Friday, June 06, 2008

The end of the innocence, Damian Penny style.


Blogging Tory Damian Penny has a rude awakening:

When TV networks hate their viewers

... (Most networks cut bad language and nudity from movies, but as far as I know, TBS was the first channel to use "time compression" - in which scenes are cut and even sped up to make the films shorter.)

Well, son of a bitch. And just how long has this been happening? Oh ...

7 comments:

Cameron Campbell said...

I once saw something about Entertainment Tonight, probably back in the mid 80's, where they were explaining their production process, and they were talking about how their show actually ran a few minutes long every day. Their solution was to speed up bits of the show that no one would notice.

Dr.Dawg said...

I have to admit that this is new to me.

Cameron Campbell said...

Dawg, I think that ET (to continue with my example) is something like 35 minutes or so (with commercials) and they basically compress it down by those 5 minutes.

Red Tory said...

I have to say that this is a rather novel form of censorship on the part of TBS/Peachtree and even more pernicious being a commercial intrusion on the program itself. It's deeply perverse.

liberal supporter said...

I'm sure Damian is also aghast at the left wing, terrorist loving, politically correct, appeasing TBS bastards, when they bandwidth compressed Casablanca and removed all the colour that was in the original release so we would not notice if there are brown people in it.

KEvron said...

"TBS bastards.... removed all the colour"

now there's an interesting turn of events.

KEvron

KEvron said...

"scenes are cut and even sped up to make the films shorter"

to be fair, a lot of the hollywood fodder has to resort to "filler" in order to make the 90 minute mininum running time prefered by the studios. most of those could benefit from a little practical excision.

KEvron