So you're saying we're finally out of that 8:00 Thursday slot? Thank god.

In which case it'll be a hit, and who even knows any more?

Yeah — New Girl is not ending any time soon. It's one of their more solid performers, and it's only going into season 3. It's at 9:00 — it's anchoring that block.

And even then… they have three solid shows on that night already. I think needing to find a fourth show is not going to stop the network from doing what they want to do.

Depends on a lot of things. How are the ratings? Is there a breakout show? Are they counting on it to be viewed mostly online anyway? And so on.

Ah — so in that case, the studio WOULD foot the bill for residuals. Got it!

Exactly. It'll at least get the same 3 million or so core viewers it already had. A new show, with NO established viewers, wouldn't even stand a chance there.

Which episodes aired at 8:00pm? Not saying you're wrong, but I think I would have remembered if something like that happened.

Forget pilots — a lot of pilots are at least promising. But comedy preview clips are ALWAYS awful.

Feature news-type shows can be cancelled and brought back with little or no advance notice though. Or cancelled and brought back as a similar show with a different name. Unless they get entrenched enough that the name itself has value (e.g. 60 Minutes or Dateline), switching up the name and some of the details every…

If THIS is the show that finally gets Victor Fresco a hit…

Yeah, definitely. And I don't know who pays the residuals — I get mine from Sony, but the money might just pass through Sony on the way from the network. (And for syndication, I have to assume the affiliates pay residuals and similar costs? Or at least that the production company works the cost of them into their…

Do they, though? I would think they'd at least have to pay residuals to the actors? I know that's not much in the big picture…

I'm optimistic about this show, and really, what's Fox going to do? Putting it next to New Girl is the closest they have to giving it a good time slot. (Well, excpet moving it to 9:30, and accepting the inevitable with The Mindy Project. And they can always do that later, when the first couple weeks' ratings justify…

Hm… are they sure that's not going into the Saturday late-night block?

No, that's German for "The Mindy Project, The".

Are they deliberately trying to make Andy Samberg look like Jimmy McNulty in that picture? Because if so, they're… not succeeding, but it's close enough to be distracting. It's like some kind of McNulty Uncanny Valley.

"The Flying Hellfish"?

Do they have a backlog, though? A lot of those animated shows have a huge backlog.

Really? Am I missing something? My wife's parents watch that show, so I figured it was the kind of show people's wives' parents watch?