I can’t help but notice watching some factual TV shows recently that some people really are taking the “5 second attention span” thing too far and about a quarter of the show is taken up with either recapping what has gone before or telling you what is going to happen later in the show – a practice I shall now dub ‘pre-capping’.

In particular is it most noticeable when watching a run of shows that have been Sky+ed up for watching all in one go. I’ve now taken to fast forwarding those bits, as I do the ads, but really – what’s up with that? Do we really need to take up so much of the show basically repeating itself? Is this the new slow-motion, to pad shows out further?

Either way, it’s bloody annoying and I really wish TV would stop doing it. Stop treating your audience like idiots, please!

Particularly bad shows for this were: “I own Britain’s Best Home” – also home to the most annoying fawning female presenter of recent memory, “Behind Closed Doors” and “Ty’s Great British Adventure”. Yeah, I watch a lot of TV shows about homes. That’s what owning(*) a home does to you I guess.

(*) ok so technically I own about 5% of it. But I’m working on the rest…