On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]>wrote:
> Decided to keep this in its own thread rather than combining with the > "song" stuff... > > On Mar 25, 2012, at 9:02 PM, PGage wrote: > > > This was advertised as a two hour premier, but it was really a 90 minute > episode in a 2 hour slot... > > The time slot was 2 hours and 8 minutes, actually. The above almost makes > it sound like it's the first time you've ever watched commercial > television, where I don't think anything's EVER been advertised using its > running time without commercials. > > > so there were a hell of a lot of commercial breaks, some that had the > iconic Mad Men bumper, and some that did not. The regular episodes will be > 45 minutes in an hour slot, which I guess is the same ratio, and it feels a > like a LOT more commercials than previously. > > I watched Seasons 1-4 on Netflix over a few months late last year/early > this year, so this was the first time I ever watched an episode on AMC. It > actually seemed like there were fewer commercial breaks than I'm used to in > other cable shows; I can't really speak for the length of the breaks since > I was watching "delayed" via DVR and fast-forwarding through. > I have watched a little commercial television in my day. But the context of this is the rather heated argument during Weiner's contract negotiation in which he was forced to eat two additional minutes of commercials per episode. Some MM fans thought this was an abomination at the time, I was basically on the side of those who were A) happy they had settled the dispute and B) accepted that even with the 2 extra minutes, MM would have fewer commercial minutes than many other basic cable shows. My point thus was that tonight, in the actual event, I found the two additional commercial minutes to be a lot more disruptive than I had initially anticipated. I also time-shift an hour or so to make sure I can FF through the commercials, so its not so much the suffering through the ads, as it is the breaking up of the narrative flow. I suspect that part of this is that, as reported last year, Weiner is delivering 47 minute (I guess in this case 94 minute) episodes to AMC, and AMC is taking out 2 minutes to make room for the extra commercials. These two extra breaks are not coming then where he plans them dramatically - which maybe is why some of the breaks did not have the usual bumpers. This is why I am thinking of waiting for now on to watch them On Demand. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
