Yep: 'King of the Hill' Gets September Finale
R Flowers
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/yep-king-of-the-hill-gets-september-finale/
According to this article:
http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/08/king-of-the-hill-abdicates-throne-in-september.html
there will be 4 unaired episodes. No word on plans for them, though. I
suspect they'll show up on DVD, but who knows?
-- R Flowers
Piggy Hell
Damn, I was hoping for Piggy's death. And is it a 2 hour finale, or
just a 2 part (30 min ea.) finale?
Don Del Grande
> R Flowers wrote:
>
>>So, there will be one new "King of the Hill" this fall, a 2-hour finale.
>>
>>http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/yep-king-of-the-hill-gets-september-finale/
>>
>>According to this article:
>>http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/08/king-of-the-hill-abdicates-throne-in-september.html
>>
>>there will be 4 unaired episodes. No word on plans for them, though. I
>>suspect they'll show up on DVD, but who knows?
>
>Damn, I was hoping for Piggy's death. And is it a 2 hour finale, or
>just a 2 part (30 min ea.) finale?
Neither. It is two separate episodes that Fox schedules as an
hour-long single episode with two titles. (Fox does this with most of
its shows when they air two new episodes back-to-back - my guess is,
if you record the episodes on a DVR, you don't run into the problem of
having 5-10 seconds ending up missing in the switchover from the
machine ending the first episode's recording to the starting of the
second episode's recording.)
The four "unaired" episodes will air in syndication, from what I have
heard. Nothing new about this; an episode of "Home Improvement" that
ABC never aired made it into syndication.
-- Don
R Flowers
news:r1g185toc4uc222if...@4ax.com...
> Damn, I was hoping for Piggy's death. And is it a 2 hour finale, or
> just a 2 part (30 min ea.) finale?
As Don said elsewhere, it's 2 episodes. My mistake.
-- R Flowers
Wiseguy
news:3t1485dnuqhqst2ns...@4ax.com:
> Piggy Hell wrote:
>
>> R Flowers wrote:
>>
>>>So, there will be one new "King of the Hill" this fall, a 2-hour
>>>finale.
>>>
>>>http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/yep-king-of-the-hill-
gets
>>>-september-finale/
>>>
>>>According to this article:
>>>http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/08/king-of-the-hill-
abdic
>>>ates-throne-in-september.html
>>>
>>>there will be 4 unaired episodes. No word on plans for them, though.
>>>I suspect they'll show up on DVD, but who knows?
>>
>>Damn, I was hoping for Piggy's death. And is it a 2 hour finale, or
>>just a 2 part (30 min ea.) finale?
>
> Neither. It is two separate episodes that Fox schedules as an
> hour-long single episode with two titles.
Change the second "episode" to "broadcast." Two episodes are two
episodes regardless how a network shows them. This concept confuses
many people who quote episode totals.
(Fox does this with most of
> its shows when they air two new episodes back-to-back - my guess is,
> if you record the episodes on a DVR, you don't run into the problem of
> having 5-10 seconds ending up missing in the switchover from the
> machine ending the first episode's recording to the starting of the
> second episode's recording.)
>
> The four "unaired" episodes will air in syndication, from what I have
> heard. Nothing new about this; an episode of "Home Improvement" that
> ABC never aired made it into syndication.
>
That's true (usually it's when ratings are so low on a series that the
network "gives up" on the remaining episodes) but you just indicated
they would be broadcast albeit not in a 30-minute format so it's not the
same thing..
> -- Don
>
Don Del Grande
> Don Del Grande wrote:
>
>> Piggy Hell wrote:
>>
>>>Damn, I was hoping for Piggy's death. And is it a 2 hour finale, or
>>>just a 2 part (30 min ea.) finale?
>>
>> Neither. It is two separate episodes that Fox schedules as an
>> hour-long single episode with two titles.
>
>Change the second "episode" to "broadcast." Two episodes are two
>episodes regardless how a network shows them. This concept confuses
>many people who quote episode totals.
Broadcast, hour-long block, whatever. It's "one hour-long entry in
the TiVo listings".
(I'm quite familiar with "episode count" arguments, having followed
Nickelodeon cartoons since the 1990s - does a 30-minute SpongeBob
SquarePants "broadcast" consisting of two "stories" count as one
episode or two? Nickelodeon like to say two, so they can claim their
shows get to 100 (for example) "episodes" twice as fast.)
>> The four "unaired" episodes will air in syndication, from what I have
>> heard. Nothing new about this; an episode of "Home Improvement" that
>> ABC never aired made it into syndication.
>
>That's true (usually it's when ratings are so low on a series that the
>network "gives up" on the remaining episodes) but you just indicated
>they would be broadcast albeit not in a 30-minute format so it's not the
>same thing..
What do you mean, "broadcast, albeit not in a 30-minute format"?
There are six episodes that have yet to air. Fox will air two of them
on September 13 (and, unless they do something strange, each one will
air in its "normal 30-minute format" with their own opening and
closing credits); the other four are the ones that will premiere in
syndication.
-- Don
Wiseguy
Make up your mind. Is it an hour-long episode or two-episodes with
their own opening and closing credits?
What I said and am still saying is it doesn't matter how FOX shows it.
Two episodes are two episodes are two episodes.
I wasn't referring to the syndicated episodes at all.
Don Del Grande
>Make up your mind. Is it an hour-long episode or two-episodes with
>their own opening and closing credits?
It's two episodes, each with their own opening and closing credits.
-- Don
Wiseguy
That's not the statement I originally responded to.