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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How does AMC benefit by splitting the last season of Breaking Bad into two halves?

With almost an entire year separating the two halves of the season, it seems like a lot of the hype of the show will die down. What am I missing here, why is this a good idea?
gpt
Because then they can compete in the 2012 and 2013 Emmys. It's that simple. If they had all 16 episodes this year they wouldn't get that chance.

tl;dr: The television industrys version of karma-whoring.