I wonder if it really just comes down to chopping it up for ads. As in, the cost of reshooting is less than the cost of syndicating the original and re-cutting

I wonder if it really just comes down to chopping it up for ads. As in, the cost of reshooting is less than the cost of syndicating the original and re-cutting it for American ad time slots. From my childhood, the only place I remember seeing unedited British shows was on my local PBS affiliate which doesn’t show ads (maybe once every hour).