True - but that’s why they created the postgame show (The O.T.) in the first place. Before then, whatever was scheduled for 7:30 was usually joined in progress. Ever hear the story of the King of the Hill Christmas episode where only the last five minutes aired?
As for choosing between the NFL and anything else, the NFL gets much better ratings than anything else Fox airs, so what do you think Fox will do - especially when Nielsen has a policy where, if football runs to 7:30, it counts as a primetime show for ratings purposes?
It’s not just Fox (or NBC), or football, either. A few decades ago, a golf tournament CBS was covering went into a playoff, and it lasted so long that it ran until when 60 Minutes was going to start, so they announced that they were cutting away from the golf - and not only was CBS flooded with complaints, but Sports Illustrated even joked about it in its next issue. CBS then announced it would never interrupt a live sporting event again - which led to another story; Dan Rather once walked off the set when he was told that CBS would not cut away from coverage of a U.S. Open tennis match that might run past the CBS Evening News start time.
Most sports now have alternatives - each network now has a cable station to which it can shift a long-running sporting event (for example, Fox, to FS1; NBC, to NBCSN; CBS, to CBSSN; ABC, to ESPN2). However, football ratings are just too important to networks to do that with the NFL.
BTW, Sunday on Fox is not “the Seth MacFarlane show”; he only has one show (Family Guy), now that The Orville is moving to Thursdays following Bat-Kid will you stop calling it that? oh, all right, Gotham.
And still The Orville broadcast in its entirety. Fox even preempted the post game show. Because Football is important and The Orville was filler to introduce it to a large audience before it moves into its regular Thursday time slot, but Fox still loves us enough to give us both.
Sunday belongs to the NFL on broadcast TV. That’s just the way it is. Way too much money involved for that ever to change. I’m sorry this is unsatisfactory to you, but so it goes.
I have really liked The Orville so far, but I’m realistic enough to understand this. Also it will be on Thursdays from now on, when the NFL game is on cable. So everyone should be happy from here on out.
Apparently not, you were wrong and **leftfield6 **was correct. Half of the 2nd epi was overwritten by the game going over. I only saw the first half of epi 2, and it is not on Spectrum TW On Demand.
Yes football is way more popular now, and there is way more money involved for the networks. Oh and there’s this thing called on demand now. Hell you can probably watch episode two in its entirety right on FOX’s website right now. So yes, things have indeed changed.
Not on the East Coast. The Orville started at some ridiculous time, like 9:20, but I saw Bortas ask for maternity leave, get introduced to Kermit, and then saw the opening credits. Fox Sports was weird on NYC Fox 5, after the third quarter, they showed highlights of other games, then finished the game, then went to The Orville.
What I’m talking about is the game finishing 10 minutes past the start of the next show. Then The OT speaking for 37 minutes, then Family Guy starting … remember this kids … “already in progress.” Remember those days?
Started at eight fifty-something. I know because I was switching back and forth between looking to see if it had started and trying to see the end of an episode of Colombo that went off at 9:00.
