History AdoredByTheNetwork / LiveACtionTV

* From the late '90s to the early 2000s, Canadians couldn't turn on a TV during the morning without seeing ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' on more than one channel, since the series was shown five times a day on three different channels for the sole purpose of filling [=CanCon=] requirements.

** Creator/HamishAndAndy did a TakeThat to the tacit in their first Gap Year TV series, which was [[{{Irony}} actually broadcast on Nine]].[[note]]Funnily enough, this joke is retained in the 6-episode version available on Stan[[/note]] In a “100 Second New York Lessond” on Broadway, there’s a joke about ''Two and a Half Men'' being based on an extremely-popular Broadway troop called “Almost Three Chaps”[[note]]containing two guys and a young boy who resemble the show’s main characters[[/note]], which also had a fair share of popular repeats much like what Nine do to ''Two and a Half Men''

** Creator/HamishAndAndy did a TakeThat to the tacit in their first Gap Year TV series, which was [[{{Irony}} broadcast on Nine]]. In a “100 Second New York Lessond” on Broadway, there’s a joke about ''Two and a Half Men'' being based on an extremely-popular Broadway troop called “Almost Three Chaps”, which had a fair share of popular repeats much like what Nine do to ''Two and a Half Men''.

** Some have speculated that this is a conspiracy hatched by Fox to get viewers to buy Foxtel.

** Creator/HamishAndAndy did a TakeThat to the tacit in their first Gap Year TV series, which was [[Irony broadcast on Nine]]. In a “100 Second New York Lessond” on Broadway, there’s a joke about ''Two and a Half Men'' being based on an extremely-popular Broadway troop called “Almost Three Chaps”, which had a fair share of popular repeats much like what Nine do to ''Two and a Half Men''.

* In Australia, the Creator/NineNetwork used to have a spectacular case of this for ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen''. Every weeknight immediately after the news and A Current Affair, in the filler timeslot once taken up by many a game show, ''Two and a Half Men'' played for years (except in regional areas, where a half-hour of local news continued to use this timeslot). Following Creator/CharlieSheen's swan dive off the deep end, Nine seems to have shifted this treatment and its former daily timeslots to ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''; there is nary a glimpse of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' anywhere on the network anymore. They shifted it over to their secondary channel 'GO!', and even then it runs comparatively infrequently. Meanwhile, ''Series/TopGearUK'' also seems to have become a similar object of Nine's affection.

** On the other side of the pond, CBBC aired this show twice a day every day of the week. They also played the episodes "The Fish Story" and "The Trouble with Truman" quite often.

** This treatment was given to the spin-off ''Series/YoungSheldon'' before it even aired. CBS tried to use any opportunity they can to hype it up, from promos at the end of ad breaks and Comic Con.

* It was big news 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. Parodied by ''Series/DeadRingers'':

** Averted, surprisingly, with ''Series/{{Glee}}'' (to which E4 had the rights to run episodes from the first two seasons), ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' and several other high profile American shows. E4's business model largely revolves around buying up the rights to American shows before they're popular and hoping they turn into smash hits.
** Channel 4's breakfast/early morning schedule revolves around rerunning entire series of recent American sitcom classics. Between seven and eleven every morning, ''Series/WillAndGrace'', ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'' and ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' are all in perpetual rerun. [=C4=] also '''loves''' ''[[Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond Raymond]]'' possibly more than Marie Barone does. Apart from two episodes shelved because of {{Watershed}} concerns, 208 out of 210 episodes are in permanent re-run from first to last and have been continually cycled for ''over six years'' in a six-days-a-week morning slot. Sporadically, ''Series/AccordingToJim'' is added to the mix.

* There's a Russian RealityShow called ''House-2''. Its concept involves a bunch of people locked in a big house and "trying to create love". It is very successful (licenses are sold to several countries), has a huge fanbase, and the typical HypeBacklash-induced hatedom. There was a time when it was aired almost 24/7, until the network lost a major lawsuit regarding sexual content and was forced to move it to a strict late-evening slot.

