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Opinion: Small screen, big investment: TV episodes have become way too long
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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IMO, it varies from show to show and by genre. Some shows have plot and material that don't really need an hour per episode, while some have so much going on that keeping it to 40 mins isn't enough without having to rush. The problem is sometimes those things don't match.