User:IJBall/Year-plus layoffs
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 | This page in a nutshell: The following is a list of American TV series that had a layoff of more than one year between TV seasons. |
The following is a list of American live-action scripted television series that had a layoff of more than one year between seasons. (Note: This list does not include so-called "revival" television series such as Mission: Impossible, Burke's Law, The X-Files, Prison Break, Twin Peaks, etc.)
| TV series | Seasons with time-gap | Date of last first-run episode aired (previous season) |
Date of next first-run episode aired (succeeding season) |
Size of time-gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hangin' with Mr. Cooper | Seasons 4 ➝ 5 | May 10, 1996 | June 21, 1997 | 1 year, 1 month, 11 days |
| Fargo | Seasons 2 ➝ 3 | December 14, 2015 | April 19, 2017 | 1 year, 4 months, 5 days |
| The Shannara Chronicles | Seasons 1 ➝ 2 | March 1, 2016 | October 2017 | Approx. 1 year, 7 months |
Note
[edit]Layoffs of greater than one year between seasons/series are much more common in European television – e.g. Doctor Who (Seasons 22 ➝ 23: approx. 1 year, 6 months), Sherlock (all 4 Series!), Red Dwarf (e.g. Series 6 ➝ 7: 3 years, 3 months), Lovejoy (Series 1 ➝ 2: approx. 4 years, 9 months(!)), Les Revenants (Seasons 1 ➝ 2: 2 years, 10 months), Rita (all 3 seasons), etc.