The way I understood it, once a show reaches 4 seasons, it’s deemed profitable or at least worthy of reruns? Why/how?
I’m not american if that’s relevant.
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Others have answered the basics, but the standard for syndication used to be 100 episodes.
Usually, this would hit somewhere around the 5 year mark.
But the 100 number isn’t set in stone. *NewsRadio*, for example, had a respectable run and was fairly popular in reruns but only had 97 episodes.
With premium cable and streaming switching to lower episode counts per season, the 100-episode rule really doesn’t apply much anymore. POpular shows like Breaking Bad only had around 60+ episodes, but AMC/FX still air it. (Roughly, half-hour sitcoms still need to be popular enough to get around 100 episodes, but hour-long dramas can go much lower.)
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