There is an article in next week's Radio Times by Alison Graham bemoaning the now ubiquitous trailer that is the blight of current TV dramas.
As she quite rightly says: "... telly goes out of its way to spoil our pleasures with some astonishingly revealing trailers." Spot on. Recent examples of this terrible scourge have been Thorne (Sky1), The Little House (ITV1), Spooks (BBC1), Single Father (BBC1).
What I can't understand is why someone in TV-land thinks this is a good idea. Why do they think we want the next episode of what (hopefully) is a compelling drama ruined by them giving almost so much away that we needn't bother to tune in next week at all?
IT IS A BAD IDEA. Get rid of it. Perhaps Ms Graham's article will be noted by progamme makers. I expect a glut of "letters to the editor" in next week's RT agreeing with Ms Graham.
Whenever the words "...next time" appear on the screen, there is a scramble for the remote control in our house to change the channel to avoid the next episode being spoiled.
Hmmm, the TV companies might want to think about that. I'm going to tune in next week to see what happens in the next episode, but I change channel when their precious trailers hit the screen!
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