Comments on: Knight Rider TV Series Greenlit http://oddballupdate.com/2008/04/03/knight-rider-tv-series-greenlit/ The personal weblog of a twenty-something web designer, muscle car fanatic, and somewhat odd chap. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:05:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Chief Oddball http://oddballupdate.com/2008/04/03/knight-rider-tv-series-greenlit/#comment-3250 Chief Oddball Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:51:19 +0000 http://oddballupdate.com/?p=897#comment-3250 That huge gap between seasons (or half-seasons) is becoming a disturbing trend lately. You wind up with a single season having maybe fifteen episodes if you're lucky, when a traditional full-season order was 23-25...and with these serial dramas, you completely forget all the stuff that was happening from one "chunk" to the next. It's no wonder these shows are getting canned for poor ratings; only the hardcore fans can keep up. Even though Battlestar is like this (we haven't had new episodes since LAST MARCH!), I think it survives because pretty much <em>every</em> Battlestar fan is a hardcore fan! Part of it is that some major network shows are getting so much like movies -- special effects, post production, crack writing teams -- that it costs too much to produce twenty-some episodes anymore. It's sorta like video games, too...they're more and more like interactive movies every day, but the total length of time you spend playing them to completion keeps dropping -- while the cost and time spent to make them keeps spiraling way up. That huge gap between seasons (or half-seasons) is becoming a disturbing trend lately. You wind up with a single season having maybe fifteen episodes if you’re lucky, when a traditional full-season order was 23-25…and with these serial dramas, you completely forget all the stuff that was happening from one “chunk” to the next.

It’s no wonder these shows are getting canned for poor ratings; only the hardcore fans can keep up. Even though Battlestar is like this (we haven’t had new episodes since LAST MARCH!), I think it survives because pretty much every Battlestar fan is a hardcore fan!

Part of it is that some major network shows are getting so much like movies — special effects, post production, crack writing teams — that it costs too much to produce twenty-some episodes anymore. It’s sorta like video games, too…they’re more and more like interactive movies every day, but the total length of time you spend playing them to completion keeps dropping — while the cost and time spent to make them keeps spiraling way up.

]]> By: MichiganMom http://oddballupdate.com/2008/04/03/knight-rider-tv-series-greenlit/#comment-3249 MichiganMom Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:19:57 +0000 http://oddballupdate.com/?p=897#comment-3249 I saw this news today also - and was also happy to see my own favorite show (Friday Night Ligthts) was reprieved. But they won't have new episodes until next winter, which is probably the kiss of death because no one will remember what the hell was going on with the show. For god's sake, all the kids will be grown up by next winter! I hate the networks sometimes. I saw this news today also - and was also happy to see my own favorite show (Friday Night Ligthts) was reprieved. But they won’t have new episodes until next winter, which is probably the kiss of death because no one will remember what the hell was going on with the show. For god’s sake, all the kids will be grown up by next winter!

I hate the networks sometimes.

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