On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:32:38 +0000, Broadback
wrote:
On 03/12/2014 15:11, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

Is it just me that is irritated by the seemingly mandatory
documentary technique of having several parallel threads running,
in an attempt to keep our attention, then having to remind us
what we have just seen, or reveal what they are about to show us,
but not just yet...

Not just you :-(

It reminds me of the oldfashioned mantra for teachers:

"Tell them what you're going to tell them about. Tell them
about it.
Then tell them what you told them". (If only TV presenters
limited the
repetitions to three...)

Quite effective when teaching infants with no foreknowledge
and a
short attention span, but insufferably patronising to treat
adults like
the remedial end of junior school.

Janet


I have always thought that the "fillers"on BBC was so that when the
programmes were sold having take out the fillers the adverts would
make
up the hour, or whatever,

Programmes should be targeted at licence payers not foreign
commercial stations.

--
martin p