Thanks, Marje, for putting into words something which I've long been aware of, but simply accommodated as one more example of the repetitiveness and/or "dumbing-down" which seems almost inevitably to be part of Television production; not that the music used is "dumbed-down", but that it's repetitively used as a convenient but often hardly appropriate accompaniment to the kind of scenes you mention. Perhaps the answer to the question in your first paragraph could be sought in the class background, the education (or lack of it), the attitudes of many among those who commission/produce/direct such programmes.
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