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Question: I know you weren’t so impressed with Once Upon a Time last year, but I still love that show, and of course checked out Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, which I also liked very much. Now the ratings have come in, and they’re low per usual for that Thursday time slot. When is ABC going to accept that their Thursday 8/7c time period is inhospitable to scripted fare? The original plan to air Wonderland while the original Once is on hiatus seems better to me. Or if they want Wonderland to be in contention for a 22-episode season, they should move it to Sundays and maybe bump Revenge to 10/9c, which would solve their Sunday problem (Betrayal). I just can’t shake the feeling that Wonderland would have done better in another time slot. How many good shows need to die there before they just plug in Wipeout and call it done? — Jake
Matt Roush: Here we are, back in junior programmer mode. You’re probably right that Wonderland would have been better suited as Once Upon a Time‘s hiatus place-holder between story arcs, but airing as a two-hour Sunday block would be way too much of an iffy thing, even if it would effectively purge the schedule of the dreary Betrayal. And while it’s probably inevitable that ABC will fall back to Wipeout to fill that Thursday hole (though not until Wonderland gets to play out its story, I’m betting), the network will almost certainly keep trying to land a scripted show there — if only to appease the sales department, which might prefer to target even a smaller upscale audience on a crucial night than the broader demo Wipeout generally attracts.
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Ask-Matt-Big-Bang-Theory-Walking-Dead-Homeland-Glee-1072060.aspx
Everyone is predicting we get canceled and they’re probably on to something. But this guy seems to think that ABC will let the show play out its 13 episode run if only because nothing else can go there.