Lynch courteously sat at Vera's house for a while before leaving. The couple stood by the door, slowly closing it after seeing him off.
The smiles on their faces vanished the moment the door closed, as if they didn't want to smile, or had never smiled at all.
"Was Bupen fun?" Gap asked, sitting back on the sofa and turning on the TV, which was playing a re-run of last night's drama.
Afternoon ratings have never been high, and it's hard to sell ads at a good price during this slot. Fortunately, they bundled the afternoon ads with prime-time ads, selling them together.
But this still didn't solve the problem of what to broadcast in the afternoon. Ultimately, they could only replay the previous day's prime-time content in the afternoon, at least saving some costs on program production or purchase.
The program already watched on TV felt very dull, not at all as fresh as when watched last night.
