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Originally posted by M73A
a couple of weeks for the next episode? argh lame... why
Two reasons, firstly the series is filmed only a couple of weeks before being aired, so sometimes they need to take breaks for obvious reasons. On the podcast on of the creators said that someone from the office was running down the streets to the ABC broadcasting office with the latest episode an hour before it was due to be broadcast.
And secondly, ABC wants to make sure that they run episodes during certain times, like a period called "sweeps", this is where the rating figures will really determine what price advertising slots go for, so they want new episodes during this time to get major bucks.
Also, ABC want to run major shows when they are trying to launch new shows so they can run them of the back of the show which is getting them millions of viewers.