Just had a look on the Fox11 LA website, to see if there was a new episode on tonight, it's listed as 'Marge Versus Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays', why the repeat, why no new episode?
Pete.
March 7th
Mar 7, 2004, 12:03 PM ET7 posts by 6 posters
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"Peter Hewitt-Dutton" wrote in message news:c2fklq$qii$[email]...
Couples
Because it's March...
On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 11:44:40 -0600, Duff Man wrote:
lousy march weather... wait a sec...
march.starch.star.bar.far.fart.art.arm. re-arm.re-run!
thats it! thats how march is connected with re-runs.
man...that took way longer then what it was worth
This is very confusing for me, being English. I got an e-mail from someone in reply to this thread that explained that the season run is longer than the number of episodes they commission. Here most series are 6 episodes long, and they are shown (except if something major happens) on 6 consecutive weeks! They don't put random repeats in the middle of a series that is new on UK TV.
It's all very strange!!
"Peter Hewitt-Dutton" wrote in message news:c2fklq$qii$[email]...
Couples
New season of The Sopranos started last night.
In alt.tv.simpsons, on the "March 7th" thread, Peter Hewitt-Dutton wrote:
Mathematics and a desire to increase ad revenue, basically.
Rates for advertising on American TV are determined by the Neilsen ratings. The Neilsen group does its measurements during November, February, and May [*]; the more popular a show is during these "sweeps" months, the more the networks can charge for ad time. Most series air new episodes during sweeps months to maximize their ratings, so of the 24 new "Simpsons" episodes, 12 of them are bunched into those three months. That leaves 12 episodes for the remaining nine months (36 weeks) of the year. Even if you assume that no one expects a new episode during the summer, that's still 12 episodes for 24 weeks. As a consequence, there's a 50-50 chance you'll see a repeat episode during a non-sweeps month, like March.
Also, Gus pointed out that "The Sorpranos" started its new season on HBO. I just read that "The Sorpranos" drew about 13 million viewers, so perhaps Fox made the right call this week.
[*] Also August, but that's during the summer re-run season.