On my screen, you can see how many seconds the commercial break will be. It's usually around 90 seconds. Then, sometimes when they return to the episode, they cut to another commercial break right away. I'm probably the only one who wishes the show were back to an hour. I don't feel the same about the show now.
I think with all of the vintage character returns that we've announced, the show will seem more familiar soon.
I don't know how Hulu works, but I imagine you can't FForward through the commercials the way I can when I DVR the show. I have noticed the placement of ads is weird--you will have a three minute scene, then an ad, and then ten minutes without an ad, whereas it used to be fairly balanced on network tv. Still the fact that in this new version the show has 1/3 of the commercial amount (3-4 minutes) as opposed to a half hour portion fo the show on ABC is, I think, awesome.
Yes, she's meeting this week to work on schedule. AMC is done filming this cycle next week--and then OLTL films for five weeks, but I could see Susan coming in July when AMC is back filming.
I'm having a much easier time getting in to OLTL. I've only seen about 3 episodes of AMC and that's skipping over them here and there. I saw yesterday's show. And now I really can't even remember what happened.
I have no idea though she is meant to have ties to the canvas. I'm intrigued by her backstory--although the WAY WAY too fast instant love thing with her and Petey is my least favorite aspect of the reboot. I quite liked Bittle (sp?) as the new JR today.
Re Celia's parents--Dimitri is coming back (from the 90s!) and his stories were always over the top gothic, kinda like Celia's seems to be, so they could be connected?
Eric, whoever her parents are, you just know they are people we know already. But they supposedly are dead in a car crash. And who might her guardian be? Those are the things that interest me so far.
Am I correct in saying that AMC aired one of those behind the scenes today? I tuned in, watched a few minutes of it, and tuned out. So last week it was Friday, this week it was Wednesday. They don't want us to know which day to skip, lol? I'm not liking this.
There are not five new episodes per week on hulu. There are 3 or 4. The other days, they interview the actors behind the scenes. They call it "more AMC" And I saw that this week there's also a day of recap.
Right, they show AMC on Monday and Wednesday and OLTL on Tuesday and Thursday with a re-cap/interview show on Friday. I lost interest in AMC after the first week. I usually watch OLTL maybe once a week, but I'm sort of "Meh" about it. Too much of Dani/Matthew/Jeffrey sitting around being stupid and getting wasted.
Yeah, they cut ack for now which is annoying. Two eps of both shows a week, and a combined "more". Both shows have been improvingso much that I'm sticking with them, but I do find it annoying though the reasoning makes sense--and with the writer changes they have talked about now having time to really write--after all with AMC they wrote the first thirty pisodes in under a week!).
I'm not sure that 2 episodes/week at around 20 minutes per episode is enough to keep me interested. It's too bad, because I was enjoying it a bit before they cut back.
Each episode runs 25 minutes (as opposed to 35 minutes of content on an hour network show) but I do see your point. I wish they had made a compromise and done three a week, at least. NOBODY cares about the More filler episodes...
The union has said they see lack of coming to a quick deal--and at least somewhat positively, the writing teams are being paid and told to continue writing to the end of the first year (so episodes through March 2014.) As well Prospect Park just announced the creation of the boring sounding weekly video blog with behind the scenes stuff (How this will differentiate from the useless MORE episodes is beyond me.)
In happier news, I really hope Vincent gets some progress with his campaign--and I added my submission. The soap stigma may be a hard issue to cross, but I can't see people arguing that Agnes Nixon at this stage in her life and career doesn't deserve the honour. Have TV writers won before?