16 replies to this topic

[Miqque Loveland]

Does BBC-2 have "seasons" now lasting 7 or 8 episodes? Does seem like Top Gear had seven, Being Human had eight and The Fades vanished. Are micro-seasons some sort of new standard? Dr. Who seems like a full 13-week season. (One upon a time it was 20 - like a school semester). The only thing shorter than a Beeb-2 season is a Colorado spring.

Well?

You Brits, defend your telly!

Dammit! Mods -this was truly intended for the Movies/TV Forum. I do not know how I got here. Sorry!

Edited by Miqque Loveland, 05 June 2012 - 12:34 AM.

[craggy]

uk series tend to last for 6-7 episodes. then come back. or not. for another series.

[garjones]

Yes there are no ads so no sweeps or anything on the BBC so they make up their scheduling as they go along. 6-8 episode runs have been common for a long time, for drama they tend not to use a writers room like US shows and one guy often writes the lot so that's usually the limit. Then again, Casualty, which is like a British ER, runs 48 episodes a year.

For Top Gear they can often have more than one 'season' in a year, sometimes not and the length changes all the time.

http://en.wikipedia....p_Gear_episodes

So just go with it.

[Martin Smith]

Speaking of Top Gear, there isn't an autumn season for it this year. Because of X-Factor apparently.

[Steve Sensible]

Speaking of Top Gear, there isn't an autumn season for it this year. Because of X-Factor apparently.

Top Gear has jumped the shark recently anyway. I'd rather they spent a bit of time filming some decent challenges and striving for the quality that the show used to have rather than just keep churning out the same old crap.

[craggy]

Speaking of Top Gear, there isn't an autumn season for it this year. Because of X-Factor apparently.

okay, which one of them is the new judge? Clarkson would work as a Simon Cowell replacement, and Hammond has a certain Louis Walsh quality, but I'd really like to see James May on there explaining to everyone that they'd be much better off getting a practical job, learning a trade or what have you.

[Chic McGregor]

Does BBC-2 have "seasons" now lasting 7 or 8 episodes? Does seem like Top Gear had seven, Being Human had eight and The Fades vanished. Are micro-seasons some sort of new standard? Dr. Who seems like a full 13-week season. (One upon a time it was 20 - like a school semester). The only thing shorter than a Beeb-2 season is a Colorado spring.

Well?

You Brits, defend your telly!

Dammit! Mods -this was truly intended for the Movies/TV Forum. I do not know how I got here. Sorry!

Does BBC-2 have "seasons" now lasting 7 or 8 episodes? Does seem like Top Gear had seven, Being Human had eight and The Fades vanished. Are micro-seasons some sort of new standard? Dr. Who seems like a full 13-week season. (One upon a time it was 20 - like a school semester). The only thing shorter than a Beeb-2 season is a Colorado spring.

Well?

You Brits, defend your telly!

Dammit! Mods -this was truly intended for the Movies/TV Forum. I do not know how I got here. Sorry!

BBC hunting season for the SNP or any other pro-independence party or individual, is 365 day per year(366 leap years).

They still harbour pretensions of fair play around the World but in Scotland they operate to distort, lie and omit to preserve the Union aka the mini-Empire of Londonia.
They are the Pacific Quay Pravda.

There was a first ever demo against the BBC anti-independence bias at Pacific Quay in Glasgow a couple of weeks back.

[garjones]

The removal of Top Gear from the autumn schedules I found to be a typically anti Scots stance.

[Arjan Dirkse]

Surely the removal of Top Gear can only be a good thing for all humanity?

[Russell H]

It would only give them all more time for other projects.

[craggy]

eek! last thing I need is Clarkson breaking his internet again.

[Nicholas Taggart]

I enjoy a lot of the non Top Gear things James May does

[craggy]

okay, yeah, nick, I'll give you that. He's the best of the bunch off that program.

[Lucian Von Dooom]

I can watch the Top Gear trio host anything.

[Miqque Loveland]

Astonishing. The corporate mentality is well-reflected in the architecture of their headquarters building. Confusing. Having worked for a bit in television production (several times) I'm surprised at even more awkward goings-on.

[David Meadows]

I don't see why it's such a weird notion. Use as many episodes as you need to say what you want to say, then stop. That's the only logical way to make television. None of this rubbish decompressing to six issues just so you can fill a trade.

Hold on, I seem to have conflated two different rants...

[Dave Wallace]

It's worth remembering that British TV has a higher proportion of shows written by a single writer (or small group of writers), which obviously limits the amount of episodes that they can put out each "season" - in contrast to the American model of large writing teams that can easily churn out 20+ hours of the same show each year.