Gotham Gets a Full Season On FOX

<p>Gotham&comma; which was picked up straight-to-series by FOX last year for what was planned to be 16-episode first season&comma; has just had its freshman run extended to 22 episodes following its much-watched premiere last month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So while it&&num;8217&semi;s being said that Gotham is getting a &&num;8220&semi;full season order&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the reality is that FOX has simply extended Season 1&&num;8217&semi;s original full order by six episodes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dana Walden and Gary Newman&comma; chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group&comma; gave the following statement on the news&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Gotham debuted as one of the most buzzed-about shows of the fall&comma; and with good reason&period; Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon have created an incredibly rich world&comma; with characters that draw you in and a cast that brings to life these heroes and villains in a way we’ve never seen before&period; We are so excited to see where Bruno&comma; Danny and the entire &OpenCurlyQuote;Gotham’ team take this story over the course of this season&comma; and so thankful to all the fans who have embraced it this fall&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Gotham&&num;8217&semi;s original 16-episode order was made back during former-FOX network chief Kevin Reilly&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;no pilot season&&num;8221&semi; policy&comma; where shows would be ordered and developed at any time of the year&comma; picked up for shorter runs &lpar;like Sleepy Hollow and Almost Human&comma; both with 13-episode first seasons&rpar; and then premiere at any time of the year the would benefit the primetime schedule&period; By upping Gotham to a full 22 episode run&comma; FOX now definitely seems to be moving away from Reilly&&num;8217&semi;s show development method&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Gotham debuts tonight with its fourth episode&comma; Asylum&period; You can read our review on last week&&num;8217&semi;s episode&comma; <em>Balloon Man<&sol;em>&comma;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;hot-air-gotham-balloon-man-review&sol;"> here<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;insidetv&period;ew&period;com&sol;2014&sol;10&sol;13&sol;gotham-fox-expanded-order-22-episodes&sol;">Entertainment Weekly<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via<&sol;p>&NewLine;