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Old 15-07-2008, 08:58 AM
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Hope it's the right place to post.
This comes from a Correspondent in the US.
Thanks for your help.

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a question about PBS "masterpiece" presentations of BBC material

i chanced last night to watch the PBS "masterpiece mystery" presentation
of an episode from the BBC's "foyle's war" series, and there were some
aspects of the narrative structure of the program that seemed to me very
peculiar . . . . it's possible that the beeb [with whose programs i'm
largely unfamiliar] uses a different model of narrative organization
than i'm used to -- but i suppose it's also possible that PBS re-edited
the program [for audience and/or time considerations] and that some of
the things i noticed were distortions of the original . . .

so . . . does anyone know whether PBS mucks around with beeb originals
before presenting them, or whether they are presented in substantially
original form?

thanks for any clues

mike
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Almost everything shown on Masterpiece/Mystery on PBS is cut for time, somtimes to the point of incomprehensibility. They cut more than 10 minutes out of "Foyle's War" programs, I believe, to fit a 90 minute time slot that includes intros. This has only been happening regularly for about the last 5 years or so. PBS used to butcher much less.
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I don't know if you watch it on a BBC channel but Foyles War is made for ITV in the UK.
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