Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. These include wildly popular and long-running programs such as Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, and Judge Judy. Off-network syndication is likely the better known of the two.
That is where a program originally created to be aired on a specific network is licensed by another network or smaller affiliates for re-broadcast. A program that has had a successful run on its original networks is more likely to be sold to syndication. Sometimes, even unsuccessful shows get a second life in syndication and while rare, some shows get renewed by their original networks simply to reach the 88 episode threshold that generally triggers syndication interest.
While many programs are developed by and for specific networks, some new programs are developed independently of the broadcast television networks then sold a network through syndication. This can be very lucrative for the creators as it often allows the show to run for long periods of time because it can move around from network to network, and in some cases, run in more than one station at the same time.
For lower cost shows like talk shows and game shows, this is especially common. With the emergence of online viewing networks, such as Amazon and Netflix, program creators have increased options to syndicate their shows. Often these shows are sold season by season and can often be very lucrative for the content creators.
Online binge viewing habits have changed the syndication game as viewers of streaming services expect to have access to entire seasons or even the entire series of a show and streaming offerings require a great deal of content options to keep subscribers happy. When it comes to off-network syndication, stations want to know that their investment in the licensing of said program will have long-term effects. As such, it is rare that a first-run show gets picked up for syndication before it reaches 4 full seasons.
With the trend in season episode numbers reducing over recent years, that magic number where syndication becomes cost-effective is usually 88 episodes, down from about episodes in previous decades.
Syndicated programs are generally not network exclusive, like original programming often is. This means that shows can air on multiple networks at the same time and sometimes in the same time slots. Wildly popular shows like Judge Judy get enough viewership that it is still cost effective for networks to license it even though they aren't exclusively doing so.
Nostalgia can build audiences, and popular old shows such as M. The rise of cable in the s and s brought syndication into even more homes as networks sought to balance out their new programming with tested programming from a previous era. Many cable channels rely exclusively on syndicated programming — first-run and off-network — to generate revenues from their audiences. This is his first acting role, so his fans will be keen to see if he fares well in his new venture. He said: "The countdown is well and truly on!
She said: "I can not wait for this! So excited. The only problem is, they have to travel across the world to find the person who has wrongfully claimed their money. The official Twitter account for the programme said today was the "lucky day" as the season makes its debut. They added: "But big wins bring bigger problems.
Photo: ABC. Everyone used to cite as the magic number of episodes needed for second-run syndication, but these days, 88 is where it's at. Most network comedies and drama average about 22 episodes per season, so the thinking is that four seasons will make the investment worthwhile. It equals out to about five months' worth of programming if a show is aired every day, Monday through Friday.
Many Syndicated Shows Are Retitled. Video: YouTube. Do you remember Happy Days Again? Timmy and Lassie? If these titles seem odd to you, you probably haven't watched a lot of syndicated reruns. Many popular shows were retitled for syndication so as to not confuse viewers who were still watching new episodes every week.
So Happy Days, for example, became Happy Days Again so it would be clear that the Fonz didn't actually age in reverse or something. Viewers have since grown savvier about such things, thankfully. The Simpsons Is Butchered in Syndication. Photo: FOX. Like Seinfeld on TBS, basically any syndicated episode of The Simpsons you see is heavily edited to allow for more commercials. Unlike Seinfeld , however, fans of The Simpsons have been keeping track of the edits, and the results aren't pretty: jokes have been cut left and right and many episodes feature scenes that don't really make sense anymore.
Shows that are coming close to that magic 88 episode mark are sometimes saved from cancellation even if they have horrible ratings. Case in point: FOX's 'Til Death , which was renewed by the network for a fourth season even though no one was even watching it leading to some "interesting" choices by the producers. Why save a show that no one watches? In the case of 'Til Death , Sony offered FOX a break on licensing fees to make renewal more appealing and to get the show closer to 88 episodes, hoping for a lucrative syndication deal.
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