Feb 11, 2010 17:50
This bothered me so much that I need to share this with all of you. I was listening to the radio at work today and a commercial for tonight’s Vampire Diaries came on. Of course the commercial made it sound like an epic VD tonight as the trailer for it seemed to last several minutes. Now usually they promote VD with its own commercial and naturally Supernatural just gets a mention, not its own trailer. Just a "and then catch Supernatural at 8 after the Vampire Diaries on the CW." But you’ll never believe what they did today. Actually, you will believe it as promotion for Supernatural is practically nonexistent compared to other CW shows. They started with "tonight on the CW: blah blah blah blah obligatory Vampire Diaries synopsis that seemed to last forever blah blah blah..." and then another non-trailer voice came on after it was over and said "catch Friends before Vampire Diaries at 6 and then catch SEINFELD at 9 here on the CW!"
Did everyone feel that kick in the gut?? I’ll give you a minute to recover...
Supernatural wasn’t even MENTIONED. They treated it as if it didn’t exist. They promoted 2 older shows instead. I was so furious I couldn’t even see straight. I guess now we’re not even getting acknowledged. But Vampire Diaries gets a 5 minute episode trailer.