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[delga]

Know what I hate? US scheduling. SIGH. No Numb3rs. Because again - again! - I read the whole thing wrong.

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[tigertrapped.livejournal.com]

Boo. Sorry to hear you've been bit by the scheduling demon. At least in the UK we tend to get what we were promised when we were promised it. Unless it's on Channel Five, of course.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Actually, channel five is brilliantly consistent. They air shows at the same time every year and once they've run through a series once, they run repeats until the new season. Even C4 isn't that tight with scheduling.

The worst culprit in the UK is BBC2. I can't even remember the number of times Buffy was pushed out of scheduling because of snooker or tennis (or bowls...sigh).

[tigertrapped.livejournal.com]

But didn't Five drop Angel and then Dead Zone (or change the times dramatically) because of poor viewing figures?? That's what I heard but, as you know, I don't get Five anyway.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

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.