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** In the late 90's through early 2000's, Cartoon Network loved [[Sailor Moon]].

* ''[[Digimon]]'' was this for the ailing Fox Kids around the time of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]''; the love sort of petered off by the end of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]''. It was picked up by the network in order to [[Dueling Shows|compete]] with ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' on [[Kids WB]] and capitalize on the [[Anime]] boom. Some Saturday mornings, ''Digimon'' would air ''three'' times. It supplanted ''[[Power Rangers]]'' (circa ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'') as the most popular show on the block and even booted the show from its long-time schedule spots (9am EST Saturdays and 4pm EST weekdays). This still rankles long time ''Power Rangers'' fans, as it would retroactively prove to be a [[Foreshadowing]] for ''that'' series sinking even lower under [[Disney]]...

** In addition, "Toonzai" commercials advertise shows for an afternoon slot. Starting at exactly noon, "Toonzai"'s out and CW is showing other things (the first of which is "Preachings of the Eucharist" or something similarly titled, which is literally watching a priest do Sunday Church things). Double Screwing.

* [[Toonami]] was obviously head-over-heels for ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' which, up until it ended in 2003, (then up until the uncut version stopped airing in 2005) was shown as many times as possible. To be fair, it was highly acclaimed, very popular, and the biggest ratings grabber at the time. And then came [[Naruto|a certain show about an orange-wearing ninja...]] (pictured above)

* IFC really loves the [[Hostel]] movies and ''[[The Shining]]''.

* [[AMC]]'s favorite movie is ''[[Unforgiven]]''.

* TNT and USA are both very bad about going through phases where they'll show the same movie over and over and over again, whether it's The Dark Knight on TNT or National Treasure on USA - if either of them shows the movie once, you know you'll be seeing it again within the week.

* Ted Turner adored [[The Shawshank Redemption]]. After its poor showing at the box office, he bought up the rights and aired it weekly, single-handedly making it [[Vindicated by History]].

* On [[Nickelodeon]], ''[[iCarly]]'' is also guaranteed to have a lot of episodes running on a given day (at least three or four a day on average, sometimes more on weekends).

** During summer 2010, ''[[Big Time Rush]]'' and ''[[Victorious]]'' were both big ones for Nickelodeon. They would rerun ''at least two'' episodes of both ''every single day''. Not counting Friday and Saturday night blocks. ''Big Time Rush'' had just enough episodes to cover a full week, but ''Victorious'' only had eight episodes to air.

** Plus, when the network's teen-coms air new two-part specials, after their airing, it'll probably rerun lots of times shortly afterward. When "iStart a Fan War" premiered in mid-November, it aired a total of nine times in the remainder of the month alone. Similarly with "iParty with Victorious", because Nickelodeon went so far as to make an extended version of it.

* [[Nick at Nite]] is every bit as bad with ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'', probably worse. First, they would run marathons of the show for every occasion imaginable using any excuse they could get, no matter how shoddy. Then they did away with the excuses, and began showing marathons of ''George Lopez'' without even giving an excuse to do so. On multiple occasions, they aired '''over 40 hours''' of it in one week, setting up a bizarre situation often where his self-titled [[Talk Show]] on [[TBS]] is competing with his own old sitcom.

** Part of what happens with [[Nick at Nite]] and TV Land is that when they get the rights to a new show, they always give it something of an introductory marathon to get people into the groove of watching it. They tend to do it with most shows when they first get the rights to them.

* ''[[Big Brother]]'' on [[Channel 4]]. The last season was showing about 7 hours of footage every day. It remains to be seen if Channel 5 will give it a similar treatment. A mix of [[Meddling Executives]] and ironically, [[Screwed by the Network]]; Endemol got a "Live Feed Every Year" clause into the contract. So, in the later years at least, C4 put the live feed on between midnight and 6AM. There is no such clause in C5's contract.

** It looks like ''Come Dine With Me'' is primed to become Four's most adored when BB finally ends at the end of summer 2010.

* It was big news in 2011 when Channel 4 announced it would no longer show ''[[Friends]]''. E4 aired it as much as 7 or 8 times a day. ''Friends'' achieved something few American [[Long Runners]] manage in Britain, with every episode being shown, and in [[Prime Time]] - [[Ellen|unlike]] [[Frasier|many]] [[Homicide: Life On the Street|of]] [[The Sopranos|its]] [[Will and Grace|compatriots]]. In the end [[Comedy Central]] took up the ''Friends'' slack.

