I FULLY sympathise with your correspondent Robert Readman regarding excessive number of adverts during Downton Abbey, as stated in last week’s Advertiser.

I too find them extremely irritating and an interruption to what is otherwise an enjoyable programme.

Another way of watching a commercial TV channel without adverts would be to rent a digital set top box from Virgin Media or Sky.

That way the programme can be watched without adverts on the catch-up option at any time up to a week after first appearing on the screen.

R T BRYANT, Holywell Close, Poole