24 and Breaking Bad are also very popular examples.

NoMoreNicksLeft 15 hours ago | parent [-]

24 was Fox, if I'm not mistaken, and its format is very much the same as all broadcast shows.

Breaking Bad isn't the same format. No obvious commercial breaks, no saccharine Hays-Code-like bullshit.

Others mentioned The Shield, which is FX, and I tend to think of FX shows as not being of the broadcast mold. Monk was USA, I think, which as a network was borderline, but seems like a few of their original programming shows were not-horrible. Then someone said Deadliest Catch, but that's just cheap reality tv sludge and I feel dirty having typed out its title. Even the worst 1980s NBC sitcom was better than reality tv shows.

It's come to my attention that you're all, every last one of you, watching tv wrong.

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dragonwriter 11 hours ago | parent [-]

> Breaking Bad isn't the same format. No obvious commercial breaks

Breaking Bad (like Mad Men, also on AMC) was presented with commercial breaks on AMC in its original run, and is structured around those breaks.

	▲	NoMoreNicksLeft 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Can't tell to watch the blurays. Hats off to the editors, I guess.