Television WTF?!

[bjarvis]

For two consecutive nights, we've been watching a movie on TNT when suddenly, without warning, the station says they're pre-empting the remaining hour of the movie so that they can show the opening of a baseball game.

WTF?!

Seriously, if you were engrossed in the movie, do you really want it to be jettisoned for a professional sports game? And since the game wasn't in the broadcast schedule, if you were actively seeking the game, how would you know it was on this particular channel in the timeslot originally allocated to the conclusion of something else?

What were they thinking?

Comments

[rsc.livejournal.com]

if you were actively seeking the game, how would you know it was on this particular channel

See my response to manley1. If you were looking for that game, you would have looked on TBS, where you would likely have seen a crawl telling you it was on TNT. And there's a good chance you would have been watching the TBS game anyway.

(As we ourselves probably would have been doing, except that we were at the later game.)