No really, in this case its what it appears to be. Cheap programming to fill the schedules. the other wheeze is the so called 'New to' tags on some channels. This works like this. BBC makes series of Helicopter heroes, All are strange lengths, as they are really made for commercial tv. After screening them a couple of times on say bbc 1 and bbc 4, they then go to Really, where they are 'new to' and contain adverts. Really is part of the UK tv network owned by the bbc and itv jointly. NeThese are basically just tv juke boxes which repeat the schedule many times during the day and evening. When that is exhausted, the come to CBS Reality, another station with much the same policy as the previous one. This carries on until people hare heartily sick of the same episodes being screened as 'new to'.
This now seems to have been joined by True Tv which is obviously an outlet for crap US reality tv, like Killer karaoke, Fear Factor, Bait Car ( already screened on CBS Reality). And so it goes on and on.
How many times can come dine with us, Homes under the hammer, don't tell the bride, etc get aired? Of course Sky do the same on their free to air channels Pick and Challenge as well. The later is all games shows. Some of them were made before the younger viewers were born, such ads Blanketty Blank and Bullseye for example.
The latest heap of junk is coming in from the Antipodes, on most channels. Many are remakes of ours with either the same name with the country added, or similar in all but name.
We are also prone to make this crap, Brighton rescue is a case in point. who cares?
Personally, I only have such junk on until I'm sure it really is that bad. Approx 30 seconds.
Its no wonder remote controls are failing a lot more these days. Brian