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| Late Summer, FOX launched its serial thriller "Prison Break" as essentially a place holder until the arrival of the fifth season of "24". With its slot as the first new drama of the season to premiere, the network had hopes it would do enough to last out its run and then the Kiefer Sutherland juggernaut could move in. Then a surprise came - it did well, very well. Ok maybe not "House" or "24" at its peak well, but certainly enough to raise eyebrows. Its pilot scored 10.5 million viewers, a great number which the network was very happy with but many expected it drop significantly once more regular scheduled programming returned on other networks. It didn't. Despite a recent three-week hiatus for a dismally rating baseball world series, "Prison Break" has dropped less than 5-10% of its viewer numbers from its strong pilot - managing 9.2 million on average before the hiatus, whilst its first episode back scored 9.8 million viewers. However, even with a loyal fanbase built, it now looks like the network might ruin it. Why? Its time for "24" to move back into that timeslot. "Prison Break" goes on hiatus again on November 28th along with most shows as they take their Christmas/New Year break. Instead of returning it mid-January in a new timeslot though, a rep from the network revealed to USA Today that the final nine episodes of the season will be pushed all the way back to May to air over the Summer. The question remains, will the audience still be around? |
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| One victim of Fox's early rebound is Prison Break. Designed as a placeholder for 24, which returns Jan. 8, Break is scheduled to complete its initial 13-week run Nov. 28, but won't return to finish its first season until May. "The appeal of creatively bringing it back later in the year and keeping it on in the summer outweighs the disruption it would cause" to try to fit in the nine remaining episodes sooner, says scheduling chief Preston Beckman. |
| QUOTE (Crichton Kicks @ Nov 1 2005, 03:04 PM) |
| You see Moe, this is Fox we're talking about here, so does it really surprise anyone that they're managing to screw yet another decent show over ? They could simply have moved it to another night, but no, let's just screw it like we always do. Great attitude from Fox, highlighting once again why they'll never challenge the likes of ABC, NBC or CBS :rolleyes: |
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Prison Break is their third most watched show atm and at that it's still pulling in around 2.5 million more than their most watched show last fall.... I mean, really... it makes no sense. :mad: One thing that has always worried me about Prison Break (and I can see them using this as a possible justification to themselves) is that it's arguably a "one-season" show. So I'm guessing they don't mind messing around with it because of this. Even with that, you'd think they'd try to highly utilise it as much as they can seeing as it is pulling the viewers in. Ah well, guess it gives us something to look forward to after all the other shows finish. :rolleyes: |