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==Overview==

Strip scheduling often applies to any program that airs on multiple consecutive days during the calendar week (most commonly Monday through Friday), whether carried through a [[television network]] (such as with a [[talk show]], news program or [[soap opera]]) or in [[broadcasting syndication|syndication]]. It is commonly restricted to describing the airing of [[television program]]s that were originally broadcast on a weekly basis during their original run: ''[[The West Wing]]'' could be stripped but not ''[[Jeopardy!]]'', as ''Jeopardy!'' was originally intended to be run daily. It can also refer to shows in prime time that run daily, such as with the short-lived ''[[The Jay Leno Show]]'' in 2009 and 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eonline.com/news/161301/leno-show-confirmed-canceled-nbc-late-night-schedule-questions-remain-unresolved |title=Leno Show Confirmed Canceled, NBC Late-Night Schedule Questions Remain Unresolved |first=Jennifer|last=Godwin|date=2010-01-10|publisher=[[E! Online]]|accessdate=2019-03-20}}</ref>

For much of the 1960s and into the 2000searly 1990s, stripping for syndication was one of, if not ''the'' primary profit component of the studio production model in American television. A show became far more profitable if it succeeded in getting three full U.S. seasons (about 75 [[episode]]s) or more, as then it was possible to strip it for fifteen weeks (15×5=75) before needing to repeat episodes. Once a series attained five seasons (which would push the show over the [[100 episodes]] threshold), it would be a full six months before it would repeat. For ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'', in particular, this was relevant. Only due to an unprecedented letter-writing campaign was the show renewed for its third season, and it did not begin to attain wider popularity until appearing in syndication for a number of years. If it had failed to be renewed for a third season, it would not have been syndicated, and its subsequent popularity and influence would likely not have occurred. Many other shows with lukewarm response in their initial runs became widely appreciated cult favorites as a result of syndication, or helped keep cultural memes associated with them far more widely known than if the shows had only been viewable during their initial time frame.

[[Michael Grade]] was responsible for introducing '''stripped and stranded''' schedules to the [[BBC]]'s television service in the [[United Kingdom]] in his role as controller of [[BBC1]]: from February 18, 1985, onward,{{Citation needed|date=August 2007}} the weekday evening schedule has consisted almost entirely of half-hour or hour-long programs starting on the hour, or half-hour (the BBC channels never carried spot advertising). For example, Grade's new schedule provided at 19:00, the talk show ''[[Wogan]]'' thrice weekly and two episodes of ''[[EastEnders]]'' and fixed the national news at 18:00 and 21:00, and regional news at 18:30. Before this date, programs might start at almost any time and programs could have different times on consecutive weeks or even days, for example:<ref>{{cite web