Mar
28
2008
SFOTV: Are Shortened Seasons Wave Of Future?
From SyFy Portal Comments Off - Battlestar Galactica
This week we see the end of "Jericho" (again). We were treated to a good season of almost non-stop action. The story moved along at a break-neck pace, and one has to wonder if the series was better because of the short season. In the United Kingdom, the standard for television has been short seasons, called "series" instead of "seasons" over there. The short season has always been enough to tell a story, keeping the storytelling tight and focused, and then finishing with a clean ending. The U.S. model is quite different. Our seasons are are commissioned with a 13-episode order, and if the show does well is expanded to include another nine to 13 more episodes. Having that many hours to fill leads to the infamous filler episode. In my opinion, that was the biggest problem with "Battlestar ...
Posted Friday, March 28th, 2008 at 3:47 am
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