I'd make the whole cast beat the same old platitudes into the viewers at great length for the whole half-hour,
then, as the time ran out, make it look like something really exciting was about to happen and end the episode right there and then. Then carry on in the next one as if nothing had happened. Because it didn't.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 24 Jun 2009, 0:50, archived)

That's just foolish
no-one would EVER watch anything like that
( broadsword, Wed 24 Jun 2009, 0:52, archived)