Primetime Pilot Panic: Fox Fall Sked

COMMENTS (21)

• Where is SCC!!

  Comment by SpinJF — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 8:47am PDT  Reply to this post

• I don’t watch either show but ‘Til Death as a lead-in for Dollhouse is absolutely hilarious. It’ll do…not well.

  Comment by Laura — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 9:07am PDT  Reply to this post

• What about The Battle of Maggie Hill? Is it dead or just on the back burner?

  Comment by blueyegirl — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 9:10am PDT  Reply to this post

• Sarah Connor is canceled.

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 9:12am PDT  Reply to this post

• Wait…so GLEE is starting in the fall with So You Think You Can Dance, being benched when Idol returns and then returning post-Idol later in the spring? That doesn’t make a lot of sense. Freshman shows which take long breaksi n the middle of their runs tend to be forgotten over the break (see: Life on Mars, Jerhico, Heroes, which saw its ratings dip after the first hiatus, and all the new shows that were impacted by the writer’s strike.) At this stage, it would be wise for Fox to air a few repeats of Glee here and there to keep it going or at the very least to air the second part of its season in January and start Human Target there after Glee runs out of episodes.

  Comment by Jake Lipson — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 9:26am PDT  Reply to this post

• I’d STILL like to know if WB is interested in rebooting a Terminator show at some point or if they’ve completely given up on the concept of a Terminator TV series.

  Could you find out for us, Nikki? I think a lot of TSCC fans would like to know.

  TSCC is dead as a doornail, but I think WB might still be interested in having a Terminator series IF the show could be redesigned to be more “Terminator” and be profitable as well as a PR device between Terminator movies.

  Comment by Richard Steven Hack — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 9:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• They really just have some monkey flinging poo at a sked board.

  And, Fox is clearly already run by SkyNet.

  Comment by motionview — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 9:58am PDT  Reply to this post

• I can’t believ Til Death is still around

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 9:59am PDT  Reply to this post

• Dollhouse????

  Man JW just doesn’t get it. You’re a one hit wonder. And before you fanboy asswipes talk about Angel check out a CBS show called Forever Night about a vampire cop long before Angel or Moonlight.

  Comment by Anon — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 10:19am PDT  Reply to this post

• No Sarah Connor. Plus they’re keeping the idiotic and misogynistic Dollhouse? No more Fox for me–ever. Why bother? Anything decent gets yanked so why get involved? So, I’m going to go read a book now. Maybe I should thank them — they have inadvertently improved my quality of life by sucking so much.

  Comment by awfulstink — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 10:45am PDT  Reply to this post

• Dollhouse is on because all the other stuff that could have been put on stunk. Fox is buying time until mid-season.

  Reportedly, Fox is making huge cuts, perhaps filming in Canada with a vastly reduced cast. Maybe each show will be Eliza Duskhu dancing around in her underwear.

  This is just “plug the leaks” until Fox can get their usual broad-appealing shows back on track.

  House, 24, American Idol … and Dollhouse. One of these is not like the other.

  Dollhouse cancelled or moved to FX midseason.

  Comment by whiskey — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 11:40am PDT  Reply to this post

• Dollhouse????

  Man JW just doesn’t get it. You’re a one hit wonder. And before you fanboy asswipes talk about Angel check out a CBS show called Forever Night about a vampire cop long before Angel or Moonlight.

  Comment by Anon — May 18, 2009 @ 10:19 am

  WORD!!!!!!!!!
  Moonlight is actually a remake of FOREVER KNIGHT! Joel Silver bought the show from Sony & tweeked it just a tad– some of the episode names are still the same (“Fever”, “Out Of The Past”)! Don’t let anyone tell you different.
  Dollhouse is implausible, misogynistic crap!
  This is definitely a penalty move.
  They’ll honor the contract then cancel it midseason.
  Firefly? Because no future should be w/out a hooker w/ a heart of gold?

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 11:47am PDT  Reply to this post

• Nikki, you have to get to the bottom of why Til Death is still on the air. I mean, we have to be talking blackmail here.

  Comment by AB — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 11:56am PDT  Reply to this post

• Why are they putting Sons of Tucson in the 8:30 Sunday slot? That’s the death seat for live-action comedy. That show is too good to waste.

  Comment by OldTimer — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 12:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• seeing SARAH CONNER cancelled + Dollhouse renewed makes little to no sense. awfulstink is totally right.

  The President of Fox Programming is an asshat. Without House & Fringe, they are one notch below the CW network.

  Comment by countess_lurkula — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 1:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• So weird to read what used to be my favorite network’s schedule and realize I am done with FOX. Could this schedule be less inspired?! When Liguori left so did the class and vision. Any news on his next move?

  Comment by ChangeThatChannel — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 5:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Fuck Wanda Sykes. Hear the crickets already.

  Cleveland is going to be big — best character on Family Guy.

  Comment by David — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 6:54pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Til Death coming back is purely a financial move… Sony made an offer FOX couldn’t refuse. Remember people–follow the money!

  Comment by B — Monday May 18, 2009 @ 7:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I am thrilled for Glee, they shoot across the way and it looks amazing!
  Past Life also is very good! Network TV sucks across the board imho, but I do plan to TIVO these two..

  Comment by jilly — Tuesday May 19, 2009 @ 1:40am PDT  Reply to this post

• It might just be business for Fox, but it’s personal for us. We invest hours out of our lives and $$ out of our pockets on their product; you’d think that repeatedly underestimating and alienating your audience would be a lousy long-term business practice. Do they actually HAVE a vision, or is their ‘vision’ just to go with whatever short-term money grab they can get?

  Comment by awfulstink — Tuesday May 19, 2009 @ 6:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Human Target picked up? Wow! I had the “pleasure” of working on the pilot..this thing is gone mid season, no question.

  Plus wasn’t Human Target a show that got canceled once before?

  Comment by Really? — Wednesday May 20, 2009 @ 9:37am PDT  Reply to this post