Yes.
My guess the first time I heard the commerical is Don Galloway who played in the Ironsides TV show.
Thomas Haden Church
They can drink on television shows but not on commercials.
Commercials
You can show people drinking on television shows. But it's illegal to show them drinking in commercials. That's why in beer commercials, you always see them hold up the drink but never actually drink it.
Commercials
Because the tv stations get paid money to put up advertisements. They then use this money to pay for the rights to use a new tv show episode on their channel. Without commercials, commercial tv is nothing.
31 minutes
0 minutes on BBC TV in UK.
They don't say and Sony Pictures Television corporate records do not break the earnings down by individual program. It is also a syndicated TV show and not all the earrings from commercials go to the show as the local networks can also sell commercials
A typical TV show is usually approximately 22 minutes for every 1/2 hour of time. So each 1/2 hour show has 8 minutes or so of commercials. Double this for 1 hour shows (16 minutes of commercials for every hour).
Advertisers want their ads to reach people who are likely to buy their products.