Originally Posted by
Paralytic
If there is something I do want to watch, I actually settle down to watch it 10-15 minutes "late", FF through the adverts, and pretty much see the end at the time it is broadcast live. I've become a master of FF +30 and recognising when to stop it just as the adverts end - the broadcasters give off plenty of "tells".
Yep, 10-15 mins is usually about right; maybe 20 mins for US series though, which are sometimes as short as 41 mins after the ads are stripped..