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alicephilippa ([personal profile] alicephilippa) wrote2011-07-26 06:18 pm
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Writer's Block: Late-night TV

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Nope. Don't watch TV wether late night or not. Except when with the b/f, even then there are better things to watch than infomercials.

Anyway what is it with the assumption that folks actually watch TV?

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2011-07-26 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Wtf IS an 'infomercial' anyway? I take it that's yet another damnfool americanism?

[identity profile] alicephilippa.livejournal.com 2011-07-26 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Infomecials are 5 min or so paid programming/teleshopping slots. Mostly here they are limited to the teleshopping channels.

You might also have seen the looped JML ads in housewares/diy stores they are also infomercials.

[identity profile] sammason.livejournal.com 2011-07-26 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
This is vaguely interesting to me, as it happens. There's somebody who sends me film shorts about per child's school in lieu of letting that child know me in person. I feel annoyed by this and the word 'infomercial' is an appealing insult.