Fox juggles programs in strike's aftermath
By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service
"House" fans will need some extra patience: The show won't have any new, post-strike episodes until April 28.
Other Fox shows will also wait until mid-April or later.
There are consolations, however. The network has five new spring shows that will start earlier; it also has a few spare comedy episodes that were finished before the strike.
The spring plan, which Fox announced this week, includes:
Those include two comedies — "Unhitched" premiering Sunday, March 2, and "The Return of Jezebel James" on Friday, March 14. "New Amsterdam," about a 400-year-old New York cop, and "Canterbury's Law," with Julianna Margulies as a high-pressure lawyer, will temporarily take Mondays, starting March 10.
Before that, "New Amsterdam" gets two spots after "American Idol," on March 4 and 6.