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actorguy
Registered: 01/07/06
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 Friday, August 18 2006 @ 09:07 AM EDT |
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Just got this info from This Week in Doctor Who:
SciFi has quietly updated their schedulebot for Friday September 29. Previously it showed the Season premiere of Doctor Who as a 4 hour block from 9PM to 1AM Eastern. Now it shows:
8:00PM - Doctor Who
9:30PM - Doctor Who
10:30PM - Doctor Who
12:00AM - Doctor Who
No episode titles listed yet, but since the first episode of the series (The Christmas Invasion) is 59 minutes not counting commercials, the implication is that it would air at 8PM and 10:30PM with the more regular length New Earth at 9:30PM and 12:00AM. Time will tell.
So - US premiere of Series 2 starts at 8PM Eastern on September 29, not 9PM. |
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mad4plaid
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| Wednesday, August 30 2006 @ 10:56 AM EDT |
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I read on ...some website... tvguide.com?... doesnt' matter, I cannot find it now. Anyway, I did read on some website that we are in fact getting the full TCI, followed by New Earth.
I wonder what the odds of SciFi putting the tardisodes on their Pulse video viewer? Be a great place to put the Children In Need Special skit... |
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tarashnat
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| Wednesday, August 30 2006 @ 04:30 PM EDT |
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I do expect there to be cuts, as we've had cuts in almost every episode of the new series transmitted so far.
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Adric
Registered: 05/17/06
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| Tuesday, September 19 2006 @ 07:47 AM EDT |
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morning all--so this thread got me thinking, just how much of Who is cut when shown on Sci-Fi? I can tell sometimes when the story seems a bit jerky, but not seeing the originals on the BBC, it can be hard to tell.
Are we missing a lot or just small bits? |
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Louis
Registered: 01/01/04
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| Wednesday, September 20 2006 @ 03:18 PM EDT |
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[Quote by: Adric] morning all--so this thread got me thinking, just how much of Who is cut when shown on Sci-Fi? I can tell sometimes when the story seems a bit jerky, but not seeing the originals on the BBC, it can be hard to tell.
Are we missing a lot or just small bits? |
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Although I haven't really watched the Sci-Fi Channel's cut down versions all that closely, I know from the few I did watch that it was mostly small bits... but often big things come in small packages or bits. There were a few cases where due to the fact that they cut something out it resulted in a joke or another scene later on not making the point it was intended to make.
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Kwekubo
Registered: 04/19/06
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| Thursday, September 28 2006 @ 02:45 PM EDT |
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| I see they've put the Doctor Who banner in front row centre of their webpage again: http://www.scifi.com/ . Which is nice. |
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Mawdryn
Registered: 08/26/06
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| Thursday, September 28 2006 @ 10:03 PM EDT |
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My fingers are crossed that we won't have too many on-screen SciFi adds popping up during the episodes.
I'm assuming the Children in Need segment will not be part of The Christmas Invasion. I guess in the big picture it's not needed but I did enjoy watching it back when it was one of our first extended glimpses of the 10th Doctor. |
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mad4plaid
Registered: 02/02/06
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| Monday, October 02 2006 @ 10:36 AM EDT |
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| Well, I was disappointed by SciFi's choices for commercial time. Do they have to have commercials play at a specific interval? I mean, there were someplaces where if they'd have waited 30 seconds there would have been a natural place to cut the scene (espcially in TCI when the scene cut from UNIT to Jackie's apartment), but they did not use these natural breaks. |
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tarashnat
Registered: 08/17/05
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| Monday, October 02 2006 @ 12:24 PM EDT |
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Not only were the cuts to commercial awkward, but they would start a commercial and a few seconds into it cut to another one. It is almost as if the normal staff was out and a novice was running the broadcast. This was more noticable in The Christmas Invasion than in New Earth.
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JeffL
Registered: 03/11/06
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| Monday, October 02 2006 @ 06:45 PM EDT |
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My guess...and this is only a guess based on my 18 years in the broadcasting business...is that all of the commercials are stored in a computer and they air at specific times. 8:10....8:25.....8:40, or something like that. Commercial breaks ran 5 minutes minimum during Friday's shows. I timed a few of them.
There would also be specific local cutaways for your cable or satellite provider. Sci-Fi has some control over those although they may run a series of promotonal spots or Public Service Announcements so that if the cable company doesn't cut away, there wouldn't be any dead air. That's why you would sometimes see the last 1 second of another ad just before rejoining the program.
I doubt that there was more than a single technician on duty on a Friday night at the Sci-Fi Channel Broadcasting Center. When you look at a program log, you see a list of X-number of commercials that have to run per hour. It would be the technician's responsibility to make sure those ads ran during the given hour. He/she probably doesn't pay attention to natural breaks...only the program log. The log says the commercial must run at 8:25...so the commercial runs at 8:25 whether the Doctor is in mid-sentence or not. |
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rocko
Registered: 07/21/06
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| Tuesday, October 03 2006 @ 05:08 PM EDT |
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| The cutaways to commercial did seem awkward, but from my viewing on DirecTV even the cuts back to the show seemed to be during mid-commercial... Did anyone else notice that? |
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