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<blockquote data-quote="Emelee" data-source="post: 198211" data-attributes="member: 73">Either way you prefer it, we as viewers have had an enormous amount of options when it comes to TV in the past 15 years. Since AMC&#039;s Mad Men first came out and really set the trend for how to make good TV, the industry has exploded. We can now choose between long and short seasons, we can choose to watch when it first airs on TV or stream. We can choose when and how often we want to watch. If you still want to watch 22 episodes a year, you still can. There are plenty of those shows around - mostly in the US. Can anyone answer this: are there UK series with 22 episodes per season? &quot;Standard length&quot; isn&#039;t 22 episodes per year to me. When Swedish TV buys an American series with 22 episodes per season, they never broadcast it the same way here. They tend to wait until the network has broadcasted at least 6 episodes of a new season until they begin broadcasting it here. Then they usually take a longer break mid-season to make it feel like one season is about 10-12 episodes, and have 2 seasons per year. One airing in the spring and one airing in the autumn. Swedes generally have no definition of what a &quot;standard length season&quot; is. A season could be any number of episodes. Anywhere between 4 and 25. And the daytime soaps are not thought about as having seasons, they are just never-ending but with breaks for the summer months. Sweden&#039;s drama series in the 80s and 90s never had a set number of episodes per season. Not even the primetime soap operas, which usually had a little bit more than 22 episodes per year. Like 27-30 episodes per year with a short winter break and a long summer break and made into an autumn season and a spring season.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emelee, post: 198211, member: 73"] Either way you prefer it, we as viewers have had an enormous amount of options when it comes to TV in the past 15 years. Since AMC's [I]Mad Men[/I] first came out and really set the trend for how to make good TV, the industry has exploded. We can now choose between long and short seasons, we can choose to watch when it first airs on TV or stream. We can choose when and how often we want to watch. If you still want to watch 22 episodes a year, you still can. There are plenty of those shows around - mostly in the US. Can anyone answer this: are there UK series with 22 episodes per season? "Standard length" isn't 22 episodes per year to me. When Swedish TV buys an American series with 22 episodes per season, they never broadcast it the same way here. They tend to wait until the network has broadcasted at least 6 episodes of a new season until they begin broadcasting it here. Then they usually take a longer break mid-season to make it feel like one season is about 10-12 episodes, and have 2 seasons per year. One airing in the spring and one airing in the autumn. Swedes generally have no definition of what a "standard length season" is. A season could be any number of episodes. Anywhere between 4 and 25. And the daytime soaps are not thought about as having seasons, they are just never-ending but with breaks for the summer months. Sweden's drama series in the 80s and 90s never had a set number of episodes per season. Not even the primetime soap operas, which usually had a little bit more than 22 episodes per year. Like 27-30 episodes per year with a short winter break and a long summer break and made into an autumn season and a spring season. [/QUOTE]

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