Creatives; this one is for you.

The trend I have seen in last few years say that any serial starts on a promising and different story. It ends up with similar type of sub plots and sub stories. Some garner high TRPs, while others fail forcing creatives to digress to original story. And when the serial stops fetching good numbers, it is brought to abrupt end. It leaves gaping holes many a times (Ladies Special, Bhaskar Bharati, Kumkum, Saat Phere).In fact if you observe closely many serials invariably have dead and arised from ashes formulae:KSBKBT, KGGK, Kumukum,Saat Phere,WRWMK to name a few).

For a change it will be really interesting if a serial is planned with a plot and exact number of episodes like it happened in 90s.A serial could go upto 90-91 episodes or even 25 episodes and pull the shutter down. It kept the story and interest intact. The viewers were FOOLED less. And focus of story does not oscillate between creative extremes.

Classic example will be that of Aap Ki Antara. It is one serial that should had been fixed.It was a great story with commendable performances.Viewers would have loved it, rather they ended up showing some salesmans stint, some adoptions, some goons.

Are any producers listening?

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Yes u r right, but the landscape of television has changed soo much these days, competition is too tough.

Short series is a good idea, but how will they manage to come up with a new story and new cast every few months or so? And plus they need to market the show for a loooong time these days to get viewers attention, so having a new marketing campaign every few months would be hard to.

I think every show has a peak, you can keep stretching it for more juice but once it starts to fall, then it's hard for it to rise. So the producers keep producing it, until the trp's are dead low, and a new show is ready.

Antara is a good example, it was a unique show, with this child who was autistic. But at the same time, it's uniqueness can't go on forever, once everyone knows what Autism is and tested the show, they won't watch it again. Unless they show some other plots as well. But they didn't and viewers slowly lost interest over time. And now there are just having random plots, to run the show until a new show is ready on Zee.

Very well said. The weekly show format makes it mandatory that serials have lot of stuff.

I agree with you 100%. I believe every story has a life and there should be fixed no. of episodes well definied, if a character is liked, I am sure even if a sub-plot is developed it should gel nicely with the main plot....no serial should last beyond a year maximum...