Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Headscratchers
- Isidore briefly wonders how Buster Friendly can produce 46 hours altogether of programming each day, and Hannibal Sloat has realised how, but doesn't anybody else find it... odd?
- but anyone who watches Discovery Channel or any other satellite channel will be familiar with the practice of expanding 3 or 4 hours actual content into 24 hours a day transmission by repeats, trailers, flashbacks etc.
- The Truman Show plays with this at some length.
- it isn't actually stated that the Buster Friendly Show consists of continuous live transmission. Considering the impossibility of watching TV 23 hours a day, and the stated context that most of the audience are mentally deficient, it isn't really difficult to envisage what Buster Friendly must be like to watch.
- The Truman Show plays with this at some length.
- but anyone who watches Discovery Channel or any other satellite channel will be familiar with the practice of expanding 3 or 4 hours actual content into 24 hours a day transmission by repeats, trailers, flashbacks etc.