Does SciFi add too many commercials?

It’s not the number for me, it’s that they’re so damned repetitive!!! It’s the same 3 commercials over and over and over again! I’m not even in the market for a blackberry! I just put the TV on mute for the commercials because I’m too cheap to buy them.

I went to a TV writing seminar a couple of weeks ago, and the former network executive-turned-producer running it told us that ad minutes have been steadily climbing. A 1/2-hour sitcom, for example, used to be 26 minutes long minus commercials. Now it’s 17. An hour drama went from 54 to 45 minutes. That’s 15 MINUTES of commercials per hour. It’s not just SciFi. It’s every channel that carries commercials. That’s also why there are credit crawls now while the program is still on instead of them demarcating the end of the show. Cable used to not have commercials at all, except for their own programming! And PBS, too! They used to have “This program is made possible by [Corporate Entity], [Foundation], The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Viewers Like You.” Now, the Corporate Entity has a 30-second commercial by itself before and after.

It’s getting repugnant. I realize TV was an ad-driven medium from the start, but damn. Enough already.

I wonder if some advertisers don’t realize that annoying me to often in my favorite show is a sure-fire way to make sure I WON’T buy their products, just for annoying the heck out of me.

Let it go already… I heard you got the best XYZ the first time

It is all of cable television. I have no statistical evidence to back this up, but I believe the commercial breaks have gotten longer starting in 2008. Ahhhh!!!!!!!!

@TaoSan – exactly!! I specifically don’t want sinupret or a blackberry now! I’m even starting to get annoyed with the New York Times! I don’t understand how they can afford to run commercials in this economy! They make their money off of commericials! WTF!

i dont mind them, its a good channel

In the finale, I was throwing a tantrum in the last half hour. I kinda lost track because of all the adds.

I still remember buying cable television because they DID NOT show commercials. So much for progress. I guess even the cable channels are worshiping the almighty dollar these days.