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Repeats Already? The Season Is Only A Few Weeks Old!

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Gregg

I've noticed that FOUR CBS shows have run repeat episodes this week. Three Rivers and The Good Wife ran their premiere episodes on Sunday and Tuesday, respectively. And on Monday, Two & A Half Men and The Big Bang Theory, which are returning sitcoms, ran episodes from last season.

What's going on here? I can't remember repeats running only five or six weeks into the new season. Three Rivers started late. CBS only got four episodes on the air so far before broadcasting a repeat.

In years past, the networks ran fresh episodes till the World Series, figuring they shouldn't run a new show against a sporting event that will disrupt normal viewing patterns. But the World Series is only beginning tonight. Thanksgiving Week, another fall week where repeats might be expected, is still weeks away.

Is this just something CBS started? Have others shown repeats so far?



Gregg
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Maybe it's a way to stretch out episode orders, which might have been cut back slightly due to the economic climate (not to mention changing viewing habits in this day and age). Since the November sweeps period officially begins tomorrow (and which ends the day before Thanksgiving), the window ending today could be used by networks to have "last licks" at these reruns before sweeps begins.
 
Fox has already aired a rerun of Family Guy (on the 17th) and had a whole evening of Animation Domination reruns planned for this past Sunday before a Saturday night MLB ALCS rainout resulted in the game being aired that night.

Sadly, I don't think we can just blame the economy for frequent reruns because networks have been pulling this for several years now. Some years, it seemed like we had reruns during almost every non-sweeps month! If anything, the so-called Big 4 are being a little better about this now because they lost so many viewers to cable when they did that.

When is Fox's contract with the MLB up, by the way? Though some of you won't care for this comment, this year's WS features my two least favorite teams and I couldn't care less who wins (basically like a soccer match between Iran and Libya). The Yankees, Philly? It wouldn't seem to hold much interest to those outside of the I-95/Jersey Turnpike corridor.

What a shame the Dodgers couldn't pull it out to make things interesting. Anyhow.....what I do care about is that every year we lose a lot of Fox programming to the MLB and am curious if that may change soon.
 
BRNout said:
Fox has already aired a rerun of Family Guy (on the 17th) and had a whole evening of Animation Domination reruns planned for this past Sunday before a Saturday night MLB ALCS rainout resulted in the game being aired that night.

Sadly, I don't think we can just blame the economy for frequent reruns because networks have been pulling this for several years now. Some years, it seemed like we had reruns during almost every non-sweeps month! If anything, the so-called Big 4 are being a little better about this now because they lost so many viewers to cable when they did that.

When is Fox's contract with the MLB up, by the way? Though some of you won't care for this comment, this year's WS features my two least favorite teams and I couldn't care less who wins (basically like a soccer match between Iran and Libya). The Yankees, Philly? It wouldn't seem to hold much interest to those outside of the I-95/Jersey Turnpike corridor.

What a shame the Dodgers couldn't pull it out to make things interesting. Anyhow.....what I do care about is that every year we lose a lot of Fox programming to the MLB and am curious if that may change soon.
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Actually, they're my 2 favorite teams!
Tell me you're not a Red Sox fan! :)
 
kms575 said:
Actually, they're my 2 favorite teams!
Tell me you're not a Red Sox fan! :)
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Yes, I am and damn proud of it!!! But my comment wasn't mere sour grapes. Sure, I hate the Yankees - that's in the DNA of any true Sox fan. However, 18 months of living near Philly was enough to make the Phillies into the National League version of the Yankees as far as I'm concerned. Between Charlie Manuel and obnoxious fans, I can't stand 'em. Just my personal opinion.

Let's look at it from Fox's point of view for a moment though. Don't you think they would have preferred a New York - LA series? Pretty sure it would have had far more national interest than a NY-Philly, where interest starts waning by the time you hit East Hartford on one side and Havre de Grace on the other.
 
I'm a Mets fan and I want to see the series. I could careless its two teams I hate the most, both teams are playing great ball right now. Any of baseball should want to see the games regardless of whos in it.
 
Gregg said:
I've noticed that FOUR CBS shows have run repeat episodes this week. Three Rivers and The Good Wife ran their premiere episodes on Sunday and Tuesday, respectively. And on Monday, Two & A Half Men and The Big Bang Theory, which are returning sitcoms, ran episodes from last season.

What's going on here? I can't remember repeats running only five or six weeks into the new season. Three Rivers started late. CBS only got four episodes on the air so far before broadcasting a repeat.

In years past, the networks ran fresh episodes till the World Series, figuring they shouldn't run a new show against a sporting event that will disrupt normal viewing patterns. But the World Series is only beginning tonight. Thanksgiving Week, another fall week where repeats might be expected, is still weeks away.

Is this just something CBS started? Have others shown repeats so far?



Gregg
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CBS did it last year also and for two reasons The last games of the NLCS and The ALCS and The World Series even though both champion sreeis ended early, Coldcase would have been a repeat to but they ran the new one,because of the postponment do to the late NFL game on October 20th.
 
November sweeps starts this week. I suppose they are resting the new episodes until the sweeps period.
 
Gregg said:
I've noticed that FOUR CBS shows have run repeat episodes this week. .....What's going on here?  I can't remember repeats running only five or six weeks into the new season. 
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While you may not have noticed it, the practice has been fairly typical over the past decade, especially with CBS (CW too).  The last couple season have been mucked up due to the recent writer's strike, so it was perhaps less noticeable. 

Sweeps begin on Thursday (10-29-09) and the week (Thur-Wed) previous is considered a "low viewing period". Plus, sports often intrudes (although now MLB and FOX pushed the Worlds Series into Noember Sweeps instead of "just before sweeps").  Nearly all the CBS and CW shows were reruns. The Monday CBS powerhouse reruns still outrated much of the competition. 

The fact remains that the "TV season" lasts some 40 weeks and most shows only produce 22-24 episodes. You have to build in reruns somehow.  The week after November sweeps ends (Wednesday before Thanksgiving) usually coincides with another rerun week, as does the week before February Sweeps. NBC and FOX both somewhat commited to a "year-round schedule" a few years ago, so their rerun needs are a bit different.  ABC has tended to try a version of year-round "new" programming as well.  CBS and CW still follow the 1950s model.

Years from now, time-shifting becomes the norm and the networks finally collapse into individually programmed niche blocks,
 
BRNout said:
Fox has already aired a rerun of Family Guy (on the 17th) and had a whole evening of Animation Domination reruns planned for this past Sunday before a Saturday night MLB ALCS rainout resulted in the game being aired that night.

Sadly, I don't think we can just blame the economy for frequent reruns because networks have been pulling this for several years now. Some years, it seemed like we had reruns during almost every non-sweeps month! If anything, the so-called Big 4 are being a little better about this now because they lost so many viewers to cable when they did that.

When is Fox's contract with the MLB up, by the way? Though some of you won't care for this comment, this year's WS features my two least favorite teams and I couldn't care less who wins (basically like a soccer match between Iran and Libya). The Yankees, Philly? It wouldn't seem to hold much interest to those outside of the I-95/Jersey Turnpike corridor.

What a shame the Dodgers couldn't pull it out to make things interesting. Anyhow.....what I do care about is that every year we lose a lot of Fox programming to the MLB and am curious if that may change soon.
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Given the theme of the thread, one "advantage" to Fox in having baseball is it cuts down a few nights of repeats in the fall.

Even without L.A. in the mix, it looks like they still puplled in strong overall numbers for game 1. How well the whole package does vis a vis the cost, I don't know, but they're not faring badly on the ratings end.
 
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