Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5488183-20180611030955/@comment-5488183-20180619123105

Westerhouse wrote:

This is becoming a long string lol. Well, the choices that Ford Riley and Disney are making are not conducive to retaining and increasing viewership. Well, ive never waited five months in the middle of a season before (and had the season actually continue). Ive seen very long hiatuses within seasons before, but they have always resulted in one of three things. One; the show simply gets cancelled and never resumes. Two; the season gets cut short, and the last episode aired ends up being the impromptu season finale. Or three; the season is cut short, and, instead of airing the, say five more episodes planned, they only air two, and they simply move the other three into the next season. Trimmed it a bit :P

I've only seen a couple of series (not many, I'll admit) with a ridiculously long hiatus, but usually nothing bad happens, except the series doesn't make as many seasons as it had potential for (which would make sense with TLG, since I don't personally think we'll get anything past S3).

I do agree that the viewership tactics are poor, and clearly not working as they intended. There was a post on here mentioning how Disney's advertisements for Lion Guard were incredibly lackluster as well, to the point where they didn't feel professional (looking at you, Rise of Scar teasers).