I'm not convinced, those rescue organisations' dogs that do wonderful stuff at earthquakes have to do six months when they get back.
I'm not sure whether it helps, but an episode of 24 shows in 45 minutes on the BBC, because it has no commercial breaks.

Unfortunately, these days, programme breaks are filled with ersatz commercials promoting other BBC services and programmes, which, personally, drive me bananas.

To entice us to "go digital", 24 and other programmes are shown on the main channels, immediately followed by the next week's episode on a free-to-air digital channel.

I was going to reply fully to your last posting, but I reckoned it was an interesting dialogue between Andy and yourself.