I really liked Mark Valley in Boston Legal. I'm glad he's getting his own show.

I have no love for fOX nor for these shows.
I do enjoy Fringe and am sorry it will be gone for a hiatus and hopefully not a cancellization.

whatever happened to shows playing for 26 straight weeks ... fringe? I LOVE FRINGE. I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT.
But between Feb 4th and Apr 1st I'm going to skin a baby every morning until they put it back on the air !!! GAHHHH!!!

but seriously, I hate these hiatus bs on all networks.

@gorehound - I don't think you have to worry about Fringe going anywhere. It is a consistent soiid performer in the ratings. Fox like to do this sort of thing (ABC too) - take a popular show & use it to push a new similar show by promoting heavily. IOW they'll bombard us with Past Life ads & sneak peeks until Fringe goes on a break, hoping that the Fringe fans will jump on board with a new show at the same time. Kinda like how they handled 24/Prison Break and how ABC does it with Lost.

@MItchrapp

The days of all series doing a full 20+ ep season then out for summer have been gone quite a while. I mean look back at shows over the past decade and before, they do a solid block of new-then break usually starting at the holidays-then back for another block of new after new years-another break-then press on out to season end. Not a new thing.

What is new imo is the silly spacing that the major networks are trying of late. They seem to be trying to emulate the staggered seasons of the cable networks. But they do not seem to be capable of giving the same commitment of a show having its slot back when back from break.

Shows goes on break and if smarty-pants-mcgee network exec is twitchy, it gets cancelled while on break. Or even better a network goes the ABC-"V" route and puts a show on "hiatus" 4 eps in after touting greatness of said show. Fans and showrunners are then left hoping the show made enough of an impression in FOUR shows to edge past the axe in 3 and a half months.....

Look at sci-fi channel, oops, syfy. It takes them a year to get 13 episodes of a show done (I'm looking AT YOU 'EUREKA').

Dude... wanna see Mark Valley in his own series? Try Keen Eddie. Fox axed it in '99. Good show... 13 eps.

Hopefully, Past Life will be better than Fringe (of course, it would be difficult to be worse). We may get angry with FOX over how they treat scifi, but remember that CBS axed the higher rated and far superior series Eleventh Hour while FOX held on to Fringe. We scifi fans never get network respect, but as bad as it is, FOX is actually the best one. The cream of the crap.

One of the reasons for many series going on hiatus, or having a short gap, is amount of time for post-production work on certain series. Additionally, there is the issue of writing. In past series there were often a pool of writers, whereas many of today's series the creators seem to want to write every damn episode, which is understandable with certain serialized shows.

The issue with V is a sad note. ABC pretty much gave up on it before showed the first episode. They quickly decided to go from 13 non-stop episodes to 4 then during the hiatus they could decide whether to cancel or run with it

13 episode is a mini series but thats seems to be the magic number for sci fi.

Mark Valley is a great actor who did have his own
series a few years ago but was cancelled by Fox,
It was called Keen Eddie.

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'There's a raft of new and returning sci-fi/fantasy series coming to Fox in January, including Human Target and Past Life, and the network has finally set dates for their premieres, and cancelations'

Wow, how many TV series does Human Target make for Chi McBride?

The place thinking has changed at the networks is the reduced value of repeats. Shows used to run from Sept to around now, then they go into repeats til late January. Ud get new show for the Feb sweeps then more repeats til April and the run to the finale. I personally rarely watch repeats so Im used to the long breaks during the season. I do prefer the 24 formula of all the eps in a block.

24 jumped the shark years ago when Jack was tortured to the point that he had a heart attack, then 20 minutes later he was running for his life down the street. I still watch the show just to see what they are going to do next, and try to out guess the writers. But they are going to one up themselves straight into the apocalypse one of these days.

I am looking forward to see what Katee Sackhoff is going to bring to the show. Last season it looked like they were looking for an opportunity to kill off Jack and bring in a female agent to fill his shoes. The female FBI agent (Character/Actor’s name escapes me) was an interesting, it was fun to see her face many of the choices Jack would have faced early on in his career, but it just didn’t play. She was not tough enough to hang with Jack. Sackhoff on the other hand is tough as cast iron nails, and I think she could pick up Jack’s torch and run with it.

This is supposed to be the last season of 24. But I can’t help but wonder if in the deepest corners of the writers and producers minds if they are thinking, wondering… could they revamp with a new female agent and start fresh? Agent Jacky Sackhoff anyone?

Supernatural and ghost stories and paranormal phenomenon are hardly Science Fiction. Is there such a thing as Moron Fiction?

PREDICTION: PAst Life lasts for 3 weeks, then is gone, and Hell's Kitchen fills its spot...Human Target lasts 6 weeks, and then banished to Fridays to finish out its run in the spring...Fox renews 24 for 3 more seasons...but kills of Keifer Sutherlund (and his hefty salary) in the opening seconds of season 10!!! And he is replaced by Eliza Dushku!!!!!!