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r/Millennials • u/McLovin_Cee • Sep 07 '26
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The shows were also typically designed around commercial breaks and not just randomly interrupted mid-sentence.
554 u/Pipe_Memes Sep 07 '26 You also couldn’t pause or rewind or anything, so sometimes a commercial break was even welcome so you could go take a piss or something. 142 u/5PQR Sep 07 '26 In the UK, electricity suppliers used to ramp up production in time with ad breaks, because folk were boiling electric kettles en masse. 114 u/EndIsrael Sep 07 '26 Yup. BBC would give the National Grid the Doctor Who schedule ahead of time so they would be ready for the demand surges. 72 u/runnindrainwater Sep 07 '26 Dr. Who breaks for commercial. Scene of technician worriedly watching a dial gauge go in to the red zone 16 u/A_Furious_Mind Sep 07 '26 There were, tragically, no survivors.
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You also couldn’t pause or rewind or anything, so sometimes a commercial break was even welcome so you could go take a piss or something.
142 u/5PQR Sep 07 '26 In the UK, electricity suppliers used to ramp up production in time with ad breaks, because folk were boiling electric kettles en masse. 114 u/EndIsrael Sep 07 '26 Yup. BBC would give the National Grid the Doctor Who schedule ahead of time so they would be ready for the demand surges. 72 u/runnindrainwater Sep 07 '26 Dr. Who breaks for commercial. Scene of technician worriedly watching a dial gauge go in to the red zone 16 u/A_Furious_Mind Sep 07 '26 There were, tragically, no survivors.
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In the UK, electricity suppliers used to ramp up production in time with ad breaks, because folk were boiling electric kettles en masse.
114 u/EndIsrael Sep 07 '26 Yup. BBC would give the National Grid the Doctor Who schedule ahead of time so they would be ready for the demand surges. 72 u/runnindrainwater Sep 07 '26 Dr. Who breaks for commercial. Scene of technician worriedly watching a dial gauge go in to the red zone 16 u/A_Furious_Mind Sep 07 '26 There were, tragically, no survivors.
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Yup. BBC would give the National Grid the Doctor Who schedule ahead of time so they would be ready for the demand surges.
72 u/runnindrainwater Sep 07 '26 Dr. Who breaks for commercial. Scene of technician worriedly watching a dial gauge go in to the red zone 16 u/A_Furious_Mind Sep 07 '26 There were, tragically, no survivors.
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Dr. Who breaks for commercial.
Scene of technician worriedly watching a dial gauge go in to the red zone
16 u/A_Furious_Mind Sep 07 '26 There were, tragically, no survivors.
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There were, tragically, no survivors.
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u/CriticalOfBarns Sep 07 '26
The shows were also typically designed around commercial breaks and not just randomly interrupted mid-sentence.