** Averted, surprisingly, with ''[[Glee]]'', to which E4 has the rights to run episodes from the first two seasons, ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' and several other high profile American shows. E4's business model largely revolves around buying up the rights to American shows before they're popular and hoping they turn into smash hits.

** Channel 4 also adored ''[[The Simpsons]]'' for a while. A ''[[Private Eye]]'' cartoon depicted two C4 execs looking at a schedule of nothing but ''Simpsons'' episodes, thankful that they were showing something other than ''Friends''.

** They're doing it with ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' now too.

** They're getting worse. If a show's season just ended or went to Mid Season Break, expect USA to show a marathon. Burn Notice got two days to show various episodes, and White Collar got two days ''in the same week'' to do the same thing. USA essentially has nothing for daytime programming.

* ''[[Top Gear]]'' on Dave. Each episode is an hour long and it's not uncommon for it to be broadcast in six slots per day. This has been routinely lampshaded on the programme itself, and even Dave's programming mentions it.

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

** They aired [[Hannah Montana]] so often that was actually surprising that it disappeared from programing almost immediately following its final episode. A couple months into 2011, and it was completely gone, replaced by ''[[Shake It Up]]'', ''[[ANT Farm]]'', and ''[[Jessie]]''. Many won't be surprised if ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' ultimately suffers the same fate. Say what you will about [[Nickelodeon]] or [[Cartoon Network]], but with the exception of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' and ''[[Fish Hooks]]'', all that is ever played on Disney is the aforementioned Tween Coms with obnoxious [[Laugh Track|laugh tracks]].

** It also gets irritating with their newer shows. Shows like ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' and ''The Suite Life on Deck'' have enough episodes to show different ones every weekday, but they also constantly show ''[[Shake It Up]]'', which as of July 2011 is almost finished with its first season, and ''[[ANT Farm]]'', which as of July 2011 only has ''6 episodes'', and they show all six during the day.

* [[ABC Family]] is also a huge fan of ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]''. The station's [[The Secret Life of the American Teenager|original]] [[Make It or Break It|shows]] [[Pretty Little Liars|usually]] air over Monday and Tuesday night. Unless they're showing a movie, Wednesday through Friday nights are going to be a block of AFHV. Its original series ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]'' has since joined as well, with 1-episode reruns airing at 5 pm ''every weekday''.

* The Canadian [[Expy]] of [[Comedy Central]], [[The Comedy Network]], ruthlessly over-promoted ''[[Corner Gas]]''. Nowadays, it promotes ''Corner Gas''' "successors" ''Hiccups'' and ''[[Dan for Mayor]]'' quite hard. In fact, it gave each a huge marathon during Canada Day 2010. One wonders if they're just going his to fill Canadian content quotas, or is it because it's one of the few shows TCN actually has a hand in.

* Local news on most stations. Justified, in that TV stations ''have'' to run news in order to get a broadcast license from the FCC. It also benefits them in that it's cheaper to produce news than pay for syndicated programming, and it can earn the station some respect if it's high quality.

* GSN does this with ''[[Deal or No Deal]]''; on any given day, it likely fills every third time slot. Of the remainder, about a third or so consists of ''[[Family Feud]]'' reruns.

* Spike seems to feel that there's no such thing as too many all-day ''[[CSI]]'' marathons.

** Not to forget ''[[Star Trek]]''! Two hours of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' and two hours of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' 5 days a week for a while there.

** For the longest time, old (~1980-1995) episodes of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' was all-purpose caulk pumped into a highly porous daily schedule . As of the mid-2000s, it was replaced as such by ''[[Mad TV]]'' once they lost the ''SNL'' rights. Then they lost the rights to ''[[Mad TV]]'' (after it being off their schedule for several months) and eventually ''[[Scrubs]]'' and ''[[Futurama]]'' reruns have taken their place.

** Back in the early days of the network ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' was the network darling and cornerstone of their programming.

** Also, at night (from about 12-7) all they usually show is ''Comedy Central Presents''.

*** This is replaced by the Secret Stash on weekends: fully uncensored comedy specials and mostly uncensored movies.

** The network ''still'' airs ''[[Chappelle's Show]]'' during primetime, more than five years after the series officially ended.

* In 2008, [[Discovery Channel]] was obsessed with ''[[Deadliest Catch]]'', using any excuse to run a marathon. This wouldn't be so bad, except they only had three seasons worth of coverage, and they showed at least four hours of the show a ''day''. By the end of the week, you were all caught up if you were a new viewer. They have gotten better, though, at least moving on from ''[[Deadliest Catch]]'' to ''other'' new favorite shows. Like ''[[Dirty Jobs]]'' and ''[[Cash Cab]]''.

