I was watching last night and it seemed that the show segments were about 5 minutes long and then there 5 minutes of commercials. Very hard to become involved with the plot with so many commercials and such brief segments of content.
shareTrue, though I saw it on a commercial-free DVR. But the content was very short before the commercial break.
Good thing the button on my remote with the arrow pointing up skips the "page" exactly 5 minutes in one click. It seemed to work perfectly to hit the next content.
Sadly, there the big three networks begin, cable always follows. I suspect strongly cable will soon have the 5/5 format rather than the 7/4 and 7/5 format they currently use.
I've not watched a program with commercials for 30 years, using some kind of recording device that allows me to skip it in one click.
But certainly would never, ever watch ANY tv program with this type of interference in the narrative if I didn't have skipping technology.
Don't know how folks understand shows at all if they are stuck in this without a way to eliminate adverts to keep the narrative fresh.
As much as I am enjoying the show, eight hours may be dragging it out too long for all but the most hard-core history buffs. Especially when you consider that only about half of those hours are actual content, and that many of us already know how it ends.
shareYeah the commercials did get out of control. I had gotten a few people to start watching it after catching them on DVR. But the amount of commercials when we watched it live last weekend seemed like a record for non-Olympics. Everyone was getting so fed up they said DVR next week or forget it (but they did love it and were definitely going for the DVR over forget it). at some point the density of commercials just backfires. I wonder if they cut some footage out. It must have been a 30:30, which is even worse than what I think even soap operas do(?), I've heard they are the worst and about 35show:25commercials. The nasty CBS/NBC Olympics are awful though I bet they must be 30:30 or even worse. ABC was so much better for Olympics.