And so begins the shuffle...
Since Fox started its season early, the fist shake up of the season for them is right on schedule. Everyone else should be hitting this point in about a month.
Fox Shuffles New Season Shows
Tweaking the fall lineup as baseball playoffs take control of the network’s air, Fox is shuffling the schedules of freshman shows Happy Hour and Justice, while two others, Til Death and Standoff, are taking a week-long break from production.
Happy Hour is being preempted this Thursday by a repeat episode of it's lead-in, ‘Til Death. A repeat of ‘Til Death will also bump a planned repeat of Happy Hour’s pilot this Sunday.
In an attempt to get Justice out of the way of the third-season premiere of ABC’s Lost, will not air next week, the new courtroom drama will be replaced replaced by a repeat episode of House.
I'm actually surprised that it's 'Til Death that's being bumped. I was half expecting Happy Hour to go away and never come back, as it has yet to actually find it's stride. (Of course, it also seems that they're showing their episodes out of order--either that or the writers have no concept of character and continuity at all.) Maybe they're just going to end up burning off what they've got of it while they stockpile 'Til Death content.
Justice may last for the rest of the season, but Standoff just isn't going to win in a, well, standoff with anything else that's come up this season. There's only so many hostage situations you can see before they all start looking the same--or worse, start looking like the evening news. At least with lawyer shows and police procedurals you have a built-in variety.
Also...
It seems that John Eggerton over at the Broadcasting and Cable Blog hated everything about Heroes that I loved. I'm guessing that he's a bit older and slightly more conservative than I am. I tend to prefer my superheroes a little depressed at the beginning--especially if their teenagers or twenty-somethings. Cheery people of that age just don't come across as realistic in this day and age. Especially if they're outsiders. And the spandex and cape age of superheores may not be gone in comics, but it generally translates poorly to the small screen (the big screen, generally, gets away with it by using rubber, leather, molded muscles and dim lighting). If he wants feel-good camp, he can pick up the 1960's Batman series on DVD. The modern superhero is about overcoming that worst adversary--one's own troubled mind and broken feelings.
Fox Shuffles New Season Shows
Tweaking the fall lineup as baseball playoffs take control of the network’s air, Fox is shuffling the schedules of freshman shows Happy Hour and Justice, while two others, Til Death and Standoff, are taking a week-long break from production.
Happy Hour is being preempted this Thursday by a repeat episode of it's lead-in, ‘Til Death. A repeat of ‘Til Death will also bump a planned repeat of Happy Hour’s pilot this Sunday.
In an attempt to get Justice out of the way of the third-season premiere of ABC’s Lost, will not air next week, the new courtroom drama will be replaced replaced by a repeat episode of House.
I'm actually surprised that it's 'Til Death that's being bumped. I was half expecting Happy Hour to go away and never come back, as it has yet to actually find it's stride. (Of course, it also seems that they're showing their episodes out of order--either that or the writers have no concept of character and continuity at all.) Maybe they're just going to end up burning off what they've got of it while they stockpile 'Til Death content.
Justice may last for the rest of the season, but Standoff just isn't going to win in a, well, standoff with anything else that's come up this season. There's only so many hostage situations you can see before they all start looking the same--or worse, start looking like the evening news. At least with lawyer shows and police procedurals you have a built-in variety.
Also...
It seems that John Eggerton over at the Broadcasting and Cable Blog hated everything about Heroes that I loved. I'm guessing that he's a bit older and slightly more conservative than I am. I tend to prefer my superheroes a little depressed at the beginning--especially if their teenagers or twenty-somethings. Cheery people of that age just don't come across as realistic in this day and age. Especially if they're outsiders. And the spandex and cape age of superheores may not be gone in comics, but it generally translates poorly to the small screen (the big screen, generally, gets away with it by using rubber, leather, molded muscles and dim lighting). If he wants feel-good camp, he can pick up the 1960's Batman series on DVD. The modern superhero is about overcoming that worst adversary--one's own troubled mind and broken feelings.