BBC America Shows..

[shadowkat]

Just caught a post on my flist complaining about how BBC America drastically cut tv shows such as Being Human, Doctor Who and Ashes to Ashes. I've seen similar posts about how Syfy cut portions of Merlin (but apparently not as badly.) All to make room for commericials?

That would certainly explain a lot. Such as why I'm not as over the moon about these tv shows as everyone on my flist who has seen them either online in their uncut format or in their original uncut format on BBC in UK. In other words, we are literally watching two different tv shows. This is also true with American imports, apparently they add minutes to tv show to show abroad, because European tv stations don't have as many or any commercials?

This raises a question: if you don't have commercials, how the heck are you paying for the tv shows? Subscriptions?

Also makes me wonder if I should give up watching things on BBC America and just wait for it to appear on netflix. Granted that takes a while. Don't want to do that - netflix queue already has 400 items on it, doesn't need more. What can I say? I have diverse tastes.

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[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Even w/Buffy and Firefly we didn't get the full 43 minutes of show, at least I didn't... about 2 minutes was cut from the shows because my local Fox affiliate (where I watched BtVS two hours later than others saw it on UPN) always squeezed in an extra two minutes of local advertising.... I thought a lot of local stations did that.
I never got to see the full episode until it was out on DVD.
When BtVS S6 'Once More With Feeling' aired they cut the full 10 minutes of extra programming Joss put in that show (which I understand others got to see). It turned out to be mostly one verse of Spike's song, and a big part of the beginning when the gang was singing about what might be causing the singing....

But really, did this make me dislike the show? It only made me keener to get to see the whole uncut version on DVD.

In fact I first fell in love with Dexter when CBS ran the first season during the writers strike: they cut all the swearing, nudity and most of the blood and gore... But it was still obviously a brilliant show with interesting characters (so I got ahold of the DVDs).