I love Bob's Burgers and I think it could be the next Simpsons, but the airing schedule this season feels like execs are trying to tank it by the time the contract ends after season 8. The schedule is all over the place with up to two week random gaps between episodes and different time slots. The Christmas episode just aired in November. Does anyone know what the he'll is going on?
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Different time slots? It's still airing at 7:30 and hasn't moved from there this whole season. They did add one extra episode last week, probably due to having an extra one with no time to air it before their December break.
The gaps are from preemptions from FOX Sports that happen every year & will continue into December which is why the Christmas episode aired last night, but Bob's has aired just as many episodes as Family Guy & one less than The Simpsons this season so you can't say FOX is holding out on airing new episodes.
It's currently #6 out of FOX's 15 scripted shows in the 18/49 demo & although it's #10 out of 15 in viewership numbers, so they're going to have to try a little harder to tank the show by next season.
Sunday shows typically get poor treatment from all networks because of football (horrible, horrible football). That said, FOX frequently makes terrible choices such as letting American Dad go to TBS.
As for the Christmas episode in November, all networks are showing holiday specials now so meh but I wouldn't read too much into that. Thinking they'll probably re-air it sometime closer to the holidays.
The Christmas episode from last season aired around the same time too.
shareNice-Capades aired even earlier, on November 15, 2015.
shareI remember reading somewhere (ages ago, no citation) that networks do that because they assume people will be too busy to watch new episodes closer to Christmas. I call bull, but whatever.
Regarding FOX's strange decision making- Xmas Eve 2014 they aired the two-year-old Halloween Full Bars episode, it was a nice break from the onslaught of Christmas themed shows, but a bit strange considering the backlog of BB's Christmas themed episodes at their disposal.
Yeah the airing schedule is so bad that I watch on other places besides Fox. And normally I wouldn't. I watch on netflix and I actually paid for season 6 on amazon which I almost never do. I got it cheaper because it was black friday. This is a great show, but they treat it like it's barely hanging on. Probably because all their money goes into making the Simpsons hang on.
shareThat and the once great, now horrid, Family Guy.
Lol I paid for season of 6 on itunes because i needed my fix so badly, first time i've purchased a show off itunes in years!
shareThey've never managed to make the 7 PM timeslot work for scripted entertainment. It's where sports overruns, news magazines and America's Funniest Home Videos thrive and little else. I'd love Fox to always put Bob's after The Simpsons, but that's a prime comedy launching platform and with Bob's managing to perform reliably at 7:30, Fox seems happy to leave it there and not have to worry about the timeslot, knowing it can always move it later on again if and when any of its freshman comedies tank. It's not ideal, but remember that King of the Hill spent many seasons in that slot and lasted a decade.
What I've desperately wanted was for Fox to give the show the post-Super Bowl slot. The show's not expensive and has a lot of untapped potential for merchandising. It deserves a huge push, maybe in concert with a post-game Simpsons.
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The show had a double renewal in 2015, gaining a seventh and eighth production season. They seem to be forming from an extra broadcast season out of leftovers from the eighth production season and this has meant them creating shorter broadcast seasons of similar lengths. At Futon critic they list the upcoming unscheduled broadcast dates and they had a slot available for January 15 and now they've filled it with a rerun. I believe some episodes have been the shelf for a long time because the holiday episodes are getting priority to air in time.
I don't really believe they are making it fail, they're trying to make its run last longer so they're stretching it out and making us all wait for episodes.
I think a better time slot would lead to better ratings, so they wouldn't need to stretch it out.
shareYeah, no one ever seems to know when it's on. Double bills are now becoming regular and weeks with no show are outnumbering weeks with regular showing.
shareby Enola91 (Wed Dec 21 2016 05:03:18) Yeah, no one ever seems to know when it's on. Double bills are now becoming regular and weeks with no show are outnumbering weeks with regular showing.
If someone doesn't keep track of when their favorite show [or one they just like] is on, how big of a fan can they be?
Besides, it airs at 7:30 it's been at 7:30 for what... three or four seasons now, true sometimes FOX adds a new episode at 8:30 or 9:30 as they're doing for the next episode on January 08th but, like I said, if you're a fan you keep track of these things.