History AdoredByTheNetwork / LiveACtionTV

* Two Los Angeles TV stations, KTTV and KCOP (both of which are owned by Fox), have continued to air ''Series/ILoveLucy'', Creator/BobNewhart, Creator/MaryTylerMoore, and Creator/DickVanDyke's TV shows for one hour apiece on each weekday, decades after they were removed from syndication.

** However none of the above examples even come close to Christmas movies as Hallmark REALLY loves Christmas movies[[note]]which makes sense, considering it's owned by a greeting card company that sells Christmas decorations like ornaments - which the network gleefully shills[[/note]]. Not only do they air nothing BUT Christmas movies during November-December, but they take the phrase "Christmas in July" very seriously -- that month most shows are replaced with Christmas movies, ''Golden Girls'', ''Frasier'', ''Cheers'' and ''I Love Lucy'' being the sole exceptions[[note]]sadly, the shows don't stand a chance the actual holiday season[[/note]]. They start their "Countdown to Christmas" in ''October'' and start airing Christmas movies. (It doesn't help that most of these movies have virtually identical plots.)

* HLN is a ''Series/ForensicFiles'' station that will once a day, pray to News Allah and actually air news.

* 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'':
-->Tonight on 4, there's another triple bill of ''Friends'', but first there's a quick update on the scores: Channel 4 has only broadcast 28 hours of ''Friends'' this week, whilst E4 are storming ahead with 37 hours! That's just 19 hours short of total ''Friends'' saturation, and ''[Dalek voice]'' [[AC:believe me, THAT DAY WILL COME!]]

* The original ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' was adored by Creator/NickAtNite, TV Land, Creator/{{WE}}, Creator/{{Logo}}, as they frequently had a 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 Islamophobic--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/HamishAndAndy did a TakeThat to the tacit in their first Gap Year TV series during one of Ryan Shelton’s “100 Second New York Lessonds”, which was [[{{Irony}} actually broadcast on Nine]]. Ryan claims that Series/TwoAndAHalfMen was based on an extremely-popular Broadway troop called “Almost Three Chaps”[[note]]which also contains two guys and a young boy[[/note]], who ran for over 20 years and had shows repeated 30 times a week, much like Nine’s treatment of the show.

* At one point, at any given hour of the day, ''Series/LawAndOrder'' was guaranteed to be on TNT, sapped for or followed by ''Series/{{Bones}}''. They have since replaced by ''Series/{{The Mentalist}}'' and ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.

* 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 [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools not a bad thing to build a comedy channel around]]. They also air their co-branded hidden camera series ''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.

** As Disney Channel's former ''de facto'' Canadian outlet, Creator/FamilyChannel shared many of the same fixations, although joined by Canadian-made [[KidCom KidComs]] of their own (such as ''Series/TheLatestBuzz'' and ''Series/WinginIt'') and continuing reruns of ''Series/LifeWithDerek'' (although ''Derek'' was quite popular to begin with). Another original series, ''Series/TheNextStep'', has also been quite popular: following DHX's purchase of the channel and Family ditching its rights to Disney programming, the network's slate seems to have been increasingly filled with music-related teen dramas that ride off ''The Next Step''.

*** This is, of course, the exact same reason that those stations also run [[{{Infomercial}} infomercials]] in the dead of night.

** For the longest time, old (~1980-1995) episodes of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (edited down to an hour) was the caulk of Comedy Central's highly porous daily schedule. In the mid-2000s, ''SNL'' was replaced as such by ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' once they lost the ''SNL'' rights. Then they lost the rights to ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' (after it being off their schedule for several months) and now it's been reruns of ''Scrubs'', ''Futurama'', ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', ''Tosh.0'', ''Key and Peele'', ''South Park'', and snippets of ''Comedy Central Presents'' (or ''The Half Hour Comedy Special'').

** As of August 2014, the network airs ''[[Series/DirtyJobs Dirty Jobs]]'' marathons practically every other day.

* In New York City, Series/{{Seinfeld}} is aired at least 6 times a day between TBS and the local FOX affiliate.

