 In the USA, hiatuses may also be common during the Major League Baseball playoffs in October, the Olympic Winter Games in February quadrennially, and for Sunday programs, throughout the winter awards season.The American mid-season break usually starts at Thanksgiving in late-November, sometimes ending with a Thanksgiving or Christmas episode, and lasts until the Super Bowl the first Sunday in February.The final episode airing before the Christmas break is usually referred to as the midseason finale, or in the northern hemisphere, "winter finale".