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Topic: Season or Series?

31st Oct 2020, 11:25 PM
	23skidoo Member since Jul 2014 4061 Points	I've always known that "Series" is a Britishism when referring to a set of episodes in an ongoing production. I read somewhere (but believe it may be incorrect) that this stems from the fact that in British television an episodic production is assumed to be "cancelled" at the end of every individual run, until a new "series" is commissioned. Plus, and I know this isn't unique to the UK, productions for British television are not beholden to be undertaken year after year; it is not uncommon for one or more years to pass between "series". (An example being Red Dwarf which had a 4-year gap early on, followed by a decade-long hiatus. More recently, you have Killing Eve which is expected to have at least a 2-year broadcast gap due to pandemic-forced production delay.) There have been some odd adaptations of the terms series and season in the UK with a few shows. With Doctor Who it is now common practice for the BBC and fandom to refer to each year of the 1963-89 incarnation of the series as a season - so the set of episodes that aired in 1988 are officially called Season 25, not Series 25. When Doctor Who came back to TV in 2005, the BBC's practice was to start referring to each set of those episodes as Series 1, Series 2, etc. It can get confusing!

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