* ''Series/TheBiggestLoser'' seems to have become this for NBC. It seems right after one season ends, the next one is on 2 weeks later. It doesn't help it's a 2 hour show, and it's on for several weeks at best. (NBC's adoration of ''The Biggest Loser'' was something of a RunningGag on ''Series/ThirtyRock'', which loved to [[BitingTheHandHumor poke fun at NBC and its corporate parents (GE at first, then Comcast)]].)
* 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.
* In Australia, the Creator/NineNetwork used to have a spectacular case of this for ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen''. Every weeknight immediately after the news and A Current Affair, in the filler timeslot once taken up by many a game show, ''Two and a Half Men'' played for years (except in regional areas, where a half-hour of local news continued to use this timeslot). Following Creator/CharlieSheen's swandive off the deep end, Nine seems to have shifted this treatment and its former daily timeslots to ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''; there is nary a glimpse of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' anywhere on the network anymore. They shifted it over to their secondary channel 'GO!', and even then it runs comparatively infrequently. Meanwhile, ''Series/TopGearUK'' also seems to have become a similar object of Nine's affection.

** When they're ''not'' fufilling their [=CanCon=] quotas, ''The Big Bang Theory'', and for a time, ''Series/{{Community}}'', were their standbys. Then, they moved ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (though it still aired at 8pm for a while), ''Series/{{Conan}}'', and several other low-brow Comedy Central shows to Creator/MuchMusic just to free up more timeslots for reruns of said shows in primetime (although, this also came after the CRTC rejected a request by Bell to allow it to air more animated programming; the restriction is meant to protect Creator/{{Teletoon}}). ''The Simpsons'' did return to a traditional weeknight slot on Comedy, however.

** ''Any'' Disney Channel Original Series that's live action. On Creator/FamilyChannel in Canada, The ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Suite]]'' ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck Life]]'' and ''Series/HannahMontana'' have been played many, many times over; it's pretty much [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment hell]] to anyone that hates Disney Channel's live action shows. Oh, and ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' and ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' were still being aired in the dead-hours until circa fall 2012, and began reairing them occasionally in 2015. (Those two shows were never reaired again in the US before 2013, save for 2010, where it aired all its episodes for awhile.)

** The same case with stations which air locally-produced "daytime shows" which are [[AdvertisingDisguisedAsNews barely disguised]] {{Infomercial}}s for local businesses and fully scripted. Literally only the person in the station's control room may be watching, but the station gets the money from the sponsor even if the show has no ratings to speak of, so the rest of the station's market has to suffer through it because it gives said businesses "exposure".

*** In the two weeks before a house flipping seminar comes to the local Days Inn Airport ballroom, expect to see nothing but Armando Montelongo, the Yanceys or that one guy from the failed Spike TV house flipping show in every infomercial slot until then trying to lure viewers down there, as they bulk-buy every slot possible in a local market to saturate viewers with their house flipping seminars.
* In a cross-over with NetworkDecay, Creator/{{Syfy}} does this a lot. For awhile, the fixation was ''Series/GhostHunters''. No matter the time of day, chances are that 4.5 out of 5 times they'll be airing an episode of either it or its spinoff ''Ghost Hunters International''. Consider that Syfy already has a stable of shows (the ''Stargate'' franchise, ''Farscape'', etc.), but you have to actually HUNT those down.

* In Australia, Creator/NetworkTen spares no expense in promoting whichever long-running reality show it has going at the time - over the years, this role has been filled by the likes of ''[[Series/AmericanIdol Australian Idol]]'', ''Series/BigBrother'' and currently ''Series/MasterChef''. All of these ran in some form at least once a day for an hour, and in the case of ''Big Brother'' received no end of supplementary programming at all hours. Though ''Big Brother'' eventually died off, the network tried everything they could to keep the audience and heavily promoted it. Not that it worked, but at that point it had enjoyed a solid run for eight or nine years.

** ''Series/{{Cops}}'' is to Spike what ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is to [[Creator/FXNetworks FXX]], ever since they acquired the rights to the show and had it do a ChannelHop from Creator/{{Fox}}. Its low production costs, steady ratings, and deep episode library means it's the Spackle they use to fill holes in their schedule. Their overnight schedule seems to frequently be a marathon of alternating episodes of ''COPS'' and ''Jail.''

