Which basic cable channel is the worst at ruining movies with too many commercials? - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 01-05-2022, 05:12 AM

https://tvline.com/2022/01/03/which-...y-commercials/

In the streaming age, viewers have countless options to watch movies commercial-free. "But sometimes you don’t want to deal with option paralysis and spend more time scrolling row of tiles after row of tiles than actually, you know, watching something," says Matt Webb Mitovich. "No, sometimes you instead just want to scan your on-screen cable guide for the red rectangles (their color on FiOS at least) and choose from a mere handful of movies that are airing at the time of your boredom. You simply want to choose between, like, Olympus Has Fallen, Bridesmaids, Olympus Has Fallen, The Shawshank Redemption and The Shawshank Redemption. Even better, you hope to hop on a bit late, so you don’t need to sit through any slow, familiar prologue and ideally arrive right in time for the good stuff/memorable set piece ('It’s coming out of me like lava!!!'). But man, what a tradeoff that can be, depending on which basic cable channel you land on. Because if streaming and DVRing has taught us anything, it is that commercial breaks are the worst. And the only thing worse than basic cable’s frustratingly frequent, often ill-timed ad breaks is when they are for the same… dang… products, all… night… long."

Hawkee · 08-31-2022, 04:58 AM

When it comes to commercials and movies shown on basic cable there is a habit of ruining movies with too many commercials and I have never understood why cable channels ruin many movies with three or four commercials and they should stop doing this annoying habit. I mean you want to see a good movie and not spend an hour doing commercial research when waiting to see the rest of a movie? Another habit that cable channels do is repeat repeat and REPEAT the exact same commercial many times like a record that is skipping during a song. One channel that does this with it's movies is USA and anytime you watch a movie on USA they play the commercial once and then repeat the same commercial in a loop that it gets so annoying that you'll get a headache then you'll want to change the channel. Take for instance when my mom and I were trying to watch Eddie Murphy's Coming To America on USA in 1997 and during each commercial break they aired a commercial for Mr. Clean and USA kept repeating it constantly in a loop during each commercial break and this was very annoying and if you can find this exact same USA airing of Coming To America from 1997 on Youtube watch it and you'll see what I mean for yourself. But you don't see this habit occur on many other basic cable channels but USA is the worst one to do this. I think it's a matter of sponsorship plugs and you used to see movies that said "this movie is brought to you by Tide or any other product" but I think commercials are just a way to slow down the movie for time on basic cable channels
Bestie

Duster76 · 09-02-2022, 10:21 AM

I think TV Land Classic which runs during the day wins the prize. I don't know how anyone can watch it in real time, a DVR is a must. I was watching an episode of Gunsmoke awhile back, at the halfway point a cascade of commercials started, 7 minutes later the show was back, an additional scene lasting 3 minutes ran and then incredibly another 5 minute commercial break! I literally forgot what I was watching by the time the second break was over. Another scene played then back to yet another 7 minute commercial break! 19 commercial minutes over a 25 minute period.

01-05-2022, 05:12 AM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,156	Which basic cable channel is the worst at ruining movies with too many commercials? https://tvline.com/2022/01/03/which-...y-commercials/ In the streaming age, viewers have countless options to watch movies commercial-free. "But sometimes you don’t want to deal with option paralysis and spend more time scrolling row of tiles after row of tiles than actually, you know, watching something," says Matt Webb Mitovich. "No, sometimes you instead just want to scan your on-screen cable guide for the red rectangles (their color on FiOS at least) and choose from a mere handful of movies that are airing at the time of your boredom. You simply want to choose between, like, Olympus Has Fallen, Bridesmaids, Olympus Has Fallen, The Shawshank Redemption and The Shawshank Redemption. Even better, you hope to hop on a bit late, so you don’t need to sit through any slow, familiar prologue and ideally arrive right in time for the good stuff/memorable set piece ('It’s coming out of me like lava!!!'). But man, what a tradeoff that can be, depending on which basic cable channel you land on. Because if streaming and DVRing has taught us anything, it is that commercial breaks are the worst. And the only thing worse than basic cable’s frustratingly frequent, often ill-timed ad breaks is when they are for the same… dang… products, all… night… long."

08-31-2022, 04:58 AM	#2
Hawkee Michael Fassbender Fanatic Moderator Forum Star Join Date: Jan 17, 2016 Location: California Posts: 10,860	When it comes to commercials and movies shown on basic cable there is a habit of ruining movies with too many commercials and I have never understood why cable channels ruin many movies with three or four commercials and they should stop doing this annoying habit. I mean you want to see a good movie and not spend an hour doing commercial research when waiting to see the rest of a movie? Another habit that cable channels do is repeat repeat and REPEAT the exact same commercial many times like a record that is skipping during a song. One channel that does this with it's movies is USA and anytime you watch a movie on USA they play the commercial once and then repeat the same commercial in a loop that it gets so annoying that you'll get a headache then you'll want to change the channel. Take for instance when my mom and I were trying to watch Eddie Murphy's Coming To America on USA in 1997 and during each commercial break they aired a commercial for Mr. Clean and USA kept repeating it constantly in a loop during each commercial break and this was very annoying and if you can find this exact same USA airing of Coming To America from 1997 on Youtube watch it and you'll see what I mean for yourself. But you don't see this habit occur on many other basic cable channels but USA is the worst one to do this. I think it's a matter of sponsorship plugs and you used to see movies that said "this movie is brought to you by Tide or any other product" but I think commercials are just a way to slow down the movie for time on basic cable channels Bestie
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09-02-2022, 10:21 AM	#3
Duster76 Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 01, 2008 Location: New jersey Posts: 1,657	I think TV Land Classic which runs during the day wins the prize. I don't know how anyone can watch it in real time, a DVR is a must. I was watching an episode of Gunsmoke awhile back, at the halfway point a cascade of commercials started, 7 minutes later the show was back, an additional scene lasting 3 minutes ran and then incredibly another 5 minute commercial break! I literally forgot what I was watching by the time the second break was over. Another scene played then back to yet another 7 minute commercial break! 19 commercial minutes over a 25 minute period.