In Turkey, generally, duration of a Turkish TV show is between 100 and 120 minutes. However in the world, the duration is really different. For example in America, a lot of tv series' durations are between 20 to 40 minutes. Longer durations cause a lot of problems for actresses, actors and for the people working in the Tv set. In Turkey, a lot of protests happened against the durations of Turkish TV shows by the actors and actresses. Because of the durations, they need to work more on their parts in the scenario and they cannot have enough time to relax. A lot of TV show writers protest the durations.*
In addition to that, one of the reason of the long duration time is trying to raise money by advertising. Because the costs of TV shows are increased and to balance the cost, the writers wrote some parts just to fill in the time and make it longer so that they can get money with advertisement.**
In my opinion, the duration is really too long and it has an easy way to understand that, a summary of an episode takes, generally, 45 minutes and after we watch a summary of a TV show, we can understand everything and we do not see unnecessary parts in the summary. However, in an American series the summary part is between 30 seconds to 2 minutes. I think that is a good point to understand and compare the duration problem.
*http://www.sozcu.com.tr/hayatim/kultur-sanat-haberleri/dizi-sektorunde-isyan-bayragi-acildi/
**http://www.milliyet.com.tr/dizi-sureleri-niye-cok-uzun-/magazin/ydetay/2198853/default.htm
Additionally , as a huge and competitive TV production sector, Turkish producers will have more series to fill these 4 hour long durations. That means, beside the mainstream, accustomed and shallow stories we can watch more various and diverse ones. Also, that much time slot will not affect the advertisements, in my opinion it will raise advertising. Lots of different shows means lots of different people, and more brands will be part of it.
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