** In a strange case of a network becoming infatuated with a U.S. state rather than a show, Discovery's parent company has recently been milking Alaska for reality show material, thus resulting in shows like ''Gold Rush Alaska'' and ''Flying Wild Alaska''. Discovery is no stranger to paying tribute to the blue collar lifestyle (see the aforementioned ''Dirty Jobs'' and ''Deadliest Catch''), but not until late 2010 did they focus this much attention on Alaska specifically.

** It had started as nothing special though with pretty average, if not low, ratings...until it won them a Primetime Emmy (first for the network). From that point forward Creator/AdultSwim, taking notes from critical darlings with low ratings (just around that time ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' was picked up by Netflix) was whoring them like there's no tomorrow, plugging them anywhere they could and even berating everyone in viewer bumps who dared to write it sucks. In a way, it worked, show was a success and ended on their own terms.

** If Creator/TimAndEric so much as sneeze on something, AS will pick it up for a three season run. It helps that a large segment of their target demographic tends to be drunk and/or stoned when they tend to air Tim and Eric's stuff (in the 10:00-11:00 PM range), given that Tim and Eric's target seems to be "People who are habitually drunk and/or stoned. [[WatchItStoned Especially stoned]]."

** And in general subjects, History Channel had went through various "Adoring a single topic in history" -- first the Civil War, then WWII, then just Hitler. And for about a year, they were constantly playing documentaries about the Freemasons and Knights Templar, then it was disasters (specifically ''Seconds from Disaster'').

** Creator/TheHistoryChannel always runs a ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' marathon about every four months or so. Quite often it coincides with anniversaries of events from WWII but unless it's D-Day the episodes have almost nothing to do with what its commemorating.

* 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.

** How It’s Made is more adored in the United Kingdom, where it airs on FOUR different Discovery owned channels (Discovery Channel, Discovery Science, DMAX and free-to-Air channel Quest).

* Australia's Creator/{{SBS}} has a love affair with ''Series/InspectorRex'', which they pretty much admit on their special ''Inspector Rex'' website. As of this writing the show has more-or-less been slotted in at 7.30pm on Thursday since ''1997'', and marathons are not uncommon.
* Parodied on ''Radio/RoyalCanadianAirFarce'' with a TV guide describing extra channels for cable. ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' was listed at least once per channel, even on the science fiction channels or other speciality channels where it's otherwise unsuitable. The skit finished with the Seinfeld channel - which was filled with the Seinfeld show.
* Back in 2009 Creator/TVLand got the rights to ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' and ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' and one could tell they were quite enthusiastic about it because every night featured a three hour block of ''Roseanne'' followed by a three hour block of ''Married... With Children'' or vice versa.

** For a while it was ''Series/DudeWhatWouldHappen''. This wasn't the first time the station tried to put over a live action show, but it was definitely the show they put the most effort into trying to become popular. As with anything related to CN Real, it went over about as well as you would think. Even after dropping the block, the network still tried to put over ''Dude What Would Happen'', and continued airing it for '''two years''' despite horrible ratings and ''overwhelming'' negative viewer response before finally dropping it.

** To contrast, ''Top Chef: Texas'' began airing when fellow Bravo reality-competition show ''Series/WorkOfArt'' was a little over halfway through. Before, [=WoA=] would air at 9pm then repeat at 11pm, with something inbetween. When TC:T started, [=WoA=] aired at 10... and repeated at 11... and again at 12. If you missed [=WoA=], you had to wait ''3 hours'' before seeing it again. Then the following week, leading up to new [=WoA=] episodes would be... however many of the new TC episodes they had leading up to the newest one of those.

-->"16 full hours of Cake Boss. I checked online, there are only 30 half hour episodes of the show, including the newest episode which aired just last week. Do you know how many hours that is? 15. 15 hours. How the fuck did you run a 16 hour marathon of 15 hours worth of show, The Learning Channel?"

* In a weird sense, The Weather Channel has gotten absolutely hooked on Discovery-style reality shows about roughnecks doing blue collar jobs, such as ''Iceberg Hunters,'' ''Iron Men,'' ''Pyros,'' ''Reef Wranglers'', and a new show about ''mining'', many of which have very little if anything to do with weather.

