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Narr:
Just curious if anyone else here watches the show.  I've been following it since the pilot and think it's pretty awesome.  The season finale is coming up on Thursday and I guess the producers and actors of the show don't know if it's going to be picked up for another season quite yet.  I'm not sure if I'm bringing the show up just to see if anyone else watches it to dissuade my fears that it's just a one season thing.

I just love any show that seems to have a clearcut goal with where it's going.  All the plot twists and intrigues so far seem to have been thought out up-front rather than like with how Lost seems to throw in plot twists on a whim.

TheFuriousWombat:
All I know is I saw commercials for it while watching Lost and any show that gives money to George Michael is immoral in my book. Hasn't it been a rather short season? It could only have been 9 or 10 episodes by my count.

0bsessions:
Yeah, but that's the nature of a midseason replacement. It's a common practice for a show that the network wants to push but isn't sure will catch on to be thrown on the air for only half a season adjacent to a popular show.

Narr:
12 so far with the 13th being the season finale.  I just looked at the guide on their site after a quick google search.  That is a rather short season now that you mention it, but then again, most shows this season were hurt pretty bad by the writer's strike.

IMO, it hasn't been bad that it's been short because the pacing has been spot-on.  They don't throw up a million questions just to only answer one at a time, which I like.

0bsessions:
It was never intended to be longer than that. As I said, it was a midseason replacement. They have those every year to slot in in case a new show bombs or to try out during hiatuses.

It's been a common practice in the television industry for decades. Look through your DVD collection and you may notice that some of your shows will have a Season 1 & 2 DVD set before seasons 3 and onward are consistantly a single set, or you may notice the first season has fewer discs than subsequent seasons if it stands alone. That's generally because it was a midseason replacement that caught on.

Many well known shows were midseason replacements with shortened first seasons, such as the Simpsons, Quantum Leap, NewsRadio, Buffy, All In the Family, Happy Days, Family Guy, the Wonder Years and Batman.

Honestly, midseason replacements are quite often where you see the cult hits show up. The network feels they're strong enough on their own to merit airing, but not so strong that they could carry themselves through a full season in its own timeslot. Usually it'll get slotted in in between two big popular shows (The much desired 8:30 Thursday NBC timeslot of the mid-nineties was a huge spot for rotating midseason replacements being between Friends and Seinfeld) or replace a big show during a hiatus before being moved to its own timeslot to try and hold its own upon the former show's return.

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