Kevin Reilly announces two development seasons for FOX - TCA Report

July 14th, 2008 | Category: Industry

Between the sessions for So You Think You Can Dance and Fringe, FOX Entertainment president Kevin Reilly fortunately took answers from the gathered critics. Perhaps the most interesting piece of news he unleashed on us was that the network is officially going to have two development seasons: the traditional one that ends in May with the upfronts, and a new one that ends in December, which will position the network to air pilots in the January/February date frame,

a duration Reilly called the network’s “high season.” (Which it is, of course, given the presence of the BCS and American Idol).

In fact, Reilly has eight pilots currently in development for consideration in December, far more than he had for that past May, due to the writers’ strike and other reasons. Other interesting bits after the jump.

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Original post by Joel Keller

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