Fox Announces Midseason Sched: ‘Touch’ Gets Monday 9 PM Slot, ‘American Idol’ Paired With ‘Mobbed’ On Wednesdays

COMMENTS (22)

• Is it me or is this the most confusing schedule ever?

  Comment by Tommy — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 12:51pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I agree. I HATE when they do ‘previews’ and then air the follow-up a more than a month after the initial airing. And with how this is organized, I need to create a cheat sheet to keep on me to remind myself when things are airing. It’s not exactly ‘viewer’ friendly.

    Comment by Chris — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 1:10pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I agree.

    Comment by Anonymous — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 1:33pm PST  Reply to this post

  • It’s not you. It IS the most confusing schedule ever!

    Comment by MattW — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 2:03pm PST  Reply to this post

• Is it me or is there a lot of interesting new shows out this midseason. Between Touch, Smash, The River, Missing, The Firm, GCB, Apartment 23. There seems to be a lot of really good shows this midseason.

  Comment by Jack — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 1:16pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I was hoping that Awake would make it at NBC, but overall, there are several interesting shows anyway.

    Comment by scifi_fan — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 4:18pm PST  Reply to this post

• So, does that mean that Alcatraz will only have 11 episodes? Considering that the show will enter its first season with a two-parter and exit it with one as well, I can’t figure out whether this is a good or a bad sign from FOX.

  Comment by Data — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 1:29pm PST  Reply to this post

• How is FOX going to get 22 episodes of Bob’s Burgers aired unless they extend it into the summer?

  Also, as Nellie pointed out, FOX is short 1 1/2 comedy for the Tuesday comedy block and are showing New Girl encores. Uhhhh, what about I Hate My Teenage Daughter, which you left off the schedule?

  Comment by Don J — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 1:32pm PST  Reply to this post

• Breaking In gets an encore as its lead-in, proving its a burnoff and was an unnecessary pickup(even though it escaped Friday).

  Comment by Jay Kay — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 1:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• I don’t know but I hate my teenage daughter is one of the worst shows ever

  Comment by Aeiouy — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 1:50pm PST  Reply to this post

• When will the nets learn that we’re not very interested watching Christain Slater in a weekly drama or comedy? As evidenced by his past failures. I’m also predicting a 2 to 3 million average drop in Idol viewers due to the oversaturation of this tired genre.
  I Hate My Teenage Daughter was quite funny and Alcatraz looks very promising.

  Comment by Loudog — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 2:30pm PST  Reply to this post

• “I hate my teenage daughter’ was BEYOND embarrassing. what a piece of crap. jamie should be embarrased and get another agent!…as should everyone else envolved in this mess

  Comment by perspective — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 3:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• Isn’t Fox going to run several NASCAR races in prime-time on Saturday nights in March, and then broadcast Major League Baseball every Saturday night from early April through the Summer??

  Comment by Joseph — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 3:33pm PST  Reply to this post

• I think this season midseason is 100 more stronger than Fall.
  FOX has some great shows, Alcatraz and Touch. I can’t wait for NBC. Smash and The Firm . And ABC Missing and the River are in my list too.
  I wonder why networks have their best looking shows for midseason.
  I think Smash will be the biggest hit this season.

  Comment by Samuel — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 3:40pm PST  Reply to this post

• I have watched the Alcatraz promo and it looks really good.
  I am really excited about midseason , seems a lot of new great shows will air. The Fall new shows were not that great, I am only watching Once Upon. a time.
  In my opinion the best new midseason shows are Smash , Alcatraz , Touch and Missing.

  Comment by Sarah — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 4:40pm PST  Reply to this post

• Looks like FOX is pulling another Dollhouse: Renewing a good show because of vocal fans, only to place it in a situation where it’s destined to fail. That way they can spin it and say “Well we renewed it and tried but the show just couldn’t get the viewers.” It’s such a blatantly transparent move — what other good reason do they have for moving New Girl to the end of the night? Just stupid.

  Comment by Marc — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 4:47pm PST  Reply to this post

• Ah yes, scripted. The more, the better.

  Comment by Dr. Flo — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 6:29pm PST  Reply to this post

• What the hell kind of schedule is this? Damn is it confusing.

  Comment by Jed — Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 7:23pm PST  Reply to this post

• One confusing schedule alright. I do hope they bring back I Hate MY Teenage Daughter. Being the mom of 2 teenage girls there was quite a lot I could relate with. I could see it needs some tweaking here and there. More true-to-life. Perhaps the writers could enlist a real mom of teens. Talk to some teen girls even. Unscripted reality is much better than scripted reality..

  Comment by Zandra Pendleton — Friday December 2, 2011 @ 1:25am PST  Reply to this post

• No “Terra Nova”? Is it being cancelled or just has a later premiere date?

  Comment by Keith — Friday December 2, 2011 @ 8:55am PST  Reply to this post

  • Due to their overseas budget, Terra Nova is only committed to 13 episodes a season, Keith.

    If it comes back for a 2nd season – it won’t be until next fall.

    ~

    Coat

    Comment by Cary Coatney — Friday December 2, 2011 @ 4:31pm PST  Reply to this post

• NBC and FOX have the least viewer-friendly schedules. They are way to hard to figure out.

  It’s no wonder viewers are sick of broadcast television. They can’t figure out when a show is on and when they do, it’s been cancelled or put on hiatus due to low ratings.

  That’s the problem with a creative business run by straight-up, analytical numbers people.

  Comment by Terrence — Friday December 2, 2011 @ 1:27pm PST  Reply to this post