I'm really over this 6-8 episode BS and not releasing seasons but every couple of years

I agree with the premise, although I don’t know if A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is the best example. Six episodes seems adequate to tell the Hedge Knight story. It’s only 150 pages. Stretching it out will have people crying “filler.”

There is no reason HOTD production should be affected by other shows. None of the writers or showrunners are working on both series and the scale of D&E should not require extensive visual effects work.

I can see why though would slowly release Dunk and Egg since he only has 3 out of 7-12 short stories written. We all know that number is unlikely to change in 2029 when they release the final published story in D&E. But that kid isn’t going to stop aging and I don’t know how many he has planned where Egg is still a child. He goes from 9 to 12 in the books we have now.

Obligatory “frick GRRM”

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agree with the premise, although I don’t know if A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is the best example. Six episodes seems adequate to tell the Hedge Knight story. It’s only 150 pages. Stretching it out will have people crying “filler.”

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That's fair.

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A lot of British shows now run 3-6 episodes but return on a regular basis.

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Something that a lot of British shows do well is a real lack of filler. There's almost always some kind of development.

Those shorter British series though usually are hour plus long episodes and much closer to the runtime of a movie than a American TV show. Sherlock is probably one of the most popular examples and those episodes were 85-90 minutes long runtimes.

Something like Broadchurch for example was around 8 episodes a season and about an hour episodes, but had some MAJOR British actors in them. Nailing down Tennant and Colman while they were doing some other major projects were pretty signficant castings.

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HBO is alternating seasons of House of the Dragon and the Hedge Knight, so we won't see the 2nd season until 2027.

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It takes time to make sure that every character is boring and disconnected from the audience. You can't figure out how to make everything an accident and that both sides are innocent in just a year.

Yeah this how I feel about Stranger Things, writer's strike be damned. 3 year wait for 8 episodes is ridiculous.

I don't mind waiting for a show with impeccable quality, but there's not many of those that exist anymore. I think drama, action, and suspense tv should heavily lean towards miniseries, one big season, or a max of 3-4 seasons for shows with a ton of source material.

I find a lot of modern shows to waste a ton of time on filler that no one really cares to see. How many camera A-camera B conversations about a side love story or irrelevant plot line can you have before it gets old?

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Yeah this how I feel about Stranger Things, writer's strike be damned. 3 year wait for 8 episodes is ridiculous.

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This is the most egregious one IMO. It was such a hit I don't understand why they aren't motivated to push these seasons faster.

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I'm really over this 6-8 episode BS and not releasing seasons but every couple of years

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Well, you may be over it, but the folks who make television aren't over it.

#Newnormal

Sometimes fewer episodes is better if there is only so much material to cover.