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[stevenehrbar]

Assuming, for purposes of estimation, that the average season of Wheel of Fortune in the U.S. daytime run, the UK run, and the original New Zealand run had 195 episodes (which is the average season length of the evening version of the U.S. show), then there are enough unique episodes of English-language Wheel of Fortune to fill over 340 days of 24-hour programming (assuming normal commercial breaks.)

(4,875 episodes of U.S. evening Wheel of Fortune prior to this season, 5,118 total episodes of Australian Wheel of Fortune, estimated 3,120 episodes of U.S. daytime Wheel of Fortune, estimated 2,535 episodes of UK Wheel of Fortune, and an estimated 975 episodes of New Zealand Wheel of Fortune prior to the 2008 revival, total 16,623 estimated total episodes, for 8,311.5 hours with commercial breaks.)

With the U.S. and New Zealand currently making new episodes, we are very quickly approaching the point where one could put together an English-language Wheel of Fortune cable channel that runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, without repeating any episode during the year.

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[jhghendriks.livejournal.com]

Whatever made you research this?

[stevenehrbar.livejournal.com]

Oh, I just watched an episode of Wheel on TiVo, and wondered if it was possible to make an all-Wheel, all-the-time channel. The rest was easy to look up on Wikipedia.