->''Or [[Main/RuleOfThree maybe]] Franchise/LawAndOrder on Bravo.''

* Creator/NationalGeographicChannel spinoff, and Creator/AnimalPlanet rival, Nat Geo Wild likes to run ''Incredible Dr.Pol'' (or just vet shows period) and Cesar Milan shows a lot. Despite his controversial nature, Cesar has at least two different shows--''Ceasar 911'' and ''Dog Whisperer'' - that air frequently. Unlike Animal Planet though, the channel does still air documentaries often (Again, they seem to enjoy specific animals more than others, such as lions and tigers).

* When COVID-19 shuttered production around the world, the big networks started relying on game shows in primetime more than usual. Typically, any game shows would be relegated to the summer months only, but with a need for programming, many game shows were greenlit just to have ''something'' new to air. It helps that they are relatively cheap, often don't need an audience, and by their very nature can work within social distance requirements. Even with regular production starting to build back up in 2021, game shows were still in the active schedule for ABC, NBC, and Fox, with CBS being the only outlier (outside of the occasional primetime specials for Series/ThePriceIsRight.

* Creator/{{NBC}}'s flagging Saturday Morning schedule was propped up by ''Series/SavedByTheBell''. They loved its ratings so much that they had Peter Engel create [[Series/CaliforniaDreams another show]] with the [[FollowTheLeader same basic premise]] [[RecycledInSpace with a twist]]. When that got good ratings, they cancelled every cartoon on the schedule, gave half of Saturday mornings to its ''other'' favorite show (''Series/{{Today}}''), and gave the other half to Engel and friends.

** For the longest time, The History Channel was The ''Series/ModernMarvels'' Channel: Guaranteed No Historical Documentaries (or we'll give you a free DVD set of ''Modern Marvels''!)

** 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 the news. When they lost ''Series/DoctorPhil'', it was going to be replaced with the 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.

** 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.

** However none of the above examples even come close to Christmas movies as Hallmark REALLY loves Christmas movies[[note]]which makes sense, considering it's owned by a greeting card company that sells Christmas decorations like ornaments - which the network gleefully shills[[/note]]. Not only do they air nothing BUT Christmas movies during November-December, but they take the phrase "Christmas in July" very seriously -- that month most shows are replaced with Christmas movies, ''Golden Girls'', ''Fraiser'', ''Cheers'' and ''I Love Lucy'' being the sole exceptions[[note]]sadly, the shows don't stand a chance the actual holiday season[[/note]]. They start their "Countdown to Christmas" in ''October'' and start airing Christmas movies. (It doesn't help that most of these movies have virtually identical plots.)

* 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''.

** The UK 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.

* 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 [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools 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.

** 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''.

** As of July 2020, MTV has essentially become the ''Series/{{Ridiculousness}}'' channel. Towards the end of the 2010s MTV has grown 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.

* Practically half of HLN's lineup appears to be nothing but ''Series/ForensicFiles''. You remember HLN, right? The channel whose initials used to stand for ''Headline News''?

** When Challenge started airing ''Series/TheChase'' in 2014, the show aired one or two episodes a day, but since 2016, Challengeairs the show for at least 8 hours a day and is always the show of choice for marathons.

Creator/{{Disney}} networks, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, and Creator/PBSKids examples have [[AdoredByTheNetwork/{{Disney}} their]] [[AdoredByTheNetwork/{{Nickelodeon}} own]] [[AdoredByTheNetwork/PBSKids pages]].

** The Hallmark Channel has a sort of affair with ''The Good Witch'', a MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/CatherineBell in the [[HotWitch title role]]. As one of their most popular original movies, Hallmark has given it five sequels and is constantly playing all the movies in marathons. [[http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/hallmark-channel-good-witch-drama-series-starring-catherine-bell/ It even got picked up as a series.]]

* Viacom just loves to air ''Series/{{Friends}}'' across its' various networks, often scheduling it in blocks that last as many as two hours. Some of the many networks that have given the show this treatment that are owned by the company include Nick at Nite, TV Land and Paramount Network.