Question: All in all, this has been the best cable summer ever. I even had to write up a daily schedule of cable shows on each night because there were too many to remember them all! A couple of points, though. First, I was just getting into the new season of Kyle XY when they announced "only two more episodes until the season finale." What, seven or eight episodes are a season now? I know some cable series only do 12 episodes instead of the normal 13 (which I hate), but eight? They promised more "in 2008." Splitting up a larger run into two short ones is annoying and feels like "television interruptus." Note to cable networks: I need more than eight episodes of a good series to be fully satisfied. Similarly, I know the BBC does short runs of a show, but I was watching Jekyll on BBC On Demand and it ended after five episodes (granted, the last was extended and could count as two). I was enjoying this new take on an old story and especially liked the way James Nesbitt was portraying the ...
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