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The second season of Fox‘s Touch, originally slated for a fall launch and then pushed to February 1, will have to wait another week. The series starring Kiefer Sutherland will kick off its sophomore season with a two-hour premiere on Friday, February 8. Starting the following week, the drama will settle into its regular Friday 9 PM slot, likely following Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, which currently airs in the time period.
Meanwhile, Fox is still not confirming that Mob Doctor has been cancelled, though the struggling freshman is not getting a back order beyond the original 13 episodes, making cancellation a foregone conclusion. All of them will air — Fox has set the airing pattern for the remaining four episodes of Mob Doctor‘s 13-episode order, which includes a mix of broadcasts in its regular Monday time slot and outings on the dead-as-a-doornail Saturday night: Saturday, December 29; New Year’s Eve, Monday, December 31; Saturday, January 5; and Monday, January 7.
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The last three episodes of “Mob Doctor” will:
(1) Run on New Year’s Eve (Monday, December 31st), when many people will be out. Those who do watch TV that night will either watch ESPN’s Chick-Fil-A college football bowl game or ABC’s tribute to Dick Clark which will precede “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2013″ (which will now be hosted by Ryan Seacrest).
(2) Air Saturday, January 5th, head-to-head against an NFL playoff game on NBC.
(3) Air Monday, January 7th against ESPN’s broadcast of the NCAA Bowl Championship Series finals (Notre Dame against the winner of this Saturday’s [December 1st]] Georgia/Alabama game). The BCS finale will likely be the most-watched cable TV program ever and may be surpassed in total viewers only by the NFL’s eleven post-season’s games.
I would expect that the “Mob Doctor” finale will be the only first-run entertainment program that night on either broadcast or cable; I expect every other English-language broadcast or cable network that airs entertainment on Monday night will carry reruns because the BCS Finals will score such huge numbers.
Those three last episodes may end up being the lowest-rated Fox primetime shows ever!
In my post above, I meant to note that the BCS championship on January 7th would not only be the most-watched cable show ever, but also would be the 12th most-watched television program of the 2012/2013 TV season, surpassed only by the NFL’s 11 post-season games (four wild-card games, four conference semifinal games, the two conference championship games, and Super Bowl XLVII).
Sorry to confuse you.
Please don’t air Touch opposite CSI-New York, this will be a big mistake…………
I LOVE Touch!!!! Every good show is taken off the air.