With a resolution! Instead of just dragging on for series after series after series like some dull soap opera with zombies getting their heads caved in every few minutes. erm.
Assume you’re talking about Walking Dead?
Yeah, I fear that one is going to drag on and on, from a purely business point of view it’s got a very long potential life.
Only very good TV shows that are writer lead get to have a proper arc and end on a high, Walking Dead lost it’s creative leader early on.
The ones lead by the studios will keep pumping them out until they not profitable anymore. TWD still gets big audiences, they’ve fallen a lot, but it’s cheap to make.
The lead actors aren’t on much – the main stars get $90k an episode, and there’s 15 episodes a year – so Andrew Lincoln gets paid $1.35m a year – nice work if you can get it – but by contrast the Actors on The Big Bang Theory get $1m an episode – and they make 24 of them a year.
They’re not afraid to kill off characters, or if needed just write them out for a few episodes or half a series and bring in new ones.
It’s not massively expensive to make either – most sets are the same empty highway, or woods, they’re sponsored by the state of Georgia for those so they just need to build the odd little town every few series.
They’re cutting costs on make-up and GCI too, some of the last series looked really ropey, like Sharknado 3 ropey.
I think it’ll follow the same format for years yet, getting cheaper and cheaper until it’s left on some random channel you’ve never heard of. They’ll be roaming the wilderness, fresh zoms around every corner, they’ll find some new sanctuary, there will be a bit of a ding dong with it’s current occupiers which will all work out in the end (after a few red shirts die), bit of soap opera and oh no – here comes a new Mr. Baddie.