Does it work for a daily strip show?
Yes, and daily strip shows are the strongest fit. Wheelhouse handles taping on one day and airing across several broadcast weeks, packages reused across a 190-episode season with a flag on every episode still on an old version, and a delivery list that fans out per destination. That volume is exactly what breaks a spreadsheet.
Yes, and it is the strongest fit. Daily strip shows - game shows, talk shows, court shows
- are what Wheelhouse was shaped around.
Three things that only matter at strip volume
One tape day, several broadcast weeks. You tape in blocks and air across weeks, so “which week does this belong to” has a real answer that is not simply the tape date. That is built in rather than worked around.
Packages reused across a season. Prizing, music cues, graphics and tape elements recur across 190 episodes. When one changes, every episode still on the old version gets flagged. That is the sum nobody can do by hand, and the reason a package gets a number and a version history instead of a row in a sheet.
A delivery list that fans out. Network, standards, captioning, international, marketing - each with its own spec, owner and timing, and some gated behind a QC pass on another.
Why volume is the whole argument
A ten-episode show does not need this. A spreadsheet genuinely works at that size, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling. At 190 episodes with shared packages and a five-way delivery list, the spreadsheet stops being a tracker and becomes a second job.
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