Waiting

[snake]

Does nick know that every time that they hold off an episode, they lose viewers? I still want the show to become popular and hold up a steady viewership. Am I over thinking this too much or is nick making a bad idea?

[DonatelloNinja82]

I actually holds my interest more because I have the suspence of waiting for the next one to come on. They aren't doing that bad with spacing the episodes anyways. I always think back to the huge gap between Avatar: The Last Airbender seasons 2 and 3...and feel grateful I only have to wait a few weeks between TMNT eps lol.

[JTH]

Yes, everyone is overthinking this "Losing viewers" thing. If anything based on the last episode, they've gained viewers.

Pulling a 3.1 viewership on an episode that had just a single airing is huge. While the viewership of the eariler episodes had more, you have to remember they showed those episodes a lot of times during the week, (Remember also that some of the eariler episode debuted on Monday which led to viewer numbers for the entire week)

So yeah, people just need to calm down. Yes, you may not like it; but the product is not suffering as people claim it is.

[CyberCubed]

Little kids, the actual target audience, will watch episodes whether they're reruns or new episodes.

When I was a kid I simply turned on the TV to watch "Ninja Turtles," I didn't care if it was a new episode or not.

[BubblyShell22]

I'm not a fan of waiting like others are, but if that's the way it has to be, I'll accept it. It does get tiring though especially when a new episode comes on and you can't wait to see what happens next. Then again, 4Kids always did this at the end of the season where they'd leave you with a cliffhanger and you had to wait until next season to see it resolved. That always frustrated me at times, but then it made sense because it made me anticipate the next season and made me want to tune in. So, I feel that Nick is doing the same thing by prolonging episodes.

[DonatelloNinja82]

Little kids, the actual target audience, will watch episodes whether they're reruns or new episodes.

When I was a kid I simply turned on the TV to watch "Ninja Turtles," I didn't care if it was a new episode or not.

So very true about kids (except my oldest who only wants new episodes). When I was a kid...I LOVED seeing re-runs! Turtles was on every evening at 5 pm, and dinner time or not, I was sitting at the end spot at the dinner table to look over at the tv and faithfully recording it to make a collection of my favorite episodes. :tgrin:

[snake]

Maybe I am over thinking it, I don't watch nick unless it's Saturday and turtles is on ( I'm more of a cartoon network guy;))

[Bauer536]

I'm not surprised Nickelodeon is doing this. I'm not that worried. It's not like how Bucket and Skinner did, that's for sure.:twink:

Every successful show on Nick has that gap sometimes. It happened to The Last Airbender, it happened to iCarly, in fact, I think it even happens to SpongeBob (but who would know the difference?).:tlol:

[Donatello19]

Just be patient. Besides, if they aired an episode EVERY week, the season would have been over already. As much as I want a new episode, I think it's a good idea to space them out a bit.

[BubblyShell22]

And that's probably the plan anyway since we're almost done with the season.

[Stingray69]

Just be patient. Besides, if they aired an episode EVERY week, the season would have been over already. As much as I want a new episode, I think it's a good idea to space them out a bit.

This I like how there spacing them out. Hopefully it equals a shorter time we have to wait for season 2 to start.

[liugeaux]

With this first season, Nick is really following the typically airing pattern of a standard TV show. Seasons of shows on American Network TV run from the Fall to the end of Spring with a short gap in the winter and a long gap in the summer between seasons. Also, network shows also have about 18-25 episodes per season. I'd say this first season has aired exactly as it should've.

[pannoni1]

While cartoons recently have begun to air more in sync with a primetime TV show as opposed to only airing a big clunk of episodes in the fall/early winter, kids are less sensitive to rerun abuse and having a new episode frequent enough entices them to keep watching each week. This season is also going to extend into June meaning that the summer break won't be super long. It also provides more time for animation production and post-production to ensure that the quality is better. Look at Rugrats in the mid-90s when it didn't have any new episodes for three years, save for a few specials!

[Powder]

Did we really need another thread about this? We get it, you're impatient.