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<blockquote data-quote="amethal" data-source="post: 8958625" data-attributes="member: 22784"><p>Do soap operas even have seasons? British ones are on continuously.</p><p></p><p>To use Emmerdale as an example, it started in 1972 and so far has had 9,617 episodes (which works out at over 3 per week). Days of Our Lives (which I've never seen) apparently started in 1965 and has had over 14,000 episodes.</p><p></p><p>I don't know whether Dark Matter deserved more than 4 seasons, but cancelling it after season 3 - which ended on a massive cliffhanger - was less than ideal. </p><p></p><p>Numbers went on for 6 seasons, but we got fed up with it around season 4. I don't know if that was because seasons 5 and 6 weren't as interesting, or whether the premise itself couldn't sustain 6 seasons. </p><p></p><p>Blackadder could easily have managed a few more seasons (although since each season was only 6 episodes, as usual for BBC comedies, maybe it doesn't count?) I don't know if they felt the dramatic ending to season 4 couldn't be bettered, or if they couldn't think of a time period after WW1 that interested them (or any time period, if they were okay with going back in time). Or maybe they'd had enough and wanted to do other things?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="amethal, post: 8958625, member: 22784"] Do soap operas even have seasons? British ones are on continuously. To use Emmerdale as an example, it started in 1972 and so far has had 9,617 episodes (which works out at over 3 per week). Days of Our Lives (which I've never seen) apparently started in 1965 and has had over 14,000 episodes. I don't know whether Dark Matter deserved more than 4 seasons, but cancelling it after season 3 - which ended on a massive cliffhanger - was less than ideal. Numbers went on for 6 seasons, but we got fed up with it around season 4. I don't know if that was because seasons 5 and 6 weren't as interesting, or whether the premise itself couldn't sustain 6 seasons. Blackadder could easily have managed a few more seasons (although since each season was only 6 episodes, as usual for BBC comedies, maybe it doesn't count?) I don't know if they felt the dramatic ending to season 4 couldn't be bettered, or if they couldn't think of a time period after WW1 that interested them (or any time period, if they were okay with going back in time). Or maybe they'd had enough and wanted to do other things? [/QUOTE]
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