* Cloo (a NBC-owned cable channel for crime shows) seems to exist for the sole reason of airing reruns of ''Series/BurnNotice''.

* British kids channel Kix loves ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' so much that they named their second channel (Kix Power) in it's honour, and that channel's first six weeks' schedules are non-stop ''Power Rangers''. Nothing else.

* 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 non stop episodes from about dawn to dusk, to the point you could probably use the channel as an alternative to the DVD box set.

** Surprisingly, after the Sesame/''Creator/{{HBO}}'' deal, the HBO Family channel isn't doing this with Sesame reruns, instead usually having one or two airings in the morning, while the afternoon is used for the family friendly movies airing on the HBO networks. This trope was however played straight with ''[[ChristmasEpisode Once Upon A Sesame Street Christmas]]'', as it was aired once a day for the whole month of December, with some days having two airings.
* 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.

* Over 2012-2015, primetime Saturday slots on the BBC -- where they put their most treasured and popular shows -- were inevitably and unsurprisingly occupied by ''Series/StrictlyComeDancing'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', and ''{{Series/Casualty}}'', one after the other during the autumn months when all three were airing new episodes at once. As same day ''Doctor Who'' ratings slipped, however, the debut of Series 10 was moved to Spring 2017, partially so it wouldn't have to compete with sporting events, ''The X Factor'', etc. But it's still on Saturdays.
* In Spain, the most notable case of a show adored by the network is Telecinco's ''Series/LaQueSeAvecina''. Telecinco is operated by Mediaset España, which also owns fiction-centered channel Factoría De Ficción (or simply FDF), whose lineup has relied heavily on ''LQSA'' reruns for quite a long time now. And rightfully so: said reruns are the favorite thing to watch for FDF viewers, to the point legend has it that the constant rerunnings helped boost the new episodes' ratings on Telecinco when the show found itself on the verge of getting cancelled.

* Creator/NationalGeographicChannel loves drug-related series (''To Catch A Smuggler'', ''Drugs Inc.''), fish catching series (''Big Tuna'', ''Big Fish, Texas''), police-esque shows (''Alaska State Troopers'', ''Wild Troopers'', ''Rocky Mountain Law''), and reality shows about people living in rough environments (''Life Below Zero''). They rarely even air traditional documentaries anymore, even less so now that they put the animal shows onto spinoff channel ''Creator/NatGeoWild''.

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' used to be this for Esquire Network. Now its ''Parks And Recreation'', ''Series/{{CSI}}'', ''AND'' ''Series/NCISLosAngeles''. The channel was actually dropped from Dish Network, DirecTV, and AT&T's U-Verse in 2016 because of this, since the latter two shows were ''already airing on USA Network''.

* Creator/{{NBC}} Creator/{{Universal}}'s rerun farm Cozi TV is pretty fickle with who they adore from month to month. During late 2016, for example, they were in love with ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', and had a two hour block of it on weekdays. ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' also received heavy marketing during this period. As of 2019, their marketing and primetime schedules focus primarily on mini-marathons of ''Fraiser'', ''Series/TheNanny'', ''Series/WillAndGrace'', and ''Series/TheOfficeUS''.

* From the late 90's to the early 2000's, Canadians couldn't turn on a TV during the morning without seeing ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' on more than one channel, since the series was shown five times a day on three different channels for the sole purpose of filling [=CanCon=] requirements.

** Challenge used to overadore ''Series/BullseyeUK'', ''Series/{{Pointless}}'', and ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' in the mid 2010's, where both shows would air for at least 4 hours a day. Nowadays, they are averted as ''Pointless'' only gets a single airing on weekdays (sometimes none at all), and the other two shows air in the graveyard slot.

* The original ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' was adored by Creator/NickAtNite, TV Land, Creator/{{WE}}, Creator/{{Logo}}, as they frequently had marathon of the show. Even Creator/{{ABC}} was proud to have it when it was first airing. Then May 29, 2018 happened when Barr posted a tweet many found racist and Islamphobic--and the revival was canned; Creator/{{Hulu}} pulled the show from their service; and TV Land, Creator/ParamountNetwork, and Creator/{{CMT}} pulled reruns of the original.

