Devil’s Advocate here, but I wonder if that could be a choice made by the creatives or the production company - like, “we hate advertising and don’t want it shown during our show, so that’s the kind of licence we will agree to”.

I think a lot of people would applaud that sentiment of refusing to have ads in their show.

Unfortunately the result would be that for noble, purity of the art, reasons they end up accidentally screwing people in your situation.

No idea if that’s plausible, but maybe?

So not a real loss in this specific case.