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Random Scheduling

Pot Luck Programming

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A channel, or possibly a day once a week, when programs are scheduled by the network via a random process. So that Oprah would be on at 2am, Late night Movie at 4pm etc etc.

A further extension of this is to have randomized segments between TV commercials. For example you are watching the news and it goes to the commercial break, and then after the commercial up pops a segment from 'Welcome Back Kotter' and then to another commercial and returns with Funniest Home Videos.

I guess a similar effect occurs using your remote control, but this could very well prove or disprove the existence of god. see link

—	benfrost, Jun 04 2001

7.15am - 7.26am http://www.blue-crab.org/crabhouses.htm
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The BBC does this already. Whenever there's a snooker match, or soccer, or Wimbledon, all published scheduling goes out of the window.

—	angel, Jun 04 2001

Nice idea... and we devine the presence of divinity through resonance in seemingly unrelated programs?

—	Spidergoat, Jun 04 2001

Put the remote control on the sofa where the cat normally sleeps....

—	CasaLoco, Jun 04 2001

Or implement a "randomizer" on the remote control unit. One click and it channel surfs for you.

—	snarfyguy, Jun 04 2001

Baked. It's called "NBC and 'Scrubs'"

—	Tabbyclaw, May 20 2005

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