I don't speak for management but I always understood that announcements were just what you copied in your reply above. Not to announce TV shows.
When Jim created the separate forums he created a lot of special topics for stories he knew many wanted to post, but that did not belong in the FReerepublic news category.
I think your announcement of a aTV show, regardless of content, rightly belongs in the chat - tv/movies forum.
Just my $.02
LOL I just checked, one was posted 10 mins ago...not in chat.....all Im saying is MODS are NOT consistant.
Thanks though for your .02....its more valuable than the $20.00-50.00 than FR usually gets (but wont) from me each quarter.