Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-11464223-20160612010621/@comment-25926288-20160615171216

NickyHelp wrote:

Hmcooper4 wrote: Ok... Let's get back on task. This is not a thread about Regina or Robin, or Emma/Hook/CS.

I would like to address the comment made about no more Hiatus. Noone ever said there would be no more hiatus. ABC is looking to shorten the hiatus breaks on many of its shows, but having a hiatus is unavoidable. Most Network shows have a short break during the Winter Holiday season (Basically the Month of December, and into January), to allow the networks to air holiday specials. It has been that way for many decades (at least as far back as I can remember, anyway). They also used to have these things called "reruns" that would air when a show was taking a short break.

Point here being that there will still be a hiatus. Just maybe not as pronounced as it has been the past few years, and likely not having a major cliffhanger leading into it. And there will be a drawback to no hiatus, in that there will be times where we will have to wait 2 weeks between episodes, so that ABC can broadcast a special event (like an awards show).

Also, They did announce that the season would still only be 22 episodes, so if the winter break is shorter, that just means that either there will be more short breaks in the middle, or the finale will air earlier in the year (like mid to late april). Did season 1 and 2 go through like what we will see I. Season 6? You know, short breaks and not 12 week breaks like season 3 to 5? None of us know. Technically there will still be the summer break, so I don't know how they'll combat hiatuses. The show is practically October to December, then March to May. Shrinking the winter hiatus would mean that the summer hiatus expands, unless somehow they just have several small hiatuses.