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I've noticed something a bit concerning lately regarding the length of TV shows I watch on some streaming services. It seems that many of these shows are heavily edited, sometimes having 10 minutes or more of content cut out of the program, depending on the show.
I noticed this last night after watching an episode of "New Tricks" (S06E02) on the IMDB TV app. After watching a TV show I will sometimes browse to imdb.com and check out the cast to see if I recognize any of the actors from other series' I've seen. Last night I was looking at the cast of this particular episode and was shocked to see Glynis Barber listed in the credits as an actress in the show. I remember Ms. Barber (swoon!) from a British cop show I used to watch back in the 80's called "Dempsey and Makepeace." I surely would have recognized her in "New Tricks" even though it was produced 25 years later. But she was not to be seen in this episode of "New Tricks", as presented on IMDB TV.
So I googled "New Tricks" and "Glynis Barber" and found a 4 min 44 second clip on YouTube of her appearance on the show. Her appearance consisted of three separate scenes. This content was definitely not in the episode I just viewed on IMDB TV. (BTW, she still looks great! Even in 360p resolution on my phone.)
Digging a bit deeper I see via imdb.com that this particular episode of New Tricks has a running time of 59 minutes. But when I started replaying the episode on the IMDB TV app it shows a running time of only 50 minutes, 5 seconds. There are four 1 minute commercial breaks in the IMDB TV timestream, meaning the IMDB TV editing in the commercials has added 4 minutes to the run time. But the overall length of the program is only 50 minutes, 5 seconds. Adding this all up, this means that about 13 minutes of the original content has gone missing!
I had noticed this discrepancy between the listed running time and actual run time on other programs, but this is by far the most egregious example I've yet encountered.
Has anyone else noticed this?
I noticed this last night after watching an episode of "New Tricks" (S06E02) on the IMDB TV app. After watching a TV show I will sometimes browse to imdb.com and check out the cast to see if I recognize any of the actors from other series' I've seen. Last night I was looking at the cast of this particular episode and was shocked to see Glynis Barber listed in the credits as an actress in the show. I remember Ms. Barber (swoon!) from a British cop show I used to watch back in the 80's called "Dempsey and Makepeace." I surely would have recognized her in "New Tricks" even though it was produced 25 years later. But she was not to be seen in this episode of "New Tricks", as presented on IMDB TV.
So I googled "New Tricks" and "Glynis Barber" and found a 4 min 44 second clip on YouTube of her appearance on the show. Her appearance consisted of three separate scenes. This content was definitely not in the episode I just viewed on IMDB TV. (BTW, she still looks great! Even in 360p resolution on my phone.)
Digging a bit deeper I see via imdb.com that this particular episode of New Tricks has a running time of 59 minutes. But when I started replaying the episode on the IMDB TV app it shows a running time of only 50 minutes, 5 seconds. There are four 1 minute commercial breaks in the IMDB TV timestream, meaning the IMDB TV editing in the commercials has added 4 minutes to the run time. But the overall length of the program is only 50 minutes, 5 seconds. Adding this all up, this means that about 13 minutes of the original content has gone missing!
I had noticed this discrepancy between the listed running time and actual run time on other programs, but this is by far the most egregious example I've yet encountered.
Has anyone else noticed this?