I was going up channel, and here’s what I saw: Barney Miller, CHiPs, “Best of the Week” (some goofy video show where people get hurt), Last Man Standing, Bulletproof with idiot Adam Sandler, Law and Order… KCCI early morning shows a couple of great programs from the 70s, Cannon and Barnaby Jones. Yesterday I wasn’t sure what happened with Cannon. They were closing in on the crooks at 7 till the hour, on schedule, they go to commercial, then its the happy last minute wrap-up-! What the hell happened?? I’d been watching the whole show to get the viewer satisfaction of handcuffs being slapped on those bastards, and poof! KCCI misses the climax! The whole point of the damn show!
This morning I was watching for it on Barnaby Jones. They go to commercial and comeback at 12 minutes after the hour. Barnaby is sitting in the office getting the details of the heist from the owner when, poof! 5 seconds back from commercial, and GD KCCI is off on 5 minutes of station promos and weather promos! You literally just got back, and you go again?? Why even bother to run the damn show? We can not be seeing even half the show. Its ridiculous. When they aren’t showing crap shows you can’t watch, they’re cutting 12 minutes from the show you could watch!
[Saturday morning update: the weekend crew at the station didn’t seem to have the mission of the wrecking crew I mean regular crew to cut out half the show. I actually saw it all on the weekend morning, 46 minutes of an hour show. Yes, I put a timer to it.]
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