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The IT Crowd - Series 1 - Episode 6: Aunt Irma Visits

Added 2020-07-03 12:00:03 +0000 UTC

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Season one complete !! What a great show so far and as you guys have said it only gets better. Its so wild how fast you can blow threw a series from the UK. I was curious as to why there are so few episodes when it comes to show from the UK .I know there are some show here in the US that start off with between 6-12 episodes the first two series but they usually jumps to 18-25 episodes after that. Just curious as to the why the UK decided on less episodes . Don't get me wrong there are a lot of show here in the US that I watch and think dude you all are dragging this shit out lol . But there are others that still leave me wanting more even after 200+ episodes. I came across this answers on Reddit . Do you all Agree??

Reason 1

"As far as I can tell it is because they have chosen to spend more time making a shorter series of a higher quality rather than making more episodes with less time spend producing each episode so each episode is of a slightly lower quality. "

Reason 2

One big reason is that it's more typical for a show to be run and largely written by one individual or pair. 6-8 episodes is generally the most one person can put out a year. If the writer is someone working on multiple shows, they may skip entire years (like Peep Show does). This is unimaginable on US TV shows; US protocol is to hire an entire writing crew, a room of writers who all pitch their own ideas and scripts and work separately. This lets you produce a larger run of episodes, but also tends to make shows inconsistent character/dialogue-wise, and more episodic, since it's harder to trace one story arc neatly between multiple scripts written by different people. This is why a lot of US shows are semi-serialised, using the X-Files model, where every episode has its own completely unique episodic story in the foreground, and then the running story is part of the background -- each writer makes their own A story, and then the head writers go in and spread the serial/B story between them all.UK productions, and US productions based around a UK-style model, will be written by one person or by a small group that works together. As a result, their serialised shows tend to feel like one long movie that just takesa little act-break between episodes. The Wire is an American example of this; David Simon and Ed Burn wrote pretty much the entire series, and for each season added one unique writer to work alongside them (like Joy Kecken, who co-wrote all of S4). If you watch The Wire, each season just kind of flows along as one big story, there isn't really a sense of each episode having its own beginning and end. That's the effect of having a small writing group.And likewise, when the more American model is adopted by UK shows, they expand their seasons and add that kind of X-Filesy style American serialisation -- the best example of this is Doctor Who.Look at these two shows' credit lists for a good example.The Office (UK) writers