I saw the last Harry Potter film in the theater last week, and Friday night I watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 on DVD. Then, coincidentally, last night Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was on ABC, so I watched that after dinner.
That movie has a run time of 2:18. It filled three hours on ABC last night, and I don’t remember it well enough from my first viewing to see what if anything was cut. Say nothing was; that means there were 42 minutes of ads.
No wonder people use DVRs or buy DVDs.
That’s about right. For every hour long TV show, you get about 17 minutes of ads.