After hastily rescheduling the baseball rain delay-plagued Wednesday night episode of The X Factor for next Tuesday, the network has now tweaked its plans.
Originally, Fox was to rebroadcast the entire two-hour Wednesday episode of X Factor, the first half of which aired in primetime on the East Coast and, due to a technical error, simultaneously on the West Coast. It was to preempt Fox’s fledgling comedy block and face an all-new The Voice in the 8 PM hour.
Now Fox will keep comedies Raising Hope, Ben And Kate and New Girl from 8 PM-9:30 PM as scheduled, followed by a re-cut one-hour episode of The X Factor featuring the conclusion of the Judges’ Homes round. To do that, Fox is extending prime that night to 10:30 PM. The move means that there won’t be a direct Voice-X Factor clash on Tuesday.
That is a little bit of a good news for the three comedies, though newbie The Mindy Project is not getting a reprieve. The 9-10 PM Fox comedies New Girl and The Mindy Project were already pre-empted for the Presidential debate this week and the entire lineup will be benched again on Nov. 6 for Election night coverage. That means that freshman The Mindy Project will be off for three out of four weeks between Oct. 16 and Nov. 6. Such pre-emtions early in the season are disruptive, especially for a new series that has not yet taken hold. Several weeks of a forced hiatus for baseball and X Factor last fall zapped then-freshman New Girl‘s great momentum. The hot comedy was down in its return to the schedule and never recovered.
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TL;DR: 8-9:30 Sitcoms, 9:30-10:30 X Factor
