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What is the deal with AMC splitting their seasons into two parts?
Posted on 10/2/12 at 9:58 am
Posted on 10/2/12 at 9:58 am
First with Breaking Bad and now with season 3 of The Walking Dead.
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On August 10, 2012, Robert Kirkman confirmed that season 3 will be split into two halves with the first 8 episodes set to premiere on October 14, 2012, and the other 8 episodes to air in early spring 2013
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Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:04 am to stout
You know how before a first date you spank your monkey in case you hit the skins later that night so you don't blow your load to early?
It's kind of like that.
It's kind of like that.
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:04 am to stout
Why not just call it seasons 3 and 4 at that point?
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:06 am to stout
It's actually becoming quite common now that shows don't sit in their normal time slot showing reruns like in the good old days. If you blow all 16 episodes at once and you have 9 months before people see the show again. That's a good way to lose an audience. Instead you string them along by showing episodes in fall and spring and then in the middle of the summer do a marathon.
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:07 am to stout
i asked that too and someone said it had to do with the salaries. If it's a new season, the actors and everyone can negotiate higher salaries
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:09 am to Pilot Tiger
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If it's a new season, the actors and everyone can negotiate higher salaries
I figure that finances are the reason for it in some way but thought maybe it was to help with quarterly earnings or something.
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:10 am to stout
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I figure that finances are the reason for it in some way but thought maybe it was to help with quarterly earnings or something.
Probably that too, plus like said it keeps viewers involved in the show and watching the channel for a greater percentage of the year, giving them more chances to see promos for new shows that they might want to watch.
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:11 am to stout
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What is the deal with AMC splitting their seasons into two parts?
everybody's doing it
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:12 am to dtrack22
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everybody's doing it
I don't really follow that many series so I honestly had no idea this was becoming common.
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:18 am to TigerinATL
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It's actually becoming quite common now that shows don't sit in their normal time slot showing reruns like in the good old days. If you blow all 16 episodes at once and you have 9 months before people see the show again. That's a good way to lose an audience. Instead you string them along by showing episodes in fall and spring and then in the middle of the summer do a marathon.
Psych went 10 months between the end of season 5 the start of season 6. Not fun.
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:21 am to KingofthePoint
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Psych went 10 months between the end of season 5 the start of season 6. Not fun.
After season 1 of Burn Notice they were like "see you next summer" USA summer series is some bullshite. I get only ordering a short half season of a new show to see if it sticks, but once it obviously sticks is it really that hard to ramp up production and make more episodes?
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:21 am to stout
They're greedy, which is why they're in a dispute with Dish right now.
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:21 am to stout
Walking Dead did it last year too.
Although I don't see HBO and Showtime doing it.
Although I don't see HBO and Showtime doing it.
This post was edited on 10/2/12 at 10:22 am
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:23 am to tylercsbn9
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Although I don't see HBO and Showtime doing it.
They make their money a different way. I don't mind though because I can pay for a month of Showtime and catch up on Dexter, Californication and Homeland on demand and then cancel it for the rest of the year.
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:25 am to KingofthePoint
When does pysch come back on???
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:27 am to Sophandros
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They're greedy, which is why they're in a dispute with Dish right now.
I'm not going to say they're ungreedy, but this kind of success is fleeting. They should milk it for all they can before the network returns to obscurity.
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:29 am to wish i was tebow
quote:Should be in 2 weeks
When does pysch come back on???
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:35 am to stout
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n August 10, 2012, Robert Kirkman confirmed that season 3 will be split into two halves with the first 8 episodes set to premiere on October 14, 2012, and the other 8 episodes to air in early spring 2013
They did the same thing last year with Walking Dead.
Not nearly as bad as what Breaking Bad is doing. Only about three months or so as opposed to nearly a year for Breaking Bad
Posted on 10/2/12 at 12:19 pm to KingofthePoint
Pretty much the same with justified. Only it's worse because they only do 12 episodes a season
This post was edited on 10/2/12 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 10/2/12 at 1:23 pm to Wolf
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Walking Dead did it last year too.
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