History AdoredByTheNetwork / LiveACtionTV

* It was big news in the UK in 2011 when Channel 4 announced it would no longer show ''Series/{{Friends}}''. E4 aired it as much as 7 or 8 times a day. ''Friends'' achieved something few American LongRunners manage in Britain, with every episode being shown, and in UsefulNotes/PrimeTime -- [[Series/{{Ellen}} unlike]] [[Series/{{Frasier}} many]] [[Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet of]] [[Series/TheSopranos its]] [[Series/WillAndGrace compatriots]]. In the end, Creator/ComedyCentral took up the ''Friends'' slack.

* Jay Leno is an example of this happening with a person instead of a show. In 1992, Creator/{{NBC}} picked him to host ''Series/TheTonightShow'' over Creator/DavidLetterman when Johnny Carson retired. In 2009/2010, after an abortive shot at a UsefulNotes/PrimeTime VarietyShow and some [[ScrewedByTheNetwork serious]] ExecutiveMeddling, he returned to ''The Tonight Show'' at the expense of Creator/ConanOBrien. This was followed by a major uproar.

* While at first it may not look like fitting that trope (mainly due to airing only 2 or 3 times during every day), for [[UsefulNotes/FlemishTVStations Ketnet]] it probably is the news show ''Karrewiet''. This is noticeable because on their website, the show has a special section dedicated to all the news facts that would be discussed on that show, which is on the main index that also includes a place where you can see all of the programming on the show.

* Portuguese channel TVI aired ''Inspector Max'' on weekend mornings for years, to the extent that you don't even have to watch an episode to know what happens in it. Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, as it's one of the most popular shows of its era, though it had to endure some audience fatigue in later years... which wasn't enough to stop TVI from bringing it back for a new, updated third season on weekend afternoons.

* Like USA above, the UK channel [[Creator/Channel5 5USA]] seems to exist solely to show ''Series/{{CSI}}'' (nearly always Seasons 10 and 11, the Langston years), ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' and all of their associated spin-off shows. They ''did'' eventually stop running them with ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' taking up the slack.

* Like USA above, the UK channel [[Creator/Channel5 5USA]] seems to exist solely to show ''Series/{{CSI}}'' (nearly always Seasons 10 and 11, the Langston years), ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' and all of their associated spin-off shows.

* ''Scrubs'' rose in popularity in Germany during the late Zeroes. [=ProSieben=] used this to completely rework their daytime programming of scripted reality shows to sitcom reruns and showed the new episodes in the primetime instead of Saturday afternoon. The block started around 12am and showed double to quadruple episodes of 3 to four shows. AND because of last days episodes being rerun in the morning hours this sometimes resulted in 8 episodes of Scrubs per day (10 when they aired new ones in the primetime). Ratings for the retooled / PostScriptSeason were the best of the entire shows run over here; if [=ProSieben=] had any word in it they wouldn´t have cancelled Scrubs.

* BBC One gave heavy promotion for the UK reboot of ''Survivor '' upon it's launch in October 2023, with £30million of public money going towards it's production and endless advertising on all BBC channels. It was also given the prime Saturday and Sunday night slot after ''Series/StrictlyComeDancing'', itself following ''Series/DoctorWho'' on Saturday. When the BBC launched it's Christmas idents in 2023, Survivor was the first show to be introduced with them. The final two episodes will air at 6pm and 9pm on the ''same night'', with the 2-hour ''Strictly'' final at 7pm.

* Creator/Channel5 is in love with ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/LawAndOrder''; tune in on any other night and you're sure to get a good three hours of repeats. Gets worse on their extra channels like Five USA.

* ''Series/HomeAndAway'' and ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'' are shown at least twice a day on Creator/Channel5, once at around lunchtime, and again (normally the same episodes of both) between 5:30 and 6:30.

* BBC One gave heavy promotion for the UK reboot of ''Survivor '' upon it's launch in October 2023, with £30million of public money going towards it's production and endless advertising on all BBC channels. It was also given the prime Saturday and Sunday night slot after ''Strictly Come Dancing'', itself following ''Doctor Who'' on Saturday. When the BBC launched it's Christmas idents in 2023, Survivor was the first show to be introduced with them. The final two episodes will air at 6pm and 9pm on the ''same night'', with the 2-hour ''Strictly'' final at 7pm.
** Despite the extreme promotion and leading out from two of the BBC's flagship series, it was hit with very poor ratings and a disappointing reception, beaten in the ratings by ''Series/TheVoice'' on ITV and even ''Series/AntiquesRoadshow'' on BBC Two, which was moved from BBC One's Sunday 8pm slot to the same time on BBC Two just for Survivor.

* BBC One gave heavy promotion for the UK reboot of ''Survivor '' upon it's launch in October 2023, with £30million of public money going towards it's production and endless advertising on all BBC channels. It was also given the prime Saturday and Sunday night slot after ''Strictly Come Dancing'', itself following ''Doctor Who'' on Saturday. When the BBC launched it's Christmas idents in 2023, Survivor was the first show to be introduced with them. Despite the extreme promotion and leading out from two of the BBC's flagship series, it was hit with very poor ratings and a disappointing reception, beaten in the ratings by ''Series/TheVoice'' on ITV and even ''Series/AntiquesRoadshow'' on BBC Two, which was moved from BBC One's Sunday 8pm slot to the same time on BBC Two just for Survivor.

** ''Series/{{Castle}}'' now seems to be a favorite, airing Monday through Thursday evenings.

** In their bid to unionize, the writers of ''Ridiculousness'' [[https://www.avclub.com/unionizing-ridiculousness-writers-ask-mtv-to-please-mak-1850795439 actually asked MTV to]] ''[[https://www.avclub.com/unionizing-ridiculousness-writers-ask-mtv-to-please-mak-1850795439 order more shows]]'', presumably due to workload the writers have in creating the only show MTV airs regularly.

