TV Shows

[Garydh]

It used to be that in the winter all the shows were new, not repeats of the new show that just started the season. Summer time was when they used to show the repeats of shows.  For instance I wanted to watch Last Man Standing, and 2 1/2 men. Hell, they were both repeats! They just started! Why repeats now. Makes me go and start get interested in something else. I think by doing that they start losing viewers. What do you think?

[Gerianne]

At Christmastime, there are repeat movies..... year after year. I don't want to watch  a movie that I know what happens next. I did find one movie this year that was original.

[potluck6]

yes some shows are so boring and repeating already we have on demand but still not much on i like to watch youtube you can see a bunch of different things

[jkunert]

Tv shows i like watching is bleach, dante's cove, and the lair hey tvs shows are tv shows. 

[hvnlydevil]

It seems like that definitive line has blurred to when they started with transitioning to new shows. I blame reality tv.

[sdecaro558]

It isn't so much the line that's blurred - it's that a season is shorter than it used to be.  I watch old TV shows with my dad from time to time, and a season for those was 26 episodes, generally speaking.  Nowadays, you're lucky if you get 12 episodes in a single season, and they spread those out by showing repeats constantly.

[mgint]

some shows try to strech out new shows to keep you watching for most of the year and when ratings will be highest.

[sfister65]

It used to be that in the winter all the shows were new, not repeats of the new show that just started the season. Summer time was when they used to show the repeats of shows.  For instance I wanted to watch Last Man Standing, and 2 1/2 men. Hell, they were both repeats! They just started! Why repeats now. Makes me go and start get interested in something else. I think by doing that they start losing viewers. What do you think?

All the shows I like are summer shows. Person of Interest is the only winter show I watch.

[kapeh12]

I monitor new shows closely for a contest I play in, and admit this season is a little "off" on timing.  Compared to the past few years, there are relatively few new shows premiering this "winter" - and they are pretty spaced out from January through March - vs most all of them premiering in January.

I'm thinking the re-runs going on now is the calm before the February sweeps.  For returning shows, there has been a pattern of showing 2 or 3 new episodes, then pausing until after the Superbowl, then air new eps in February - March, until March madness.

I think the sports events occurring also have impact to the shows - along with the aforementioned "reality" shows...particularly all those "audition" episodes - really muck up the schedule landscape IMHO.

[Linda67]

There are way too many reruns of everything.  You'd think with having cable or satellite you could find something new during Christmas time (that would now be called Oct thru Dec).  I can't believe how many times I saw that the movie Elf was played over and over again for days at a time.  I watched it once a couple of years ago and it sure wasn't worth seeing again and again.  It seems like now it will be next month before a lot of the regular shows come back on with new episodes.