pre-emptions

ABC's recent pre-emptions, and the decision to air its finale out of pattern this coming Sunday, are a pretty clear sign this one's being shown the door.

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Disruptions will probably be limited to pre-emptions in the first prime-time hour, but some later reshuffling of the schedule is also possible.

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Honestly, Fringe is so lucky just to still be on the air, though in retrospect, maybe Fox would have been better advised to delay the season until the new year, running it straight through the way 24 used to be programmed, thus avoiding the World Series disruptions and other pre-emptions including Thanksgiving weekend, and dropping in one last episode in December wouldn't have made much sense or difference.

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I'm sure this complaint will rear its head again in the spring, when repeats and pre-emptions are common for many shows through March and April.

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And after several weeks of pre-emptions creating havoc for its scheduling, the underrated Detroit 1-8-7 reaches its endpoint this week, with a new episode Tuesday and the finale airing out of pattern this Sunday.

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Only a few idiots in the press or the blogosphe have suggested Obama wants an all-out invasion/pre-emptions, and only a few partisans on here have clung to those descriptions.

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And I happen to think NBC handled those pre-emptions very well by grouping the "Heroes" episodes into 3 chapters.

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If the Writers Guild of America strike continues for several weeks or months and leads to prolonged pre-emptions for this already vulnerable series the end result could be catastrophic.

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The drama will then run non-stop through the end of May 2007 without repeats and pre-emptions, as it did in 2005 and 2006.

Televisionista Justin Van De Kamp 2006

That means there are 35 weeks in a season, that is at least 13 weeks will be pre-emptions or reruns if, of course, the show is successful enough to air throughout the entire season.

Archive 2006-11-01 Justin Van De Kamp 2006