i mean what’s so special about about the number 13?
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Never worked in television, but have done scheduling out the wazoo since the turn of the century as an educator, writer, and manager.
Thirteen ends us being a very useful, if not powerful, number is scheduling. 52 divided by 4 is 13 — so each season has thirteen weeks. That means, going at one a week, you can knock out one a week for, say, a team you only have on hand for the Fall.
It’s a tiny bit bigger than twelve, and twelve, as the Babylonians knew, was very useful for being so easily divisible by six, four, three, and two.
There’s a certain “neatness” to thirteen. Ten can be too little and fifteen too much. But thirteen of something (chapters in a book or, say you’re pointing out, episodes in a season, can seem just right).
Thirteen is an odd number, suddenly becomes even and tidy when multiplied by two or four (26 and 52), though I think this is a property of all primes.
In short, I like thirteen, and would jump at a heartbeart to changing to a thirteen month calendar.
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