Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5388250-20130511002143/@comment-5006924-20130515004041

Utter solitude wrote:

KungAvSand wrote: Here's the schedule for the next season: OUAT will keep its timeslot, the spinoff will air THURSDAYS at 8 P.M.

ETA: Not sure what to think of this:

ABC is changing things up in scheduling some of its serialized dramas. The network will air several in two uninterrupted runs, one in the fall and one in the spring, joined by limited series. The series that will be included in the new scheduling model include Once Upon A Time, Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and likely Revenge. So far, the network only has set up a bridge series for Once, new adventure reality series The Quest. So they decided to air OUAT in two runs, but still put the spinoff on another day?! Are they crazy? They're stealing that from Comedy Central... who has, for YEARS now, been showing half a season of a show in the spring, and the other half in the fall. (South Park is the most prominent example, although they're stopping that this year in favor of a shorter season in the fall). I find it ridiculous and annoying- people unfamiliar with the new schedule are very likely to miss new episodes. They're not really "stealing" it, Comedy Central doesn't have a claim to that way of formatting their shows, but I see what you mean. I don't think it will effect that many people especially those who watch the promos becasue they will undoubtedly say that it will be a while until they air the second half of the season, like they do with normal hiatuses. The only real problem I see here is that it looks like they've changed their minds on when Once: Wonderland will air, it looks to me with them revealing this promo so soon that they're going to air it early this fall as opposed to during the hiatus when it would be the most useful, and with them putting it in a time slot ABC itself has deemed a "death slot" due to the vast number of cancellations that timeslot has had. Honestly the best thing they could have done waas air 12 Onces, 12-13 Once: Wonderlands, return with 12 more Onces and then have the summer hiatus, that way there's an easier hiatus trnasition for us Once fans.