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>British series only last a few seasons, and end appropriately
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>British series only last a few seasons, and end appropriately
>American series go on forever until they are no longer profitable, last season is almost always the worst

Why?
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why would you stop milking the gravy train before it pulls back into grand central
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>>61734987
Because the BBC isn't under commercial pressure
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Brits don't have the money or creativity to create more than 6 episodes a season. Americans have the money so they stack it full of filler and exposition.
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TV is a business in the US. In a business you don't stop doing something until it's not making money anymore, and that usually is when even thet twerp understood the series jumped the shark.
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Hasn't Doctor Who been on since like the 60s?
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>>61735027
>Because the BBC isn't under commercial pressure

Of course they are. Shit the head just quit today because he did such a shit job.
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>>61734987

Because America is a gluttonous, consumerist corporatocracy that only cares about money.
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Jews
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>>61735269
Found the eurocuck
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>>61735269
/thread
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>>61735050
Series length has more to do with the fact UK shows tend to be written by one or two people rather than the committees/writing teams of US TV than financial concerns.
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>>61734987
everyone in america has a tv so they make more shows
in britain you need a license so of course the public is smaller
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The UK will show hit comedies over and over for fucking multiple decades, shit sux dick.
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