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NT
NorthTonight
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VMPhil posted:
mr_vivian posted:
Abysmality posted:
When did Channel 4 start using "New Season" instead of "New Series"? I've seen Channel 5 do this a few times too, pet hate!


The first week in September used to be called the new season on TV adverts in the country. Also if you look at 70s / 80s Radio Times the were often branded in September and January with " New Season BBCtv " followed by radio a couple of weeks later. Having said that programmes also had " New Series " above them at the appropriate time.

Season seems to have stuck for some people. Peter Capaldi uses the word season for Doctor Who and with VOD services like Netfilx referring to seasons I think you'll eventually hear more people calling Series "seasons"

Doesn't make it any less wrong though, we don't have TV "seasons" that go from Autumn to Spring with substantial breaks in between.
Last edited by NorthTonight on 26 October 2015 8:13pm
VM
VMPhil
We can get really technical, but I'm just talking about the series or seasons of a TV show. E.g. the first season of Friends, the first series of The Office.

The first season of Friends, like a typical US show, comprised 24 episodes that ran a full TV season from September to May. The 24 episodes were not all broadcast over consecutive weeks, there was for example a four week break from 17th November 1994 to the next episode aired on 15th December 1994.

The first series of The Office, like a typical UK show, comprised 6 episodes that ran a full TV series. The 6 episodes were all broadcast over consecutive weeks in July and August apart from one, and even then it was only a break of one week.

(For clarification, I am not saying either approach is better or worse, I am just laying out the differences between the two terms).
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Doctor Who may have had one eye on the international market as to the decision to call it by season rather than series.

There was a time where we in the UK had shows that ran typically for 13 episodes a series (a lot of CBBC shows seem to have 13 episode runs at the moment and a lot of older CBBC shows as well) but the recent trend seems to be for six episodes a series for mainstream shows. I think one of the earliest examples of a six episode series may have been Fawlty Towers. The last series of Monty Python ran for six episodes but its previous series were 13 episodes long.
IN
Interceptor
VMPhil posted:
We can get really technical, but I'm just talking about the series or seasons of a TV show. E.g. the first season of Friends, the first series of The Office.

The first season of Friends, like a typical US show, comprised 24 episodes that ran a full TV season from September to May. The 24 episodes were not all broadcast over consecutive weeks, there was for example a four week break from 17th November 1994 to the next episode aired on 15th December 1994.

The first series of The Office, like a typical UK show, comprised 6 episodes that ran a full TV series. The 6 episodes were all broadcast over consecutive weeks in July and August apart from one, and even then it was only a break of one week.

(For clarification, I am not saying either approach is better or worse, I am just laying out the differences between the two terms).

A 6 episode 'series' is only really typical for comedy/sitcoms. I can't think of another genre where it's 'normal'.
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A former member
The reason US has Season on tv is because most of there show will cover a whole season or two, unlike uk.
TM
tmorgan96
Season is more common in Australia.

A series typically refers to all of the seasons of a particular show, hence 'season final' = final episode of the season, 'series final' = final ever episode.
BA
bilky asko
Brekkie posted:
If they're referring to US shows though they're technically right, and while we don't have the year long season the US do the autumn has always been billed as "New Season" in the TV mags etc. for as long as I can remember.


Because a lot of new series start with the new season?
PF
PFML84
The Channel 4 Racing page uses the Chadwick and Horseferry fonts. I suppose someone will eventually have them ripped from that and we will start seeing mocks using them.

Sadly, it seems just the bold version of Horseferry is used on the site and a medium version of Chadwick. No light, thin or regular ones are there.
MD
mdtauk
Paddy posted:
The Channel 4 Racing page uses the Chadwick and Horseferry fonts. I suppose someone will eventually have them ripped from that and we will start seeing mocks using them.

Sadly, it seems just the bold version of Horseferry is used on the site and a medium version of Chadwick. No light, thin or regular ones are there.

They have taken steps to protect the font from being downloaded, as it is base64 encoded
EL
elmarko
mdtauk posted:
Paddy posted:
The Channel 4 Racing page uses the Chadwick and Horseferry fonts. I suppose someone will eventually have them ripped from that and we will start seeing mocks using them.

Sadly, it seems just the bold version of Horseferry is used on the site and a medium version of Chadwick. No light, thin or regular ones are there.

They have taken steps to protect the font from being downloaded, as it is base64 encoded


That's easy to decode though, right? It's a small barrier but not insurmountable.
DA
davidhorman
elmarko posted:
mdtauk posted:
They have taken steps to protect the font from being downloaded, as it is base64 encoded


That's easy to decode though, right? It's a small barrier but not insurmountable.


Indeed, it's designed to be easy to decode. It's a method for encoding binary data as ASCII (more specifically plaintext), primarily used for encoding email attachments but also for encoding images (and probably fonts) directly in HTML files.
PF
PFML84
The only thing I don't like about Horseferry is that the numbers are rather plain. They made the letters look quirky and distinctive, but left the digits alone. A missed opportunity I think.

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