First my CBS affiliate in New York interrupted Grant Aleksander's first day back at GUIDING LIGHT as Phillip. They wiped out the entire second half of the episode and the "moment" he returned. This was due to the flight crew from the plane that landed in the Hudson River doing a press conference (which didn't reveal anything new and was rather awkward and useless). Now they pre-empted most of the first half of this morning's episode of GL, which happened to be the scenes where Oliva was all set to explain to Natalia how she was in love with her. Anyone who reads this blog knows I've been waiting for this moment for many months.
Luckily I can catch the show later at CBS.com and other places, but talk about bad timing. Two of the most anticipated moments of the year, or in years, on GL pre-empted. Today's interruption was for a press conference regarding the new Archbishop (Timothy M. Dolan) of New York. And just my luck I got to hear him answer a question on the Catholic church's position on same sex marriage. Lovely.
Eventually CBS New York went back to GL before the conference was over. Maybe they realized what a colossal waste of time it was.
I have no problem with soaps being interrupted for "breaking" news, but neither of these interruptions were urgent. And neither would have interrupted any nighttime show.
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