From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 3/12/2025 12:54 am, solar penguin wrote> Daniel demanded:   
   >> On 2/12/2025 2:19 am, solar penguin wrote:   
   >>> Dumas Walker wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> For most of the 4-part serials I have watch so far, the air   
   >>>> time has been many more minutes than 24.  Tubi does insert   
   >>>> commercials, which pushes them over 30 minutes.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Nearly all "30-minute" British shows I watch have episodes much   
   >>>> closer to 28 or 29 minutes, without commercials.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 24 minutes sounds more like a US TV show that is meant for a   
   >>>> 30-minute slot, leaving time for commercials.   
   >>>   
   >>> But classic Doctor Who was usually 25-minutes, not 30. Remember,   
   >>> it was originally made for Saturdays, when the BBC doesn’t   
   >>> follow the rigid 30-minute blocks of weekday schedules.   
   >>>   
   >> What did 'they' do with all those missing 5-6 minutes?? Run Show   
   >> promotions or something??   
   >>   
   >> (No 'ads' of course!!)   
   >   
   > No, just went straight to the next programme, of course, same as they   
   > do now.   
   >   
   > Remember, this is the weekend we’re talking about, when BBC schedules   
   > don’t follow 30-minute slots.   
   >   
   Here, in Australia, the (for example) 7:30 - 8:30 program often starts   
   at 7:35 .... so, in theory, at the end of that program, you can't change   
   channels because you'll have missed the first few minutes of the (other   
   channels) program.   
      
   So your "locked in" .... unless you are watching on a PVR, when you miss   
   out on the final five minutes!!   
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   Daniel70   
      
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