Ah yes, dodgy streams. The way I watch 90% of the cricket I see and a non-trivial amount of soccer, rugby league and AFL...
As for drug ads, the ones we get in Canada are much more soft sell. We don't get the 15 seconds of benefits followed by 20 seconds of what dread diseases you can also get. Our ads tend to be of the "ask your doctor about NewDrug" variety, where they don't mention what the drug actually does and only vaguely allude to what problem it solves, or they will mention broadly that "there are solutions" for whatever the ailment is and that you should ask your doctor about it. One about toe fungus seemed to be on particularly high rotation during CFL games, which helped lessen my in-game food consumption.... John On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 10:50, Adam Bowie <a...@adambowie.co.uk> wrote: > 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 <pga...@gmail.com> 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDr4hLEEa87ma1bhK6%3Dsy5F_ZeO9G0M_oG36oJ7V8FZhw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDr4hLEEa87ma1bhK6%3Dsy5F_ZeO9G0M_oG36oJ7V8FZhw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- John Edwards "You can insure against the weather, but you can't insure against incompetence, can you?" - Phil Tufnell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. 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