When Specials and the Like Replace Reruns

Outside of syndication, it is hard to know when reruns are going to happen and even if they will at all. There tends to be a lot of special things replacing reruns and this happens a lot in the current world of today. Reruns rarely happen so specials take over the airdates in their place.

This is a very common occurrence, especially when it is Christmas season or around the time of another holiday. There are tons of times when they don’t air the usual reruns. There could be a breaking news event that some networks will want to cover. It could just be when they want to air the usual special, be it March Madness or The Oscars or something else like it. It is possible that a major event that is unusual on one network will cause a new special to air against it instead of just boring old reruns.

Why is this a thread? Well, as stated before, some things need to air at certain times of the year and that is why they would replace certain reruns. Sometimes they just want to air something else instead of the usual reruns that you would typically see on. There are tons of specials to show and they may just want to air something new at some point in time so why not air it in place of what otherwise would have been boring old reruns? Doesn't it make more sense to air something new?

This happens a lot nowadays and will continue to happen for quite some time due to peak TV. So many people will see random things, some of the even insignificant in some way, instead of the usual reruns that might not have even aired at some point anyways. It can be annoying in some places, but often isn’t that bad in other places, depending on what you want to see.

That’s about it for this post. I hope to write more of the usually themed annual posts at some point before too long, but I need the time to do it. This leaves me with little excuse as that is pretty much all that happens nowadays. I hope to be back with some of them soon and we’ll see what all I post in this blog in the future. Keep reading this if you can and are interested in it.