Arrested Development New Night and Time = Problems?

Variety is reporting that AD will be on Mondays at 8pm. As bad as the show did Sundays at 9, this has to be a worse time slot. Networks also generally require 8pm shows to be tamer than 9pm shows, and AD can be pretty racy (stick it in her brownie).

I didn’t have any illusions that in season 3 AD would become a smash hit, but this seems like Fox is burying the show :frowning:

At least it won’t get bumped for football every week (poor Futurama, you never had a chance).

Could be worse. They could have given AD the Friday night death slot. Looks like that’s where Malcolm in the Middle is moving.

It’s not a bad spot – Monday Night Football starts after it, and there’s no blockbuster show on at 8:00.

Better than last season’s spot, since it lost audience from the Simpsons. Since it’s the first show, you don’t have a drop. Also, it’s not against the West Wing, so I’m happy.

More like you don’t have a lead-in. Even with the Simpsons drop off, they still had more viewers than they’ll have (imho) Monday nights.

Yeah, even 8:30 would have been better; 9:00, forget it because of football. I don’t watch any TV on Mondays except Penn & Teller (although I’m miffed at them because of the Mother Teresa/Gandhi thing).

And now it won’t be jerked around by the baseball season either! Yay!

AD and ALIAS have both been moved into what used to be called, in the olden days, Family Hour. I dunno. I guess the people who would complain about it the most will all be watching SEVENTH HEAVEN. :smiley: