stripping
n.— «Roger Laughton, BBC head of co-productions and former head of daytime programming, agreed that stripping produced “more bums on seats but a lower reach.”» —“Broadcast looks at the commercial stations’ use of programme stripping” Broadcast (U.K.) Feb. 10, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton’s best-known novel. Today the annual Bulwer-Lytton Contest asks contestants for fanciful first sentences that are similarly...
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