There’s going to be a little bit more of The Mindy Project and New Girl on Fox in April. The network announced today that it would be airing new episodes of the comedy series on April 4 right after American Idol. That’s a big lead-in boost for the shows, which usually air on Tuesdays. A “Date Night” episode of New Girl will be broadcast at 9 PM right after Idol, with an episode of The Mindy Project following at 9:30 PM. Fox did have an encore of Glee scheduled in the April 4 Thursday night slot but decided to move it to give the comedies a little bit of Idol love as it has for other shows like Touch and Glee itself in previous years.
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Love New Girl. I cry with laughter during every episode. Mindy–not so much.
AI, tired of it. Blah blah blah sob story dramatic cut judges argue. Snore.
Hmmm, interesting move by FOX. A chance to test out how well New Girl and Mindy might work at 9pm on Thursday this fall. With Office leaving, there is going to be a comedy-vacuum at 9pm on Thursday nights.
I believe CBS will make changes at 9pm [2.5 Men] this fall, ABC will as well, and I still think Glee will move to 8pm in the fall [prior to Idol's return in January'14]. Perhaps Fox is looking at a Glee-New Girl-Mindy Thursday night lineup? Not a bad idea – all the networks will be making changes in that key 9pm Thursday slot come fall’13.
I was wondering why considering New Girl is a highly rated and viewed show. but after reading the comment above it makes alot of sense lets just hope CBS doesnt move big bang to nine or move How i met your mother to thursdays to get good ratings for its last season. because new girl will get screwed considering its the same audience as big bang. Side note if all these changes actually happen please move Community if it comes back to a better time cause if NBC really is being honest and they want to give community a season 5 they cant keep pairing it with Big Bang its the same audience for both a Community needs a fair night to survive