@ronsboy67 Oh yeah, the dailies are still long, and in the family genre usually.
Hmm… maybe it's more of the type of story or genre? Like in the family genre, it's mainly light and comedic, for the general audience. And they rarely need a big budget, they can even film it at the studio.
But, yes, it's better to have 12-episode today, especially with many of the recent 16s are starting to have fillers, not like in the early days when it was packed.
6-8 are still, I don't know, too short. Even those Western shows with 6-8 were just too short. I think 6-8 works if they wrote it like it was a “movie”, like the #Kdrama “Anna”.