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has homeland been mentioned?

Same people as 24 I think, its been very good so far

Channel 4 have just won the rights to show this as well. Was at some C4 2012 event on Weds and they shown us this and 2 female shows (one written by the sex and the city people and the other called New Girl). Homeland does look sick and apparently smashing it in the US

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My mum got me in to that American Horror Story - the show is sick. Quite surprised that its written by the two who done Glee

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Why are all the american shows keep stopping and starting? Taking the piss, fringe randomly stopped. Fringe isnt back till january according to imdb.

sweeps

At various times throughout the year, Nielsen Media Research, the company which records viewing figures for television programs, sends out diaries to sample homes in the various markets around the country, for the residents to record the shows they watched.

These diaries are then "swept" up, and the results analysed to produce viewing figures for the various programs and channels. These are important, because it's based on these that the networks set their advertising rates. The more people watch a show, the more they can charge for the commercials during it.

It's no secret when the diaries are operational - see here for the dates:

http://www.nielsenmedia.com/sweeps.html

And so, during these times, networks deliberately bring out new episodes, series and specials, in an effort to boost their viewing figures, and hence ad revenue. It's the sweeps periods - usually a month, not a week, though each home taking part in the survey only keeps a diary for a week - which determines what shows (and network executives!) live or die.

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Why are all the american shows keep stopping and starting? Taking the piss, fringe randomly stopped. Fringe isnt back till january according to imdb.

sweeps

At various times throughout the year, Nielsen Media Research, the company which records viewing figures for television programs, sends out diaries to sample homes in the various markets around the country, for the residents to record the shows they watched.

These diaries are then "swept" up, and the results analysed to produce viewing figures for the various programs and channels. These are important, because it's based on these that the networks set their advertising rates. The more people watch a show, the more they can charge for the commercials during it.

It's no secret when the diaries are operational - see here for the dates:

http://www.nielsenme...com/sweeps.html

And so, during these times, networks deliberately bring out new episodes, series and specials, in an effort to boost their viewing figures, and hence ad revenue. It's the sweeps periods - usually a month, not a week, though each home taking part in the survey only keeps a diary for a week - which determines what shows (and network executives!) live or die.

Cool, never heard about that before.

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