Duncan | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:00 am     Just how long is a 'moment' for Julie and CBS? She repeatedly said last night "We're just moments away from the Veto meeting . .". I looked at the clock at one point and it was 8:16. At 8:32 the Veto meeting was finally held. That's alot of moments. According to Miriam Webster on-line, a moment is: 1 a : a minute portion or point of time : INSTANT b : a comparatively brief period of time Maybe I should forward this to Julie as well. LOL |
Kaili | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 05:43 am     Well, it's all relative, ya know... If you look at the whole history of the planet, the existance of humans on the planet is very brief. Yet the time it takes me to reheat my dinner in the microwave (about 3 minutes) seems like forever. Besides, they wouldn't want anyone to change the channel!  |
Bracken | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 07:14 am     Oh Duncan, this is the worst thing about all of television lately ... THE TEASE! I really hate the Reality shows that are about to evict someone and then switch to four minutes of commercials before they do so. I've begun to boycott the news ... the freaking news now has gotten into the act. There ought to be a law about this one since they are obligated to provide public information in order to broadcast over the airwaves for free, I'm talking network only here. I watched an entire news program here one night waiting for the clip on something important to me. They started the broadcast with it at 10:00 pm, showed 10 seconds of this story before every commercial break and then broadcast the "story" at 10:28. You know how long this important story lasted ... 36 seconds! I had taped it so went back and timed everything, I was so steamed, I wrote to the station about this one, but I'm sure it fell on deaf ears. Now I wait until the newspaper arrives in the morning. If it is a really important story, I switch to CNN, MSNBC, etc. |
Bbfanatic | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:21 am     bracken, i think the worst tease is on For Love or Money. it is so annoying, i can hardly watch. your letter probably did fall on deaf ears. they got you and others to do exactly what they wanted, which is, to keep watching. it is kind of annoying to buy a magazine for a story in it and find out the article is only one page long. i usually dont take the time to skim through the magazine before buying like i should. |
Marysafan | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:27 am     Exactly why I have stopped buying magazines and watching network news broadcasts...too much tease...too little substance. |
Bonzacat | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:30 am     BBfan -- I have to agree with you about "For Love or Money". They actually stretched out Wade's decision through TWO commercial breaks on Monday night! THEIR "moment" was a longer (much) "moment" than Julie Chen's! ;-) |
Gen | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:36 am     Bracken, MSNBC does exactly the same thing. I imagine that they all do it. Another pet peeve is the long commercials. They used to have commercials every 15 minutes, now it seems that it is every 10 minutes and they are minutes longer than before. The "real" program is only about 40 minutes long. |
Makays | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:48 am     You want to talk moments...yesterday I watched Maury. I don't usually but, I happened to be flipping and happened to stop and got interested. It was another one of those Paternity shows. They strung you along on the results. At the end of the show they said when we come back from commercial we'll find out the results. Well that commercial turned into Check back next week for the exciting results! |
Katlady53 | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:51 am     Oy vey, For Love or Money drove me nuts the other night! |
Bbfanatic | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:55 am     on the night they were bringing back Rob on For Love or Moolah 2, they brought him in for about a minute at the end of the show. we had to wait until the next week to see what happens. well, i didnt tune in the next week. i had a feeling that would happen. |
Katlady53 | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:56 am     I guess that's their way of making us want to come back for more, BBfan. Lol |
Bbfanatic | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 09:01 am     kat, what is funny about that is i didnt watch the next one. i think this is one of the reasons i liked Joe Millionaire. they did this during the ceremonies, but not near as much. |
Cliotheleo | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 09:02 am     Well NONE of that is as bad as "The Bachelors" "our most dramatic rose ceremony yet!" I swear they say that every week. |
Bbfanatic | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 09:07 am     "our most dramatic rose ceremony yet!" ohhhh soooo dramatic weren't they clio. |
R151996 | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 12:05 pm     I think Julie's BB scriptwriters may have minutes and moments backwards. On the first live eviction show Julie said/read "We're minutes away from the first live Big Brother 4 eviction...." Exactly 56 seconds after the word "minutes", she said "...Amanda, you are evicted from the Big Brother house." |
