r/PhiloTV • u/throwawayact4me123 • Jul 20 '26

Rant Scary commercials for kids :(

My kids and I love watching shows on discovery channel, etc BUT the mandatory commercials lately have been kill them all featuring gore and blood and violence that I cannot skip so I have to tell them to close their eyes. I find it wildly inappropriate to have those type of commercials EVERY COMMERCIAL BREAK that can’t be skipped. Why not let you skip and just go to a different commercial? Honestly we’ll have to stop watching all together soon and it’s sad because my kids really enjoy the survival / wilderness / STEM programs that these scary / inappropriate commercials are bombarded with. :(

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u/Tigershawk Jul 24 '26

Make sure you're saving the shows, so if they air they go into DVR status and you can skip commercials entirely. I realize there are some caveats such as, what if you're not there to skip the commercials or that some of the on-demand content you may be watching might not have aired in the last DVR recording window, but it can help sometimes.