Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

[SantaEddie74]

ENT had only 24 in Season 3 and just 22 in its final season. Even by 2003-05 the per-season episode numbers had shrunken.

 

[137th Gebirg]

IIRC, Sopranos broke the mold with seasonal runs, shortening the number of episodes down into 10 to the low-teens, with long stretches of hiatus between seasons. NuBSG moved the goalposts again by splitting the short seasons into half-seasons, which I think was due to writers/actors guild strikes that were going on at the time. I could be mis-remembering but it feels like those two shows really changed how TV seasons were produced and distributed.

 

[Unionized Elf]

NuBSG moved the goalposts again by splitting the short seasons into half-seasons, which I think was due to writers/actors guild strikes that were going on at the time.

At first, it was actually SyFy making weird scheduling decisions, as, IIRC, they even at one point had the midseason hiatus between Stargates SG-1 and Atlantis longer than the hiatus between the seasons themselves. These scheduling games hurt the ratings for the Stargates and BSG. However, with BSG, they ended up having to do this anyway due to the strike you mentioned throwing a wrench into production.

The Stargates were spared impact from that strike, as SG-1 ended just before it happened and Atlantis could continue as most of its writing staff were actually with Canadian writing guilds.

 

[Merry Stripmas]

SNW season 3 is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com (DVD, Blu-ray, and 4k steelbook). Release date is March 3, 2026. Here is the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Strange-Worlds-Blu-ray/dp/B0G3Y3MB12/

 

[Roald]

SNW season 3 is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com (DVD, Blu-ray, and 4k steelbook). Release date is March 3, 2026. Here is the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Strange-Worlds-Blu-ray/dp/B0G3Y3MB12/

Great news..! Hoping there will also be a slipcase 4K version, as I only see the Steelbook as of now