* Creator/{{MTV}} has lived and breathed this trope throughout its entire existence -- after all, it ''used'' to focus just on music videos for hours on end. Those who recall the endless ''Series/TheRealWorld''/''Series/RoadRules'' marathons from the '90s might find their later ''Series/TheHills'' spin off marathons warmly nostalgic.

** As of July 2020, MTV has essentially become the ''Series/{{Ridiculousness}}'' channel. Towards the end of the 2010's MTV has grew fond of the show, that by 2019, MTV's weekend schedule was bombarded by ''Ridiculousness'' reruns. Then it only grew from there; according to a ''Variety'' [[https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/cable-tv-decline-streaming-cord-cutting-1234710007/ article]], in late-June 2020, a staggering ''113 hours a week'' (out of 168) of MTV's schedule consisted of ''Ridiculousness''. While ''Variety'' suspected that MTV's ''Ridiculousness'' overexposure is a response to increased cord-cutting and competition from streaming networks, the channel denied this.
* Local news on most American stations. Justified in that TV stations ''have'' to run public service programming in order to get a broadcast license from the FCC. It also benefits them in that it's cheaper to produce news than pay for syndicated programming, and it can earn the station some respect if it's high quality. Moreover, larger markets like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, etc. are huge metropolitan areas with a ''lot'' going on that demands coverage. Some of the smaller markets, not so much. In a city the size of, say, Madison, Wisconsin or Des Moines, Iowa, 3-4 hours of news programming tends to get you a lot of "public service" pieces (which usually means cooking segments or visits from the local Humane Society).
** Las Vegas's NBC affiliate was planning to take this to its obvious conclusion; when its contracts to ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' and ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' expired, they just replaced it with news. When they lost ''Series/DoctorPhil'', it was going to be replaced with news. In fact, [[http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/64921/jim-rogers-betting-big-on-news-on-ksnv replacing all non-network programming with news was the station's ultimate plan]] if it wasn't clear enough. Though Sinclair's purchase of the station following the death of its owner threw a wrench into that ambition.
* GSN previously did this with ''Series/DealOrNoDeal''; on any given day, it likely filled every third time slot. Nowadays, it's ''Series/FamilyFeud'' reruns, and ''especially'' the Steve Harvey version. So much so that GSN barely airs any of the previous eras of the show anymore. In fact, many successful, recent GSN originals still get more airtime than actual classic shows nowadays.

** Towards the end of the 2010's MTV has grown fond of airing lots of Ridiculousness reruns especially on weekends, as of 2019 MTV's weekend schedule is usually nothing except Ridiculousness reruns.

* As of May 2020, Laff TV's schedule is comprised of ''Series/NightCourt'', ''Series/That70sShow'', ''Series/HomeImprovement'', ''World's Funniest Videos'', ''Series/GraceUnderFire'' and ''Series/AccordingToJim'' and nothing else. ''Night Court'' seems to get this treatment the most, to the point where they'll use any excuse to run a marathon of it,

* As of May 2020, Laff TV's schedule is comprised of ''Series/NightCourt'', ''Series/That70sShow'', ''Series/HomeImprovement'', ''Series/GraceUnderFire'' and ''Series/AccordingToJim'' and nothing else. ''Night Court'' seems to get this treatment the most, to the point where they'll use any excuse to run a marathon of it,

* As of May 2020, Laff TV's schedule is comprised of ''Series/NightCourt'', ''Series/That70sShow'', ''Series/HomeImprovement'' ''Series/GraceUnderFire'' and ''Series/AccordingToJim'' and nothing else. ''Night Court'' and ''Home Improvement'' seem to get the most airings.

** Being that it's an incarnation of one of their already-adored series, ''Series/TheMatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour'' got this treatment. Months before its' official premiere, a marathon was shown on President's Day and an episode featuring Howie Mandel played during their annual "Lost and Found" event, held a day before the regular premiere. Then, when the show premiered, they would play promos for it during every commercial break on the channel. After this effort, reruns replaced other shows on the network seemingly out of nowhere, usually replacing the slots that belonged to their former network darling ''Supermarket Sweep''. For instance, in spring 2020, an hour of regular ''Match Game'' on weekday mornings was replaced by this show.

