Two questions about American TV

[erastes]

1. What does it mean when it says "xxx show tomorrow night at 7/8"

2. How do you guys STAND it?  The scheduling is so bloody random!  shows are sometimes every week - and not even on the same night each week - then there's a gap of a week or two weeks or whatever - it's driving me bonkers!

I needs my Big Bang Theory!!  And SGU!.  And yes, I'm watching USA shows from the UK - but I'm watching the advertising, so that should be ok shouldn't it? I mean Gillette is Gillette the world over...

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[rwday.livejournal.com]

Back in the good old days, a show would start in September, run till sometime in spring and then go into reruns till the new season started in September. That isn't how it goes anymore and it makes me nuts. A show will run, then stop for 2 weeks, or 3 weeks, or like V, till bloody MARCH (or is it April? Anyway, ridiculous whichever).

Someone else in this post mentioned sweeps, and I've also heard that they don't do a full year of episodes on some shows because it's a lot more expensive to produce an episode of Lost or BSG than it is something like Seinfeld or Cheers where the action is limited in scope. Don't really care - it drives me nuts.