From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Jim Ellwanger  writes:   
      
   >I was just in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, for five days.  "The   
   >Tonight Show" airs at 10:30 P.M. on a cable channel called The Comedy   
   >Channel -- basically the equivalent to Comedy Central.  Because of the   
   >time zone issue, it's "last night's" episode, but it's airing only a few   
   >hours after it aired in the U.S.  (The Comedy Channel also runs "last   
   >night's" Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert at 6:30 and 7:00, which is an   
   >even quicker turnaround from their U.S. broadcasts.)   
      
   	For comparison when I was in Singapore it aired The Tonight Show   
   With That Other Guy on the local feed of CNBC, and only the Monday and   
   Tuesday episodes, this on Saturday night.  Inexplicably, they reran the   
   same two episodes, in the other order, on Sunday night.   
      
   	Early in the decade they ran Late Night after that, but the   
   Tuesday and Wednesday episodes, again doubling them even though at that   
   time they could've covered the whole week in two nights at two episodes   
   per night.  But they dropped that in 2003 for reasons best known to them.   
      
      
   >It's in a 45-minute slot -- "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" airs at 11:15   
   >-- which is accomplished by having short (1-minute or 30-second)   
   >commercial breaks.   
      
   	CNBC's running in Singapore was similarly short, although not   
   squeezed down to a 45-minute slot.  The commercial breaks were only a   
   minute at most, so that the show would end with nearly ten minutes   
   hanging loose at the end.  The other big change was they stuffed an   
   extra break in the walkover from the monologue area to the desk, which   
   Late Night wasn't doing at the time, so that it stood out all the more   
   and more inexplicably.   
      
   	The short commercial breaks were more or less standard across   
   the board, with the result that most imported US shows ended *way* short   
   and gave time for little fillers at the end of the hour.  Channel 5 in   
   Singapore ran The Price Is Right with only three commercial breaks, too,   
   (one after the second pricing game, one after the first Showcase Showdown,   
   and one before the second Showcase Showdown), so it threatened to have a   
   few acres of spare time running to the next segment.   
      
      
   >The NBC bug and the American "TV-14" rating graphics coming out of every   
   >commercial break are present.  (Its Australian rating is "M," announced   
   >with a full-screen graphic and voiceover before the show.)   
      
   	The NBC bug on CNBC Singapore was at the top of the screen on the   
   right, at the time matching the side (but not the bottom/top orientation)   
   of NBC Master Command's.  I honestly don't remember if the ratings   
   graphic was on it.  I'd be a bit surprised if they bothered keeping many   
   copies of the show without the ratings bug around.   
      
      
   >The Comedy Channel's promos for "The Tonight Show" are using the same   
   >Conan-running-down-the-beach shots as NBC's promos -- a little surreal   
   >hearing an Australian announcer over that footage.   
      
   	I had that problem getting used to Seconds From Disaster with   
   the US voice-overs.  Also to TV show jingles not given that subtle PAL   
   speedup, which really improves nearly all of them.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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