Sunday all reruns again?! WTF, Fox?

Didn't we just have a month of reruns in October?

...Sean.

November sweeps end in....November.

Besides, everyone runs repeats in December.

According to the official site, next week (12/11) is a new episode.....and then reruns for the rest of the month.

On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:59:30 -0600, CheetoDust scribed into the ether:

December is rerun month for pretty much everyone. You'll see another week or so of new stuff (and then only for certain shows), and then everyone goes on a break until mid-January or so.

CheetoDust wrote:

It's hard to squeeze 22 new episodes into 52 weeks without a rerun every now and then, especially if you're expected to air four new episodes in February (Fox probably will air a movie on Oscar night, but that's in March this year) and three more in May - and that's assuming they have 22 episodes remaining after the three they aired in September.

I am a little surprised next week's episode is a repeat, since King Of The Hill and The Simpsons are both new.

-- Don

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:26:30 GMT, Don Del Grande scribed into the ether:

Family Guy started its season a month earlier than those shows did.

Matt Frisch wrote:

The Simpsons started on September 11 this season (as did FG, as I recall); KOTH started on September 18.

Based on past Fox programming patterns, the rest of the season might go something like this: There are 14 new episodes remaining January - three new episodes and two repeats (one repeat may be a pre-emption for a late NFL playoff game) February - a repeat on Super Bowl Sunday, followed by three new episodes March - a movie pre-emption on Academy Award night (March 5), then two new ones and a repeat April - three new episodes, two repeats (or two new ones and three repeats if they decide to show two new ones on May 21); one of those "repeats" may be a movie May - three new episodes, ending with the season finale on May 21 (May 28 is the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race); since that also may be the date of the King Of The Hill series finale, which I would presume would be an hour, Fox may show hour blocks of new episodes of The Simpsons and FG as well (in which case American Dad would end its season on 5/14).

-- Don

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:07:53 GMT, Don Del Grande scribed into the ether:

Hmm, true, I had misremembered. However, Family Guy was running new eps for most of the summer, which none of the others did. Technically it was "last season", but with only a 2 month gap, it's more like an extended break than a new season. I'm sure that cut into the production schedule for the regular midseason a bit.