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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 259320" data-attributes="member: 27">I think it&#039;s the number of episodes per week that confuses a lot of people.&nbsp; In the US, primetime shows almost always air only once per week.&nbsp; In the various other dayparts, however, you get the &quot;strip&quot; format (Monday through Friday) for most shows--like daytime soaps.&nbsp; Even the early prime slots (7pm-8pm) tend to be M-F shows.&nbsp; Even if a soap was airing twice a week, Americans would probably grumble and complain about it being &quot;confusing&quot;--missing episodes that don&#039;t air in what they assume is its once weekly time slot.&nbsp; I think they tried to air multiple episodes per week of Peyton Place and Our Private World in the 1960s, but stopped doing it because the public had become so conditioned to once-per-week.At their peak, networks did air multiple episodes per week of such primetime game shows as American Idol, Dancing With the Stars, and Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, though as soon as their popularity waned their networks quickly cut them back.&nbsp;&nbsp; And of course there was the infamous Jay Leno debacle, where NBC tried to start a weeknight talk show in the 10pm slot identical to the Tonight Show he had hosted weeknights at 11:30.&nbsp; They were hoping to cut expenses by filling an hour of primetime with the same kind of cheap talk show they&#039;d had on in late-fringe for decades.&nbsp; And people tuned out in droves!&nbsp; NBC quickly went back to airing different series every night at 10pm.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 259320, member: 27"] I think it's the number of episodes per week that confuses a lot of people. In the US, primetime shows almost always air only once per week. In the various other dayparts, however, you get the "strip" format (Monday through Friday) for most shows--like daytime soaps. Even the early prime slots (7pm-8pm) tend to be M-F shows. Even if a soap was airing twice a week, Americans would probably grumble and complain about it being "confusing"--missing episodes that don't air in what they assume is its once weekly time slot. I think they tried to air multiple episodes per week of [I]Peyton Place[/I] and [I]Our Private World[/I] in the 1960s, but stopped doing it because the public had become so conditioned to once-per-week. At their peak, networks did air multiple episodes per week of such primetime game shows as [I]American Idol, Dancing With the Stars[/I], and [I]Who Wants to Be A Millionaire[/I], though as soon as their popularity waned their networks quickly cut them back. And of course there was the infamous [I]Jay Leno[/I] debacle, where NBC tried to start a weeknight talk show in the 10pm slot identical to the [I]Tonight Show[/I] he had hosted weeknights at 11:30. They were hoping to cut expenses by filling an hour of primetime with the same kind of cheap talk show they'd had on in late-fringe for decades. And people tuned out in droves! NBC quickly went back to airing different series every night at 10pm. [/QUOTE]

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