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Fox's heavily-touted scheduling "revolution" (presenting new shows year-round ) isn't exactly storming the Bastille of traditional programming. Right now, they're just hanging out in the cafe, eating the stinky cheese of a fourth-place finish, and preaching patience with the new format. And it sounds like the revolutionaries are getting a little demoralized by the discouraging early returns. In an AP story, Fox spokesman Scott Grogin whines, "You can't start an entirely new way of programming a network and expect it to come out of the gate like gangbusters, especially in the summer."

Perhaps most tellingly, the article mentions the revolution's depressing, diminished expectations. "While the [new] shows' numbers are small, Fox is taking some solace in the fact that they're not dropping much week to week." That ought to get the troops fired up! Too bad Fox can't turn over its summer schedule to an ABC-led provisional government and hide until the Fall.