So, there will be one new "King of the Hill" this fall, a 2-hour finale.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/yep-king-of-the-hill-gets-september-finale/
According to this article: http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/08/king-of-the-hill-abdicates-throne-in-september.html
there will be 4 unaired episodes. No word on plans for them, though. I suspect they'll show up on DVD, but who knows?
-- R Flowers
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:50:44 -0500, "R Flowers" wrote:
Damn, I was hoping for Piggy's death. And is it a 2 hour finale, or just a 2 part (30 min ea.) finale?
Piggy Hell wrote:
Neither. It is two separate episodes that Fox schedules as an hour-long single episode with two titles. (Fox does this with most of its shows when they air two new episodes back-to-back - my guess is, if you record the episodes on a DVR, you don't run into the problem of having 5-10 seconds ending up missing in the switchover from the machine ending the first episode's recording to the starting of the second episode's recording.)
The four "unaired" episodes will air in syndication, from what I have heard. Nothing new about this; an episode of "Home Improvement" that ABC never aired made it into syndication.
-- Don
Don Del Grande wrote in news:[email]:
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Change the second "episode" to "broadcast." Two episodes are two episodes regardless how a network shows them. This concept confuses many people who quote episode totals.
(Fox does this with most of
That's true (usually it's when ratings are so low on a series that the network "gives up" on the remaining episodes) but you just indicated they would be broadcast albeit not in a 30-minute format so it's not the same thing..
Wiseguy wrote:
Broadcast, hour-long block, whatever. It's "one hour-long entry in the TiVo listings".
(I'm quite familiar with "episode count" arguments, having followed Nickelodeon cartoons since the 1990s - does a 30-minute SpongeBob SquarePants "broadcast" consisting of two "stories" count as one episode or two? Nickelodeon like to say two, so they can claim their shows get to 100 (for example) "episodes" twice as fast.)
What do you mean, "broadcast, albeit not in a 30-minute format"? There are six episodes that have yet to air. Fox will air two of them on September 13 (and, unless they do something strange, each one will air in its "normal 30-minute format" with their own opening and closing credits); the other four are the ones that will premiere in syndication.
-- Don
Don Del Grande wrote in news:[email]:
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Make up your mind. Is it an hour-long episode or two-episodes with their own opening and closing credits?
What I said and am still saying is it doesn't matter how FOX shows it. Two episodes are two episodes are two episodes.
I wasn't referring to the syndicated episodes at all.
Wiseguy wrote:
It's two episodes, each with their own opening and closing credits.
-- Don
Don Del Grande wrote in news:[email]:
That's not the statement I originally responded to.
"Piggy Hell" wrote in message news:[email]...
As Don said elsewhere, it's 2 episodes. My mistake.
-- R Flowers