* [[Adult Swim]]

** They also seem to like ''[[Delocated]]''.

** If [[Tim and Eric]] so much as sneeze on something, AS will pick it up for a 3 season trial run. And you ''will'' like it, they'll ''make'' you like it god damn it, because they're the two funniest people on planet, apparently. It helps that a large segment of their target demographic tends to be drunk and/or stoned when they tend to air Tim and Eric's stuff (in the 10:00-11:00 range), given that Tim and Eric's target seems to be "people who are habitually drunk and/or stoned. [[Watch It Stoned|Especially stoned]]."

** ''History International Loves History's Mysteries'', usually playing it three or four times a day.

** And in general subjects, History Channel had went through various "Adoring a single topic in history"—Civil War First, then WWII, then Hitler. And for about a year, they were constantly playing documentaries about The Freemasons and Knights Templar, then it was Disasters (specifically ''Seconds from Disaster'').

* [[The History Channel]] always runs a ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'' marathon about every four months or so.

** Quite often it coincides with anniversaries of events from WWII but unless its D-Day the episodes have almost nothing to do with what its commemorating.

* NBC had ''Series/Dateline'' fell victim to this about ten years ago. It seemed that every night, except Thursday, you could find an airing of the show on NBC. Now, it, and ''48 Hours'' are adored by ID.

* The Inspiration network has ''Our House'', ''[[Highway to Heaven]]'', ''[[The Waltons]]'', and ''Wind at My Back''.

* At this point HGTV is almost entirely made up of ''House Hunters'' and ''House Hunters International''. Go ahead, flip over right now and check. Told you so.

* NBC's flagging Saturday Morning schedule was propped up by ''[[Saved by the Bell]]''. They loved its ratings so much that they had Peter Engel create [[California Dreams|another show]] with the [[Follow the Leader|same basic premise]] [[Recycled in Space|with a twist]]. When that got good ratings, they cancelled every cartoon on the schedule, gave half of Saturday mornings to its ''other'' favorite show (''[[Today]]''), and gave the other half to Engel and friends. And thus was born TNBC, an entire block of nothing but Saved by the Bell clones.

** At the height of its popularity, [[The Crocodile Hunter]] was adored by [[Animal Planet]], though since Steve Irwin's death, reruns are shown very rarely.

* Bravo adores ''[[Top Chef]]'', especially when it has new episodes.

* Two words, [[Food Network]]. Which quickly morphed into the [[Iron Chef]] and anything [[Cupcake Wars|like]] [[Chopped|it]] network. [[Cupcake Wars]], ''[[Chopped]]'' and ''[[Restaurant Impossible]]'' repeats seem to appear all day ''everyday''. You now have to go the their sister network [[Cooking Channel]] to see actual instructional cooking.

** Then there is [[Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives]]—and anything featuring Guy Fieri for that matter, which can air anywhere between 5 to ''16'' times a day.

* [[YTV]] completely adores ''[[iCarly]]'' and ''[[Mr. Young]]''.

* Ever since [[Comedy Central]] UK picked up the rights to [[Friends]], they've been using ''any'' excuse to air it as much as possible. It started out as daily double-bills that are repeated at night...and then the compilations started...

** ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' was hit with this literally from the instant it premiered—CN started airing it multiple times per day even though ''there was only one episode.'' Ironic, given that CN stopped caring halfway through the second season.

** ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' is certainly worth a mention. Since its debut in January 1999, it has been a big hit on Cartoon Network, has aired a total of 70 episodes running through 5 and 1/4 seasons and a series-ending movie and, even after being out of production for over a year, it still airs at least 2 episodes every Monday-Friday. Suffice it to say, it is admired by both viewers and CN.

** ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''. Huge, huge buildup: They showed a "sneak peek" of it six days before its premiere. The day it debuted, there was a countdown bug on screen. And already it's averaging at least one rerun a day.

** ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'' seems to be this as well, in that, like Adventure Time above, its "Merrie Melodies" segments are occasionally used to round out the minutes after other shows. Also, like ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'', there was a countdown bug on the screen the day it premiered. Also, during the 4th of July weekend of 2011, the network aired random episodes of the show that were supposedly made up until that point, along with random airings of classic ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts, ''[[Space Jam]]'', and ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'' in continuous loops. Back in the day, they used to have "June Bugs", a 72-hour block in June of nothing but [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoons.

