This may sound like one of those 'in my day moments' but I want to talk about it anyway. Whilst back in secondary school, I was an enormous fan of the TV show Stargate, I'd tune in every week on the same day at the same time, for months and months. I did this so that I was up to date, so I knew what was going on with regards to the story, and most importantly because episodes weren't available on the internet so people couldn't save them up and marathon them.
Now a days marathoning TV series seems to be the normal way to go, primarily because it means that you don't have to wait ages to find out what happens next, instead you can just chuck the next episode on.
If you read my previous post, it was that that brought about this thought, about whether or not TV networks are keeping up with the internet and this new way of doing things. Due to the fact that British TV channels are quite slow to bring over American programmes, the only real resort if we want to watch them is to watch them online. Currently it takes about a year or so for American programmes to appear on British TV, perhaps a bit quicker if its particularly popular.
With regards to my last post, networks don't see to have a true representation anymore of who is watching their programmes because either people are watching them in countries that they aren't yet being aired, or because people are waiting til after the series has ended to be able to marathon all of the episodes. When the life of new seasons of shows are still dependent solely on TV ratings then its no wonder so many have been cancelled recently.
With TV programmes now becoming features within the internet is about time networks caught up and adapted to that fact. With companies like Netflix creating their own TV shows that are never aired on TV channels but solely online, and with the number of web series being created, it makes you wonder how long TV shows and more so networks will last.
