Sex with your long-term partner generally doesn't involve cliffhangers, unless it's "will we fall asleep before anyone has an orgasm?" whereas glossy drama raises viewers to the highest peaks of anticipation and arousal and keeps them awake till 4am, as a quick liaison with The Affair turns into a feverish all-nighter.
The amorous antics on "Undercovers" may raise some viewers' eyebrows because it is scheduled on Wednesdays for 8 p.m. in the East and 7 p.m. Central time.
When U.S. Speedskating lost its biggest sponsor in October, after the Dutch bank DSB went bankrupt, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert stepped in with more than $300,000 raised from viewers of his program.
The watchdog looked at a number of issues raised by viewers, including concerns that rules governing child welfare had been broken, and that the programme featured "certain criminal techniques".
He was critical of the leaders of the U.S. Speedskating Organization when a donation of $250,000 was raised by viewers of the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report for the organization after their largest commercial sponsor, the Dutch DSB Bank, declared bankruptcy and was unable to donate its $300,000 in November 2009.
Before any viewers raise an eyebrow at this dense funeral march of gothic tropes, you'd do well to remember that Victorians weren't ones for underdecoration.
The pairing of the nation's largest cable company with one of the leading television broadcasters, which also owns several popular cable networks, could limit choices and raise prices for viewers and advertisers.
The conservative mind, a repository of fresh ideas just two decades ago, is now little more than a click-click slide projector holding a tray of apocalyptic images of modern life that keeps spinning around, raising the viewer's fever with every rotation.
As the story comes to a close, Luke interrupts the ending sequence and raises the viewer's awareness to all of the "unanswered questions" that the movie leaves behind.
Niche newscasts do raise questions of whether viewers are receiving serious, objective information or newsy features skewed toward the interests and biases of a small, homogeneous group.
Although re-enactments tend to raise alarms, particularly by viewers who confuse documentaries with journalism, interviews are often more problematic precisely because they look so straightforward, even transparent.
