Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4554525-20171012024154/@comment-27060727-20171018005323

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Slipper Blue wrote: It will probably be winter right? Now that the show is on Fridays, we won't need to wait until March, prolly January. OUaT finishes filming in late-March/early-April, and takes a two week break for the holidays. It would not be practical, or realistic to air episodes during January. They've done it before and they totally can. We don't even know how many episodes they're airing in the fall because of Black Friday/AOS. A&E haven't even written another episode yet for us to predict it that way and there's no way they'll fit 11 episodes.

In general, all of these 20+ episode dramas are on roughly the same 9-month schedule and most do not have 3-month hiatuses - they air non-continuously from Jan to April/May. It shouldn't be a production issue either way.