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You didn't time it?
Online tv guide says it was 75min, so to include ads they would've cut ~20min out of it.
I imagine that putting the Bolivia Special on in Adelaide only is a good way to test the ratings.
Thats a very inaccurate method. Its easy not to notice something that has been removed.
I'll record it with EyeTv next week and do the experiment. I forgot this week.
I imagine that putting the Bolivia Special on in Adelaide only is a good way to test the ratings.
Considering that a whopping 8,000 (!) people turned up to watch the Aussies spank the crap out of the Windies at Adelaide Oval, Nein may have made a very good call re: showing TG instead of the cricket. Granted, it was probably out of their hands anyway, but they could have just done the usual thing they do when they have to fill a programming hole quickly and served up two hours of Two And A Half Men.
Well i did watch the original 3 times, the last time i watched was only recently. Sorry my word is not good enough for you, hopefully you can find someone with no life to time the ads down to the second. If you can prove that it was edited then feel free to show me how wrong i am.
The specials probably aren't a good measure.
I just hope Nine show it in HD (was it in Adelaide?), the guides are just saying Widescreen.
As a side note, the Herald Sun's TV liftout today confirmed old episodes of TG are going to be on Go, but it also mentioned that they had the rights to the "Australian, original UK and new US version" (or words to that effect). Do Nine know something we don't?
Is the Herald Sun a Melbourne paper? Is it generally reliable? The bit about TopGear America throws the credibility of the entire article into question.
Is the Herald Sun a Melbourne paper? Is it generally reliable? The bit about TopGear America throws the credibility of the entire article into question.
SBS's rights seemed to be for two years
That sounds plausible. Didn't SBS first pick up TG in late 2005-early 2006? I also have a vague recollection of rumours surfacing in late 2007-early 2008 that Nein was going to take TG from SBS. Of course, these rumours died off around the time SBS made the announcement about TGA.
So yeah ... 4 years (2 x 2) on SBS + 2 on Nein. Sounds right. If TG underperforms on Nein, or if Nein want to hand the TG rights back early, you reckon the BBC would let SBS have them for a more reasonable price?