Well, you might say something like the following: For ease in screenwriting and programming, apparently (the modern attention span seems to be put off by the words "to be continued" at the end of an episode), television shows have always been mostly self-contained, with no continuing episodes, but I like the ones that are continued into the next week or two.
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