Haven’t seen this before!
Nine split “The Magnificent Seven” in two, for classification purposes, but therefore had to do all this
Part 1 (8:08pm)
Part 2 (9:19pm)
(There was no ad break, this all happened within ~30sec)
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I think this potentially sets a bad precedent for other networks to follow and no doubt @TV.Cynic inflates ratings (there will be two codings won’t there?) manipulating the system.
Because since the dawn of modern TV classification, when a film is modified for broadcast, you air that entire version, even if it goes into later time zones… That’s how it’s always been (e.g.) Seven do it all the time, even tonight. You don’t just pause a movie mid-run and do this, even if Nine can and/or felt the later stages of the movie were too hard to edit!