Natasha Whittam wrote:bwfc71 wrote:
That is because we show them too close to the US showings of a typical TV season... In the US they seem to have 4 new epsidoes followed by 2 repeats then 4 new episodes and so on.... Very rarely do they show all 22/24 episodes consecutively (24 was a good example where they did show all episodes in consecutive weeks)
I don't know why UK tv execs are so desperate to show the programmes so close to their US transmission date. It'd be better if they waited until they had all the episodes and then started to show them.
They do that because they know if they didn't people would download them from the net, and then the programme, when finally shown won't get the viewers and then, in turn, would affect the price of commercials, or even the number of "true" commercials, during the programme.