What the heck is going on with TV shows?

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Used to be, a tv show would begin airing in the autumn and end in the spring. Then you'd have reruns in the summer and a new season of the show would start the next autumn.

Now, networks just seem to throw up new seasons whenever it suits their fancy, and have huge delays between seasons.

BSG just ended tonight and won't be back until 2008. Stargate is months late getting started, and that's even with Sci-Fi's oddball July/January scheduling. I can't even remember when the last Soprano's episode showed. Oh, and what the heck ever happened to 24-26 episode seasons, eh?!

P.S. - And could someone explain why my blasted delete key doesn't work in this forum?! :mad:
 
Its irritating, when they try to pull that stuff I usually am forced to obtain the show through unconvential means which I will not further elaborate upon.
 
Lost ticked me off the most

"oh by the way, this is the last episode for a while. We'll be back in February to give you the rest of our really short season"

So much corporate influence, so much 'marketing', it makes me sick
 
Yes, they do.

It's the 21st Century.
 
neither

sorry if you viewed that as a negative post

the viewership of the television has lowered since the invention and mainstream of the internet and i cannot stand the trash of the telescreen personally but thats just me
 
Amin001 said:
neither

sorry if you viewed that as a negative post

the viewership of the television has lowered since the invention and mainstream of the internet and i cannot stand the trash of the telescreen personally but thats just me
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Where's your statistics which back up this point? I can't stand most TV either, but viewship decreasing is an absurd claim.
 
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Every major U.S. media company is rapidly adjusting to changes that are altering entrenched TV viewing habits. The battle over the future of TV watching is being fuelled by three primary factors: 1) sluggish advertising trends that are changing TV economics; 2) changing demographics; and 3) impact of technologies that shift control of the TV schedule away from media companies and to the consumer.

TV ad revenues are in decline, impacting overall broadcast income. The slide could become permanent. CBS Television Network forecasts ad spending on the four big TV networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox) will grow by 1.5% in 2005. Likewise, newspaper advertising is way off also; although it increased by 3.5% in 2005, growth is forecast downward to 2.4% in 2006. By contrast, Internet advertising increased at double-digit rates in 2005 - by various estimates from 15% to 30% - and it is projected to increase between 22% to 37% in 2006.

Clearly, the growth patterns favour Internet advertising. The declines in once-reliable TV and newspaper ad revenues are partly the result of the erosion of the young adult demographic between the ages of 18-49 that advertisers pay a premium to reach. TV viewership among this group is down by one-third since 1993 as more consumers in this key demographic turn to options other than the living-room TV for getting news and entertainment. These alternative sources of news and entertainment include Internet blogs and podcasts that allow a more personalized, selectable experience, as well as video games and DVDs that grab mind-share.
 
Yeah well, I don't see YouTube producing Battlestar Galactica anytime soon, so I'll still be watching TV for awhile.
 
VRWCAgent said:
Yeah well, I don't see YouTube producing Battlestar Galactica anytime soon, so I'll still be watching TV for awhile.
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Perhaps not, but you can download Battlestar Galactica there! :p
 
VRWCAgent said:
Used to be, a tv show would begin airing in the autumn and end in the spring. Then you'd have reruns in the summer and a new season of the show would start the next autumn.

Now, networks just seem to throw up new seasons whenever it suits their fancy, and have huge delays between seasons.

BSG just ended tonight and won't be back until 2008. Stargate is months late getting started, and that's even with Sci-Fi's oddball July/January scheduling. I can't even remember when the last Soprano's episode showed. Oh, and what the heck ever happened to 24-26 episode seasons, eh?!

P.S. - And could someone explain why my blasted delete key doesn't work in this forum?! :mad:
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I suspect part of the reason is because of all these short run specials like Dancing with the Stars and American Idol. They're a ratings success (though I don't know why) so they bump regular shows. But they don't work in reruns so the normal tv shows fill in the gaps.
Also it used to be that actors were either TV or movie stars, now many do both. I wonder if trying to schedule around actors different projects isn't partly to blame.
Whatever the reason it's now almost impossible to tell when anything is going to be on, which kills ratings as well.
 
It's pointless to watch TV in Australia except for sport, since all the good shows are normally not from Australia, and it takes ages for the networks to show them here. The amount of people using torrents will continue to rise until the networks realise they cant bullfeathers the viewers anymore, and since this is network executives we're talking about, its going to be a loooooong time.
 
I long ago gave up on television. It seems to be full of soap operas and endless 'reality' shows, or competition shows where the public (or 'celebrities') have to do something like dance, sing, jump through hoops or whatever...

If mindless animals making fools of themselves is so good, why don't we offer money to the homeless? They'll do what we ask, and we'll get that tasty feel-good charitable warmth.

If it hasn't got drama in it, channels won't screen it. If it has the flamboyant emotional brain-rot that passes for drama nowadays, I won't watch it. Which rather limits my contact with the television.
 
bah, you americans have no right to complain. here it's much worse, sometimes they bring the next season right after the first, sometimes not for a year, sometimes not at all...it's seems completely arbitrary :(
 
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