Oh, here we go....

[kshandra]

Keith Olbermann Defends Cutting Into Rachel Maddow's Show on TwitterThe wankstorm that the "Supersized Edition" of Countdown (along with the mention that the 63-minute-runtime will be standard) generated last night was epic; the article above only covers a portion of it. I'm of about six minds on the whole thing, personally. Is he deliberately

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[chardonnay]

i just think it's odd to have an hour and 3 minutes. 3? why not make it a solid hour-and-a-half show, then?

as for it only cutting into rachel a tiny bit, we all know some of the best bits of their shows come at the END.

it's not as if he sat down and said, "let's cut into rachel's show, because i hate her now neener neener" but it is odd.

[kshandra]

...it just occurred to me that the "supersized episode" conceit is a trick he stole from...

...wait for it!...

...NBC.

Oh, Keith....

Does someone have an icon of the facepalm pic? If not, I think I'm gonna need to make one....

[dutchtulips]

It is, really? I thought of the way TBS used to start their shows at five minutes past the hour and half-hour, back in the '90s, LOL.

[kshandra]

The thing is, TBS's entire show clock was time-shifted, so everything was still 30/60 minutes. The shows-running-long thing was an NBC creation.

[dutchtulips]

Yes, but the shift would still run into shows on other channels you might watch next, since they didn't do that; that was my only point.