It's amazing at how long the process takes. Usually the network needs a whole season in the can before they can air the show. There is typically 13 episodes in a season so if the production company uses a different project for each episode you have to find enough interesting projects so you could conceivably have 18 projects in order to end up with 13 photogenic ones plus all the ones that have to be in the pipeline for a second season.

Those guys at AED probably feel like the Hamster on the wheel.