TV Guide - Ask Matt (HIATUS WHY, basically)
Question: Please help me make sense of Revolution's scheduling. I'm very upset that NBC is showing new episodes one week here, one week there, then waiting a month for another one. And in its place they put Law & Order repeats. Have they given up on the show? Please help me understand this phenomenon. - Dan
Matt Roush: The reason you're not seeing Revolution right now is that NBC is holding back the last episodes to air during May sweeps amid the countdown to the end of the season, with the finale currently scheduled for May 21. This is the kind of show that repeats terribly - not that it's doing all that great in first-run - which is also why SVU is being replayed for a few weeks in its time period until Revolution returns with new episodes on April 30. (If you recall, NBC took a fateful risk with Revolution last season, removing it entirely from the schedule for more than three months so as to avoid having to interrupt the flow with repeats, but it never really regained its momentum after that.) Has NBC given up on Revolution? Not yet, or it would have already been taken off the air. But it's clearly among the more endangered of this season's "on the bubble" shows. And a show like this would probably benefit by having its episodes air straight through without interruption, even if it means ending the season earlier than May.
Via: TV Guide
Matt Roush: The reason you're not seeing Revolution right now is that NBC is holding back the last episodes to air during May sweeps amid the countdown to the end of the season, with the finale currently scheduled for May 21. This is the kind of show that repeats terribly - not that it's doing all that great in first-run - which is also why SVU is being replayed for a few weeks in its time period until Revolution returns with new episodes on April 30. (If you recall, NBC took a fateful risk with Revolution last season, removing it entirely from the schedule for more than three months so as to avoid having to interrupt the flow with repeats, but it never really regained its momentum after that.) Has NBC given up on Revolution? Not yet, or it would have already been taken off the air. But it's clearly among the more endangered of this season's "on the bubble" shows. And a show like this would probably benefit by having its episodes air straight through without interruption, even if it means ending the season earlier than May.
Via: TV Guide