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.

Comments

[curlymynci.livejournal.com]

What calturner said. It's a great big socialist thing. Everyone pays £125 a year into the pot. That gets given to the BBC for impartial journalism and innovative public service programming, both of which they manage to do at least partially. Our commercial channels also have less advertising than you guys, although that's starting to change. I think that's probably because up until about 10 years ago most people only had 5 TV channels so the advertising space would have been more valuable.