'American Horror Story' Gets 90-Minute Finale, Extended Second Season

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/27285

Quote :: One of the
reasons I've turned more of my attention to the small screen is because
the budgets are ballooning and we're getting nearly a new movie every
week (being that the big shows run about an hour in length). "American
Horror Story" didn't start off well, but it's been building towards an
explosion of awesome, which makes me seriously pumped for the full
90-minute long finale. Deadline has the story.

FX's hot new drama series "American Horror Story's" 13-episode first
season will be actually 12.5 episodes. The horror drama's first season
finale on December 21, which had been slated as two-hour, will now be
90-minutes. The trimming of the finale is a result of "American Horror
Story's" very aggressive production schedule which left no breathing
room. More details inside.

The project was picked up to pilot in late February. Creators Ryan
Murphy and Brad Falchuk couldn’t work on the pilot until they wrapped
the second season of "Glee," so it didn’t start shooting until late May.
In a quick turnaround, FX picked up the pilot to series on July 18, and
it was rushed to production 2 weeks later to make the Oct. 5 premiere
date.

With the first episode after the pilot doing some reshoots and some of
the episodes requiring 8-day shoots vs. the standard 7 because of
complex scenes, production on the series is now at a point where Episode
13 would wrap on Dec. 15, leaving no time for post-production to make
the Dec. 21 air date. And because of the holidays, it didn’t make sense
to push that last episode to Dec. 28 or the new year.

Murphy had been discussing the issue with FX president John Landgraf for
the past few weeks. There was an option for the series to drop the 13th
episode altogether and air an hourlong finale, but I hear Murphy was
able to put together a plan for a 90-minute episode to give viewers a
satisfying ending. "American Horror Story" has already been renewed for a
second season after a red-hot ratings run, punctuated by another series
high this week, and I hear that its second season may be extended
beyond 13 episodes.

sounds like its going to be an awesome finale, can't wait.

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