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In the UK, the word “rerun” refers only to a single episode; “Repeat” is the preferred term for an entire series/season. In the United States, currently running shows will rerun older episodes from the same season in order to fill the timeslot with the same program. These are more frequently referred to as repeats, with reruns the term more commonly used for syndicated programs.
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In the UK, the word ‘rerun’ refers only to a single episode
Weird, I live in the UK and I have *literally never* heard that usage, tho’ I guess I don’t get out much. A single episode is definitely a ‘repeat’. *Anything* previously shown before is a ‘repeat’. If ‘rerun’ is used — it used to be that it never was, but ongoing Americanisation of the TV related dialect and all that — I always thought it had same meaning as they describe it having in the US.
And everyone I know here in america uses “rerun” to refer to a single episode.
“Hey House is on!” “Darn, it’s a rerun.”
Maybe usage in the industry is different, but I’ve never heard anyone use the term “repeat.”
I’m trying to figure out how to work in Marty McFly to this discussion.
I tend to use “repeat” and “rerun” more or less as the Wikipedia article describes American usage. But I think this is a recent development on my part; when I was a kid I and my family used “rerun” to mean both things.
It’s certainly less distinct than the different US and UK usages of “season” and “series”.
That seems to have changed over the years, also; older UK shows seem to be described in seasons. That’s certainly one of the distinctions between Classic and New Who. Season 1: 1963. Series 1: 2005.
Overall, “rerun” seems the more flexible word. “Repeat” works for a single episode, yet there’s a sort of semantic issue for entire seasons or shows in syndication. If you’re repeating an action, the implication is that the original action was fairly recent and fairly trivial. Whereas rerunning seems to imply a broader scope, both in scale and time.
It would seem weird to refer to a reshowing of My Three Sons as a repeat, especially if a channel hadn’t aired it in years. The term suggests that the audience somehow missed it, so here it is again. If you call it a rerun, though, all you’re saying is that it isn’t new; that it has already been run at some point.