FOX Opts Out of Pilot Season

"We are essentially this year, really for the first time, bypassing pilot season," Reilly told reporters at the TCA. "The broadcasting, development and scheduling system was built for a different era. It was built [during] a three-network monopoly, where you had all of the talent and all of the audience."

 

“We’ve been trying to do away with pilot season for a long time at FOX,” Reilly said. “The broadcast scheduling process was built for a different era…. We don’t live in that age anymore.”

 

"We are essentially this year, really for the first time, bypassing pilot season," Kevin Reilly, Chairman of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company, told reporters at the top of the network's executive session at the TCA Winter Press Tour. "The broadcasting, development and scheduling system was built for a different era. It was built [during] a three network monopoly where you had all of the talent and all of the audience."
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"We are essentially this year, really for the first time, bypassing pilot season," Kevin Reilly, Chairman of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company, told reporters at the top of the network's executive session at the TCA Winter Press Tour. "The broadcasting, development and scheduling system was built for a different era. It was built [during] a three network monopoly where you had all of the talent and all of the audience."
Read more at http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2014/01/13/fox-at-tca-reilly-declares-end-of-pilot-season-132515/10694/#rHqpQMkXKSJ0PPHG.99