Fox Network - Monday, Feb. 27.

This could cause more problems than you think. If the schedule says that House and Alcatraz are airing new episodes, and they don't air, then anybody with a House and/or Alcatraz SP needs to watch the schedule carefully, or risk having the new episodes missed because TiVo thinks they had been aired in the previous 28 days.

 

Any word yet on when these shows will be rescheduled? I checked the Fox web site, and nada.

I actually look forward to "Alcatraz". I'd hate to miss it.

 

My HR21 shows House today at 5PM and Alcatraz at 6PM.. Not sure if its legit or an error?

 

Looks like Daytona is airing at 7 PM EST. As such there's no way House or Alcatraz could air tonight (at least not on the East coast) so I guess they'll get bumped.

 

Not sure why my DVR resheduled them for 5 and 6.

 

Dunno either, but in my area the news is on then.

 

Fox has the right to bump any local affiliates programming don't they?

 

I suppose so, but I've never heard of them bumping primetime shows back to an earlier time (not to mention no one would know to watch them). My guess is that if the Daytona isn't rained out again, they'll simply skip House and Alcatraz this week.

Zap2It (which is owned by Tribune) still shows House airing at 8 and Alcatraz airing at 9, so it doesn't look like Fox has sent out a new schedule yet. Even Fox's own web site hasn't been updated.

 

Do they appear at those times in the schedule?

It doesn't make much sense to air new episodes of shows at times when nobody is expecting to see them. The only problem might be, House is supposed to start a month-long hiatus next week, which means that Fox was expecting not to air any repeats before the series finale in May, and there would be no openings in the schedule that would allow any episodes to be pushed back a week, so they feel they have to air it tonight. (If this is the case, I also assume Fox figures the race will end early enough out west so Fox can air it after the race.)

 

I see the problem. For some reason my DVR is in pacific time and I'm in Eastern..

 

Sorry about the erroneous information. My DVR was on the fritz and I had to reboot it.

 

There is a two hour block of Kitchen Nightmares this Friday. Their best bet is to bump that and move tonight's shows in its place.

 

all this for Nascar? I guess I see why some olks are PO'ed when football screws up programming.

 

The problem is, nobody is expecting to see them on Friday, so unless they happen to watch other Fox shows and see the commercials, or Fox runs a crawl at exactly 8 and 9 PM Eastern that the shows will air on Friday, chances are a lot of people will miss the episodes - not a good thing for shows like House and Alcatraz where not watching them in order could cause problems.

(My guess: they will air House next week, in place of one of the two Alcatraz episodes they had planned to air, then push the remaining Alcatraz episodes back, even if it means airing the season finale in early June.)

Note that Titan has updated its online listing for KTVU (San Francisco's Fox affiliate); it now shows that the race coverage runs from 4 to 8:30 Pacific, with local programming following it.

 

I was just thinking that myself. Race gets set back again, fox plays their original programming and nothing gets recorded.