Saturday, April 22, 2006

dear person-in-charge at etc, etc 2nd avenue, and crime suspense,

hi, my name is rosa and i'm one of the biggest fans of your channels. i swear ever since our pathetic dirt cheap amazing cable provider finally decided to include you in their channel line-up, i have all but stopped watching star world and axn.

but then lest you you think this is another fan mail, i better get straight to the point.

for the life of me i do not get your programming.

see, i've always had this vision that when you "purchase" a series, they come numbered basically telling you which to show first, second, and so on. and based on a lifetime of watching television, once a series starts, it goes on from episode one all the way to the last episode.

apparently, it's not the way you do things over at your channels. i was lucky enough to have caught the first episode of project runway. i was so enamored with the program that i made a note in my planner that project runway is on at 8pm every monday and in case i miss it, the replay's going to be on a sunday at 9pm.

so imagine my surprise when the week after you showed episode one all over again.

unfazed (i thought "maybe they just want to make sure everyone gets hooked), i tuned in again the following week and was rewarded with episode number two, and the week after that, with episode number three. and then after that - for reasons i cannot explain, you showed episodes two and three AGAIN. then you showed episodes four, five, and six, only to inexplicably replay the same episodes all over again.

at this rate, i don't know how long it'll take for you to finally show the entire series. and lest you think i'm making things up, i've had the same sad experience with "beauty and the geek", "bones", and even "showbiz moms and dad" (i was bored!).

i know you want to stretch a series for as long as you can, especially since it'll be a while before you guys can get the second season to feed your viewers but come on. at least show the entire run before you begin the replays.

your shoe-turned-tv whore,

rosa

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