V aired its season 1 finale "Red Sky" yesterday in the US (my review will be up tomorrow, hopefully), and ABC have announced that their sci-fi remake won't be back until mid-season.
Jeff Bader, ABC's Executive Vice-President for Planning, Scheduling & Distribution:
"Because [V]'s a big, sci-fi event show, they could use the extra time to ramp up and get the show as good as it could possibly be. It's also a show we'd like to run as uninterrupted as possible, like we've done with Lost. If it can run uninterrupted, it will play much better."I reckon fans will just be glad V's back for a second season, regardless of when that will be, considering it came very close to being cancelled amidst poor ratings.
But while the extended wait might certainly help the writers craft a better show with the extra time, will audiences be back? V suffered because of its four-month break between episode 4 and 5, so a half-year wait between episode 12 and 13 does seem excessive. Well, in American terms. Those waits are commonplace here in the UK...
