The original post: /r/television by /u/BarneyLaurance on 2024-08-04 09:02:09.
There are lots of TV documentaries about topics that are not topical and continue to be relevant for many years - e.g. science, history, geography etc. Some are big budget productions.
So after a few years when the knowledge of the subject has advanced, or inevitable small mistakes in the production have been found, why don’t they make a 2nd edition that’s mostly the same but with mistakes corrected and information updated where relevant. That seems like it should be very much cheaper than making a new documentary from scratch. It’s common for successful non-fiction books to have multiple editions.
(Originally posted at reddit.com/…/why_dont_tv_documentaries_have_secon… . r/television required me to create a text post with the comment content, rather than just a link post to the original)