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and its the worst when you buy a season of a show that does the recaps. "WE'll be right back", "Before the break..." so you get about 10 minutes of real content per show.

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One of the worst offenders of this is MythBusters in my opinion. Thankfully, I recently found streamlined-edits of MythBusters.

This happens on the BBC (which is ad-free) & it drives me mad! E.g. Dragons' Den is clearly pre-formatted to be sold to commercial channels with ad breaks - there is about 20 mins of content in a 1 hour show w/ 40 mins of recaps and dramatic panning around the 'Den'.

Martha Stewarts cooking (show on ad free PBS) has a tacked on "Bonus Feature" at the end that seems to be just the right amount of time that it wouldn't be needed if they were showing ads.

I'd never clocked that, but all the BBC's nature programs have a 15 minute "making of" documentary at the end as well, which now you mention it must get cut for commercial networks.

Nova, Discovery, History Channel, Airline Disasters, etc. All of them (I view via YouTube / YT Download).

For Airline Disasters, skipping forward to 20 minutes skips most of the useless pre-accident crap with 5x replays of all critical moments. Annoying as fuck.

In case anyone is wondering:

https://www.reddit.com/r/smyths

That should be a service. You don't download the show, you just download a cut list as a text file that makes your DVR skip all that junk. I'd pay.

https://www.reddit.com/r/smyths

I'll just throw this here.

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