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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 234012" data-attributes="member: 27">One can blame much of the recycling of plots not on the longevity of the show, but on the longevity of Latham and Lechowick & Co.  The recycling was not as pronounced once they had left the show.It is a difficult balance to strike: keep the same producers and writers too long, and you get recycled plots, over-emphasis on certain, favored actors/characters, and a general feeling of being in a creative rut.  Too much turnover and you get Falcon Crest's second half.  If L&L had spent their final season or two working  to groom a successor, the new showrunner(s) would have made enough changes (once fully in charge) to make things feel refreshed, but not a wholesale turning-over-of-the-apple-cart that we got when the all-new production team were hired in season 13.</blockquote>