And then they give the actors the summer off! Why can't they either make the TV season shorter, or make more episodes so we don't have to watch re-runs all the time?
2007-05-06 18:37:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television ➔ Other - Television
Economics. It costs more to make a new episode than to rerun a previous one, so they give us just enough new shows to keep us watching. It sucks.
2007-05-08 07:19:00 · answer #1 · answered by Maple 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's tough for the writers to come up with more than 20-something story ideas a year, so if they made more episodes a year they wouldn't be as good. Plus all TV actors want to be movie stars, so giving them the summer off lets them take a stab at a movie. And a successful movie for a tv actor only helps promote their show.
As for the summer, there are a lot more new episodes of cable original series (on USA, SciFi, FX, TNT, etc) during the summer, so it's not all bad.
2007-05-06 18:50:13 · answer #2 · answered by Yelnick McWawa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The concept of reruns is as old as TV, it will remain with us forever.
2007-05-10 10:23:44 · answer #3 · answered by candle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