Oh yeah, and cheap programming.

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Food and poker. Minimal crew and equipment, sub zero production costs and there every time you turn on your television set. You'll never guess what I came across the other day. Food Poker - I kid you not.</p>

 

More cheap telly

Those "new series" which are actually a collection of sketches fom old series but if you record a few links you can pass it off as a new series!
They did it with The 2 Ronnies and I think have just done the same with French and Saunders.

And any programme that is "Top 100" etc which is just an excuse for stringing loads of repeated clips together.

 

RE: More cheap telly

Quite like the '100 greatests' format... in fact I'm waiting for the '100 greatest' '100 greatest' programme. It's only a matter of time

 

i'd rather watch a new 100 greatest show than the same f'in episode of friends over and over again we get it they were on a break

 

RE: More cheap telly

100 Greatests are actually very expensive to make. Licensing clips costs an absolute fortune for seconds of footage, particularly from Warner Bros.

 

Not a patch on Chess-Boxing though.

http://site.wcbo.org/content/e18/index_en.html