Is anyone else upset at the way the Networks run the tv seasons? A tv show lasts 22 weeks, so you would think a show would run 22 weeks. Right? Wrong. They stretch the 22 weeks out for as long as possible with reruns and sometimes they put a different show in the time slot for a few weeks. What it does, is throw off the show you're watching. It really hurts shows like Lost and Heroes, where each episode is basically a continuted story. We just had a break for Heroes and when it came back I thought it was going out with all new stories, but no, for the next five weeks we have repeats.
Ok, a year is 52 weeks, right? Why not run a show straight through for 22 weeks, take a few weeks off and than come back with a new season of new shows. You have the fall season of 22 weeks, it ends and you do your reruns or whatever you want for eight weeks. Than you start the summer season with new shows that run for 22 weeks.
Now how easy is that?
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I've often wondered that myself. You just get involved in a show, then it goes off for several weeks then comes back boasting 'an all new episode'. Well of course it's all new, it's like, the third one ever made! It's a good thing I don't watch much TV or this would drive me insane. I can understand breaks around the holidays but that's about it.
This is a good plan. But with key sporting events and holidays, it's tough to go straight through 22 weeks.
So I propose 6 weeks on, 4 weeks off, and 6 weeks on - year round shows!!!
If an actor wants a break to shoot a movie or have a baby, then write them reasonably off the show for a time, and then write them reasonably back in.
This way, we can have our sports and specials and our new programs too!
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