![]() ![]() “We’re not going to be confined to a traditional 22 episode” order for most shows, Reilly promised. “Those were where the big events occurred… We take the best of the 12, go in chronological order of the day, but skip hours.” (*) Reilly noted that Howard Gordon and the rest of the “24” creative team were burned out by the end of that show’s run, then struggled to try to adapt the concept into a two-hour movie before realizing FOX’s commitment to short-run series was the perfect compromise: “The spine of the 24 episodes was really about 12 hours,” Reilly explained. Night Shyamalan, and possibly some of FOX’s ongoing series. “Glee” will take a longer-than-usual mid-season break for the launch of the Greg Kinnear drama “Rake.” And the network is reviving “24”(*) as a 12-episode miniseries, tentatively called “24: Live Another Day” and likely to premiere in early May and run into the summer, where it’ll be joined by another miniseries produced by M. The network has four different scripted series (“Gang Related,” “Us & Them,” “Surviving Jack” and “Murder Police”) that have no timeslots yet but will be plugged in down the line. That schedule includes some of the usual timeslot sharing between fall and spring – “The Following,” FOX’s biggest new hit of the season, can only produce 15 episodes per season because of Kevin Bacon’s contract, so the modern-day Ichabod Crane series “Sleepy Hollow” will air Mondays at 9 in the fall – but also between early fall and late fall (to allow for the disruptions caused by baseball), late winter and late spring, and even into summer. “Our goal as a network is virtually year-round programming, and we’re going to get pretty close to that,” Reilly told reporters on a conference call to discuss the network’s 2013-14 schedule. With the usual skepticism in mind – we’re talking about a network that practically every year (including this one) claims that “Bones” will move to Fridays, and then never actually puts it there – FOX’s Kevin Reilly sounded more convincing than most when he made that promise. Usually, the reality falls well short of that, with the usual confusing pre-emptions and dead spots. Of the cliches that get spouted every year by network presidents during Upfront Week, one of the most popular is the idea of doing year-round programming with few repeats. ![]()
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