* Creator/{{ION}}'s ''entire weekday schedule'' is basically one or two shows (such as ''Series/GhostWhisperer'', ''Series/WithoutATrace'', and ''Series/CriminalMinds'') on weekdays. That's it. Outside of ''Wrestling/WWEMainEvent'' on Wednesdays, before ION stopped airing it, the remaining hours are paid, religious, or children's programming.

* RealityTV quickly became this for pretty much every network out there. Every entertainment or lifestyle network has a low-cost, high-profit reality show to function as the reliable network tentpole. In fact, the really successful U.S networks have ''two'', with CBS and Creator/{{FOX}} having a "summer series" (''Big Brother'' and ''So You Think You Can Dance,'' alongside ''Survivor'' and ''American Idol,'' respectively) to hold viewers during the lean summer months. (In fact, one industry professional has said part of NBC's troubles at the turn of TheNewTens might be their not having one, with ''The Voice'' still being fairly new at the time. ''Series/ThirtyRock'', being a critically-acclaimed low-rating scripted NBC series with a penchant for BitingTheHandHumor, frequently made jokes about how reality shows were just awful but also big moneymakers and yet and how NBC ''still'' couldn't find a winning one).

*** This was also why ''Film/TheRoom'' became their go-to AprilFoolsDay broadcast - Tim and Eric are fans of it.

* Like USA above, the UK channel [[Creator/ChannelFive 5USA]] seems to exist solely to show ''Series/{{CSI}}'' (nearly always Seasons 10 and 11, the Langston years), ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' and all of their associated spin-off shows.

* Creator/ChannelFive is in love with ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/LawAndOrder''; tune in on any other night and you're sure to get a good three hours of repeats. Gets worse on their extra channels like Five USA.

* ''Series/HomeAndAway'' and ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'' are shown at least twice a day on Creator/ChannelFive, once at around lunchtime, and again (normally the same episodes of both) between 5:30 and 6:30.

** They also seem fond of ''Series/{{Wipeout}}'', airing blocks of it constantly.

* Likewise, Channel 4 and/or More4 always seem to have ''Series/FatherTed'' somewhere in their schedules.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Australian network [=ABC4Kids=] loves it and its spinoffs so much that they (as of 2015) even have a phase of taking down ''Sesame'' clips on Website/YouTube, claiming that they are "The Real Sesame Street".

* [[Creator/Channel4 More Four]] loves ''Series/TimeTeam''. At least two hours a day, every day regardless of what else is in the schedule.
* British kids channel Kix loves ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' so much that they named their second channel (Kix Power) in its honour, and that channel's first six weeks' schedules are non-stop ''Power Rangers''. Nothing else.

* Likewise, Channel 4 and/or E4 always seem to have ''Series/FatherTed'' somewhere in their schedules.
* UK TV Gold/Gold and ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses''. There will be at minimum one or two episodes a day. On the most extreme days? What seems like nonstop episodes from about dawn to dusk, to the point you could probably use the channel as an alternative to the DVD box set.

** In January 2012, Channel Five showed an "entirely reasonable" 3 hours a day of coverage. However, that might just fit the trope even more, since then-channel owner Richard Desmond mandated ''endless'' coverage of Big Brother in the various newspapers he owned, making it a network favorite across multiple media.

* In New Zealand, ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' is played at least once a day on TV2, and ''Series/{{Friends}}'' was at one time airing at 3 different time slots at 3 different points in the series, with all 3 playing in the same 2-hour block.

** The UK and Irish incarnation of the channel took over the rights to ''Series/{{Friends}} since Channel 4 lost them. Since then, ''Friends'' marathons are effectively their entire daytime lineup. Friends Fest is a non stop marathon of friends which lasts for a week. This event happens at least once every other month on top of the already heavy rotation of friends on a normal day.
"When Friends isn't on the UK and Irish Comedy Central then it's usually Impractical Jokers taking up what ever slots there is left.

* Currently it´s a great time for German Star Trek fans. ZDFneo shows the classic series (even with the previously banned Nazi planet episode) daily for years now and Tele5 gives us from morning till primetime Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation in an endless loop that only manages to be broken up by equally spammed Stargate reruns. To round up the package Voyager gets shown in the primetime on Thursday.
* ''Scrubs'' rose in popularity in Germany during the late Zeroes. Pro7 used this to completely rework their daytime programming of scripted reality shows to sitcom reruns and showed the new episodes in the primetime instead of Saturday afternoon. The block started around 12am and showed double to quadruple episodes of 3 to four shows. AND because of last days episodes being rerun in the morning hours this sometimes resulted in 8 episodes of Scrubs per day (10 when they aired new ones in the primetime). Ratings for the retooled / PostScriptSeason were the best of the entire shows run over here; if Pro7 had any word in it they wouldn´t have cancelled Scrubs.

* At one point, HGTV was almost entirely made up of ''House Hunters'', ''House Hunters International'', and ''House Hunters Renovations''. These days, whenever HGTV isn't airing episodes of ''House Hunters'', ''My First House'', or ''Series/PropertyBrothers'', they're airing ''Love It or List It''.

* Canada's [[Creator/ShowcaseTelevision Showcase]] shares the same fixation with the [[Series/{{NCIS}} Naval Criminal Investigative Service]] as USA Network. Before that it was ''CSI'', which at least has a rational explanation as Alliance Atlantis (the channel's owners at the time) were one of the show's ''producers'', making it essentially free for Showcase to run and rerun and rerun it again.