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Okay thanks Sawyer. I've been thinking about making my own little series, but if I do want to, I'm try to plan it all out and I just some simple questions.
How many episodes are there in a TV series season? Does it matter or is there a specific number that you need to have to make a season?
Sean
When a show gets cancelled in its first season, it usually runs eleven-to-thirteen episodes, and is replaced by a show called a mid-season replacement. However, the goal of most network television shows is to have a full twenty-six episode season.
In the twenty-six episode season, a show starts in the second week of September, and ends in late March or early April. Most shows take a two week break in the second half of December.
The typical full season of a TV series is between 22-26 episodes. Friends and 24 have 24. Star Trek is 26. Most virtual series adopt 22. The purpose of this number is for the shows to run for nine months allowing hiatus periods when their viewership may not be watching such as December, during which time a lot of shows do not have new material coming out.
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To the best of my knowledge, A pilot episode is the very start of any series. The first ever episode, which is made even before the series.
This is to see if the series would be a hit, a pilot episode is for the producers and co to see if the series is worth while spending the big bucks on, through ratings etc. rather than go to the trouble of making the entire series to find out that it is not doing too good. The pilot gives them feedback, and if it's good they will go on and invest their cash into the project.
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You might call the pilot episode the test screening for the series. Sometimes a pilot will air before any episodes are filmed and there will be a big lull between that initial pilot airing and the series actually beginning. I recall a series a long time ago that was just dumb. Only the pilot aired, and I never saw it again. Apparently, they took the feedback.
One of the more famous pilots of a series who took a different direction after it was filmed is Star Trek. The footage from the pilot was reused many moons later in a two part episode called The Menagerie, but most people had never seen the original pilot entitled "The Cage" until it was released on video. That video was actually a reconstructed pilot using B&W footage and footage from The Menagerie so it faded back and forth from B&W to color throughout. I think it has since been released in a full length color version. That's a prime example of a pilot being shot, screened, rewritten, and the series rereleased.
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I agree, George.
However, THE TRIBE, another TV series that used to air over in the UK, which has finished after 5 series had 52 episodes per series. Each episode lasting half an hour. But due to viewer comments Channel 5, started showing two episodes edited together for an hour long episode.
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