Vuzu (DStv 116) and the channel's apparently brain-dead programmers has again messed up the finale of yet another reality show, this time the finale of the latest 4th season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
The reality show crowning drag queens had episode 13 in its regular Tuesday night timeslot this week, but the show actually concludes with a reunion special and 14th episode in which drag queen RuPaul announces the winner. It seems that either Vuzu wasn't aware that there was actually a 14th episode, or discovered it belatedly.
So suddenly that 14th episode of RuPaul's Drag Race was hastily shown last night the channel tells me this morning.
How normal viewers, who've been strung along on yet another reality show and who've committed 13 hours to watch a TV show without getting a pay-off will react, is anybody's guess.
Vuzu tells me there's been a sudden schedule change and that announcements were made on the entertainment show V Entertainment and in other ways. Yet no mention was made during or at the end of episode 13 on Tuesday. And definitely not to TV critics.
Even I as a TV critic who track and follow all of these myriads of strands of different shows and scheduling changes by devoting countless hours every day to this, wasn't aware of this abrupt change. And I proactively try to find out and keep up with things. How normal viewers are supposed to know when terrible programming changes like these are done, is anybody's guess.
Viewers tuning in on this coming Tuesday night on Vuzu to see the next episode will get a very nasty surprise from the channel due to the shoddy scheduling. Of course there is already the surprise of the gossip rag also actually spoiling the winner on a latest cover for viewers who are waiting to see the winner being announced on Tuesday - which of course is not going to happen.
I hate it when ordinary viewers of TV shows are treated with such either careless arrogance or deliberate idiocy. Vuzu of course also messed up the finale of True Beauty last year.
