What is up with the years wait between seasons with these shows. I am wondering if anyone has taken into consideration what happens with a years wait, like viewers being pissed off for the long wait, dissinterest from waiting on new shows, and the great possibility that a other shows may end up becoming favorites. Not always that it is a better show, but just because during the long wait viewers become tied up in these other programs/shows. If someone can answer the above questions/statements maybe I will be around to watch more than the first shows of next years new season just to tie up the loose ends of this seasons finales.

Signed
A Loyal viewer of LOST until I got tired of the short seasons and long waits between seasons (not to mention the other shows that I have stopped watching even before the season finale once I found out that they too had screwed up seasons/long waits between seasons)

I'm not a fan of the short seasons with a very long wait in between seasons either.

I already have two shows on my list (one from USA and one from another network) that may be replaced by newer or better ones when they return because of the way they left viewers hanging (for 8 or 9 months) by the season finales. If there's no satisfaction or conclusions it really cannot be considered a finale or an ending of any type. If the show doesn't have something really great about it to keep me coming back then it goes out of the window quickly when it does return if they offered a cliffhanger rather than a finale to me the previous season.

When I think "Season" I think Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall (spproximately 13 weeks each.) Apparently TV folks don't define season the same way. I'd be a more consistent loyal viewer of many shows if they did or even if they had Series that run for 2 "Seasons" out of the year with 13 weeks off in between with other Series' replacing them during their off seasons. There are just too many other forms of hours-long entertainment these days. Video Game Consoles and the Computer/Internet are two good examples that can offer satisfaction rather than amateurish "endings" and torture. I would love to see the television networks give Netflix and On Demand type services some stronger competition in the changing entertainment world.

I've never heard a single person say they like those long waits. Everyone seems to hate them, but a lot of the shows keep doing them anyway. I guess it doesn't matter what the audience thinks.