Greys Anatomy last night

[nealymouse]

Does anyone know why it was a repeat last night ? Is the season over already ?

 

[luvtogo12]

No, the season is not over yet. I was so disappointed. I was out with a friend and raced home to watch it. I have no idea why they are doing repeats already but I do remember them doing this last year as well.

 

[agnes!]

It's because the almighty November sweeps are over, when advertising rates are decided. Now the ratings don't go towards what the networks get to charge advertisers. There are three sweeps seasons in TV...November, February and May.

agnes!

 

[bicker]

There are 35 weeks in the television season and each television program makes between 20 and 24 episodes. Grey's Anatomy will have 23 episodes this season. 35 - 23 = 12 weeks when the show must either be pre-empted or a rerun. The next new episode will be Thursday, January 4.

(At that time there will be 20 weeks left in the season, and 13 episodes left to broadcast, so there will be seven weeks between January and May when Grey's Anatomy will either be pre-empted or be a rerun.)

 

[nealymouse]

Thank you. I just got hooked, have season 1 on DVD and going out to get season 2. Maybe I will just mskip it and wait for #3 on DVD.

Fustrating....

 

[bicker]

Between commercials and scheduling and shows being cancelled after only a few episodes, it is very tempting to go the all DVD route. The problem is, what do you do in the interim? Figure I'm up-to-date on the programs I watch. If I were to wait for the next season for each to come out on DVD, and pick new shows up only on DVD, what do we watch now?

 

[Missy1961]

Most shows do reruns at this time of year since they figure everyone is out celebrating the holidays.

 

[Dodie]

Most shows do reruns at this time of year since they figure everyone is out celebrating the holidays.

 

[bicker]

An interesting statistic: For reasons that aren't important, I happen to know just about how much television we watch each week, on average. We watch 23 regularly-scheduled programs (i.e., not movies or specials -- we actually don't watch many of those anyway).

Putting aside Sleeper Cell (which is being presented in its entirety next week, one episode each night), five of the 23 regularly-scheduled programs we typically watch are presenting a new episode (and we could catch two reruns of episodes we missed earlier in the season due to conflicts).

The next week, only one of the 23 is presenting a new episode (and one other is presenting a rerun which we missed earlier in the season due to conflicts).

The week after that is a bit murkier (since a lot of networks haven't presented their schedules yet), but so far, on the first four nights of that week, ten programs are presenting reruns, and only two programs are supposed to present new episodes (one of which is rumored to be heading for cancellation before then).

 

[Chicago526]

There are 35 weeks in the television season and each television program makes between 20 and 24 episodes. Grey's Anatomy will have 23 episodes this season. 35 - 23 = 12 weeks when the show must either be pre-empted or a rerun. The next new episode will be Thursday, January 4.

(At that time there will be 20 weeks left in the season, and 13 episodes left to broadcast, so there will be seven weeks between January and May when Grey's Anatomy will either be pre-empted or be a rerun.)

Most shows go into repeats between T-Day and the first week in Jan. due to the fact that most people are running around shoping, partying, and spending time with family and friends durring the holidays.

After that, most of the "holes" in the schedule are filled with pre-emptions for award shows , sporting events, mini-series, and movie-of-the-week type specials. So really, repeats aren't really shown all THAT often for most shows!

 

[mandy200587]

Repeats also allow for anyone who may have missed an episode to see it.

 

[bicker]

I thought this might be interesting... last year's Grey's Anatomy schedule:

Premiere 10/23/05
new episodes through 12/11/05
reruns, pre-emptions and clip show through 1/8/06
new episodes from 1/15/06 through 3/19/06
rerun 3/26/06
new episode 4/2/06
rerun 4/9/06
pre-empted and clip show through 4/23/06
new episodes 4/30/06 through 5/15/06

I think they're much less likely to do that rerun/new episode/rerun stuff in late March/early April -- viewers hate that. And they're unlikely to pre-empt Grey's Anatomy for as long as they did last year. So expect reruns from late March through late April.