Home Alone 2 is a 120 minute movie. It's normal for TV networks to cut some content from movies to fit the content into a block with commercials.
There's typically 8 minutes of commercials per 30 minute block.
For a 3 hour block, you need 132 minutes of content, 48 minutes of commercials. The movie is only 120 minutes long.
So you need to cut content to fit it down to a 2 1/2 hour block. Since 26.67% of the TV block is commercials, you need 40 minutes of commercials, 110 minutes of content for a 2 1/2 hour block.
So you have to cut 10 minutes from the broadcast or lose out on 10 minutes of ad revenue. So they're going to cut out content that adds nothing or very little to the story. The Trump cameo was non-consequential for the rest of the story. He had only one scene in the film and was never referred to again.
When I PVR'd Taxi Driver on TLN back in March (it's a 114 minute movie), they completely cut out like the first few minutes from the film. I had to torrent the movie again to watch the first few minutes because I completely forgot what happened in the beginning of the movie.
I didn't know about this. That is the most pathetic thing I've ever heard of.
Home Alone 2 is a 120 minute movie. It's normal for TV networks to cut some content from movies to fit the content into a block with commercials.
There's typically 8 minutes of commercials per 30 minute block.
For a 3 hour block, you need 132 minutes of content, 48 minutes of commercials. The movie is only 120 minutes long.
So you need to cut content to fit it down to a 2 1/2 hour block. Since 26.67% of the TV block is commercials, you need 40 minutes of commercials, 110 minutes of content for a 2 1/2 hour block.
So you have to cut 10 minutes from the broadcast or lose out on 10 minutes of ad revenue. So they're going to cut out content that adds nothing or very little to the story. The Trump cameo was non-consequential for the rest of the story. He had only one scene in the film and was never referred to again.
When I PVR'd Taxi Driver on TLN back in March (it's a 114 minute movie), they completely cut out like the first few minutes from the film. I had to torrent the movie again to watch the first few minutes because I completely forgot what happened in the beginning of the movie.
This.
TV movies are for poorfags.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU5rLchFQys