Monday, January 23, 2012

BREAKING. Nothing but a big bully: The absolutely disgusting way in which M-Net treats Glee, now shunting the show to M-Net Series!


M-Net (the company) is not from our school. Clearly not. Definitely one of those big bully kids from the rough Lima Heights Adjacent - how else to explain the utterly atrocious way in which M-Net is and has been treating Glee: now suddenly yet again moving and dumping the actually brilliant TV show in (lets count it) its third season on the 3rd new channel - and don't forget the multiple then-here-then-there timeslots! Truly pathetic!

M-Net made the shocking and completely appalling and disgusting - get that M-Net - DIS-GUS-TING! - out-of-the-blue announcement late this afternoon that suddenly Glee is starting this coming Monday (yep, suddenly in 7 days from now) at 19:30 on M-Net Series (DStv 123) after being yanked from Vuzu (DStv123). Immediately. And with no explanation whatsoever. How does this not clearly indicate a total lack of any actual ... planning?

If I'm Fox I would no longer sell Glee to M-Net in South Africa and find some other broadcaster that actually cares about how it schedules good television. Glee started off very nicely on the M-Net channel (DStv 101) for its first season. Then suddenly, it was moved to Vuzu (DStv 123) for its second season. Then the trouble began. Besides the incredibly long wait for Glee's second season, there were also several timeslot changes and several other mess-ups.

Then Glee's third season started on Vuzu recently. Oh no wait. Then it stopped. Then it was on again. Then it was off again. Then episodes were pre-empted. Then it moved to a different timeslot. Then it moved to a different day. Then it moved to another different timeslot. Then it was gone again. Then it was back again. Now its going to M-Net Series. Is friggin Sue Sylvester behind this all?

Those poor McKinley High kids and DStv subscribers DO NOT DESERVE this disgusting behaviour from people who apparently are supposed to have certain basic qualifications to work in television but now makes me doubt it.

And by the way, how do you have a show on one premium channel, then move it to a channel on DStv Compact, only to then suddenly yank it away from those subscribers again? None of it makes any sense and its extremely bad, pathetic and shameful on M-Net's part and whoever all are part of these apparently ''lets make it up as we go'' decisions.

How M-Net (the company) thinks that viewers are supposed to follow a show when you keep moving it to a different channel every season and multiple timeslot changes, is beyond me. How M-Net can first decide all youth shows go to Vuzu - then suddenly no longer adhere to their own plan a year later speaks of some kind of idiotic and extremely misguided and seemingly unplanned misdirected mess that is just plain and simply ... wrong.

Will Glee now stay on M-Net Series? Well, it hasn't been moved to Mzansi Magic yet. And also maybe Wednesdays. At 08:43. Because we haven't yet seen Glee on that day of the week and in that timeslot.


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