Lost

[randombs]

Wait, if it's on in the morning, will it be a PG? If so, I wonder if there'll be stuff they have to cut out of it? Imagine there's a big bloody explosion that kills a whole bunch of people and it gets edited out? I'd be gutted!

[rmoxon]

Wait, if it's on in the morning, will it be a PG? If so, I wonder if there'll be stuff they have to cut out of it? Imagine there's a big bloody explosion that kills a whole bunch of people and it gets edited out? I'd be gutted!

Aparently sky are showing it as a live feed from a US broadcast, so no it wont be cut.

[Jebus]

How is that going to work? The US have a lot more advert breaks than we do don't they?

[randombs]

^^ Just be prepared for Co Compare/Meerkat overload

[rmoxon]

How is that going to work? The US have a lot more advert breaks than we do don't they?

The US dont have more Advert breaks than us, if they did a program that was an hour on sky would be longer in the US. Sky do breaks at the bit in the show thats designed for a break, just like the US. It shouldnt be any different.

[Jebus]

I was always of the understanding that they had more advert breaks but that they were shorter breaks.

[englishbob]

The End

The island is crushed by a massive 12 sided dice, killing everyone

The camera pans back to see the island is actually set on a table, surrounded by about 8 people, all pasty faced with pencils in hand. Camera pans further back until its outside a "Games Workshop", and its late and long after the shop has shut (why do they ****ing do that?).

Its adapted from my (superior) original ending to The Matrix Trilogy, except its a lone boy in his room and it pops up "Game Over". Well, it was better than the actual ending wasn't it.

I'll be watching the last episode, I've watched them all so far. Won't get to watch until Monday night though The media blackout for Monday is going to be HARD.

[MJ]

It's 2 and a half hours in the USA, so you may be up until 7:30 AM!

You know at least 30 minutes of the US run time will be adverts.

[Matt]

As Jebus says, they have the same total advert time as we do, but they're shorter and FAR more frequent.

I won't be getting up at 5am to watch this so shall catch it Monday evening. Strange it's going to be over so soon.

[randombs]

Imagine if the twist in the Lost finale is Sky thinking the American way of doing the adverts is the best way and adopts it as standard?

[Matt]

Then we're doomed. Over there I've seen, and I'm not joking, the opening of a TV show (first 3 or 4 minutes), then adverts, then the opening credits, then straight into more adverts, and then back to the show. No more than 10 minutes later, more adverts. It's incredible, it ruins the flow of the shows.

Watch 24 on Sky, all the time jumps are US advert breaks

[rmoxon]

Then we're doomed. Over there I've seen, and I'm not joking, the opening of a TV show (first 3 or 4 minutes), then adverts, then the opening credits, then straight into more adverts, and then back to the show. No more than 10 minutes later, more adverts. It's incredible, it ruins the flow of the shows.

Watch 24 on Sky, all the time jumps are US advert breaks

24 has, like all US shows that run for an hour, around 18 minutes of adverts including the ones that run after the episode ends, I think there are 3 or 4 ad breaks which occur, as you say, when the clock is ticking and time skips. Lost has the same number of breaks, all the hour long network tv shows do. They actualy write and film them with the ad breaks in mind as they often like to go to the adverts on a cliffhanger type moment and they are very specific about when in the show the break needs to occur.

Its exactly the same on sky though as far as I'm aware... unless they have changed it, if i'm honest its been years since I watched any of these shows as they aired on sky. I think i remember reading once sky use the same ad breaks as america becuase it sincronised things when they aired big wrestling events actualy...

[Wil]

The End

The camera pans back to see the island is actually set on a table, surrounded by about 8 people, all pasty faced with pencils in hand. Camera pans further back until its outside a "Games Workshop", and its late and long after the shop has shut (why do they ****ing do that?).

If it's a proper UK Games Workshop it'll pan back to reveal it's all been set inside a 12 year old's giant shoebox.

[jagvirdi]

Would the finale be ace if it is a showdown between Jack and Locke, then Locke is about the kill Jack then out of now where Mr Eko and his Jesus stick show up and kick Locke's ass. lol

->Open Spoiler<-

I have a feeling we will never find out what is the white light. A bit like we will never know what that light was in the brief case from Pulp Fiction?

lol

[Matt]

24 has, like all US shows that run for an hour, around 18 minutes of adverts including the ones that run after the episode ends, I think there are 3 or 4 ad breaks which occur, as you say, when the clock is ticking and time skips. Lost has the same number of breaks, all the hour long network tv shows do. They actualy write and film them with the ad breaks in mind as they often like to go to the adverts on a cliffhanger type moment and they are very specific about when in the show the break needs to occur.

Its exactly the same on sky though as far as I'm aware... unless they have changed it, if i'm honest its been years since I watched any of these shows as they aired on sky. I think i remember reading once sky use the same ad breaks as america becuase it sincronised things when they aired big wrestling events actualy...

The would use the same breaks as the US for live events, of course, but TV shows are different. We have 2 breaks per show, about 20 mins apart. In the US, they have far more smaller breaks. As I say, if you watch 24 on Sky you'll see the timer jump to indicate there was a US break there, but no UK one.

All hour long shows come in at the 44 minute mark.