Fox' Midseason Schedule "We have been looking at Thursday for a long time," Fox's reality chief Mike Darnell said. "It is a tough nut to crack, and if you want to crack it, you have to make a big move there." Idol has been the biggest show on television for 8 years, so why make this move now? It was CBS' surprising decision in May to take another reality juggernaut, Survivor, off Thursdays that set the Idol shift idea in motion, Darnell said. With Idol itself going through a major transition with new judges Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler and without Simon Cowell, Fox brass decided to wait and see how the show's production was going and, happy with what they'd seen so far, they pulled the trigger on the scheduling change. "It felt like the right time to make the move," Darnell said. "Now we can own Thursday." 
Seeing the door opening at 8 PM on Thursday with Survivor gone was a major but not the only factor for the Idol move, Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly said. "At the same time, we?re looking at what's going on on Tuesday where we are winning the night with Glee, which, after airing after the Super Bowl, will probably end the ... Read More »Source: http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/foxs-kevin-reilly-no-back-orders-for-running-wilde-good-guys/
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