I HATED the previews for "Lost" last year. Every preview showed some frightened castaway with the same voice over - "This week, the survivors find out they are not alone on the island." They mixed it up a little bit at least: "They are not alone." "Alone they are not." "Not are they alone." Enough already. If they realized they weren't alone in the very first episode, then why is this a new surprise every week? Does surviving a plane crash give you Alzheimer's?
Right now the award for most annoying weekly preview goes to "Prison Break" on Fox. Is anyone watching it? I'm not. Has the main character escaped yet? Every week the commercial shows him breaking out of prison.
Hint to Fox: The show is called Prison Break, and I know you ordered more episodes even though nobody's watching it. You aren't fooling anyone. Dude's not breaking out anytime soon.
Imagine if Gilligan's Island was running in 2006 instead of the 1970's. Every week the commercial would show a castaway coming up with a new way of getting off the island. The voice-over guy would say "The escape is coming." Then you'd see footage of someone swimming in the lagoon or sailing away on a raft.
Hogan's Heroes weekly preview would show Bob Crane cutting the barbed-wire fence around the German camp. Voice over - "The escape is coming" You get the picture.
I guess they could always try and follow in MASH's footsteps - Have the dude finally break out of prison and then start a new show called "After Prison Break." It could work. "After MASH" did so well...
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
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