When watching a collection of TV episodes, it would be quite useful to identify the start and end of the intro (opening credits) and outro (ending credits) to support auto-skipping these as a feature during large episode viewing. This would most likely need to be defined per-series with customization per-episode as I have observed exceptions in both cases.
As an example, watching a television show and all of season 04 episodes display the opening credits between 01:20 and 02:35 with a fade-in before the show. The time before 01:20 is also basically useless in consumption viewing since those are typically replays, so could optionally set this to 00:00 to ignore/auto-skip that region with a duration of 2:35 with a possible exception typically being ep1. And the outro usually spins up around 23:45 (~0:50) with a 20 second follow-up containing previews which could also be ignored, setting the end skip to be approximately -1:10. Continuing this example series, Season 05 changes the "last week" format and it is shorter, requiring an adjustment of 10 seconds less, a quick series level update to adjust. Some rough math, skipping 2:35 and 1:10, totaling 3:45, across a 23 episode series would account for just under an hour and a half when viewed. Since our example mentions Season 05, after 5 seasons, we've saved over 7 hours.
A separate example, another show has different time spans for every episode in every season, but also a consistent replay of "previously on..." and setting 0:00 - 02:00 usually only catches the very last of the intro credits occasionally, enough that setting that span for the series would be effectively helpful towards this feature. In this example, say 16 episode season, a half hour is saved by skipping every two minutes except the first episodes.
These information points, while possibly not available in the wild as data elements and potentially unsupported on some channels and playback formats, could still provide timeline cue-points as reference helpers to save a sometime common task.
