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<blockquote data-quote="Gabriel Maxwell" data-source="post: 11215" data-attributes="member: 121">I hope so, but The O.C. began in 2003 when the networks were still doing proper opening credits (albeit much shorter than in the past). By 2005, this awful practice of reducing opening to 5-12-second title cards began and spread like wildfire. I suppose some genius calculated how much more money they can make annually by running yet another 30-second commercial each hour instead of the credits.Desperate Housewives, for example, started in 2004 and got those great animated credits I really enjoyed seeing.[MEDIA=youtube]TVqk0it3_zk[/MEDIA]By next season they got cut (most of the time) into this awful short version. I mean, why even bother?[MEDIA=youtube]8mtsqk5ECX4[/MEDIA]Schwartz&#039;s Gossip Girl, which began in 2007 on The CW, was already affected by the practice:[MEDIA=youtube]nxaLwk3ur5Y[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gabriel Maxwell, post: 11215, member: 121"] I hope so, but [I]The O.C[/I]. began in 2003 when the networks were still doing proper opening credits (albeit much shorter than in the past). By 2005, this awful practice of reducing opening to 5-12-second title cards began and spread like wildfire. I suppose some genius calculated how much more money they can make annually by running yet another 30-second commercial each hour instead of the credits. [I]Desperate Housewives[/I], for example, started in 2004 and got those great animated credits I really enjoyed seeing. [MEDIA=youtube]TVqk0it3_zk[/MEDIA] By next season they got cut (most of the time) into this awful short version. I mean, why even bother? [MEDIA=youtube]8mtsqk5ECX4[/MEDIA] Schwartz's [I]Gossip Girl[/I], which began in 2007 on The CW, was already affected by the practice: [MEDIA=youtube]nxaLwk3ur5Y[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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