According to the program guide on the DVR, as of Monday's show, TDS is now
officially 36 minutes long.

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 1:55 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is a segment of their Between The Scenes feature they've had on
> Facebook now for about six months. It pops up in my Facebook feed as a
> sponsored post regularly, but much more when the show is on break.
> https://www.facebook.com/BetweenTheScenes/
> It looks like something went sideways with the Michael Costa shoot at the
> shutdown rally in Washington, D.C., and they just used a shortened version
> of that in the first act, then used a Between The Scenes to fill the space.
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 6:44 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You're right. I've just been back to double check, and they clearly
>> ditched whatever they actually recorded for the second act and used that
>> segment instead. Looking back at deleted shows from my DVR, other recent
>> episodes have run to 39 mins including UK ads (Legally, we can't have as
>> many as ad breaks as US audiences. TDS has one commercial break in the half
>> hour, usually between Act 1 and Act 2. Other parts are edited together.
>> Even the Moment of Zen follows directly from the interview segment).
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 2:07 PM Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> TDS has been running long since several weeks ago, to the point that I
>>> have my DVR recording 15 minutes past the scheduled end time every night.
>>> On Comedy Central's website, Thursday's show (including commercials) runs
>>> 36 minutes; it's labeled "extended," which applies to the interview
>>> segment. Three acts + Moment of Zen, as usual. What you're calling an
>>> "extra segment" was what we saw as Act 2. (This is the second time a
>>> "Trevor talks to the audience" segment bumped whatever they'd had planned
>>> for Act 2.) If you saw four acts, you got more than we did.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 8:13 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In the UK, we get episodes of The Daily Show a day and bit late. They
>>>> air in at about 1am in the morning, the day after they air in the US. So
>>>> this morning, I watched Thursday's episode which I recorded last night.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, this particular episode ran long, because it included what was
>>>> basically an extra segment. It looks like Noah was just talking to the
>>>> audience between acts while they reset for the guest segment. Cameras were
>>>> moving around and were in picture in places - you could even read the words
>>>> on the teleprompter for that upcoming segment.
>>>>
>>>> But Noah was relating, with humour, but pretty sincerely, how he'd
>>>> rethought his views on disabled actors having read a Tweet online. This
>>>> following all the discussion about Bryan Cranston playing a wheelchair
>>>> bound character in the new movie, The Upside.
>>>>
>>>> Obviously, someone somewhere decided to keep this all in the show - or
>>>> at least the version the UK got. My DVR said the whole thing ran 39
>>>> minutes, but it pads programmes - especially when there are no other
>>>> recording clashes. So I was just curious whether this version went out in
>>>> the US too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>> PS He did not mention anything about moving to LA!
>>>>
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