A typical modern television season for any TV show is 21 episodes, just so you know.
Anything above that is extra, above and beyond, and requires fairly heroic efforts on parts of writing staff, crew, and cast. Who are all pretty well compensated for their labors, it's true
I'm sure you're aware that CM lost six writers last year due to network budget cuts, and that's one of the reasons that they've been relying on outside writers as much as they have. And any given writer and/or director has a limited amount of ability to turn out quality material. Last year they turned in an awful lot of material, and I'm willing to bet it was an insane deathmarch to get it done.
It's pretty typical for any show to have a fairly straight run of new episodes in the fall and a series of mini-hiatuses in the spring. I believe CM's season this year is 24 episodes, but I'm not 100% certain of that.
CM is also one of the shows that keeps its audience in reruns. AND keeps most of its audience against American Idol, which is a freaking juggernaut--but even CM still loses share. And frankly, a show's producers don't have a lot of power over when episodes air--that's the network's decision.
I suspect all of these things are on the minds of everybody involved.
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Anything above that is extra, above and beyond, and requires fairly heroic efforts on parts of writing staff, crew, and cast. Who are all pretty well compensated for their labors, it's true
I'm sure you're aware that CM lost six writers last year due to network budget cuts, and that's one of the reasons that they've been relying on outside writers as much as they have. And any given writer and/or director has a limited amount of ability to turn out quality material. Last year they turned in an awful lot of material, and I'm willing to bet it was an insane deathmarch to get it done.
It's pretty typical for any show to have a fairly straight run of new episodes in the fall and a series of mini-hiatuses in the spring. I believe CM's season this year is 24 episodes, but I'm not 100% certain of that.
CM is also one of the shows that keeps its audience in reruns. AND keeps most of its audience against American Idol, which is a freaking juggernaut--but even CM still loses share. And frankly, a show's producers don't have a lot of power over when episodes air--that's the network's decision.
I suspect all of these things are on the minds of everybody involved.