Lucifer season 3 episode 12 return date hopes for Tom Ellis, cast
Let’s start off with the bad: You’re not going to be getting a new episode of the series featuring Tom Ellis next week, largely because of the fact that there is heavy competition elsewhere. Fox doesn’t have any interest in airing opposite the college football national championship game and we understand that. This is one of the larger broadcasts of the year and it’s a ratings vortex. There’s just not all that much of an incentive to even try to air anything of value against it.
Following that, January 15 is going to feature a complete Lucifer preemption thanks to a two-hour finale for The Gifted coming on the air. While we don’t quite understand the logic of ending the show this way (maybe these two episodes for The Gifted work better as a movie for whatever reason?), this is just the way that the folks over at Fox scheduling have it worked out.
Lucifer season 3 is going to likely return (as per the Futon Critic) on Monday, January 22. Note that this hasn’t been officially confirmed just yet by Fox, but all signs point towards this being the date unless they suddenly decide that they would rather continue some sort of crazy hiatus weeks after airing a new episode in the new year. This could pick up the story of Lucifer and Cain, which was set up at the end of the fall finale last year. Now that we know who Marcus Pierce really is, that sets things in motion for a lot of crazy events to occur over the rest of the season. How do you portray a character who wants to die, but can’t? That’s one of the things we’re most interested in seeing from Tom Welling in this role.
Update: The return date of January 22 is now confirmed! Check out the new promo below.
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