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Cetun t1_iy8va3c wrote

Reply to comment by Lupercali in TIL During the 20th century TV series that reached 100 episodes were generally preferred for syndication, since that meant stations could run 20 weeks of programming without repeating a story. In recent years that number has fallen to 88 episodes. by UndyingCorn

Farscape was an hour-long program that would run for 26 episodes. An entire season is over 20 hours. They released four seasons. Now with the ascension of Netflix you're looking at about maybe 8 to 12 episodes a year for an hour-long program, and a lot of those episodes have useless filler too.

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