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* In fact there are ''very'' few channels in the UK that don't do this now, and those that don't are probably too low-budget to be able to afford to.

** [[Channel Four]] and its sister channels' in-house shows now leave enough blank space around the credits that they can be compressed without losing anything; ''[[Skins]]'' is a great example of this, where the credits naturally run down the middle of the screen but can still be read when the continuity announcements boot them to the left-hand side.

* Children's BBC (at least when it airs on [[BBC 1]]) almost always gets its credits squashed - often into an area as small as 1/4 by 1/4 of the screen (seriously) - just so that the broadcasters could give an extra 20 seconds for the linking announcer to ramble on uselessly during. This got so bad at one point that even the children who watched these programs began to write in to complain about not being able to see the credits (which was rude to both the actors ''and'' the film crews, who never got their due credit). Children's BBC's response to this? [[Irony|They squeezed the credits of even more programs, so that the continuity announcer could read out the letters from the children who were complaining about the practice of credit squeezing.]] [[Kick the Dog|And then the announcer actually started mocking the kids for wanting to see the credits.]]

** Why would BBC One squish credits? They don't air advertising, and the only reason this trope exists is so broadcasters will have more time for commercials! That, and their announcers would probably have plenty of time in between programs to talk.

** A particularly amusing instance of this happened when Channel Ten cut out the audio on a broadcast of Casino Royale. I had momentarily forgotten this practice was in effect with any movie they showed, so I was getting ready for the big Theme Music Power Up at the end of the movie, only to be cut off for an ad for the show on directly after the movie.

** ''Mediawatch'' (not to be confused with the U.K. organisation) called them on this once, when the long [[Credits Gag]] of the Mick Molloy flick ''Crackerjack'' was pushed back. They interviewed Molloy, who was understandably pissed. He then pushed back the credits of ''Mediawatch'', cheerfully pointing out that what he was doing was annoying, useless and disrespectful to the people working on the show.

*** One of the worst was when they screened ''[[Monsters Inc.]]'' and actually cut off the left side of the screen to avoid showing the [[Blooper Reel]] and "[[Show Within a Show|Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me]]." This was a few weeks after they'd done something similar to ''[[A Bug's Life (Animation)|A Bugs Life]]'' (speeding up the credits as usual, blooper reel included) and had attracted complaints over it.

*** For some TV shows, the credits sequence is a complete replacement instead of squashing the original picture. The credits text is at least readable this way. (We missed out on the nice tune at the end of every Lost episode.)

* In New Zealand, TV2 manages to do this in a respectable way: while the top two-thirds of the screen is devoted to a promo, the bottom third has all the credits transcripted in columns, and displayed in a nice, legible [[Useful Notes/Fonts|font]].

** ''We're so sophisticated now that we can't be expected not to turn over if 'writing' comes up on the screen. So the credits are squashed to one side so [[ITV 1]] can advertise whatever edifying box of delights it's got on next be it "Alan Titchmarsh's Favorite Sandwitches" or "Celebrity Gynecology: Live".''

* Chris Morris's very disturbing sketch comedy show ''Jam'' didn't feature any credits; instead it briefly displayed a URL which you could visit to find out the cast and crew.

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