Eggs?
Does anyone know what Marnie (Hector's wife) was doing with those egg yolks? I thought it might be for the recipe she heard on TV; but that's not how you make scrambled eggs.
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What audition? I only saw ep. 1 of S.2; but I don't recall Marnie auditioning for anything.
Later in the ep. (I was still watching) we see that she baked a bunch of things; but the timeline implies that it's the next evening, when Hector is out (yet again). She's wearing something different, and a whole work day has transpired from when she's listening to the TV and beating the yolks.
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Ford, so you've seen the second series? I just started watching it, as it just started in America.
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I have no idea as to what Americans must make of this, as the one hour episodes are condensed into 40 minutes!
I saw episode 1 in the US, and it was 75 minutes long, with all the commercials. I missed episode 2, and I watched it online (it wasn't available on OnDemand when I checked), so I don't know how long it was on BBCA. Did they really cut 20 minutes out of the episode? This show is tightly packed and everything is important -- I can't imagine what they'd cut out to make the episode recognizable.
Years ago, when Spooks/MI-5 was first being shown in the US, I watched one episode on A&E and turned it off because it was boring. But then I managed to watch all of the episodes online and was amazed at how good it was. I quickly became addicted.
You'd think that a channel owned by the people that made the show in the first place would know that cutting it to shreds is stupid -- especially since there are ways to get around that.
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After seeing so many times the differences in British & American viewing habits being discussed I guess I wouldn't be shocked if they tried to tailor it. But I also haven't seen a single moment that has come close to something that would undermine the American broadcast much. Maybe the potshots it occasionally takes at the US's government but they are so mild and rare I doubt that's it.
As far as presentation there's such stark similarities to one of our shows that I probably don't even have to name, that is so ridiculously popular. If there is someone who edits the show they must not be aware of that or they're playing it safe to a degree that rivals our silly networks in the US
I haven't seen BBCA's broadcast per se. I saw Series 1 on BBCA On Demand and each episode was a bit less than an hour without commercials. As for Series 2, so far I have seen 3 episodes on BBCA On Demand. These have far fewer commercials than is usual plus they allow you to fast forward past them (which is unusual) which my wife always does, so I don't have a sense that anything has been cut.
In the past, BBCA has been known to broadcast what would have been hour long BBC progams within an hour with substantial editing to allow for commercials. It seems they've gotten away from this somewhat, I don't know what's come over them!
Farther off topic, I find it ironic that Downton Abbey was broadcast in the UK with commercials and in the US without, in direct contradiction of the stereotype!