So what’s going on here? Why has it become so much more common for shows to go on hiatus for a full year or more? After talking with several industry insiders, it’s become clear to me that the answers to those questions lie in the intersection of three TV trends that are coming together to create longer and longer delays. And rumors of long delays have swirled around several other series, including reigning Emmy champion The Handmaid’s Tale. Big Little Lies will almost certainly take nearly two years between season one and two - though it at least has the excuse of originally being planned as a standalone miniseries.
HBO has teased that Westworld’s third season might not air until 2020.
Robot’s fourth season will air, and its third season ended in December 2017. In 2018, however, these prolonged stretches between seasons increasingly seem like a matter of course for major shows. But as always with The Sopranos, it proved to be an exception that underscored how most other shows on TV played by the rules. Only The Sopranos purposely stayed off the air for extended periods of time, taking breaks of 484 days between seasons three and four, 456 days between seasons four and five, and 645 days between seasons five and six.
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Mad Men, for instance, spent 526 days off the air between seasons four and five, as AMC and creator Matt Weiner negotiated a new contract.Īnd 553 days went by between the sixth season of 24 and the special movie 24: Redemption (designed as a prelude to season seven), but that was due to the 2007–’08 writers strike, which halted the show’s production for months,īut for most of TV history, these long gaps were incredibly rare. Occasionally, there were long gaps between two seasons of a show - especially on cable, where shows typically air fewer episodes per season - but they were usually the result of some sort of behind-the-scenes tension. (Though for both Stranger Things and Game of Thrones, no official premiere dates have been announced, so the gaps could be smaller. And if Game of Thrones’ final season premieres on Apagain, as I suspect it will, for Emmy reasons - a staggering 596 days will have passed between seasons. If Stranger Things season three debuts on just in time to qualify for the 2019 Emmys, as I suspect it will - 575 days will have passed since season two debuted. The gap between the first two seasons of Westworld was 505 days. The gap between season one and season two of Atlanta was 486 days. That’s nearly 100 more days than the 316 that elapsed between its first season in 2015 and the second in 2016.īut also, that’s nothing. Between the end of Better Call Saul’s third season on June 19, 2017, and the beginning of its fourth season on Monday, August 6, 2018, 414 days passed.
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