While I’m not sure that I can promise
that I’ll never share a drinking game again, what I should do is work harder on
coming up with some other type of post to share instead. It will have to have
some sort of theme to it that relates to any and every unusual thing that
happens on TV. Here are some examples of what to look out for.
Delays: Any time a show winds
up airing later than at one point it was supposed to, the show is more or less
going to end that season. It applies to one season shows too. The only season
that I can think of that was delayed and wasn’t the last season was the fourth
season of Community. Look at Taken when it aired this season. It was supposed
to start during the fall, but didn’t start airing until the new season had
begun. Now the show is officially cancelled.
No announced timeslot: This is
a variant of the whole delay thing. The longer a show goes without a set time
that it will air, the more likely it will end. What you’d think wouldn’t be
concerning is if it suddenly shows back up in place of a cancelled show or show
otherwise pulled from the schedule. That can make it dead at the end of the
season as well. The longer that Shades of Blue went without a timeslot this
season, the more I correctly thought that it would be cancelled later.
Hiatus: Sometimes these make
sense and sometimes they don’t. Often, they will be so that another show will
air in its place before it returns. Other times are more concerning. When
Brooklyn Nine-Nine went on hiatus in the middle of the season, we had no idea
for a while when it was coming back. It then took over the timeslot for
Ghosted. With Ghosted on hiatus, you’d think that it would make sense that it
doesn’t have a time to air. But the 6 to 6:30 FOX timeslot on Sundays keeps
airing reruns of shows. This is a very bad sign for Ghosted, which you’d hope
air the rest of its episodes in the future. I’d hope that it would, but I have
no idea for sure if it will.
Late airtime: Yet another bad
sign for a show is the when of a season starting. If a show ends before May
starts, that can be bad. But what is normally a death sentence is when the
season of a show starts in April or a bit later. You can guess that the show
probably won’t last. If a show is suddenly a summer show when it never used to
be, that’s a very bad sign. If a show is midseason when it used to be on during
the fall all the time, that is a bad sign as well. Now there could be other
reasons why there could be a change and later airtime. But more often than not,
it is a bad sign.
Lack of reruns: This isn’t always
a bad thing because there are some networks that normally don’t show reruns of
any shows that often, if ever. But other networks, like CBS or the CW, do air
reruns of shows a lot, except when they don’t. This doesn’t always mean that a
show will be cancelled that season or the next season. But if they don’t show
reruns of it and put something else in its place instead, then you know that
they care less about it. On the flip side, any shows getting reruns outside of
its timeslot in addition to what it normally gets is a show cared more about
and more likely to stay around.
Bad time for new episodes: Here’s
one that isn’t typically thought of that much. But there are a lot of times
when new episodes of shows happen at dumb times like on Thanksgiving or New
Year’s Day. Now this doesn’t mean that the show is in any danger. It could just
be a lack of time for showing all of the new episodes that they want to. It may
be an annoyance more than anything else. But I do think that often shows that
air on bad dates are often cared about less.
Unusualness with breaking
news: This one is so rare that it is hard to know how to justify explaining it.
I don’t even know for sure one way or another what means what and this could be
based more on what the networks do than what shows networks care more about
than others. But there are different ways of handling show airing when breaking
news happens. Sometimes, they will air everything and put the other shows on
delay. Sometimes, they will cut out what they should have aired. If there is a
special rerun of the new show, that’s not too bad. It isn’t that bad either if
they put the whole thing online. But if they air it all, even with the
interruptions, then you know that they care about it, even if those who put it
on DVR won’t get it right.
And that’s about it for this
post. I think that maybe when it works every now and then, I’ll do a randomly
titled post that explains things to those who may not know as much as I do
about some of the whole various nuances of scheduling and other things. What
does x mean? Why is y happening? Does any of this make sense in any way? I
guess that you’ll have to see in the future what I could mean.
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