Fox Announces 2010 Schedule

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This week Fox Broadcasting announced its 2010 mid-season replacement schedule, putting an end to the speculation over the fate of the series “Past Life“, shot in Atlanta this past summer. This time-tripping, past-life-regressing crime drama will air on Tuesdays at 9pm, the slot currently held by “Fringe“, J.J. Abrams’ increasingly popular inheritor to the X-Files crown. What is unclear is whether “Past Life” stands a chance of making it out of the tangle of new programming which always grows thick during mid-season.

“Past Life” was one of two series brought to Atlanta this summer by Warner Brothers’ Bonanza Productions (the other series being the wildly popular “Vampire Diaries“), however the production of “Past Life” was unexpectedly wrapped with two months left to go in the stated shooting schedule, leaving many to theorize that the show had tested poorly and was being quietly shelved.

In mid-October Fox Broadcasting issued a statement explaining that the real reason they reduced their initial order was due to sufficient backlog of material for the 2010 mid-season (see “Fox scales back ‘Past Life’ order” at The Hollywood Reporter).

The news that all seven of the completed episodes of “Past Life” will be airing in 2010 begs the question “If the show performs well and gets picked up will it make a return to Atlanta?”

And will “Fringe” return to Tuesday nights? What, are you crazy?? Of course it will… it has to come back!! Fox would be mad to cancel a cool Sci-Fi show!!

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