Shooting Order Vs Airing Order

[CGinCA]

Is there anyway to get a list of the order the shows were shot in and the order they are being shown in.     I know that there was something like that on here briefly but I am either missing it or not searching for it right.

Thanks

[Priscellie]

This thread is probably what you were thinking of.  Anyway, here's all we know so far:

Production Order:
1x01: Storm Front
1x02: Rules of Engagement
1x03: Birds of a Feather
1x04: The Boone Identity
1x05: Hair of the Dog
1x06: Walls
1x07: Bad Blood
1x08: Soul Beneficiary
1x09: What About Bob? -- features a cameo by Jim!
1x10: The Other Dick -- guest-stars Claudia Black of Farscape!
1x11: Things That Go Bump
1x12: Second City

Airing Order:
1/21: Birds of a Feather (1x03)
1/28: The Boone Identity (1x04)
2/11: Hair of the Dog (1x05)
2/18: Rules of Engagement (1x02)
2/25: Bad Blood (1x07)
3/04: Soul Beneficiary (1x08)
3/11: Walls (1x06)
3/18: Storm Front (1x01)
3/25: The Other Dick (1x10)
4/01: What About Bob? (1x09)
4/08: Things That Go Bump (1x11)
4/15: Second City (1x12)

[CGinCA]

Yes it was Priscellie, that was the thread I was thinking about.    *LOL*   

Thanks for this one.    It will help me when I get them all taped to try and both watch them in order shown and in order shoot.   


Thanks

[Priscellie]

Yes it was Priscellie, that was the thread I was thinking about.    *LOL*   

Thanks for this one.    It will help me when I get them all taped to try and both watch them in order shown and in order shoot.   


Thanks

Hee, welcome!  I feel like I'm the only person on the entire internet consistently using the production order, rather than the airing order.  It's a lonely, uphill battle, but one worth fighting!

[TedR]

Good grief, they bumped Storm Front back to March???   

Show the doggone show, already!!!!!

I must confess to being utterly mystified about the airing order.  I don't know what Sciffy is thinking.

[CGinCA]

Would it be possible to get this stickered, Priscellie?   If you have that power?

[Priscellie]

Would it be possible to get this stickered, Priscellie?   If you have that power?

Alas, I am but a lowly mortal.  Only mods have such powers!  Try poking Mickey or Fred or Ashton about it.

Good grief, they bumped Storm Front back to March???   

Show the doggone show, already!!!!!

I must confess to being utterly mystified about the airing order.  I don't know what Sciffy is thinking.

Skiffy is thinking that they recast three prominent characters (Bob, Justin, and Ancient Mai) and also significantly cut down the length of the episode so it was in an actually airable format.  Pickups plus post production plus the Superbowl and the Oscars equals March.  It'll be here before you know it!

[Mickey Finn]

Wait...they recast Mai from the bug-girl that was in Andromeda's pilot? Robert was so hyped to be working with her, before....

[TedR]

Well that would surely explain it.  For some reason I thought that Storm Front was already "in the can", so to speak, and that they were just choosing to delay it for some other reason.

[Mickey Finn]

Well, I know they had to do re-shoots on Bob....this is the first I've heard of Justin & Mai

[CGinCA]

Thanks for the Sticky on this post.   This will help me as I watch this later.   

*smiles*   I am also sad though that the "Storm Front" episode is so far down the line.   But things like this happen.   

[CarolM]

I've been reading this thread and I have to ask, do US TV executives usually make sensible decisions that their viewers can understand? Ones that are not governed by financial restraints and things like recasting? I've seen no sign of this phenomena in the UK, and judging by the cancellation of Angel  , I'd assumed the same applied in the US.

[Priscellie]

Well, I know they had to do re-shoots on Bob....this is the first I've heard of Justin & Mai

It's from this post from Jim, which Robert seemed to confirm here.  At least, he didn't call me on it and tell me I was mistaken, but then he's a very busy man.

Weird, because the press release my source snagged last month still lists Elizabeth Thai as Ancient Mai.

[robinsage]

I find this re-ordering completely mystifying. Feather was not a stronger episode, it was throwing you into the middle of the series without explaining much of anything. There's a reason Storm Front was going to be the premiere, and two hours. It was the first book in the series, so I imagine it would have done what any good series premiere would, which was to set the stage, explain the basics, and open the world of the show to the viewer. You'd think the network execs would have figured out after Firefly that it doesn't work to pick a "stronger" episode from the middle of the season, and show it first, completely out of context, chronological and otherwise.

[Priscellie]

The schedule post (2nd in this thread) has been updated to reflect the change in Sci-Fi's schedule.