I've lost my excitement for the whole thing. Just way way way too much time has past.
It was starting to get that way with Star Trek Discovery. Season 2 finally starts this Thursday.
They need to go back to the 25 episodes per season again too. This 12-13 episodes per is bs.
What they need to do is get over the year-based single season concept. They used to do 22-25 episodes for most shows and many would have a fall story line and a spring story line.
What they need to do instead is simply create two sets of 13-episode seasons every year and rather than run them all in one stretch with a few weekly breaks, they should instead start a new "season" every 13 weeks after a season ends for the one-per-week networks. That way viewers don't lose interest in a show when they have to wait 9+ months to see the next season.
For networks like Netflix that show an entire season at once (which most people prefer), the break would be 6 months at worst with a schedule like that.
Also with that schedule, TV shows could film a season ahead every time (start filming 6 months before release) and the show's writers would already know if a show is going to be cancelled so they could write (or rewrite) the final episodes to end the series instead of having a series end on unresolved cliffhangers.