The Last Man on Earth : Dear Fox, are you trying to get the show cancelled?

Fox, WTF are you doing?
This will be the third time the show takes a week off in this season alone. Are you guys trying to cut its ratings? Are you trying to do this so you have a reason to get it off the air?
WTF is going on and why do i get the sense that this is being done for no good reason?

It is being done for the reason that it is a holiday weekend and a lot of people will be traveling.

And is this generally something we see from successful shows? No. Especially not 5 days after the fact when if people did traveling, they would already be home.
What about the other two times this season?

Yes, it is. It is on Fox, which hosts the World Series (baseball) and playoffs leading up to them. So in September/October there is competing scheduling. The playoffs are not that moveable, so the TV shows need to give.

On Sunday night of Thanksgiving people may very well still be traveling. When I used to do the cross country jaunt we usually would not get back until Sunday night.

CBS had all new episodes on all of their series tonight. Same with HBO, Showtime and AMC.

Fox is use to filling Sunday nights with cartoons that have no timeline or cliffhangers. You can't have a series like this and take 3 breaks over a 7 week period and not start to lose viewership. They messed around with Arrested Development by bouncing it from Sunday to Thursday to Monday saying they were trying to find an audience. Not all shows are an immediate hit but if you keep it on at the same time, on the same day, every week, people eventually watch it.

I'm fed up with having to look up the schedule for this show.

I actually forgot about it this week (repeat or not) and didn't miss it. Correct, other than sweeps week, cliff hanger shows shouldnt take breaks. Tandy's persistent annoying quirks are wearing thin.

I don't live in America, but isn't this fairly common? Brooklyn 99 went off the air for nearly a month recently.

Yup; I've noticed that FOX tends to take off holiday weekends (such as Thanksgiving and Easter) even if ABC, NBC and CBS don't. Plus, this year we had not only the World Series to contend with on FOX, but also Presidential/VP debates and election coverage (which affected all the broadcast networks).


"I know I'm not normal but I'm trying to change!" ~ Muriel's Wedding

No its not common at all.
The only time we generally see this is when a show may collide with a major televised event and even then its questionable if a week will be skipped.

Fact is the show airs at the same time every single year and this is the only year we've seen it take three bi-week breaks. No other show currently on, is doing this, and despite this idea some people have that its common, they cannot name a single show that dose this more than one time a season and that one time a season is a major televised event or XMas.

I am with the other guy who says they dont give a *beep* I think maybe the producer of the show or someone involved with the show, pissed someone else off at Fox and now that person wants it off the air. We see these little fits in hollywood all the time.

I just think they simply dgaf anymore.

All of these breaks are quite standard at this time of year for a network TV show.

It's terrible, and often does lead to a massive drop in viewers.

But it's shockingly uncommon.

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everyone deserves one good scare.

All of these breaks are quite standard at this time of year for a network TV show.

It's terrible, and often does lead to a massive drop in viewers.

But it's shockingly common.

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everyone deserves one good scare.

Even the household names get rescheduled this time of the year. You Americans with your obsession with the holidays come in the way of my enjoyment of TV shows:P

Ratings are down 16% from last year so thanks FOX for screwing it over.

1st off its not in Fox's interest to kill a show that they own. If they did hate the show they could of just canceled it last season, the ratings for the 2nd half of the season never got back to season 1 or early season 2 levels.

It is airing in about the same crazy schedule as last year it will air 9 before the year ends vs 10, it only makes 18 a season so Fox has to stretch the show.

This way they will have left for the 2nd half of the season

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1st off its not in Fox's interest to kill a show that they own. If they did hate the show they could of just canceled it last season, the ratings for the 2nd half of the season never got back to season 1 or early season 2 levels.

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I went over this before.

No one is saying that its fox as a whole making these decisions. We see this all the time where shows are cancelled, put in bad airing times, production money cut, etc. all simply because a producer or executive does not like someone. Does not like the show itself. Has issues with a message. etc. These are very egotistical people who's egotism has made companies millions. Not only do they rationalize it but they can rationalize it with the company. The industry is driven by these ego's and there are not many films or tv shows unaffected. Some worse than others.

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It is airing in about the same crazy schedule as last year it will air 9 before the year ends vs 10, it only makes 18 a season so Fox has to stretch the show.

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Again already addressed.
No, they are not. Last year they took a single break. This year its four total. And no, 18 weeks is a perfect 3 month schedule with 1 week beak each half and it is again, not something we see from other shows on Fox or off Fox or shows with the same episode count and the same airing schedule.
Its also worth mentioning that the 18 episode count is no different from season 2.

Life is too short to get this upset about something so stupid.

Well, for some of us, TV shows are the only life we know .

NONE of this used to be true. Now networks struggle to put out half -seasons and will take year or two breaks it seems off of hit shows. It's like theyve got so much money they dgaf anymore. They nearly killed breaking bad with the LONG breaks and seem to be doing the same to TWD and GOT