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** ''Top Gear'' on BBC America; ''nine hour marathons'' every Monday.

** Just about ''every'' BBC [[Panel Show]] gets this on Dave; ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'', ''[[Mock the Week]]'', ''[[QI]]'' and ''[[Would I Lie to You]]?'' have all been repeated to death. The former two regularly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] this fact.

* ''[[M*A*S*H|Mash]]'' is the darling of the Hallmark Channel -- it airs approximately twice every four hours on the channel.

* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'' is the darling of the Hallmark Channel -- it airs approximately twice every four hours on the channel.

** Well, at least it ''was'' until the Martha Stewart combine overran the channel's daytime schedule at the end of 2010, leading to a ''M*A*S*H''-free Hallmark. What followed was a whiplash inversion of the trope when nearly half of the Stewart-controlled seven hour block was converted into ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]'' space barely a month after launch.

** ''[[M*A*S*H|Mash]]'' also used to be this for FX, taking up anywhere from a third to nearly half a day of programming. This was before FX started getting its own original shows like ''[[The Shield]]'', and without its own original programming, the channel was mainly movies and re-runs, and ''M*A*S*H'' had so many episodes it was easy to fill lots and lots of air time.

** ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'' also used to be this for FX, taking up anywhere from a third to nearly half a day of programming. This was before FX started getting its own original shows like ''[[The Shield]]'', and without its own original programming, the channel was mainly movies and re-runs, and ''M*A*S*H'' had so many episodes it was easy to fill lots and lots of air time.

* Jay Leno is an example of this happening with a person instead of a show. In 1992, [[NBC]] picked him to host ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' over [[David Letterman]] when Johnny Carson retired. In 2009/2010, after some [[Screwed by the Network|serious]] [[Executive Meddling]], he returned to ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' after an abortive shot at a [[Prime Time]] [[Variety Show]], screwing over [[Conan O'Brien]] and causing one hell of an [[Internet Backdraft|uproar]] in the process.

** This is an odd case, though, as NBC couldn't make up their mind on how to bestow adoration in the O'Brien/Leno situation (the Letterman situation was arguably decided five years before it happened, with Leno being the permanent Monday night host of the show before Carson's retirement). Initially, Leno was essentially [[Screwed by the Network|fired from the show]] despite top ratings, being told in 2004 that O'Brien would get the show in 2009 regardless of Leno's ratings situation; so Leno was, seemingly, screwed by the network's adoration for O'Brien. Yet when the time came to actually fire him, he was then in a way screwed by the network's adoration for ''him'', as they wouldn't let him leave for another network (though his tenure on the show was terminated, he was still under contract for [[NBC]]). This led to them giving him his own prime-time show with a [[Executive Meddling|mandated format change]], which bombed at the same time as O'Brien's run on ''The Tonight Show'' was doing poorly in the ratings. Cue ''more'' clueless meddling, and the end result is that O'Brien left NBC and Leno returned to ''The Tonight Show'', but the show's ratings are still shaky due to the backlash, and it would appear nobody was the "winner"...well maybe [[TBS]] who gave Conan his new show...and TNT, who got [[Southland]], which was also a victim of the whole debacle.

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** Before ''[[SpongeBob]]'' really took off and practically ran with this trope, ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' was this for a while.

** ''[[Dora the Explorer]]'' is the second most run cartoon on Nickelodeon, airing at least four times during the morning hours.

** Before ''SpongeBob'', it was ''[[Rugrats]]''. The show was [[Uncanceled]] due to the ratings for the reruns being high and once the show was put back into production, it dominated most of the lineup and was running every day, at least five times a day. It was much like ''SpongeBob'' in regards to grabbing all sorts of audiences during the day. Plus, this also led to Nickelodeon using Klasky-Csupo (the studio behind ''Rugrats'') to produce at least six new shows for the network, including the ''Rugrats'' [[Spin-Off]] ''[[All Grown Up]]'' which was born from another over-hyped special that got Nickelodeon's highest ratings ever at almost twelve million viewers. Meanwhile, all the other Nicktoons were basically ignored or canceled outright.

** Before ''SpongeBob'', it was ''[[Rugrats]]''. The show was [[Uncanceled]] due to the ratings for the reruns being high and once the show was put back into production, it dominated most of the lineup and was running every day, at least five times a day. It was much like ''SpongeBob'' in regards to grabbing all sorts of audiences during the day. Plus, this also led to Nickelodeon using Klasky-Csupo (the studio behind ''Rugrats'') to produce at least six new shows for the network, including the ''Rugrats'' [[Spin-Off]] ''[[All Grown Up!]]'' which was born from another over-hyped special that got Nickelodeon's highest ratings ever at almost twelve million viewers. Meanwhile, all the other Nicktoons were basically ignored or canceled outright.

** On 7/18/10, an unannounced twelve hour marathon of ''SpongeBob'' plagued the channel, before an airing of ''Adventures In Babysitting'', probablly to celebrate the show's 11th birthday (a day late).

** On 7/29/10, of the 11 hours Nickelodeon has minus [[Nick at Nite]] and Nick Jr., nine hours were filled with ''SpongeBob'' and ''iCarly'' alone without any of their current Nicktoons showing and only two other shows aired.