Economies of scale. If they film two seasons back to back, it removes the spin down and spin up between seasons, making each season slightly cheaper to make without the redundancy.
And correction on Firefly: it died before it even finished one season. 13 episode seasons are common now, but weren't back then. It was supposed to be 22 to 24 episodes.
Simply put, things have changed drastically sense the days of Firefly; though, by this point, I'm half-convinced most of the things happening in Hollywood nowadays are money-laundering schemes.
Why is it, EVERY show gets two seasons nowadays regardless of how bad it is?
Yet Firefly died after one?
Economies of scale. If they film two seasons back to back, it removes the spin down and spin up between seasons, making each season slightly cheaper to make without the redundancy.
And correction on Firefly: it died before it even finished one season. 13 episode seasons are common now, but weren't back then. It was supposed to be 22 to 24 episodes.
grumbles in a single season of B5: Crusade
Simply put, things have changed drastically sense the days of Firefly; though, by this point, I'm half-convinced most of the things happening in Hollywood nowadays are money-laundering schemes.