TV Tuesday: Seasons and An Announcement

[yourlibrarian]

Do you prefer short seasons for your shows, long seasons, or no seasons at all, like soap operas that go on without a clear break? What do you consider the minimum number of episodes to make up an effective season of a TV show?

Also, an announcement! Starting January 12 the mods would like to kick off a weeklong rec fest. Although people do rec shows on other days, we thought a tagged recs event would help newcomers find shows they might enjoy more easily.

So for 7 days of genres we'll have Sunday: Family viewing/Children's Shows, Monday: Comedies, Tuesday: Dramas, Wednesday: Sci Fi/Fantasy, Thursday: Mysteries or Horror, Friday: Romances, and Saturday: Miscellaneous (any shows you don't think fit the other categories!)

We hope you'll put together some recs to share over the next month -- they can be shows you've discussed before in other tv_talk posts, new things you've just tried out, or shows others have recced before!

Comments

[bradygirl_12]

22-24 episodes are perfect.

Ha, ha, what would people do with 39 episodes per season as was the norm in the '50s/early '60s? 😝

[yourlibrarian]

Indeed, what a work schedule for all the cast and crew as well! Mind you soaps still exist and do that for years on end but I think that makes more sense in an era when there were only so many shows.

[bradygirl_12]

I've read that you did the 39 weeks and got 13 weeks off, then back at it. The Honeymooners' one full season is known as the Classic 39. Guess it would be the Classic 10 these days, lol! 🤩

[yourlibrarian]

10 does seem to be the most likely number! As I've been watching some older cable shows it was clear they were using the 13 episode benchmark, which was the half season order for broadcast. But apparently Netflix determined 8-10 were the optimal length for keeping viewers so it's definitely less now.