What happened to the era of 20-episode TV seasons? The rise of bingeing has ushered in an age of shorter TV shows, for the worse.
With very little new scripted TV coming to fill the 2023-2024 season that would have started up in the coming weeks due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, a lot of us have turned to rewatching old favorites, and shows that we never had the chance to watch while they were airing.
Before the pandemic, a typical season for a broadcast television show could range anywhere from 20 to 27 episodes, with the majority having 22 or 23. Some cable shows had similarly long seasons as well—the shortest season ofis 20 episodes long—but even the most succinct seasons rarely fell below 10 episodes. When compared to streaming originals, there is a clear difference in length as well as time between the seasons themselves.
In normal circumstances, a broadcast show that is renewed will have a new season of 20-ish episodes every year that starts in the Fall and ends in the Spring, and cable shows generally follow that same schedule.
However, those short seasons have a higher chance of leading to lower-quality TV. While this isn’t to say that every show with a short season is bad and every show with a long season is good, there is something to be said about having enough episodes to really dig into the story you’re trying to tell as a screenwriter. It can be argued that short seasons of TV cut the fat of much-maligned, but that implies that filler is completely useless.
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