^ She is hooked on them, I swear she's taking notes.

well, be thankful (again) that speed shows subprime programing. With that you'll be safe. If an when speed endeavors to providing relevant programing, you'll probably be face to face having a show off betten Speed and your wife. At that juncture, speed will fall away for the 1,000,000,000 time in order to play to the lamest of the lame who love Speed more than their first "experience".

I continue after all these years to see continuation of mistake after mistake in programing.

GulfPorsche - 30 July 2008 02:04 PM

It was interesting watching the debut of "Wrecked" a couple of weeks ago. Speed has been hyping this show for months and I thought it might actually prove kind of interesting. In some ways it is better than I had hoped; in some ways it is worse (why does every "reality" show focus on a ridiculous, invented blowhard?).

But it was interesting watching how Speed marketed it. "New show!" "Don't miss the first episode!" But the best was, "Tune in Thursday!" Why, exactly? They showed 2 new shows on Thursday, then re-ran that hour what, a half a dozen times? Then there were 2 new shows the next Thursday, re-ran as an hour again and again. Have they run a marathon of all 4 shows yet? It's inevitable.

People make a note to tune into and watch great shows: It's how you build an audience. M*A*S*H, Seinfeld, Friends -- geez, The Fugitive . . . all had regular time slots and people looked forward to tuning in, even after the invention of VCRs and now DVRs. It's what get talked about at the water cooler the next day. Speed, on the other hand, takes a new concept and then immediately waters it down to a watery gruel. There are episodes of Pinks that are kind of interesting (but none of that stupid biker family in Texas) but where do you find them? My digital channel guide tells me when a show is new and when it is a repeat, and there are entire nights on Speed when every single show is a re-run . . . and that block is itself re-run the same night!

The result is that, after watching Despain on Sunday night, my TV doesn't get tuned to Speed until Friday (truck or F1 racing) or Sunday, for Raceday. My TV was stuck on Speedvision, but Speed has limited its schedule so much that it just doesn't show anything interesting, and shows it's own shows until you can mute the sound and speak every line of dialogue. If Speed doesn't respect it's product, there's no reason why I should. And to those TV moguls who program Speed but know nothing about racing who will say "It's the only way we can afford to produce new shows," I say cough up a buck or two (instead of thousands) and run tape-delayed foreign racing series at night (including your own Touring Car and GT series) and give us what we watch Speed for: Racing.

Until then, I'll catch the myriad of Wrecks re-runs whenever I'm bored and whenever they're reasonable new. And marking Thursday night with a star just ain't gonna happen.

I agree with you 100%
My TV used to live on SPEED...not anymore

I don't especially like th ere-runs either. If they wanna do reality TV, go to some interesteing people! I still remember when some NASCAR drivers had the cameras follow them around for like a week, and surprisingly, it was interesting enough!
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