BDSM MEDIA NEWS!!!!
14 may 2012
Sherlock Holmes mystery for U.S. viewers as TV channel cuts eight minutes to fit its schedules.
Fans 'deprived' after scenes are axed for adverts
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk. - The Daily Mail - UK
USA/UK - It has joined the ranks of Doctor Who and Downton Abbey as one of British TV's most successful exports to America.
But U.S. fans of Sherlock were left feeling a little short-changed after complaining that eight minutes of one episode has been mysteriously cut from the show.
More than 3million viewers, double the prime-time audience average on the PBS network, tuned in this week to watch A Scandal In Belgravia, the episode featuring whip-smart dominatrix Irene Adler.
However, some amateur sleuths noticed a missing piece in the puzzle when harking back to the same episode they had watched previously on British DVDs or on illicit downloads.
It was elementary, some scenes from the 90-minute show had simply disappeared.
One viewer complained on a Sherlock Tumblr blog: 'They cut scenes. Good ones. What the hell... that makes no sense. It's frustrating...'
Another, writing on a web forum, said parts of the scene in Buckingham Palace had been snipped out as well as a shot in the taxi afterwards in which Sherlock shows Watson an ashtray he took, it was reported in The Independent.
'I think American audiences were deprived of seeing some of the humour that makes this series so clever, the viewer said.
In a further indication of the hysteria surrounding the show, more than 10,000 fans recently applied for seats at a 400-capacity preview screening of A Scandal In Belgravia in New York.
Some had travelled from as far as China and greeted Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch with screams normally associated with Justin Bieber.
The new series has also topped the US iTunes television download chart.
Sue Vertue, executive producer of Hartswood Films, admitted she was behind the editing because sponsors announcements mean episodes have to run for 82 minutes.
However, no cuts involved scenes which courted controversy in the UK, such as when whip-cracking Adler appears naked.
'It breaks your heart,' She told The Independent. 'We try to cut the bits which aren't essential to the story, but they are often the lovely character scenes.
'We'll see if we can avoid next time.'
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