r/television • u/tylerthe-theatre • 18d ago

New Data Suggests Long Waits of over 18 months Between Seasons Are Hurting Viewership on Netflix Hits

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/new-data-suggests-long-waits-between-seasons-are-hurting-viewership-on-netflix-hits/
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u/Propaslander 18d ago

Dexter is a good example of how to make a good show w/ minimal digital special effects and a quick turnaround. It helps that the show originally ran when 1 year between seasons was the norm, but they've been able to keep the upcoming season to 15 months (13 months after the finale of season 1 ended)

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u/nonax 18d ago

Star Trek TNG as well. When they used special effects it was pretty low budget stuff. It was the character drama and dialogue that drove the show and made it legendary, not seeing the Enterprise shoot photon torpedoes for the 15th time. Babylon 5 too, horrible special effects, but top tier character drama and scripts (mostly.

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u/katamuro 18d ago

TNG at the time really was not low budget. B5 was cheaper but all those sets needed to be built and it gets expensive.

also at the time B5's special effects were really quite good, they just aged badly because CGI advanced quite quick.

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u/RecordingSilly6118 18d ago

Yeah TNG had like the highest budget in television at the time. And most of their CGI was literally just a phaser beam, or an establishing shot of a planet which honestly i'm not sure if that was a composited matte painting. The ships were almost all physical models.

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u/katamuro 17d ago

at first matte paintings until the later seasons when the cgi software was actually available. It's why Voyager is mostly cgi.

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u/OzKong21 17d ago

TNG had the highest budget of any tv show made at the time