Remember not too long ago when it was a special occasion when networks would run marathons of a particular show? In the 90s, my best friend and I would put on a pot of coffee at Thanksgiving and watch an entire 30 hours of Mystery Science Theater 3000. They called it "Turkey Day," and we looked forward to it all year.
But now, all of cable TV seems to operate in blocks and I have no freaking idea why. If you're giving me eight straight hours of King of the Hill, aren't you forcing every single non-King of the Hill fan to abandon your channel for the rest of the day to go watch something else?
But now, all of cable TV seems to operate in blocks and I have no freaking idea why. If you're giving me eight straight hours of King of the Hill, aren't you forcing every single non-King of the Hill fan to abandon your channel for the rest of the day to go watch something else?
I mean, it was clearly obvious that they weren't going to do anything useful, but it was either this, or watch Cartoon Network's latest excuse to show Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends too many times, and they obviously didn't want to see that, so they decided this was better.
"When is this show not on?"
Turn on MTV - on any day, at any time - and you’re likely to find an episode of Ridiculousness[.] It is on all the time. All. The. Time. ALL THE TIME. That’s not hyperbole. The night before I started hammering away at this story, I turned on MTV around 8 o’clock in the evening. Ridiculousness was on. And it stayed on. It wasn’t until 11 a.m. the next morning that MTV took a break from the show to broadcast Men in Black.
—The Ringer, How Did MTV Become the ‘Ridiculousness’ Network?
Broadway began hundreds of years ago with a small show called Almost Three Chaps, which was recently adapted into the TV sitcom Two and a Half Men. Almost Three Chaps ran for over 20 years, with shows being repeated more than 30 times a week. Bloody repeats.
— Ryan Shelton, Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year USA
