I know of at least two people who stayed up until 2am to watch it live on some kind of dodgy stream somewhere. And yes, there were a lot of comments on the volume of advertising the interview had. I don't know if it was more than the usual 19-20 mins per hour, but that is higher than we get in the UK where we were, until recently, regulated by the EU and still have limits on the number of breaks (two mid-breaks in a one hour show, one break in a half-hour), and the number of ads.
But literally every person I talk to who's been to the US for vacation or business will mention the pharmaceutical ads. It's worth noting that this has been (at least until very recently - I believe Canada might now allow them) an almost uniquely American thing. In the UK and EU, you only see drug adverts for over the counter drugs. There's no "Ask your doctor" advertising. There's also much hilarity at the nature of the ads - 30 seconds of benefits/ 30 seconds of hideous side effects. I believe that this type of advertising was only also legal in New Zealand. So yes - it's about as strange to us as seeing cigarette advertising on TV. Of course, European health services are very different. In the UK, most people are treated under the NHS and you basically don't get a choice about drug treatment. Not every drug is even available - there are committees that determine which drugs the NHS will make available. (So yes, really expensive cancer drugs sometimes aren't available). And while some do have private healthcare, it probably doesn't really allow for the kind of drug-picking these ads are hypothesised on. Private healthcare is really to make sure you don't have to wait for surgeries etc. It's probably not going to cover you for an expensive cocktail of drugs otherwise unavailable on the NHS. The interview is airing in the UK tonight on ITV, although obviously it has already been fully gutted by all the news programmes this morning. Personally I'm getting more - small r- republican as the days go by. The Royal Family needs to radically modernise or ship out. Adam On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 3:16 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not in the target demo to watch an interview of Oprah interviewing > “Royals” (though the headline that they allege that someone at the palace > was worried their kids skin would be too dark sounds about right). > > I did find this Twitter thread interesting, in which Brits who were able > to watch the American broadcast of the interview are obsessed with how many > commercials Americans are exposed to for drugs. It is a reminder that > healthcare does not have to be a business. Would be nice to put more > restrictions again on direct-to-consumer advertising in the US. > > Also, I thought Oprah had a relationship with ABC, but it looks like this > interview was in CBS? > > https://twitter.com/ayeshaasiddiqi/status/1368901637604007939?s=21 > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLU_ug38DOpU4%2B55BaNC_aFODog6AcUz3fqc-BC_B9ZnQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLU_ug38DOpU4%2B55BaNC_aFODog6AcUz3fqc-BC_B9ZnQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDr4hLEEa87ma1bhK6%3Dsy5F_ZeO9G0M_oG36oJ7V8FZhw%40mail.gmail.com.
