SL on NBC

[David Casseres]

Paul Murphy sez

>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" ?

They did the latter, and the TV establishment then established new 
records for insufferable self-congratulation.


Cheers,
David