I should have been clearer: While the show has been running long for several weeks now, it's only since yesterday that the new length has been made official in terms of it being acknowledged in the listings.
Monday's first act (which felt overlong as I viewed it) ran 16 minutes. Tonight's was 13, but seemed longer thanks to the flabby sketch. (You'll see.) On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 12:07 AM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < [email protected] wrote: > The overrun holds for what was the 1:30 a.m. (Eastern) repeat, though my > DVR guide has that at 37 minutes. > > I continue to watch several days late, usually through my cable co's > On-Demand service. I just finished the last new show of 2018, which ran > about 4 minutes longer than they usually do On-Demand. I'll keep an eye on > this as I eventually get around to tonight's show. > > FWIW, TDS on the CC website often runs full episodes as "Extended." As > far as I remember, that's been due to an extended interview that was cut > for the broadcast edition. > > David > > On Tuesday, January 15, 2019, 9:34:23 AM EST, Jon Delfin < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > According to the program guide on the DVR, as of Monday's show, TDS is now > officially 36 minutes long. > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 1:55 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a segment of their Between The Scenes feature they've had on > Facebook now for about six months. It pops up in my Facebook feed as a > sponsored post regularly, but much more when the show is on break. > https://www.facebook.com/BetweenTheScenes/ > It looks like something went sideways with the Michael Costa shoot at the > shutdown rally in Washington, D.C., and they just used a shortened version > of that in the first act, then used a Between The Scenes to fill the space. > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 6:44 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > > You're right. I've just been back to double check, and they clearly > ditched whatever they actually recorded for the second act and used that > segment instead. Looking back at deleted shows from my DVR, other recent > episodes have run to 39 mins including UK ads (Legally, we can't have as > many as ad breaks as US audiences. TDS has one commercial break in the half > hour, usually between Act 1 and Act 2. Other parts are edited together. > Even the Moment of Zen follows directly from the interview segment). > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 2:07 PM Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote: > > TDS has been running long since several weeks ago, to the point that I > have my DVR recording 15 minutes past the scheduled end time every night. > On Comedy Central's website, Thursday's show (including commercials) runs > 36 minutes; it's labeled "extended," which applies to the interview > segment. Three acts + Moment of Zen, as usual. What you're calling an > "extra segment" was what we saw as Act 2. (This is the second time a > "Trevor talks to the audience" segment bumped whatever they'd had planned > for Act 2.) If you saw four acts, you got more than we did. > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 8:13 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the UK, we get episodes of The Daily Show a day and bit late. They air > in at about 1am in the morning, the day after they air in the US. So this > morning, I watched Thursday's episode which I recorded last night. > > Anyway, this particular episode ran long, because it included what was > basically an extra segment. It looks like Noah was just talking to the > audience between acts while they reset for the guest segment. Cameras were > moving around and were in picture in places - you could even read the words > on the teleprompter for that upcoming segment. > > But Noah was relating, with humour, but pretty sincerely, how he'd > rethought his views on disabled actors having read a Tweet online. This > following all the discussion about Bryan Cranston playing a wheelchair > bound character in the new movie, The Upside. > > Obviously, someone somewhere decided to keep this all in the show - or at > least the version the UK got. My DVR said the whole thing ran 39 minutes, > but it pads programmes - especially when there are no other recording > clashes. So I was just curious whether this version went out in the US too. > > > Adam > > PS He did not mention anything about moving to LA! > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
