According to MediaWeek, FOX now has to plans to waive Prison Break's hiatus. Just like last year, FOX had initial plans to pull the show at the end of November and bring it back in March with new episodes until the May finale. However, as has been the case lately, networks seem to be listening to viewers more than they used to. Last year, there were plenty of angry viewers when the jailbird drama took over three months off. Looks like FOX was paying attention.
Apparently, airing re-runs was brought up but ratings for second plays of serials like Prison Break usually aren't that good. Didn't FOX run a few Prison Break marathons on F/X last year though? Regardless, it looks like we'll be getting the second half of the sophomore drama earlier than we thought. Don't be misled though because it won't be 100% straight through the final eleven episodes. Prison Break will take the night off when 24 premieres in January and it will also be shelved for the two Mondays when FOX airs a couple of BCS college football games. After all that, it will return to it's normal run on Mondays with Prison Break at 8PM and 24 at 9PM. Sounds like good news to me.
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11-17-2006 @ 12:53PM
Chris W said...
It's funny how ABC kind of modeled Lost's schedule on the "success" of the Prison Break break, and now FOX thinks it was a bad idea all along. I think, scheduling wise, they should break up the traditional seasons, and just have full-schedul original programming year-round. Each (established) show would do it's full 22-23 episode run, uninterrupted, and when it's done another show takes over the timeslot. Lather, rinse, repeat. They could also find an ideal time to preview all their new shows (like have a mini pilot season that gets broadcast) so people can see if they like them before a commitment is made. And if a show performs poorly and gets shelved, have another show in production kick it into high gear and air that. It'll be more cyclical and people will always have *something* to watch.
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11-17-2006 @ 2:42PM
Erica said...
Yeah, the hiatus last year was torturous. So glad they changed their minds. Taking a serial format show off the air for months? Bad idea.
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11-17-2006 @ 4:39PM
MrAkai said...
I don't watch prison break but during Bones on Wednesday they were running promos for the "Last prison break of the year"
Did this change so suddenly?
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11-17-2006 @ 6:41PM
Quantumkat said...
The full original schedule is how they do it all over the world. I know reading about anime in Japan they just run all the episodes, no reruns. That's what DVD is for.
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