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Tiana Offord is a massive fan of the TV show Gilmore Girls, but even after watching each episode 10 times she is still missing things.

So much so that the 20-year-old university student from Brisbane estimates she has seen all seven seasons of the comedy-drama TV series - currently being streamed on Netflix - at least ten times over."It's just on a constant rotation in my lounge room."Tiana Offord stands with her hands placed on an ocean wall and looks out towards the sea.

"People keep telling me things that I had no idea happened," she said, adding that, for years, she mistook a dream sequence in aREAD MORE: Many new TV shows and movies have audio description and Netflix has its own delivery platform to allow viewers to select the option from its audio and subtitles menu.

"I think having one show like Gilmore Girls audio described could be the stepping stone to having other shows auto described and lead to a more inclusive television experience overall." From last month, the ABC and SBS started including audio descriptions for key programs on its on-demand services."Netflix were probably one of the first companies to make a commitment that all of their original shows would have audio description, which was a really significant step forward," he said.

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