Katlady53 | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 01:07 pm     Oh, yes, it was amazing how every single rose ceremony was the "most dramatic yet!" I also liked how every rose ceremony was the "most difficult" for each bachelor and bachelorette. No duh??? Lol! |
Crazydog | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 03:16 pm     I returned home last night at 11 pm, and let me tell you, you can watch BB a LOT faster when you are fast forwarding through all the boring Alison scheming and inane conversation. I stopped the fast forward when I saw David's face. As soon as Alison used the veto, I fast forwarded again to see her tearfully evict Erika and then saw the start of the HoH. Voila! BB on a shoestring. |
Dahli | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 03:39 pm     That's what I always do with the Bachelor Crazydog, it works great and since it's so darn slow anyway it's easy to hit Play at just the right time As a rule I flip through channels on commercial breaks, even though I feel it is fair to ask me to watch advertising to be able to view free programming, I resent the tactics mentioned above and as such for me at least the deal is now off. I will not watch commercials if possible and flip around for the appropriate period of time and am usually back just as the breaks end... my DH typicallty comments 'wow you're good at that' My thing last night was the number of times JC said 'chopping block' Anybody else notice that? It's almost funny - get that girl a thesaurus!! I think it was a record but forgot to start the clock at the beginning of the show ;-)) |
Dogdoc | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:15 pm     I agree about the evening news. "Medical news that can save your life. Tonight, on the 10 o'clock news." You could be dead by the time they get to it. Remember when the news stations first put those large flashing station icons on the screen and you couldn't concentrate on the news. I like the faded ones they use now. It lets me know where I am. |
Tabbyking | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:42 pm     dogdoc, not to mention the ones that say, "child abducted from valley town. details at 11:00" and that's 2 hours away and they don't even say what town and people could be on the lookout. it's getting to where i am starting to like commercials like the 'squirrel chasing' one. how sad that i watched the 'family' last night and half of me was waiting for commercials to see if they aired that one! lol |
Boberg | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:49 pm     "We're only MOMENTS away"....from the men in the white coats taking us away because of total boredome with these "guests". I believe Withdrawal has already started here..I reviewed my BB4 tapes today up through David being evicted. I'll bet before BB5 starts I will have gone to Amazon and bought BB3 on DVD to watch and emailed CBS again asking them to come out with BB2 on DVD. |
Justshirley | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 06:33 pm     Boberg -- if you have high-speed internet, you can download the entire BB2 season at #survivor-central on mIRC. BB4 has been so unsatisfying, I've been turning to Dr. Will for comfort. Ah, the good old days! |
Jarryjayo | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 06:48 pm     Ya I love when they do that, the end of the show Julie will go say "stay with us when we return we will talk about whats coming up in future shows." That happen last week. but they didn't talk about anything at all LOL. CNN does this alot more then they should, they'll have a story you just would like to watch and keep saying it's coming up. but it's not tell the end of the hour. tell the story shows up. the other day I ended up forgetting why I was watching and turn the dam thing off. I wish in big brother when they do the polls for items. I wish the would have a 4th option. "who would you like to see get a phone call". Alison, Jun, Robert or NO ONE, I'd pick no one because at this point I could careless who wins hahaha |
Kellirippa | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 07:00 pm     I use that line on my kids all the time, "when will supper be ready?"...in a moment.."when are we going to the mall?"...in a moment..."when is it my turn on the computer?"....in a moment.. I used to say "in a couple minutes", but that was giving them a very warped sense of time, I figure a moment is a lot more vague.. It does tend to backfire though, my oldest is in Jr. High and when I ask when she'll be off the phone?..."in a moment." |
Bomom | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 07:07 pm     The way this show has dragged on and on this year, maybe Julie was talking in Big Brother Time, not real time. Kind of like "dog years" compared to "people years." One moment in the BB house = about twenty minutes in "people years."
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Anevay | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 07:16 pm     Oooh! This is such a well deserved thread. My personal favorite is the "But first..." How many times is JC allowed to say that per show!? Arrrrgggg. |
Cliotheleo | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 08:35 pm     I don't care, don't care, don't care. Julie can say whatever she wants as many times as she wants just as long as I don't have to hear that chic from Paradise Hotel come onto the show and say "one of these luvley laaaaaaaaaaydeeeezzzzzz" Drives me INSANE!!!!!! |