lack of punctuation

So i have recently started watching a show on BBC America called Skins and it is kind of a new experience in television watching The thing that mainly throws me off is there complete lack of punctuation I am not sure if this is a cultural thing or if it is just the style of this show but it really threw me at first Mainly i guess because we have become so accustomed to punctuation in our media The only real thing that they have to end the scene is their Skins title before and after commercials It is just weird to transition without any sound I am kind of wondering if it is possibly a cultural thing and if people in Brittan are used to this kind of thing It may just seem to them that this use of punctuation is a little weird to them I think that some other shows pull this off a bit more effectively Like some shows will end with a punch line or something in the conversation that brings a natural end to the scene But in Skins the commercials just kind of come out of nowhere and surprise you because you're not expecting them from the cues of the speech