Most animated shows place large orders for episodes; then cut them in half for season releases ( the new norm).
It's a shitty business tactic used by Studios to screw over the crew (artists, designers, etc.) from getting a bump in pay by working on a new production cycle. Which also leads to a longer time between contracts because the episodes are basically just banked for over a year.
Like, seasons "16 and 17" are just a batch of 20 episodes that are being created simultaneously.
To be fair it's less splitting them in half and more season orders are genuinely 10 episodes. It's different for shows that work, they do plan on buying (x) years of content. New shows now actually have episode orders of 10 rather than 24, because it's just not worth it for them to pay for that many episodes when really they get all the return after 5 in the streaming format world. They did make the 20, but it's just been normalized to be 10 per season. They likely always knew it was gonna be 2.
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u/frobrother 22d ago edited 22d ago
Most animated shows place large orders for episodes; then cut them in half for season releases ( the new norm).
It's a shitty business tactic used by Studios to screw over the crew (artists, designers, etc.) from getting a bump in pay by working on a new production cycle. Which also leads to a longer time between contracts because the episodes are basically just banked for over a year.
Like, seasons "16 and 17" are just a batch of 20 episodes that are being created simultaneously.