1 wrote:I watched it, but it's a FOX show.

It will be off the air in 5 weeks. I'll watch until then.

The Simpsons and Cops have been on more than 5 weeks I think.

The Red Tornado wrote:

1 wrote:I watched it, but it's a FOX show.

It will be off the air in 5 weeks. I'll watch until then.

The Simpsons and Cops have been on more than 5 weeks I think.

Wait, what?

Drives Pilot ratings were smelly....i give it less than 5 weeks...sweeps is a coming.

im gonna download the pilot some time this week just to check it out, have no interest in actually watching any of the show. based on the ratings for sunday, its probably done next week and house reruns will take over for the 3 weeks of may sweeps.

fox already said prison break returns next fall, not next summer. guesses are, again, that they lighten the fall load of prison break to pair it with 24 for the winter.

and yes, networks. you dont have to air every serialized show in blocks. 4 weeks then a repeat, then 3 weeks and a repeat, etc. isnt a big deal.

NickSixers wrote:NBC ordered 6 new scripts of Friday Night Lights today. The media seems to think this indicates the chances the show comes back are greater, which is a good thing.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/211006/nbc_orders_new_friday_night_lights.html

God I hope so. I think it's the best dram on tv right now.

dsp wrote:and yes, networks. you dont have to air every serialized show in blocks. 4 weeks then a repeat, then 3 weeks and a repeat, etc. isnt a big deal.

People who watch television appear to disagree mightily.

Deadliest Catch in 15 minutes.

VoxOrion wrote:

dsp wrote:and yes, networks. you dont have to air every serialized show in blocks. 4 weeks then a repeat, then 3 weeks and a repeat, etc. isnt a big deal.

People who watch television appear to disagree mightily.

not really, big guy. its the on and off schedule that annoy people. like 2 new episodes, repeat, new episode, repeat, new episode, 2 repeats. that annoys people.

Lost season 1 is essentially an example of how a network should schedule a serialized show. 11 episodes in a row to starts (normally would be 5 a break then 5 more, but they had a two hour pilot, so, an extra episode). Then come back beginning of January and run 7 episodes until the end of Feb. sweeps (1 week off), then two episodes in the middle of Feb. sweeps and May sweeps as a tease, then 4 more (and a 2 hr finale) to end there.

Essentially, taking 1 "longer" break and a few 1 week breaks aren't a big deal. What Heroes is doing now is fine, but I'm sure the month and a half off between episodes gets annoying. Basically what you need to do is throw one or two breaks in the fall/winter runs to hold over episodes for the end of march/beginning of april. that way, you have some momentum heading into may and a month of new episodes.

Holding Lost off 24 style is silly. Wednesday at 8 is a dead hour, they can take it back and start over the night with something new. But theyll do it.

Anecdotally you may be right, but the numbers seem to say different. Was Lost's schedule that different in season 2 than season 1? I don't thing using the first season of a buzz show like Lost or Heroes tells the tale (or BSG for that matter).

Although, since I brought up BSG, a lot of folks seem to think that the big gap last year cost them a lot of viewers - that's still slightly apples and oranges though, being a second tier cable network and all.

The big gap is hurting The Sopranos, although all told HBO viewers are more advanced than the norm and seem to know that there are alternate ways to watch the show other than the Sunday at 9 airing (last year viewership per episode was around 12 mil, about what the show got for a sunday at 9 airing at its popularity height in season 4).

Lost season 2 had several multi-week breaks, only a few episode per run and a stand alone episode even. now the olympics may have had something to do with that, but even so.

all im trying to say is airing between 4-6 episodes, then having a repeat, then airing another pack of episodes isnt a big deal. the "no repeat" run thing isnt needed. but it doesnt hurt 24, because being on fox, its gonna get pre-empted for baseball anyway, so you might as well bring it back in january.

I just found out that Wonder Years reruns are on back-to-back starting at 10PM on some channel called Ion every night. I remember reading somewhere that the show's music choices have made it too expensive to license on DVD (which may or not be true), so this is pretty sweet.

Joan and Melissa are out at TV Guide Channel. Replaced by Lisa Rinna. With Secreast big man on E!, it appears everyone favorite mother daughter team of plastic Jews may not have a place on the red carpet.

What is the TV Guide channel

Like the preview channel, where they show whats on and coming up on the different channels. But I guess with the rise of digital and satellite, they are continuing to try to get into original programing and becoming a normal tv channel, with the red carpet stuff, recently obtaining rerun rights to vh1's celebreality nonsense, and other entertainment programs.

Bye bye Sanjaya!!!

woohoo

NBC season finales schedule in or near May:
April 26: 9p 30 Rock
April 27: 9p Raines
May 10: 8p My Name is Earl
May 16: 9p Crossing Jordan, Medium at 10
May 17: 8p The Office, Scrubs at 9p, ER at 10p
May 21: 9p Heroes
May 22: 10p Law & Order: SVU

I recently heard the assertion that NBC has a better track record than ABC or CBS and especially FOX when it comes to giving a quality show with bad ratings a bit of time to find an audience before they cancel it. Anyone want to weigh in on that?

The first season of the office was a summer replacement show that no one watched.

Seinfeld started out horribly, too