frustration with schedule - careful: rant ahead

[brabbel.livejournal.com]

I'm extremely frustrated, now that I've examined the CBS-schedule for CM - after today's episode there's another 3-week hiatus planned. How do they expect people to keep interest in a series when they keep interrupting the season for 3 weeks after just 2 episodes. And why does this season only have 22 episodes (my guess, since a season generally runs just to the middle of May)? Okay, we had the Olympic Games which account for 2 weeks without CM - but 24 episodes would still have been possible...

It seems as if they spent all their efforts on one mediocre episode (The Fight), respectively on the hype around 100 - and don't know quite how to continue from there... which is majorly disappointing, especially the non-follow up so far to the events of the first half of the season. If that's a spectre of what this series has still to offer in coming seasons, I'm seriously underwhelmed.

Sorry, I had to get that out of my system. Let's just hope the last 4 episodes of season 5 at least reflect some of what makes CM such a good programme, so that I'm inclined to switch on my TV again next season... right now, I'm very ambivalent about this series unfortunately.

Comments

[lucylooo.livejournal.com]

Also, and I meant to say this in my last comment but forgot, I'd almost prefer if the show ran in the Canadian/British/US cable format of fewer episodes in a consistent arc - do 13, run them without a break, then take a long break and do it again. I almost feel like a 22-26(!) ep season is too long to generate a fresh, consistently-written program with everyone giving their best. I don't necessarily "blame" anyone on the staff, because they're working within tough constraints, but maybe things would be better/more fun/more innovative if the seasons themselves were shorter but had the same shooting schedule.

[sydninicole.livejournal.com]

i agree, completely.