I decided to put the analysis of the Fox and CW schedules on this post instead of “burying” them after the announced fall schedules on separate posts. So here goes…. Fox: Because of post-season baseball and the return of American Idol and 24 in January, Fox’s schedule next season is separated into two parts, with an emphasis on midseason. The […]
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From USA Today: (All times ET/PT – CT and MT subtract number by one – new shows in bold) –Sunday7 – CW Now7:30 – Online Nation8 – Life Is Wild9 – America’s Next Top Model (repeat) Monday8 p.m. -Everybody Hates Chris8:30 – Aliens in America9 – Girlfriends9:30 – The Game –Tuesday8 – Beauty and the Geek9 – The Reaper –Wednesday8 […]
CBS has five new shows on its fall schedule, but the most interesting one by far is the show Kid Nation. It’s a new Lord of the Rings-type reality show that features 40 kids – yes, 40 kids who rebuild and run a ghost town in New Mexico with NO adult supervision. CBS also picked up one new comedy (Big […]
CW renews five shows; Fox renews 24 for two more Reports are circulating that The CW has canceled Veronica Mars and All of Us, both third-season shows. Barring a last-minute miracle, Veronica is all but done. What is official is that The CW has renewed Girlfriends and The Game (both will likely retain their Monday slots despite poor ratings) as […]
ABC announced its fall slate of programming today at its upfront presentation. The alphabet network picked up seven new dramas, four new comedies, and a new reality show from Oprah Winfrey, which will debut midseason. With the exit of According to Jim and The George Lopez Show, this marks the first time since the 1970-71 season that there will be […]
Two O&O stations, CBS-owned KYW-TV in Philadelphia and NBC-owned WTVJ in Miami have bought Program Partners’ new game show Let’s Play Crosswords for fall. WTVJ’s addition brings the number to six NBC-owned stations carrying the show this fall. NBC Universal is also selling the minute and a half of national ad time. The moves bring the total clearance of the […]
NBC new 2007-08 schedule contains five dramas, one comedy, and several reality/competition programs as the network is rolling it out today at the start of the network upfronts in New York. Here is the official schedule from NBC (All times are Eastern – Central Time Zone readers just subtract a hour…): SUNDAY (Fall 2007) 7-8 p.m. “Football Night in America” […]
Don’t ever count out Law & Order. Law & Order, currently the second-longest scripted program on TV today (only behind The Simpsons), will return for its 18th season on NBC. There were rumors about the show heading to TNT for new episodes, but that plan was scuttled. NBC is also bringing spin-off Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for another […]
NBC picked up the struggling freshman show for another 22 episodes plus it will continue to film in and around Austin, TX.
Paula Madison is stepping down as general manager of NBC’s KNBC-TV in Los Angeles to devote full-time to her duties as Vice President of Diversity. Ms. Madison became the first African-American to run a TV station in the nation’s second-largest market, when she landed the position in late 2000. She also inherited the duties of regional general manager of two […]
Interesting how Fox O&O KSTU labeled a debate between Fox News’ Sean Hannity and Salt Lake City Mayor Democrat Rocky Anderson “Smackdown” – a debate on the Iraq War that turned into a debacle while a similarly-titled show, WWE Friday Night Smackdown, was airing at the same time on the CW on local affiliate KUCW-TV). (Wait a minute. A Democrat […]
Dumb question, isn’t it? Maybe Matt and Trey know the answer for sure….
Comcast is adding college sports network CSTV to its digital sports tier on its Chicago and South Bend systems, beginning on June 27. Meanwhile, for those of you who live on Chicago’s South Side, you better get your digital box by June 5 – that’s when Comcast is converting its systems to digital.
The NBC show produced by CBS (yes, you heard me), has been picked up for a fourth season. Now if they can only move it to the 9:00 p.m. slot (CT) after Heroes….
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