I would watch this. Especially if it was an angry Brit, rather than a dramatic American. And even more if it didn't keep replaying the same 5 minutes of telly before and after each ad break. And even more if it didn't have an ad break every 10 minutes that lasted 5 minutes.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

right? I don't watch TV because of all this crap. I don't understand how some people have the patience, honestly.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

Our public TV has no midroll ads, only between programs, and I'm so happy I can use a guide and usually find something to watch when eating and get no ads. But I'm also watching the endless reruns of a series I like, so that's also not difficult to get.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Frog in pot is my guess. I haven't watched ad supported television for like 20 years now and it is so jarring when I'm in someone's house and an ad comes on.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same with YouTube, honestly.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah give me Ublock or give me death.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The old Gift Shop sketch

[–] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

This gave me major Dragon Ball Z vibes. Find out on next weeks episode of Dragon Ball Z

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Like this?

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

I once watched bake off on ITV and I swear it was 10 minutes of ads to 3 minutes of show, 50min episode took like 2.5 hrs to watch, it was nuts.

[–] mcv@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Can we get Ludic to do this? Not a Brit, but he does have a way with words.