It did; but BBC 2 dropped 7 Days (god, why?) and sold rights to The Simpsons to C4; C4 aired the West Wing in a manner best described as erratic, not to mention screwing with scheduling times for Six Feet Under (WHY?) and then selling Alias to five (again, WHY?)
That's not what I mean by scheduling, though. When five gets a show, you never have to worry about having weeks off in the middle and if you miss an episode, you can catch it in the reruns.
That's if the UK even bothers to pick the damn shows up.
In the US...they have a thirty-five/forty-two week schedule for seasons that run to twenty-three/twenty-four episodes max. And then they have repeats, sweeps weeks, dead months, hiatuses, mid-season replacements, cut shows...gah. It's so confusing.
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Date: 2006-03-18 06:18 am (UTC)That's not what I mean by scheduling, though. When five gets a show, you never have to worry about having weeks off in the middle and if you miss an episode, you can catch it in the reruns.
That's if the UK even bothers to pick the damn shows up.
In the US...they have a thirty-five/forty-two week schedule for seasons that run to twenty-three/twenty-four episodes max. And then they have repeats, sweeps weeks, dead months, hiatuses, mid-season replacements, cut shows...gah. It's so confusing.