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* 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]].

 

== Live-Action TV ==

** Channel Five, as of January 2012, is showing an ''entirely reasonable'' 3 hours a day of ''Big Brother''. However, since C5 owner Richard Desmond mandates ''endless'' coverage of Big Brother in the various newspapers he owns, it's now a network favourite across multiple media.

** 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 has also tried to use ''[[Scrubs]]'', and later ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' to the same degree, although they don't get quite the same level of coverage ans ''Friends'' did.

** 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.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[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.

** Swapped for or followed by ''[[Bones]]''.

* [[Disney Channel]] is getting ''ridiculously'' bad about this. For the past decade, the network has been broadcasting and overpromoting its small roster of four-to-six shows. These same shows tend to reuse the same actors and promote the same actors in movies which are just like the shows the actors star in.

** The biggest frustration in Disney's case: Some networks like USA or Nick at Nite have ''somewhat'' of an excuse in that they have to pay for the rights to air syndicated programming and budget issues could be the reason they limit the number of shows and feature them in blocks/marathons. Disney has no such excuse because they own 100 percent of everything they run, including a ginormous library of past shows that includes many with fan and critical acclaim, and instead they insist on filling up their time slots with multiple episodes of the same handful of shows they've recently released.

* [[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''.

* 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.

** Nowadays, it's ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]''.

** [[Spike TV]] must want viewers to see all ''[[1000 Ways to Die]]'' in one sitting, as the show gets lengthy marathons at least once a week.

* 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]]''.

** In a strange case of a network becoming infatuated with a U.S. state rather than a show, Discovery's parent company has recently{{when}} been milking Alaska for reality show material, thus resulting in shows like ''Gold Rush Alaska'' and ''Flying Wild Alaska''. Discovery is no stranger to paying tribute to the blue collar lifestyle (see the aforementioned ''[[Dirty Jobs]]'' and ''[[Deadliest Catch]]''), but not until late 2010 did they focus this much attention on Alaska specifically.

* [[Adult Swim]]

** Their latest{{when}} favorite seems to be ''[[Childrens Hospital]]'', as they practically save at least one [[Ad Bumpers]] each week for that show. With the season 5 premiere of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', [[Adult Swim]] scheduled the shows so that reruns of ''Children's Hospital'' would come on at the half hour, and new episodes of ''Robot Chicken'' [[Screwed by the Network|at the :45]].

* [[ION]] shows ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'', ''[[Without a Trace]]'', and ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' on weekdays. That's it. Nothing but those three shows between 3 pm and midnight ET, which is the network's ''entire weekday schedule'' - your local affiliate likely stocks the remaining hours with paid or religious programming. Granted, this likely means they are the only shows they can afford...

* ''[[How It's Made]]'' and variations thereupon for The Science Channel.

* 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''.

* Australia's [[SBS]] has a love affair with ''[[Inspector Rex]]'', which they pretty much admit on their special ''Inspector Rex'' website. The show has more-or-less been slotted in at 7.30pm on Thursday since ''1997'', and marathons are not uncommon.

* Back in 2009 [[TV Land]] got the rights to ''[[Roseanne]]'' and ''[[Married... with Children]]'' and one could tell they were quite enthusiastic about it because every night featured a three hour block of ''[[Roseanne]]'' followed by a three hour block of ''[[Married... with Children]]'' or viseversa.

** Lately [[Cartoon Network]] has REALLY been hyping up ''[[Level Up]]'', first the movie and then the series. The show has been getting ads big in number and in length, you'll be hard-pressed to go through a commercial break that DOESN'T have an ad for the show.

** Not only that, after ''Level Up'' premiered, they've rerun it every weeknight even though only ''one episode'' had premiered. Plus, the second episode aired ''commercial-free'', [http://www.nickandmore.com/2012/02/01/level-up-goes-commercial-free-for-second-and-third-episodes/ as will the third.] [[Cartoon Network|CN's]] cartoons could only dream of this kind of attention.

** [[Word of God|According to Kevin Pereira,]] the shows are an easy way for the network to fund its original programming, despite having almost nothing in common demographically.

* Tru TV is more or less obsessed with ''[[Operation Repo]]'' and many of its non-Operation Repo shows either seem to be "Operation Repo in a X" or "People Just As Trashy As The Operation Repo Cast Doing Similar Things".

* Valve's obsession with continually updating ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' and expanding the ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' franchise has been viewed as taking precedence over making new games, ''[[Half-Life]] 2: Episode 3'' in particular, even though separate groups work on each series of games.

** This is mainly due to the fact that TF2 and L4D are their most popular products.

* [[Square Enix]] seems to be fond of ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' in particular.

** As well as ''[[Final Fantasy I]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy II]]'', which have been ported or remade for [[MSX 2]], [[Wonder Swan]] Color, [[PlayStation]], [[Game Boy Advance]], mobile phones, [[PlayStation]] Portable, Virtual Console, [[PlayStation]] Network and iOS.

* Speaking of Boomerang, they decided to devote weekdays and entire weekends to nothing but ''[[The Flintstones]]''. To the point where it gets so bad that if you here the theme song ''one more freakin' time'' you'll scream. Whats a girl gotta do to see some ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' come back again?

** Nowadays it seems like Boomerang is a place where older ''[[Cartoon Network]]'' shows Adored by the Network go to thrive. It's a bunch of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'', ''[[Two Stupid Dogs]]'', ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'', with their typical older shows thrown in.

* For CN Asia viewers, it's ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' or ''[[The Pink Panther]]''. The entire afternoon is nothing but episodes of both, and all CN Originals (with the exception of Network Darlings ' ''[[Ben 10]]'', ''Chowder'' and ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'') are scheduled after ''midnight''; i.e. way past the bedtime of their target audience.

* [[Nickelodeon]] loves ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''. The show runs at least ''eight'' times on an average weekday—it's the first thing they show in the morning and the last thing they show at night, before turning into [[Nick at Nite]], and it's the only show that they run at all different hours of the day to get pre-schoolers, after-school kids, ''and'' evening teenager audiences. "Special" ''SpongeBob'' episodes are hyped up and promoted more often than the regular Nicktoons on the network. Some days, it gets more airtime than all the other Nicktoons still on Nickelodeon combined. Even ''repeats'' get more than the average that most kids' shows nowadays have. Don't believe me? Go on [http://www.tvbythenumbers.com TV By The Numbers], look at the top cable ratings for the week and check out how many episodes will be there.

*** It is no longer aired anymore as the first thing in the morning, [[Winx Club]] now airs first.

** Same thing with it being the last thing aired every day: sometimes, the last show aired is either [[iCarly]], [[How to Rock]], or [[Fred The Show]], which usually occurs on Fridays and weekends.

** ''[[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.

*** 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.

*** Currently{{when}} ''T.U.F.F Puppy'' is getting the adoration. Same situation as ''[[Fanboy and Chum Chum]]'', It's a new show that is being shoved down our throats, when ''SpongeBob'' has the day off.

** 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]] at one point began airing ''[[Squidbillies]]'' every weeknight at midnight while airing commercials stating it was getting low ratings and ''berating the viewers for not watching this awesome show.''

** Adult Swim absolutely loves [[FOX]] reruns, specifically ''[[King of the Hill]]'', ''[[Family Guy]]'', and ''[[American Dad]]''. Now that Adult Swim starts at 9PM, weekdays will be these three shows for 6 of its 9 hours (including repeats). In one week, there is going to be 14 hours of ''King of the Hill'', 12.5 hours of ''Family Guy'', and 10 hours of ''American Dad'' for a total of 36.5 hours.

** 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''.