A bigger network wouldn't have allowed a comedy that started out with fewer than 2 million viewers to hang around for three seasons, but A&E's patience with the show -- and its constant deployment of reruns -- has allowed lots of people to get to know the Robertsons.
City began to feature at the awards end of the table around five seasons ago, the proud Mancunian record is otherwise entirely down to United and the Sir Alex Ferguson years.
It's not yet clear exactly what its year as City of Culture will bring to Hull and very little has been revealed beyond that the year will be themed around four seasons called Made in Hull, Roots and Routes, Freedom and Tell the World.
"Also, it shows that leading English clubs are sufficiently robust in terms of global appeal that sponsors are making value decisions based on the long term and not just around one season".
It is more than two years since Chase threw in his lot with England, on the basis that it was in Yorkshire where he had turned his life around during three seasons with Castleford, from a troubled youth in New Zealand and Queensland to a much more settled family life.
But to those who stuck around for three seasons, the program revealed itself to be a rare gem that inverted what to expect from Adult Swim, especially since it evolved into something that was anything but funny.
The chances that she'll get to hang around for five seasons seem slimmer this time.
Krautman also had a career-long 48-yard field goal for the Orange (7-3, 4-2 Big East), which has turned things around in two seasons under Coach Doug Marrone.
He bounced around for two seasons in an Italian league only to discover — just as he was about to overcome the language barrier — that he was actually in Grenada, having been snookered by an amateur travel agent who was trying to break into the wire-fraud game.
He bounced around the minors for three seasons, and played in Taiwan.
The Giants have kept Ward around for most of three seasons, and seem prepared to do it for a fourth.