** Being that it's an incarnation of one of their already-adored series, ''Series/TheMatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour'' got this treatment. Months before its' official premiere, a marathon was shown on President's Day and an episode featuring Howie Mandel played during their annual "Lost and Found" event, held a day before the regular premiere. Then, when the show premiered, they would play promos for it during every commercial break on the channel. After this effort, reruns replaced other shows on the network seemingly out of nowhere, usually sacrificing slots for their other Network Darling ''Supermarket Sweep''. For instance, in spring 2020, an hour of regular ''Match Game'' on weekday mornings was replaced by this show.

* The fledgling Pop Network knew it had something good with its 2015 flagship show ''Series/SchittsCreek'' even before the show took off via a Netflix bump. Pop spend a huge portion of its small marketing budget on the show, frequently advertised the show on the reruns of better known shows that it aired and when programming failed, it replaced that programming with ''Schitt's Creek'' reruns.]

** Being that it's an incarnation of one of their already-adored series, ''Series/TheMatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour'' got this treatment. Months before its' official premiere, a marathon was shown on President's Day and an episode featuring Howie Mandel played during their annual "Lost and Found" event, held a day before the regular premiere. Then, when the show premiered, they would play promos for it during every commercial break on the channel. After this effort, reruns replaced other shows on the network seemingly out of nowhere. For instance, in spring 2020, an hour of regular ''Match Game'' on weekday mornings was replaced by this show.

* UKTV channel W loves ''Tipping Point'' as much as Ben Shephard does. The show airs for at least 3-5 hours a day, and an 8-hour marathon of the show normally airs on Saturdays.

** When Sky acquired the cable broadcast rights to ''Series/TheChase'' in 2014, the show aired fairly decently with enough variety, but since 2017, they have been really milking the show every chance they get, pretty much the same way Cartoon Network treats Teen Titans Go!. For example:
*** At least 7 episodes (around 4 during the daytime hours and 3 during the midnight hours) air a day, which means around a third of a day on the channel's schedule is airing The Chase.
*** Whenever major holidays are around, Challenge airs an all-day marathon of the series or sometimes a half-day marathon.
** Challenge's most adored shows not named ''The Chase'' happen to be ''Series/{{Pointless}}'', ''Series/BullseyeUK'', and ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'', as those shows air for more than 4 hours a day compared to others on the channel. Since the latter was revived in 2018, the adoration has increased.
** Like with ''The Chase'', Challenge uses the marathon treatment with certain shows on holidays.
** Challenge had a Bruce Forsyth the morning before the ''Merry Chasemas'' marathon, airing ''Play Your Cards Right'' and ''Bruce's Price is Right'' during then. The day after the "Merry Chasemas" marathon, Challenge aired ''Pointless'' all day from 6:00am-8:00pm, with the following days being Morning Marathons of ''Winter Wipeout'', ''Catchphrase'' and another Bruce Forsyth marathon a day later.
** Challenge will sometimes air random marathons of a game show on some weekends.
** During December 24, 2018-January 1, 2019, Challenge had a 5 Hour marathon of a random game show from 7:00am-12:00pm, while ''The Chase'' got a 10-hour marathon.
** For the Easter Week of 2019, during April 15-18, the channel had a 10-hour Marathon of a different game show everyday, those being ''Catchphrase'', ''Family Fortunes'', ''The Price is Right'' [[note]] This one was technically a 12-hour marathon as during the morning of that week, there were already two-hours of the show airing every day. [[/note]] and ''Dale's Supermarket Sweep''. A ''Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'' Marathon aired from 10:00pm-6:00am on Good Friday and Easter Sunday after ''The Chase''.
* For Easter 2020, the same adoration treatment was once again used. A marathon of ''All-Star Family Fortunes'' aired from 7:00am-2:00pm on Good Friday, while an hour was slashed off it on Easter Monday, while ''The Chase'' got it's usual adoration treatment.

