"Starting with the news, then there is a repeat of a documentary, then Skippy: Australia's First Superstar, a repeat no less, then there's Paws, Claws and Videotape, a clip show about famous animals, then a bought-in film, then there's Skippy again, then Paws, Claws and Videotape is repeated, then Storyville, a repeat documentary, then Skippy again, but with subtitles".
But its prime-time identity has been more muddled, with a mix of repeats, documentaries and low-rated talk shows.
MTV, with its high-profile movie awards and endlessly repeated promotional documentaries on the making of one blockbuster or another, and its sister channel VH1 have become essential marketing tools not only for CD's but for movies and soundtracks.
Sky1 is repeating the documentary Prince William in Africa.
Last Wednesday a repeat of natural history documentary Mountain Gorilla had 1.625 million (8%) in the 7pm hour on BBC2, while Channel 4 News attracted 836,000 (4.2%, C4 +1 50,000/0.2%).
It was a clever piece of programming by UK Horizons to schedule a repeat of a 1997 documentary about real footballers' wives just as ITV's drama about fictional players' wives reaches its ridiculous climax; particularly as the documentary included an element lacking in the drama, namely humour.
One conflict that was repeated in the documentary Bully was the lack of reaction from school administrators and the local police because the situation never escalated into one of violence.
Desperate, Salerno indulges in dubious acts of documentary re-creation — repeated shots of a dark-haired fellow crashing through northern woods like an axe murderer in a shabby shocker.
Garrett said he made the claim in his book and repeated it in the documentary before realising he was mistaken.
