Is ‘Gotham’ episode 19 new tonight on Fox? Finale date and more

This “Gotham” article is particularly a case of good and bad news, but we will start things off here with the good: There is no new episode once again airing on Fox tonight. The same can be said for the next week, and also the week after and beyond that. As we’ve mentioned in previous articles, the series is not returning to Fox until Monday, April 13 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time, and it is at that point the show will begin its home stretch for the rest of the season.

So while we cannot pass along the gift of new episodes tonight, we can at least definitively tell you the schedule for the rest of the season. Specifically, come April 13 there will not be a single repeat the rest of the season! New episodes will air on the 20th, the 27th, and then ultimately the finale on May 4. We are actually a little surprised that there is not another repeat thrown in here, mostly because that means that the season will end pretty early on in the May sweeps.

Fox must have a strategy for this move, though, and we imagine that it is as follows: They don’t want to air their finales against other finales. In moving the schedule around like this, they effectively ensure that they don’t have to, and maybe they can get more live viewers because of it. The network probably even needs it, given that once we’re at the end of the road for “Empire,” Ben McKenzie and company suddenly are the best thing going.

“Gotham” is already renewed for a second season, and that should start up come September.

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