Here’s Why British TV Viewers Don’t Have to Sit Through Lots of Commercials

Cirrkus News

Factuality

Ownership

Here’s Why British TV Viewers Don’t Have to Sit Through Lots of Commercials

Recently, I was watching an interview with the delightful Alex Horne of Taskmaster fame, discussing the issues he had with trying to bring the show over to the U.S. Most of it was as expected, but one off-hand remark caught me off-guard. He mentioned that compressing the show to a half-hour was even harder with how many commercials the U.S. airs. My reaction was to tilt my head like a dog watching its owner try a new hobby, followed by a furrowe…