trivial.....ugly betty

[Gordanus]

I'm totally ticked off with RTE's scheduling. Just as we (as a family) were setttling in to watch one of the few programmes we all agree on - it\s gone! two episodes and pwwt! end! What the heck are they up to in there???

 

[CGorman]

Presumably its been impacted by the Writers strike in the US... over there even the Conon O'Brien and Jay Leno shows were hit for a few weeks... 12,000 writers on strike... maybe it's unrelated... but I would'nt bet on it. Don't get too sucked into Desperate Housewives either, as soon as it hits episode 10 this series... that's it.

 

[HelloJed]

Many tv series in the US have breaks of a week or more for varying reasons. House is one example, it had a scheduled break for several weeks last year in the middle of the series.

But the writer's strike has impacted a lot of programming where only a few episodes of a series were written beforehand, like Desperate Housewives and Lost. Apparently it's reality tv galore in the US at the moment - the unscriped ones anyway!