Posts Tagged ‘FOX’
D-days looming for "House," "Fringe" and "Terra Nova"
by Ed Bark on January 9th 2012 at 10:52 pm
PASADENA, Calif. -- Will House have a home next season? Is Fringe an almost sure goner? And are those dinosaurs on Terra Nova fated to become extinct anew? Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly admittedly has been putting those questions off while basking in the network's best fall ratings in its 25-year history. But the Clark Kent-ish programming exec knows that days of reckoning must come soon. "The truth is most of the time we are having to piss people off," he said Sunday during Fox's leg of the ongoing Television Critics Association press tour. "We have to do things that… read more »
Fox again does a two-step by unveiling both fall and midseason programming plans
by Ed Bark on May 16th 2011 at 6:30 pm
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Some of its best-laid plans invariably go awry as viewers decide what they like and don't like. But on paper at least, Fox again has its 2011-12 prime-time lineups in place for both fall and midseason. Fall's biggest splashes are the previously announced The X Factor, which will reunite Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul as judges, and the Steven Spielberg-produced Terra Nova, a combination futuristic/prehistoric drama scheduled to join House on Monday nights for a planned 13-episode Season 1 run. Fox also has a showy midseason replacement for Terra Nova, with Lost and Fringe creator J.J. Abrams' Alcatraz announced as… read more »
Fox has fewer spots and two new biggies already assured of fall premieres
by Ed Bark on April 28th 2011 at 11:17 pm
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Fox's biggest fall plan already is penciled in -- the big, splashy debut of Simon Cowell's The X Factor. Also already announced: the delay of Fox's big-budget, Steven Spielberg-produced Terra Nova from a planned two-part spring "sneak preview" to a guaranteed spot on next season's prime-time schedule. All of which means that Fox, which already programs fewer hours than its competitors, is not going to have many available slots when it announces its fall 2011 plans on May 16th. With that in mind, here's Part 3 of our series on what's likely to survive and perish from this season's crop.… read more »
