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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 359558" data-attributes="member: 33">Programmes like Dallas were produced to fill a "broadcast hour" of screen time, i.e,  a specified length with the addition of commercials will take it up to a complete hour. Different channels, different countries and different eras have different lengths of broadcast hours for shows. For example, a broadcast hour of 42 mins compared with one of 43 mins would allow the broadcaster to screen 2 additional 30 secs commercials in the hour. The original episodes would be edited to accommodate different markets depending on the requirements of the local broadcaster. I didn't think the episodes of Dallas broadcast on the BBC were edited down. If they were, it wouldn't have been to fill a specific time in their schedule, it would have been because that was what they were given by the production company, maybe pre-edited for another market.</blockquote>