Re: TV producer may move to cable to escape ad deluge
- From: Jack Ak <akjack@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:05:58 GMT
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:25:20 -0400, Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:49:42 GMT, Jack Ak <akjack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>Kelley said that when he worked on "L.A. Law," there were 48 minutes of
>>>show. That has been reduced over the years to a little more than 41
>>>minutes. Kelley said that makes it tougher to create character-driven
>>>stories and tell emotional stories, particularly within the five-act
>>>structure that sometimes gives only eight minutes between commercial
>>>breaks.
>
>Eight minutes? I wish!
>
>The last few episodes of /Desperate Housewives/, I counted and it
>was *ahem* like clockwork: 6 minutes program, 4 minutes commercials,
>6 program, 4 commercial, ...
The words attributed to me are not my remarks. Watch your editing.
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