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Finally Terminator moves. This might mess me up for Sci-fi channel stuff however but I hope the move increases ratings. Lucky they repeat Sci-fi stuff same day in most cases.
20th Century Fox has passed along their 2008-2009 midseason schedule with one of the obvious points of interest being their decision to air two genre shows on Fridays, which is a night where most shows go to die. Here's the new midseason schedule.
The wait is almost over as FOX announces premiere dates of new and returning series as well as revisions to its 2008-2009 midseason schedule.
January starts with the not-to-be-missed blockbuster premieres of 24 and AMERICAN IDOL. As previously announced, the non-stop action begins and a new day dawns for JACK BAUER (Kiefer Sutherland) when 24 returns with an explosive two-night, four-hour season premiere Sunday, Jan. 11 and Monday, Jan. 12 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). AMERICAN IDOL, television's No. 1 show, returns for Season Eight with a two-night, four-hour premiere event Tuesday, Jan. 13 and Wednesday, Jan. 14 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).
All-new episodes of HOUSE, BONES, TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES and HOLE IN THE WALL will air on new nights in midseason. Get real on Mondays with all-new episodes of HOUSE leading into real-time drama 24. Emmy-winning medical drama HOUSE moves to Mondays (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and has its time period premiere Jan. 19 followed by the time period premiere of 24 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).
FRINGE, the No. 1 new series of the season among Adults 18-49, will air in its regular time period Tuesdays (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) after AMERICAN IDOL starting Jan. 20.
LIE TO ME, the compelling new drama from the producers of 24, debuts Wednesday, Jan. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) after AMERICAN IDOL and stars Tim Roth ("The Incredible Hulk," "Reservoir Dogs") as DR. CAL LIGHTMAN, the world's leading deception expert who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover not only if someone is lying, but why. When someone shrugs one shoulder, rotates a hand or raises the lower lip, Lightman knows he's lying. Based on the real-life scientific discoveries of Paul Ekman, the series follows Lightman and his team of deception experts as they assist law enforcement and government agencies to expose the truth behind the lies.
BOOTH (David Boreanaz), BRENNAN (Emily Deschanel) and the Jeffersonian team will continue to dig up more murders when BONES moves to Thursdays (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) beginning Jan. 15 followed by more all-new episodes of KITCHEN NIGHTMARES (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). On Thursday, Jan. 29 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), Chef Gordon Ramsay steps into another kitchen to serve up a fifth course of HELL'S KITCHEN, the unscripted series that puts wannabe restaurateurs through a rigorous one-of-a-kind culinary boot camp.
On Friday, Feb. 13, FOX presents a thrilling new action-packed lineup featuring the return and time period premiere of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and the highly anticipated series premiere of Joss Whedon's DOLLHOUSE (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). DOLLHOUSE reunites Whedon with Eliza Dushku ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), who stars as a member of a highly illegal underground group of individuals who have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas.
Saturday staples COPS (8:00-8:30 and 8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) and AMERICA'S MOST WANTED: AMERICA FIGHTS BACK (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) continue in their regular time periods with all-new episodes. MADtv (11:00 PM-Midnight ET/PT) and TALKSHOW WITH SPIKE FERESTEN (Midnight-12:30 AM ET/PT) continue their late-night laughs with a mix of encore and original episodes.
Sundays find the right fit with the time period premieres of back-to-back episodes of HOLE IN THE WALL (7:00-7:30 and 7:30-8:00 PM ET/PT) beginning Jan. 18. Following HOLE IN THE WALL, Animation Domination continues with a mixture of encore and all-new episodes of THE SIMPSONS (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT), KING OF THE HILL (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT), FAMILY GUY (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) and AMERICAN DAD (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT).
RECAP FOX MIDSEASON SCHEDULE
(All times ET/PT except as noted)
MONDAY
Monday, Jan. 5:
7:30 PM-CC ET TOSTITOS FIESTA BOWL (LIVE)
Monday, Jan. 12:
8:00-10:00 PM 24 (Season Premiere, Part 2)
Mondays, beginning Jan. 19:
8:00-9:00 PM HOUSE (Time Period Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM 24 (Time Period Premiere)
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TUESDAY
Tuesday, Jan. 13:
8:00-10:00 PM AMERICAN IDOL (Season Premiere, Part 1)
Tuesdays, beginning Jan. 20:
8:00-9:00 PM AMERICAN IDOL (Time Period Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM FRINGE
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WEDNESDAY
Wednesday, Jan. 14:
8:00-10:00 PM AMERICAN IDOL (Season Premiere, Part 2)
Wednesdays, beginning Jan. 21:
8:00-9:00 PM AMERICAN IDOL (Time Period Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM LIE TO ME (Series Premiere)
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THURSDAY
Thursday, Jan. 1:
7:30 PM-CC ET FEDEX ORANGE BOWL (LIVE)
Thursday, Jan. 8:
7:30 PM-CC ET FEDEX BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME (LIVE)
Thursdays, beginning Jan. 15:
8:00-9:00 PM BONES (Time Period Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM KITCHEN NIGHTMARES
Thursdays, beginning Jan. 29:
8:00-9:00 PM BONES
9:00-10:00 PM HELL'S KITCHEN (Season Premiere)
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FRIDAY
Friday, Jan. 2:
7:30 PM-CC ET ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL (LIVE)
Friday, Jan. 9:
8:00-10:00 PM FOX MOVIE SPECIAL: BRUCE ALMIGHTY
Fridays, beginning Jan. 16 (no change to lineup):
8:00-9:00 PM ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th GRADER?