* It's not common for UKTV channel W to air a ''Tipping Point'' marathon on Saturdays from 11:00am-7:00pm.

* Ever since UK Game Show channel Challenge acquired the broadcast rights to ''Series/TheChase'', they have been really milking the show every chance they get. As of 2017, the channel has treated the show in Teen Titans Go! levels, which has widely been criticised by many viewers wanting the older game shows. For example:
** On most weekdays, Challenge will air at least 7 episodes (around 4 during the daytime hours and 3 during the midnight hours), which means around a third of a day on the channel's schedule is airing The Chase. This doesn't count the endless marathon treatment the channel has been giving the show.

** Challenge had a Bruce Forsyth Morning the day before the ''Merry Chasemas'' 3 day marathon, airing ''Play Your Cards Right'' and ''Bruce's Price is Right'' during then. The day after the "Merry Chasemas" marathon, Challenge aired ''Pointless'' all day from 6:00am-8:00pm, with the following days being Morning Marathons of ''Winter Wipeout'', ''Catchphrase'' and another Bruce Forsyth marathon a day later.

** During December 24, 2018-January 1, 2019, Challenge had a 5 Hour marathon of a random game show from 7:00am-12:00pm.
** For the Easter Week of 2019, during April 15-18, the channel had a 10-hour Marathon of a different game show everyday, those being ''Catchphrase'', ''Family Fortunes'', ''The Price is Right'' [[note]] This one was technically a 12-hour marathon as the channel airs 2 hours of that show during the morning of that week. [[/note]] and ''Dale's Supermarket Sweep''. A ''Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'' Marathon aired from 10:00pm-6:00am on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

** Being that it's an incarnation of one of their already-adored series, ''Series/TheMatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour'' got this treatment. Months before its' official premiere, a marathon was shown on President's Day and an episode featuring Howie Mandel played during their annual "Lost and Found" event. Then, when the show premiered, they would play promos for it during every commercial break on the channel. After this effort, reruns replaced other shows on the network seemingly out of nowhere. For instance, in spring 2020, an hour of regular ''Match Game'' was replaced by this show.

** Being that it's an incarnation of one of their already-adored series, ''Series/MatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour'' got this treatment. Months before its' official premiere, a marathon was shown on President's Day and an episode featuring Howie Mandel played during their annual "Lost and Found" event. Then, when the show premiered, they would play promos for it during every commercial break on the channel. After this effort, reruns replaced other shows on the network seemingly out of nowhere. For instance, in spring 2020, an hour of regular ''Match Game'' was replaced by this show.

* Buzzr is obsessed with ''Series/MatchGame'' and ''Series/SupermarketSweep'' on weekdays, airing both shows multiple times each day and airing promos for the latter during almost every commercial break. On weekends, they love airing ''Series/SuperPassword'' and ''Series/{{Concentration}}''.

** Pretty much anything that airs on Creator/{{Spike|TV}} is seen in a day-long marathon, ''without exception''. This includes ''Series/{{CSI}}'', ''Series/CSINewYork'', ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'', ''Series/BarRescue'', ''Series/AuctionHunters'', Series/{{Jail}}, or the ''Franchise/StarWars'' series.

* When the Canadian counterpart to Creator/ComedyCentral, Creator/TheComedyNetwork, wants to fill Canadian Content quotas, they mainly air episodes of their ''Just for Laughs''-related programs (mainly the eponymous series and the more recent ''Just for Laughs: All Access'', which are compilations of highlights from the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as it is a major event that attracts big names in stand-up, so it's [[TropesAreNotBad not a bad thing to build a comedy channel around]]. They also air their co-branded hidden camera aeries ''Series/JustForLaughsGags'') and its version of ''Series/MatchGame''. In the past, they just aired a bunch of old episodes of ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' and ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' among others (the "classic" programs have since moved to sister network Comedy Gold, formerly TV Land Canada). Anything else that gets aired excessively can be assumed to be this trope.

* ''Series/FridayNightLights'' was adored by NBC ([[TropesAreNotBad as well as viewers]]), which constantly saved it from cancellation.

* 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. 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.

** When ''Parks'' isn't on Esquire Network, it's on [[Creator/{{FX}} FXX]].