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45 Min TV Shows
ie NCIS (60min -15)x 20,000,000 weekly viewers= 5,000,000 hours | |
What if every film had to be either 90 or 180 mins. The inflexible half hour or full hour broadcast TV show formats don't work for every program. But with 45 min episodes, some of your favorite shows could make you laugh for an extra 11 mins per week. And other shows you don't want to commit an hour
to might be worth watching at 45 mins.
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Most hour shows are 45 minutes, plus 15 for commercials. (check the play-length on DVD). The half hour you'd have left for actual content with this wouldn't allow a very complex plot. |
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"Commit"? To a television show? The world is wide, and much of it quite interesting. Even some of the people, though not as good-looking as actors, are quite pleasant, and/or full of plot twists. I'm not going to fishbone this idea, because if you got dis-heartened you might just slump further down the couch, but it's a close call. |
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45 mins refers to the scheduled not actual length. |
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I suspect that it's the same psychology as that employed in premium telephone 'helplines'. The companies have information about how long the average person is willing to stay on hold. |
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I'm not sure I understand where the extra 11 minutes is coming from... |
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Yeah, I figure 10-11 more minutes of actual show time if a half hour show changed format. |
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When American programmes are shown on the BBC,
because we have no commercial breaks, they're
usually forty-five or something like twenty-two
minutes long. I also get the impression that the way
commercial breaks work on commercial channels in
the UK differs too, but i don't know how. Do you not
have more but shorter ones over in the States?
What's it like in Canada and Australasia? |
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American TV advertising is a *nightmare* (from my UKian point of view). The ad breaks are relentless and timed right on that threshold of annoyance. |
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[miggavin] That was my point, with only about 30 minutes of actual program Dramas are going to have a very hard time getting across a complex plot. |
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Advertisements are much like herpes simplex. Once they're there, they stay. You can pay all you want (buy cable, satellite, etc.) but advertisements just keep coming back. Damn viral marketing. |
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I refuse to watch TV with commercials, so we pay extra for *movie channels*. After watching 6 - 30 second adverts, I have forgotten what the heck I was watching! Even movie channels advertise the next movie in the time you are waiting for the next one to begin... |
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