When did frying pans become a TV show?

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Has anyone else noticed the proliferation of half hour long advertisements for three very similar looking frying pans - flavorstone, stonedine and free n ezi?

They are harmless enough commercials I suppose - but one thing confuses me - there is literally the same annoying ad with the guy with the purple hair and the annoying british woman selling both the stonedine (black pan with white speckles) as the free n ezi (white pan, yellow exterior)

(flavorstone is the blue one with white speckles)

He does the exact same nonsense egg test and blowing into the pan to flip out a crepe...

All of the online reviews of all of these products confirm that they all scratch and don't live up to their advertised promises, but it is just curious to me that the same ad runs for two competing products.
 

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Has anyone else noticed the proliferation of half hour long advertisements for three very similar looking frying pans - flavorstone, stonedine and free n ezi?

They are harmless enough commercials I suppose - but one thing confuses me - there is literally the same annoying ad with the guy with the purple hair and the annoying british woman selling both the flavorstone (black pan with white speckles) as the free n ezi (white pan, yellow exterior)

(flavorstone is the blue one with white speckles)

He does the exact same nonsense egg test and blowing into the pan to flip out a crepe...

All of the online reviews of all of these products confirm that they all scratch and don't live up to their advertised promises, but it is just curious to me that the same ad runs for two competing products.

And is having an annoying half-Cockney/half-Brooklyn accent a prerequisite for hosting these ads?
 

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Frying Pans are a TV show because you can't run six channels purely on Steam Mops. OK, 23 hours a day with a Magic Bullet show for an hour.
I'm amazed that so many home shopping channels survive. I know the economics are completely different to an ordinary channel from the network's perspective, but the advertisers that pay to air the programs stil need to suck people in to watch and buy.
 

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Frying Pans are a TV show because you can't run six channels purely on Steam Mops. OK, 23 hours a day with a Magic Bullet show for an hour.
I'm amazed that so many home shopping channels survive. I know the economics are completely different to an ordinary channel from the network's perspective, but the advertisers that pay to air the programs stil need to suck people in to watch and buy.
Free to Air TV can be pretty lame......maybe Steam H20 Mop counts as good viewing some nights.....o_O
 
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They are harmless enough commercials I suppose - but one thing confuses me - there is literally the same annoying ad with the guy with the purple hair and the annoying british woman selling both the flavorstone (black pan with white speckles) as the free n ezi (white pan, yellow exterior)

(flavorstone is the blue one with white speckles)

He does the exact same nonsense egg test and blowing into the pan to flip out a crepe...
FFS dude, spoilers. I haven't watched it yet.
 

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