crown the worst offenders as Air Bud and the like.  They can't really make that much money on them, barely even breaking even seems impossible to me, but they keep making them!  They serve no purpose besides in-car entertainment for 5 years old on road trips.   They also suck with naming them.

Pointless sponsorships.

Wha? Huh?

Ever been watching some live sporting event or race and notice one of the sponsors?  Ever wonder why they are the "Official (enter product here) of the (event)"? I understand that they are advertising, and that it doesn't matter what event it is, but do they really feel like they need the endorsement of some self-proclaimed "offical group"?  Example: Goodyear is "The official tire of NASCAR."  That makes sense.  Tires and cars go together.  What doesn't make sense?  "Bridgestone is the official tire of the NHL."  Other than Zambonis, what in the NHL uses tires?  And tell me, what sport needs an "official" beer?  What I do like, how the Olympics control their sponsors, calling them "Proud Partners".  So much more class.

Survivorman and Man vs. Wild.

Normally captioned with "Better drink my own piss".

When I turn on the Discovery Channel, I hope that Mythbusters will be on.  Even if it's a rerun.  What do I find most of the time?  Survivorman or Man vs. Wild.  Neither of these shows have any point to the normal TV watcher.  I didn't even mention Dual Survival yet.  When will you find yourself stuck in the marshes of Patagonia?  Hopefully never.  When Discovery has all sorts of content to put on the air in the way of documentaries, specials, and other programming, why must they fill every opening with some overrated survival show?  I also see no point in the argument that the Survivorman guy (idk his name) is better than Bear Grylls because he doesn't use a camera crew.  WHO CARES?  No one.  That's who.