9:00-10:00 PM DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS!
Fridays, beginning Feb. 13:
8:00-9:00 PM TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES (Time Period Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM DOLLHOUSE (Series Premiere)
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SATURDAY
Saturdays, beginning Jan. 3 (no change to lineup):
8:00-8:30 PM COPS
8:30-9:00 PM COPS
9:00-10:00 PM AMERICA'S MOST WANTED: AMERICA FIGHTS BACK
11:00 PM-Midnight MADtv
Midnight-12:30 AM TALKSHOW WITH SPIKE FERESTEN
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SUNDAY
Sunday, Jan. 11:
8:00-10:00 PM 24 (Season Premiere, Part 1)
Sundays, beginning Jan. 18:
7:00-7:30 PM HOLE IN THE WALL (Time Period Premiere)
7:30-8:00 PM HOLE IN THE WALL (Time Period Premiere)
8:00-10:00 PM ANIMATION DOMINATION (THE SIMPSONS, KING OF THE HILL, FAMILY GUY and AMERICAN DAD)
[PRISON BREAK and 'TIL DEATH will return to the schedule at a later date.]
Finally Terminator moves. This might mess me up for Sci-fi channel stuff however but I hope the move increases ratings. Lucky they repeat Sci-fi stuff same day in most cases.
Good Move on the Sarah Connor Chronicles.. It's on early enough that i can still go out on my Friday nites. I want a Season 3.
SCC move to Friday is good news as far as I'm concerned. Monday nights is just too busy. I don't have any must watch shows Fridays except when BSG returns and that's 10pm showing here and lets me try that Dollhouse series. I like it.
That hole in the wall, is that like a glory hole? If it is I may watch
Yeah it is a good thing Sci-Fi repeats their Friday line-up. That way i can record all the genre shows I like .
Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't every sci fi show that fox has put on Friday nights been a death sentence? I remember waaaaay back when X-files used to be a Friday night show then they moved it to Sunday and the ratings took off.
It will be intersting to see when sci-fi channel puts their shows on...if SCC runs up against Dr. Who..then who cares but if it goes up against BSG...ugh, that would suck and really wouldn't benefit either show.
I believe that Prison Break usually takes a long hiatus half way through the season (isn't taht what has happened every season so far?). They usually end on a big mid-season cliffhanger and are off air for 3 months or so before coming back.
Atlantis is done Jan, 9th, and I don't believe SG: Universe is on until the summer, so who knows what Sci-Fi Friday will be like when these new line-ups on FOX go into effect. Is BSG back this winter? I thought it was done. Also, Doctor Who won't be back for somt time except for a couple of specials here and there until 2010 or so.
Hobbs, I do believe you are correct. I seem to recall that Fridays is were all really good FOX shows go to die, so I don't really like the move for Terminator. It also doesn't look good for Doll House. Hell, FOX almost cancelled this show before it ever it the air with all the rewrites and producing a new pilot b/c they weren't happy with what was being done. Hopefully, I'm wrong and this starts a new era on FOX, but I don't have high hopes. Remember, this is were FOX put Firefly during its short run in 2002 before they aired a final 3 episodes on Mondays in late July and early August in 2003, but by that time the show was already done.
Thankfully someone at Fox seems to have grown a brain....
Terminator NEVER should have been put in its Monday slot this fall (although winter would be fine) -- seriously splitting the male audience with Monday Night Football and Chuck and then the "couple" audience with Dancing with the Stars ... and forget any chance of women watching up against Gossip Girl etc ....
Friday is a much better choice although BSG will be back on SciFi its shows twice and isn't on till 9pm I think.
Ahem! Women watch Gossip Girl? Speaking as a woman, I have to say that I wouldn't touch Gossip Girl with a 10 foot pole. On Mondays I'm too busy watching Terminator and taping Chuck. But even if there wasn't anything else on in that time period I liked I STILL wouldn't watch Gossip Girl.
This move to Fridays is more convienent for me, but I don't know what it will do for the show.
Nice, maybe Sarah will find new life there on Fridays.
Where is Prison Break? Does that end before January? It can't be canceled cause it had been picked up for a full season.