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Originally Posted by Relentless
Mash, Frasier and All In The Family had filler episodes? We disagree.
I recently watched every episode of Frasier on Netflix about a month ago. The series went on a season and a half longer than it should have, but up to that point they did 15-20 solid episodes a season.
BB final season was split in half solely as a money grab. AMC would do 4 shows a year if they could.... For the exact same reason porn DVDs now have 4 scenes on them instead of 7. It's not because pornstars have poor cardio... It's because it doesn't pay to include more content.
In any case, BCS is developing very nicely. Hopefully it doesn't suck balls next season. That's the bigger danger with short seasons. That you split up the cast and crew, lose the magic and put out a turd the way house of cards did in its most recent season.
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Just out of curiosity why do you think it is all revenue based? If a show is profitable making 12 episodes a season, in theory, so long as they keep the quality up and keep the audience engaged it should also be profitable at 24 episodes a season. Not to mention those extra episodes give them more to sell to places like Netflix and gets them closer to syndication numbers faster. Aside from perhaps having to pay the principles a little more for taking up more of their year with the show what is financially keeping any profitable show from just making more episodes?