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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lolita

Why does Nickelodeon put Power Rangers on hiatus? Isn’t there a five-month break after so many episodes? Although I’m assuming that hiatuses aren’t just Power Rangers-exclusive, and they also happen to other shows as well.

As somebody who watches Nickelodeon regularly, I can personally say that their consistence in airing new episodes of any of their shows is kind of weird. Most of their shows have specific day and timeslot that they air new episodes in. This time slot is based on what kind of show it is.

Their animate shows, save for Spongebob, typically air about 5 or so episodes at around 4:00PM or so over the course of a single week before disappearing for a while and then coming back for another set of episodes. This obviously doesn't count special or seasonal episodes.

Their live action shows, save for Power Rangers and whatever month long even series they're currently airing, typically air on Saturday nights between 7:00PM and 8:00PM. Ignoring the two shows mentions mentioned above, they usually have about 4-5 shows running at the same time. At the moment, those shows are Game Shakers, Henry Danger, The Thundermans, School of Rock, and Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn. Its quite rare for new episodes of live action shows, special or another wise, to premiere during any other timeslot, save for maybe holiday premieres.

For Spongebob, things are a bit wierder when it comes to premiere dates. While new episodes typically premiere on Saturday mornings at 9:00, its not unheard of them to have a week of new episodes just like there other animated shows. Its also pretty common for them to premiere new episodes on Mondays that are on the tail end of a 3 day weekend.

As you may have guessed from the information provided above, these means that the premiere dates for new episodes can be really all over the place when it come to consistency. The live action shows are a particually notable example because, as you may have guessed, a one hour time slot doesn't exactly split all that well between five 30 minute shows. This means that there are always points in seasons where there's a long stretch of time without a single new episode.

Lets take Game Shakers as an example. Season 2 of Game Shakers premiered on September 17, 2016. From that day, they aired new episodes every Saturday until October 8th, where they took a break before resuming new episodes on November 5. From there, new episodes once again aired every Saturday until November 19 where they disappeared again until... February 11, 2017. From there, new episodes aired again through out March and May, taking a break in April, before stopping on May 20th until... September 9th, 2017. As of this post, they've aired new episodes every Saturday since returning.

Game Shakers is not the only live action Nickelodeon show to air like this. Heck, its not the only show *period* on the network to air like this. In fact, this is kind of the norm for shows on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Disney Channel. Each channel has their own little quirkier when it comes to air dates but this is more or less how its like for all 3 of them.

Power Rangers is odd compared to other Nickelodeon shows in that we always know when its going off the air and when its coming back on. Things may be off by a month or so but for the most part we're pretty certain of the show's consistence.

Long post short, its pretty standard among all of Nickelodeon shows. In fact, Power Rangers may be better off then some of its other Nickelodeon cousins oddly enough.