Hi,
I'm trying to contact Sky about this, as it keeps happening, and it's a blinking annoying situation. I love LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER (LWT...), yet last night (Monday 18th Aug 2025), all three showings of the episode overran their alloted time-slots, because the Sky TV schedulers are NOT allowing enough time for the programme.
Fans of LWT... know that the show's episodes are normally around 40-minutes long, and thus in a 45-minute time-slot, and only one ad break, the episodes fit fine. However, some weeks the episodes are much, much longer - as last night's one was. Without ads, the episode ran to 50-minutes. You can't fit a 50-minute show, into a 45-minute time-slot, and also add in a single, 5-minute-long ad break as well.
So whoever does the scheduling at Sky, needs to fix this issue! LWT's episodes vary in length. As Sky gets the show, they need to be making sure that the show can be correctly fitted into the allocated time-slot, and NOT have the show overrun the slot, as it then means anyone recording it on their Sky Q box, like I do, misses the end. I don't want to be told to watch it on Catch-Up, as that's not the point. I want to keep my off-air recordings for posterity, and also so I can rewatch them at any time. (And yes, I know a Sky Q box could die at any moment, and I'd lose these recordings, but - again - that's not the point!)
Please can Sky make sure that:
1 - Episodes can be fully broadcast in their allocated time-slots, with additional time for the single ad break.
2 - Stop assuming all episodes are 40-minutes, as they aren't, and they vary in length, every week!
3 - Please make sure the Sky schedules (for both Sky Comedy 114 and Sky Showcase 107) are amended accordingly, so that episodes don't keep overrunning their allocated slots, and recordings miss the ending. Moreso, when episodes are only broadcast on the Monday night, and then there are no subsequent repeats!
And before anyone else says, yes, I've also contacted Sky about this issue, and am awaiting their response. But my reason for posting here is to make sure others are aware of this situation too. Viewers are paying a lot of money to Sky, and this is my absolute favourite show on TV. I want to make sure I can see and watch it fully, when I want to. After all, that's one of the reasons I chose Sky Q over Sky Glass.
