When Television Stations Glitch..

So there I was, sat, waiting for the next episode of Shark, after kicking back to the season opener of Dexter when it happened.

The TV station glitched. I don't mean the thunder and lightening glitch that leaves the dish struggling to find a signal, but a 'whoops' from the station. As Shark struggled to fight his way onto the screen something else kept appearing instead, in between scenes with a man stabbing a woman on a couch, and Shark then talking to some of his team, the opening of Sixty Minutes flashed onto the screen.

What the ...

All right. So they'll apologize any minute, won't they? And I'll be back to Shark?

No, of course not. They slip into adverts instead! And once that is done it was back to sixty minutes. Well for thirty seconds before we were jolted back into adverts again.

Excuse me?

Is there anyone there?

Scenes from the movie, Hackers, flashed through my mind. You remember the scene. Were the two hackers were fighting for control of the TV station with the robots grabbing the tapes, each hacker wanting to watch something different.

Now I've seen some odd things when stations glitch. Anything from MSNBC announcing they had lost the tape for a midnight re-run, to a calm voice announcing, "we apologize and we appear to experiencing a technical glitch, but we'll return you to ..... as soon as possible"

Ah, but this time there was - nothing.

Not an apology.

No warning card flashing up.

They just merrily returned us to Shark without so much as an 'Opps'.

Hello, we're viewers, not morons. When you make a mistake APOLOGIZE. Sheesh, it's easy to do. We drum it into our kids often enough. Ah, but maybe you thought the viewers wouldn't notice the difference between Shark and 60 Minutes?

Well, sorry. I did.

And now back to your regular program schedule where we join Shark and....or well we are at least until the glitch again.