Fashion Star

My favourite thing to do on a Saturday morning is to watch whatever is on TV and the past few weeks I've been watching NBC's Fashion Star on channel Eleven. It's an American reality show about fashion designers trying to sell their designs to 3 major fashion stores. It's a good show and a great concept thats quite interesting. I've watched the past few episodes and kind of getting into it, so you can understand my little burst of excitement this morning when I turned on the TV and the show was on. 

That little bubble of excitement burst very quickly when I realised that it was a repeat and not only was it a repeat it's a "Special Encore Presentation." Meaning they are repeating all the episodes they've aired to date plus the one that was supposed to air, afterwards. 

WTF? This show has been on air for no more that 4 weeks and it's already doing a special encore presentation. Now I am no genuis but wouldn't you want to finish the season first then maybe do a Special Encore Presentation? And why even do a special encore presentation? The show is good but not that good where it deserves a special encore presentation.


What pisses me off though is, the loyal viewers who make plans to watch this show at the set time by the Ten Network only to find out there is a 'Special Encore Presentation' of the episodes they've seen  and then they'll play the new episode at 2:30 in the afternoon for you. Cause in Ten's eyes if you're watching TV on Saturday morning there is a good chance you will be watching TV all the way into the middle of the afternoon.


Bad programming by Channel Ten / Eleven. Really bad... but hey who cares about the Saturday morning viewers?  


Once again, bad Australian TV.