Original sentence: The main reason that CBS arranged for a host for the film was that a 101-minute motion picture was not considered long enough to run in the allotted 120-minute slot at that time, even with standard commercial breaks, without additional content.This telecast marked the only time any actor who appeared in the film was selected to host it: Bert Lahr, who had played both the Cowardly Lion and farmhand Zeke in the film, appeared alongside then 10-year-old Liza Minnelli, and young Oz expert Justin G.This telecast ran two-and-a-half hours, longer than any CBS or NBC telecasts
Edited sentence: Because of all of Wu's comic sequences, this telecast of the 101 minute film was padded out to two-and-a-half hours, longer than any of the CBS or NBC telecasts of it had ever run.Bert Lahr, who had played both the Cowardly Lion and farmhand Zeke in the film, the then ten-year-old Liza Minnelli, and young Oz expert Justin G.Like the TNT telecasts, the ones on this channel also had pop-up ads running at the bottom of the screen.Schiller appeared as hosts to introduce the movie.The main reason that CBS arranged for a host for the film was that a 101-minute motion picture was at that time not considered long enough to run in the allotted 120-minute time slot without some "padding".This presentation had the host making (would-be) comic remarks after every commercial break, and in the hosting sequence he had to contend with the temperamental "floating head" Oz, who insisted that the film was really all about him, and him exclusively.This telecast marked the only time that any actor who appeared in the film was selected to host it.This was because, until about 1968, commercial breaks were much shorter on television than they are now, usually lasting no more than two minutes, and there were fewer breaks during a program — perhaps eight in a two-hour span as opposed to about ten or more today