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<blockquote data-quote="Emelee" data-source="post: 198036" data-attributes="member: 73">I think the audience is getting exactly what they (the majority) want. I just need to talk to my friends, collegues and pupils. My fellow language teachers can read novel after novel after novel, but when it comes to lenght, all seem to prefer shorter seasons because they don&#039;t drag the story out forever and ever. So even people with long attention span and are trained to focus seem to prefer shorter seasons. Of course there are gonna be a minority as well, those who like long seasons. But they ARE the minority. Europe are already very familiar with short seasons. They&#039;ve been successful here since forever. Americans have, thanks to cable network shows and Netflix, finally discovered all benefits of short seasons. However, the big 4 dinosaurs (CBS, ABC, NBC &amp; FOX) still do there 22 episodes per season. And look where that have gotten them! They don&#039;t stand a chance winning the big awards anymore. It&#039;s all because the quality is not as good when you need to hurry to write &amp; tape 22 episodes per year. It&#039;s just not possible. I feel for them. All that hard work. And yes, of course the actors don&#039;t want to be tied up forever to just one project. And of course they want to be part of excellent quality. So the series with shorter seasons get the best actors. Those people who complained about soaps and how &quot;nothing ever happened, they talk about the same thing they did three weeks ago&quot; finally have plenty of series to choose among.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emelee, post: 198036, member: 73"] I think the audience is getting exactly what they (the majority) want. I just need to talk to my friends, collegues and pupils. My fellow language teachers can read novel after novel after novel, but when it comes to lenght, all seem to prefer shorter seasons because they don't drag the story out forever and ever. So even people with long attention span and are trained to focus seem to prefer shorter seasons. Of course there are gonna be a minority as well, those who like long seasons. But they ARE the minority. Europe are already very familiar with short seasons. They've been successful here since forever. Americans have, thanks to cable network shows and Netflix, finally discovered all benefits of short seasons. However, the big 4 dinosaurs (CBS, ABC, NBC & FOX) still do there 22 episodes per season. And look where that have gotten them! They don't stand a chance winning the big awards anymore. It's all because the quality is not as good when you need to hurry to write & tape 22 episodes per year. It's just not possible. I feel for them. All that hard work. And yes, of course the actors don't want to be tied up forever to just one project. And of course they want to be part of excellent quality. So the series with shorter seasons get the best actors. Those people who complained about soaps and how "nothing ever happened, they talk about the same thing they did three weeks ago" finally have plenty of series to choose among. [/QUOTE]

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