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Quite - to me, it all seemed a bit short sighted, trying to copy the satellite channels without having the amount of material that they did. Funnily enough, one of the few shows that adapted quite well to that format was Art Attack, with that year's series containing 20 episodes; then again, I suppose something like that can be made a bit more quickly than your average scripted series. Though they seemed to experiment a lot with Art Attack - I remember a couple of series where it ran on Mondays and Wednesdays, with Neil starting to make something on Monday and finishing it on Wednesday.
It meant they used up big shows, such as that year’s new series of My Parents are Aliens within 2 and a half weeks, rather than being able to advertise it for 13 weeks. So successful they only did it once.
When you are running shows like Rugrats or Sister Sister every day every week for years and you’ve got loads of new and old episodes at your disposal, it obviously works better.
When you are running shows like Rugrats or Sister Sister every day every week for years and you’ve got loads of new and old episodes at your disposal, it obviously works better.
Quite - to me, it all seemed a bit short sighted, trying to copy the satellite channels without having the amount of material that they did. Funnily enough, one of the few shows that adapted quite well to that format was Art Attack, with that year's series containing 20 episodes; then again, I suppose something like that can be made a bit more quickly than your average scripted series. Though they seemed to experiment a lot with Art Attack - I remember a couple of series where it ran on Mondays and Wednesdays, with Neil starting to make something on Monday and finishing it on Wednesday.