Two hour movie padded by 4 hours of commercials

wow US tv sucks if that's how much time is wasted on commercials, here in the UK max commercials there is in a movie on tv is 3 and they last 3-4 mins each max

I meant that they took what amounted to a two-hour movie and made it into a 6 hour miniseries, by placing four hours of commercials in it: 10 minute commercial breaks after each 5 minutes of show. Perhaps you should spend more time learning to read than fiddling with your font color.

I gave up on fowarding on my dvr very early into the series because they were so frequent. I just accepted my fate and watched it with the commercials, lol. I was going to watch It on hulu or another Internet no commercial option but I wanted to watch it immediately. Just to let you know... Not all ppl watch torrents and on small phones. They use smart tv's, video game consoles, chomcast, allcast, etc... and watch it on their large screen tv.

The ability for some people to watch the show in different formats does not justify the original format in which it is presented. You can also do that most other people do and not be a condescending douche.

This is why SciFi shows get cancelled so often. SciFi nerds are the most likely to pirate shows, and this has killed commercial revenues for the network. The network execs said this as long ago as Stargate Atlantis. There is a very high correlation between most pirated shows on COMMERCIAL networks and declining ratings.


Defender of the weak, and enemy of the weak minded.

Yup, either that or get HBO / BBC.

I got the same - at least for the first episode, I didn't bother looking at 2 & 3. But 1:20 of show, 36 minutes of commercials. But that's counting the "coming up on Childhood's End" segments as show and also not counting the last commercial break (the commercials after the show is over) since nobody has to watch that.

In terms of how they split it up, I liked that as well. Opened with 19 minutes of uninterrupted show which is a nice start. Followed by about 5 minutes of commercial. Second segment was almost 13 minutes, so the show opens with about 32 minutes of content, 5 minutes of commercials. Third segment is 9 minutes, then it's shorter in the middle with a 7 and a 6 minute segment. Then wraps back up with two longer, 13 minute segments.

I think this this is a very good flow to balance the telling of the story, laying the groundwork up front & finishing strong, while still doing the necessary commercials to pay for everything.

The original poster either needs a new timer or frankly was being dishonest because it's not remotely 5 minutes of show, 10 minutes of commercial.