# West Wing 22 December **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 23, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-22-december/281273 "2004-12-23T03:04:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-22-december/281273/1 "2004-12-23T03:04:52Z")
Why a rerun from season five? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-22-december/281273/2 "2004-12-23T03:27:53Z")
Why a duck? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-22-december/281273/3 "2004-12-23T03:38:17Z")
I don’t know, I’m new here myself. Why a no chicken? ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-22-december/281273/4 "2004-12-23T05:54:22Z")
I thought that NBC wasn’t going to show any reruns of the show this year. But I suppose they couldn’t find suitable alternate programming. Or they figured nobody was going to be watching anyway. ---
**Author:** ![goddessodd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@goddessodd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goddessodd)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-22-december/281273/5 "2004-12-23T06:11:47Z")
I thought it was great to have Leo back again though! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-22-december/281273/6 "2004-12-23T06:25:54Z")
> [@BobT](#): > > I thought that NBC wasn’t going to show any reruns of the show this year. > > But I suppose they couldn’t find suitable alternate programming. Or they figured nobody was going to be watching anyway. People hear this all the time about every show and I’m not quite sure where it comes from. In every season of every series on every network there are ALWAYS reruns during the year. This holds true for the Daily Show and General Hospital and The West Wing. Heck, it even held true for Firefly and that series wrapped up after 8 episodes. From September to May there are approximately 40 weeks. Most networks order between 22 and 26 shows per year. Even assuming a late start and an early finish, there must be at least 8 reruns to fill the gap unless they schedule a movie of the week in the time slot instead. Besides, it’s just not cost efficient to buy an entire season with no repeats. First, with a schedule of 40 episodes per year, the entire cast and crew would get burnt out quicker. Second, why pay for a brand new episode when advertisers will pay almost as much for the repeat? Third, it’s Christmas. Most people aren’t watching as much TV right now and the networks know it. That’s why November’s Sweeps month, not December. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-22-december/281273/7 "2004-12-23T08:08:13Z")
People may hear this about every show every year, but I never have. And this link [http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve\_main/1,1002,271|89303|1|,00.html](http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C89303%7C1%7C,00.html) indicates that there weren’t going to be repeats. > [@](#): > > NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly told reporters at the TV Critics Association press tour Saturday (July 10) that he’s holding back “The West Wing” until Oct. 20 in part because a real-life presidential debate is scheduled for a Wednesday in October. He doesn’t want to debut the show in September then have to pull it for a week soon after its premiere. > > NBC plans to air “The West Wing” without repeats in 2004-05. The limited-run series “Revelations” will take its spot on the schedule for several weeks early in 2005. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-22-december/281273/8 "2004-12-23T13:09:47Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Why a rerun from season five? It was a Christmas episode. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-22-december/281273/9 "2004-12-23T14:57:38Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > People hear this all the time about every show and I’m not quite sure where it comes from. In every season of every series on every network there are ALWAYS reruns during the year. This holds true for the Daily Show and General Hospital and The West Wing. Heck, it even held true for Firefly and that series wrapped up after 8 episodes. One notable exception is _24_. It would confuse the hell out of people to show reruns, so they fill sweeps time with crappy reality shows.