** 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).

** Same deal on 11/26/10, they played two episodes of ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'', then a six-hour ''SpongeBob'' marathon, followed by an ''iCarly'' marathon at 3, ending with ''iStart a Fan War'' at 7, and they wrapped it up with the premiere of the ''Victorious'' special, "Freak the Freak Out".

** Later, with a schedule change on April 2011, ''SpongeBob'' got ''over '''60''' airings that week''. It was even worse previously, where entire Saturdays and Sundays were filled entirely with the yellow sponge. ''iCarly'' took a close second, with ''[[Victorious]]'' and ''[[Tuff Puppy]]'' tied in third.

** On Latin America's channel, almost all weekends are 48 hour marathons of either [[SpongeBob]] or iCarly.

** There's more: The UK Nickelodeon had a whopping '''502''' hour marathon of Spongebob in Summer 2011, for the Clash of the Bottom competition, where kids had to vote for their favorite main character. To top that off, it was the second-longest TV show marathon ''of all time'', only being beaten by Boomerang UK's [[Scooby Doo|Scooby Summer]].

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' is quickly becoming incredibly overexposed on [[Disney Channel]] due to the fact that it has performed well over expectations and is gaining a massive fanbase. It's gotten to the point where Disney is [[Dueling Shows|comparing]] ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' to ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]].''

* The Canadian [[Expy]] of [[Cartoon Network]]; Teletoon literally airs THREE episodes of ''[[Johnny Test]]''! In a row! Every. Single. Day. (Its seems they've also now replaced ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' as a result''... [[You Can Panic Now]].)

** Though they seem to be annoyed by marathons of the "original animated infomercials" ''NFL Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core" and ''Zevo-3''.

** They hardly even show ''[[Invader Zim]]'' like they did when it first premiered. They pretty much replaced it with massive, full 3 hour blocks of Zevo-3. The new, stupid 5 minute show "NFL Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core" has been [[Pun|invading]] schedules of ''[[Invader Zim]]'', ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'', and even their revered love child Zevo-3.

** Let's not even ''start'' with ''[[Fanboy and Chum Chum]]''. Massive blocks on both Nickelodeon and Nicktoons, It seemed for a while that you couldn't go a single day of the week without seeing at least three episodes of it.

*** Often the same three episodes. Again and again and again. Seriously, for a while you could only see three to five episodes, total, of ''[[Penguins Of Madagascar]]'' and ''[[Fanboy and Chum Chum]]'', even with the knowledge that other episodes probably existed. They would play them in hour blocks, yet you never seemed to catch a new episode.

** Though it's been slowing down lately due to the lack of new episodes, [[Nicktoons]] did like airing ''[[Making Fiends]]'' multiple times a day a majority of the week. ''[[Chalk Zone]]'' appears often early in the day.

** As of this edit (11/9/11) ''[[Dragonball Z Kai]]'' is shown multiple times every day with flimsy excused for marathons. It's 11/11/11? They promise to show 11 hours of the show. It runs at least 4 episodes a day.

** Adult Swim has also been playing ''[[The Oblongs]]'' pretty regularly, off and on, since 2002, sometimes even 4 or 5 days a week, despite the show only having 13 episodes.

* Not even Italian networks are safe. ''Rai Gulp'', born after the three main division of the national networks ''Rai'' [[Screwed by the Network|dropped animation almost entirely]],<ref>[[Insane Troll Logic|(airing animated shows only during weekday mornings, that is, when most of the target audience can't watch television for obvious reasons)]]</ref> and therefore dedicating its own entire schedule [[Network to the Rescue|to fill in the blank]], is partially guilty of this. Said schedule is made of shows that air at multiple times within the same day, but get removed from rotation after a while.<ref>only to be picked up and aired again after another while</ref> Some of these shows got properly [[Screwed by the Network]],<ref>Somewhat infamously, ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' and ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' had their whole runs aired only once in a row without getting re-airings.</ref> while others (some of which actually ''produced'' by ''Rai'', as a pre-airing [[Vanity Plate]] for them reads "RAI FICTION CARTOONS") are lucky enough to not only get re-airings before their temporary drop from the schedule, but get picked up again more often. However, the shining example is the ''Matt & Manson'' cartoon series, which has been removed from rotation only after a long while.

* The Latin American [[Expy]] of Cartoon Network; there was a time where the only thing they aired was ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', ''[[Mucha Lucha]]'', and ''[[Ben 10]]'', over and over and over again, for at least two ''months''.

* The now defunct ''Discovery Kids'' network, for its last few years essentially was ''[[Kenny the Shark]]'' and ''[[Tutenstein]]'' with the occasional ''[[Time Warp Trio]]'' and ''Prehistoric Planet''.