Tuesday, September 05, 2006

"This is your RTL5 . . . Not"

After five years, I don't really expect that much from Dutch TV stations. Shows pulled from the schedule mid-season? Check. 45-minute shows chopped in half and shown as 30-minute episodes on subsequent evenings? Check. A season starting with episode 8, working back down to episode 2, and then leaping to episode 9? Checkity check. But RTL5 are really taking the proverbial with CSI: Miama (I know, don't say anything). Last week, Speedle was alive. This week, no sign of him, a bunch of new characters, and we're clearly half-way though an ongoing subplot about a mole in the lab. It looks like we've jumped not just episodes, but seasons. Why is it so hard to show one season at a time and in the right order?

Roll on a return to the UK and decent stations.

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