{"id":27882,"date":"2012-05-12T20:47:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T02:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-good-things-on-american-tv.html"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:12:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:12:51","slug":"this-is-why-we-cant-have-good-things-on-american-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-good-things-on-american-tv.html","title":{"rendered":"This is why we can&#39;t have good things (on American TV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because we&#39;re locked into shows fitting into the hour\/half-hour marks, minus commercial time or other promotional time for cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the most recent episode of &quot;Sherlock&quot; had 8 minutes of its 90 minute length cut.  Even PBS only has 82 minutes available for each 90 minute slot. So  9% cut ensues.  Which, even if it&#39;s non-critical-to-the-mystery part is still a big pain for a character- and atmosphere-driven show.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, the same thing happens on &quot;Doctor Who&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s a reason that watching the episodes on disc or streaming video-on-demand services has its advantages.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fincoming%2Farticle7737967.ece%2FBINARY%2Foriginal%2Fpg-2-sherlock-bbc.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/sherlock-holmes-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-eight-minutes-7738001.html'>Sherlock Holmes and the mystery of the missing eight minutes<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmerican viewers really can&#39;t get enough of Sherlock, one might deduce. After an appearance by Benedict Cumberbatch prompted scenes of hysteria in New York, US fans complained that eight minutes of th&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/BonKpAr8F4Z' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/BonKpAr8F4Z' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we&#39;re locked into shows fitting into the hour\/half-hour marks, minus commercial time or other promotional time for cuts. Thus, the most recent episode of &quot;Sherlock&quot; had 8 minutes of its 90 minute length cut. Even PBS only has 82 minutes available for each 90 minute slot. So 9% cut ensues. Which, even if it&#39;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-good-things-on-american-tv.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is why we can&#39;t have good things (on American TV)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,526,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-sherlock-holmes","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25573,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/us-tv-looks-to-make-its-own-version-of-sherlock.html","url_meta":{"origin":27882,"position":0},"title":"US TV looks to make its own version of &quot;Sherlock&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Jan-12 7:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"The only ... only ... good thing I can say for this endeavor is that we will end up with more than three 90 minute episodes at a time. 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