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After hastily rescheduling the baseball rain delay-plagued Wednesday night episode of The X Factor for next Tuesday, the network has tweaked its plans. Originally, Fox was to rebroadcast the entire two-hour Wednesday episode of X Factor, the first half of which aired in primetime on the East Coast and, due to a technical error, simultaneously on the West Coast. It was to preempt Fox’s fledgling comedy block and face an all-new The Voice in the 8 PM hour. Now Fox will keep comedies Raising Hope, Ben And Kate and New Girl from 8-9:30 PM as scheduled, followed by a re-cut one-hour episode of X Factor featuring the conclusion of the judges’ homes round. To do that, Fox is extending prime that night to 10:30 PM. The move means that there won’t be a direct Voice-X Factor clash on Tuesday.
Related: “Total F Up”: Baseball Rain Delay Pushes Tonight’s ‘X Factor’ To Tuesday
That is a little bit of a good news for the three comedies, though newbie The Mindy Project is not getting a reprieve. The 9-10 PM comedies New Girl and Mindy Project were already pre-empted for the Presidential debate this week, and the entire lineup will be benched again November 6 for Election Night coverage. That means freshman Mindy Project will be off for three out of four weeks between October 16 and November 6. Such pre-emtions early in the season are disruptive, especially for a new series that has not yet taken hold. Several weeks of a forced hiatus for baseball and X Factor last fall zapped then-freshman New Girl‘s great momentum. The hot comedy was down in its return to the schedule and never recovered.
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Poor Mindy!!! I’m on the fence about the show to begin with, but really want to like it. Creatively it feels a little schizophrenic — is it a workplace or relationship comedy? Perhaps that’s also contributed to it’s rating conundrum. I’m sticking with it — but fear now that scheduling will be it’s demise rather than allowing it to build an audience. I can’t watch X-Factor. Editing is terribly choppy and there’s more source music than actual singing in the first 2 weeks. Just feels like a stale re-tread of American Idol, whereas The Voice is a much more fresh take on the competition genre. I wish Fox would allow their scripted shows an opportunity to grow, rather than accommodate Simon Cowell’s bloated ego and moderate ratings.
I have an honest question…
I’ve been seeing the commercials for Mindy during the baseball playoffs. The commercial is cute in and of itself, certainly better than most promos, but why is Mindy playing the role of the g/f who knows nothing of sports? Mindy herself knows tons about sports, so it would make sense to have her deliver some funny life that shows her insight and love of the game…you know, sort of like the baseball fans who are WATCHING this very promo and game. Instead, it alienates the viewer to her. I have never seen such a terribly thought-out commercial spot. You’re making her into an annoyance but having her talk about the rapping panda bear commercial she likes when the male character (Messina?) is trying to watch the game. Sure, Mindy herself should have known this, but everyone who made this decision should be taken to the woodshed.
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The Fox execs are not “making” Kaling into an annoyance. She does a wonderful job of that all by herself.
She is just a terrible and annoying actress in this show and the show is so badly written it make her come off as aloof! Yet Fox decided to renew it and give the show two more episodes. Go figure.
That’s most likely a certain cancellation for Mindy’s show as it won’t recover from the hiatus. Well deserved!
Tuesday night was definitely one of the bigger programming train wrecks in recent memory. One would think FOX would have had something like a contingency to move the game to FX at 8 PM, but maybe their contract with MLB doesn’t allow for that. Hopefully they will have more flexibility with the new MLB contract, as these pitifully low baseball numbers really aren’t worth disrupting a schedule and thereby pissing off the producers of the shows affected – ESPECIALLY if one of the producers is Simon Cowell.
How great would it be for drama development if Fox extended primetime from 10 to 11? They could supplement the extra hours w a news mag show from dare I say it Fox News but dramas in the 10 pm hour on most nights could also help them have room for another night of comedy. More slots would give them opportunity to roll out some new hits.
this is a complete disaster for Mindy Project. It will most likely suffer the same way New Girl did as if it wasn’t doing bad enough.
And once again it’s becuase of The X Factor? As if that show was such a big deal anyway. Awful show that deserved what happened to them this week to show them that NOBODY needed two hours of judges saying the same crap to every contestant over and over again streching that damn episode as much as they could.
Mindy will fail because of this. I don’t understand why they can’t swap Mindy with any of the other three shows at least once so it doesn’t have to go off the air for three weeks.
Mindy Project just isn’t good. I know everyone wants to like it (I wanted to like it), but it’s not funny.
I think it’s simply a case of Mindy being a great supporting comedy presence and not a lead. The amount of snark she puts into her character makes it hard to like her and root for her. If she suddenly dropped the snark, it wouldn’t help matters. That’s her thing. She’s funny in the right spot. This show is not the right spot. There’s hardly any laughs there. Playing juvenile/self-centered works as a supporting character, not as the main character the show is built around.
When I compare it to New Girl, the antics of Nick and Schmidt carry a lot of the weight of the comedy. Zooey’s the straight man. Plus Zooey feels like the lead. You want to see her win in the end.
Mindy doesn’t elicit that from me unless she’s playing the scorned ex g/f of the male lead sent into a scene to embarrass him and steal the scene from him. She’s great at that.
Watching her wait on line to get into nightclub and brag about how NBA players in the club will love her because of her skin tone and the size of her ass was lame. If she was the crazy friend who said that, maybe. As the lead? I’m changing the channel.
I suspect the real reason is that Fox doesn’t want ABC to have reduced competition for the premiere of Happy Endings, and they want to avoid embarrassing X Factor vs The Voice comparisons.
Remember the movie “King of Hearts”? That’s about what Fox is like right about now.
This is just really embarrassing for Fox. There are so many better ways to handle this. They really look really stupid. Really.
I love The Mindy Show! It’s my favorite new show of the season AND my favorite comedy on television right now. Mindy’s hilarious and Chris Messina is a TOTAL BABE! I don’t think it’s going to be cancelled… I think more and more people are going to start watching. Mindy is the THE FUNNIEST new show on the air and I’m routing for it. So, suck it, Haters!!! I <3 Mindy!!!
I too think it’s highly likely that the Mindy Project will be put out of its misery, and sooner rather than later. I get the good will out there for it – one wants talent to succeed – but it just does not work. (That goes double for Ben & Kate – I can’t understand why anyone likes that show, and I know that it does have something of a following.) I think Mindy Kaling is better off writing shows (and books) rather than appearing on them. She’s not much of an actress at all, even in support roles. Everyone on the Mindy Project gave it their best shot, but it’s just not an interesting or particularly enjoyable show.
By taking so many weeks off while still in production Mindy is just racking up episodes. So it will not only be gone later as opposed to sooner (assuming they air all of the episodes produced) but it will also have more episodes than all of the other comedies and will likely have to air alone once. Such a mess at Fox right now.
well if theyre going to cut the announcement of the 16 contestants that are making it to live shows in an hour, that just tells me that they do have tons of filler all the time…maybe they need to cut the shows like that…guess we’ll mix all the idiotic scripted battle and t he closeups at the judges as they all say what they like and didnt , try to surprise the contestant and force drama and try to psych them out before they say “I finally made my decision….
Maybe FOX would be better served in expanding primetime up to 10 PM CT down the road, like the other major broadcast networks.
Wow, poor Mindy, and all this hate for the show. I personally think it’s hysterical and hope it will recover.