Exclusive: #FRINGE will end the season with eight original episodes in a row.
— masked scheduler (@maskedscheduler) February 2, 2012
FOX will bench its Friday drama "Fringe" for the first three weeks of March, network sources have confirmed to the site exclusively.
Additional repeats of "Kitchen Nightmares" will fill the show's Friday, 9:00/8:00c time period during said stretch. "Fringe" will then return on March 23 with originals for the rest of the season.
Source: The Futon Critic
No surprise there. Good to know though. Thanks!
ReplyDeletebig fan of the 8 weeks back to back, no so much of the 3 week break.
ReplyDeleteOh that break will be tough but happy to get 8 weeks of new eps in a row
ReplyDeleteThose will be three very long weeks. Specially that it will take place after episode 15...
ReplyDeleteBest thing that could happen for the show... Fringe's ratings are far stronger when the episodes air in larger batches.
ReplyDeleteI'm being cautiously optimistic about a season five at the moment... Guess we shall see!
This is really kind of non-news. The only thing that's changed is that previously, Fringe was going to have only a 2-week break.
ReplyDeleteYour right the ratings are better this way and yeah I know it sounds insane to some but I think it could get a S5 13 episode order.
ReplyDeleteAt least 3 weeks will be easier to take than that last break was.
ReplyDeleteI think it will be after episode 14
ReplyDeleteThe season finale will be on my birthday, Best Birthday Ever. This birthday will only be spent with my Fringe friends.
ReplyDeleteThat's good. I'd rather wait a bit for them all to air every week until the end. It should help with ratings, too.
ReplyDeletehopefully season not series
ReplyDeleteWell, I can't say I'm happy about the hiatus; but I'm glad they're not putting it against March Madness. Poor Fringe got creamed last year.
ReplyDeletesounds good the 8 week back to back i just hope they renew fringe for a 5th seasons
ReplyDelete3 weeks is a perfectly acceptable tradeoff for 8 weeks straight! I'm down for that!
ReplyDeleteFor a moment there I thought they meant back-to-back on the same night. HaHa
ReplyDeleteOh goodie, Kitchen Nightmares, just what every Fringe fan wants to see! Really?! WTH Fox?!! I'm sick of the best shows getting pushed aside for crappy shows just because Fox is full of a bunch of greedy bastards who are too cheap to stand behind great TV. We've already endured a 2 month "hiatus" and now we have to endure another 3 weeks?! Fox is pushing the limits of acceptability. What, are their programming managers ADD? Can they not just let a series run a season without constantly interrupting the flow? Is this what programming has come to? Schizophrenic, sporadic and inconsistency? No wonder people are turning to the internet for their viewing content!
ReplyDeleteexcited for the 8 episodes in a row but noo a 3 week break!! =(
ReplyDeleteSo the post-February sweeps break is longer than expected. No big deal. Hopefully Fringe will end on a better episode than they did for the winter break.
ReplyDeleteStrategically this is great for the show. There would have at least been two weeks of Fringe re-runs in the first place in March and now it's not up against NCAA Basketball which KILLS in the ratings and goes on for about three weeks straight on CBS. 8 weeks in a row of a show that has heart stopping conclusions at the end of each week? I'll take that. And ALL shows go on hiatus in March as they come off of Feb sweeps and gear up for the season finales. This is actually a great move and much better than what happened in the fall with baseball. Kitchen Nightmares is airing b/c the show is much cheaper to make and it's audiences are totally different than what watches NCAA sports. It's counter programming so the network makes money and so that Fringe doesn't get bad ratings by splitting the audience even more from the show and sports.
ReplyDeletethat's good last 8 episodes will be back to back
ReplyDeleteSeriously, these hiatuses have to stop. This is becoming a very bad joke now. There's no stupid holidays, no world series, and it's not summer. Air new episodes!!!!
ReplyDeleteI think this is great for Fringe. Spring is so hard on TV that it will be good to build a continuous momentum to the end. 3 weeks isn't as hard as it sounds.
ReplyDeleteTV is a business and Kitchen Nightmare is making them a profit. It makes a lot of sense. Personally I think FOX has treated Fringe exceptionally well. It would have be axed last year if it were on a different network. In fact, their decisions show that they are really rooting for Fringe to make it. They are giving it every chance to succeed by keeping it away from serious sports competition and all shows do better when they can end back to back strong. You can blame Nielsen viewers who aren't watching Fringe but you can't say that FOX hasn't bent over backwards for this show.
ReplyDeleteNo World Series but there is a ratings winner in the March madness NCAA basketball tournament. Just think of this break as hopefully making the summer hiatus shorter.
ReplyDeleteThis is good, 8 weeks in a row will be awesome.
ReplyDeleteThey've ordered a set number of episodes, they want the show to run until May, so there will be breaks. It's how television works...
ReplyDeleteHowever, this schedule is brilliant for Fringe, as it means that we get two large chunks of episodes in a row.
Hiatuses are a part of American television. At least we get a decent amount of episode each year. I much prefer this to the odd week off, wrecking consistency.
Normally I'd be raging, but I may or may not have a thesis to be doing...This will probably help.
ReplyDeleteNot looking forward to the 3 week break, but it's not completely unexpected.
ReplyDeleteThree weeks is long enough but at least we know that after 8 episode straight without a break, plus we have another 4 episodes
ReplyDeleteI wish when they said back to back, it meant 8 hours of new episode in one day.. haha
ReplyDeleteEight episodes in a row is a hell of a lot better then what we had to deal with in the fall season.Thank you Fox, the writers,producers,showrunners and Warner brothers!
ReplyDeletebut why tho?????
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