Short and to the point...well, short, anyway...

That's what television shows are. Commercial television is now running about 8 minutes of ads per half hour of air time. That means your favorite sitcom is now all of 22 minutes long, if you're lucky. That hour long drama is actually only 45 minutes of show, the rest of the time is spent with screamingly painful commercials. Just another bit of evidence showing the decline of our quality of life.