LadyShelley wrote:
Tom isn't talking about a new season, but a split season. So you have something like the following:
Lady Shelley's Grand Adventure is announced as a new program starting in the fall of 2016.
We get a new show listing for Lady Shelley's Grand Adventure with a status of In Development
Some time in the late summer, a premier date and a list of the first five episodes is released to the press and come some time in September, the first episode airs.
Now we have a listing for Lady Shelley's Grand Adventure and the status is Running
Things go along and the first chunk of eipsodes air, though there's a week off here or there for various reasons.
In the first part of November, the series is picked up for a full season, however, after the last two episodes currently air, there won't be any new episodes until "Spring". So now we have Lady Shelley's Grand Adventure with 10 episodes listed as aired, but it's not coming back until some time in "Spring" (remember this is middle/late November). The status is still showing as Running even though there are no new episodes to air, and there won't be for several months. We don't have a return date, we don't have any new episode listings. The show isn't canceled; it's just not going to air for an indeterminate amount of time.
What Tom is asking* for is some sort of additional note be made that the program is still on it's current season, however it's off the schedule for the next couple of months. This is very different from running repeats for a couple of weeks for production to catch up, or something taking over the schedule for a couple of weeks, like the NCAA basketball tourney (or Eurovision for the Brits in the group)
*Tom if I've got your POV completely wrong feel free to throw something at me. :)
Nope, nailed it :)