SL on NBC

[Paul Murphy]

Just out of curiosity (since I don't have cable, and don't get American
network TV) ... I'm wondering how NBC handled the showing of Schindler's
List. Did they pepper it with ads like any other Sunday Night Movie of the
Week? Reminds me of Paddy Chayevsky talking about the _Holocaust_
mini-series, when he said that the parameters of commercial television
determine the narrative structure of anything broadcast, so that artificial
suspense has to be created every 10 minutes to keep the viewers from
switching channels during breaks.

Or did they just run PBS-style announcements -- "Schindler's List is made
possible in part by the Ford Motor Company" ?

Cheers,
Paul

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