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23 September 2008

Fall Premiere Week - Wednesday


Wednesday night doesn’t look like much now but in a few weeks it will look a lot better.
ABC has yet another hour of Dancing with the Stars (that’s five hours total for those counting) followed by a two-hour David Blaine extravaganza. ABC’s real Wednesday night lineup of Pushing Daisies — last season’s best new [...]

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22 September 2008

Fall Premiere Week - Tuesday


In the past, Tuesday nights have generally been one of the better nights of TV. In the past…
ABC has Opportunity Knocks, a new game show in which family members are asked trivia questions about one another, followed by another two hours of Dancing with the Stars. Eli Stone, ABC’s obligatory God talking to [...]

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Fall Premiere Week - Monday


The official start of the new TV season begins tonight, although many shows premiered weeks ago, including the best new show of the season: HBO’s True Blood. There’s really nothing exciting about Monday night.
ABC has two hours of Dancing with the Stars followed by Boston Legal.
CBS premieres what is slowly [...]

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04 November 2007

Memo to Brian Williams: Quit your day job


Last night voice of God and anchor of the NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams, hosted the funniest Saturday Night Live of the season.
The opening sketch, about the Democratic presidential candidates at the Clinton’s halloween party, set the tone for the show as one of the more intelligent SNL in recent memories. That sketch was [...]

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04 October 2007

30 Rock Returns in SeinfeldVision®


Tonight NBC tries to recapture some of that nostalgia from the 90s with the one-night return of Jerry Seinfeld to ‘Must-See TV’. The premise sounds brilliant: Jack (Alec Baldwin) creates SeinfeldVision®, a process which inserts NBC-owned footage from Seinfeld into NBC’s current shows. Seinfeld himself shows up none too happy.
Despite critical praise, 30 [...]

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29 September 2007

Fall Premiere Week - Sunday


Each network has owned Sunday - television’s most lucrative night - in recent years. It is the most watched night of television. It’s also the only night when prime-time starts an hour earlier than usual. This year there are no new shows on any of the major nets.
ABC starts things off [...]

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28 September 2007

Fall Premiere Week - Saturday


The networks gave up trying to successfully program Saturday nights a long time ago. Now it’s mostly repeats.
ABC has college football, CBS and NBC have repeats, and Fox has Cops and America’s Most Wanted as they have since the dawn of time. This wasn’t worth the 90 seconds it took to write.

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Fall Premiere Week - Friday


I can’t imagine watching television on a Friday night, especially with what the networks offer. Saturday night is the worst though.
ABC has an hour of Just for Laughs which offers up this synopsis: “A gorilla hanging from a tree surprises pedestrians.” Alright. Following that are two full hours of 20/20. I [...]

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26 September 2007

Fall Premiere Week - Thursday


ABC has the season premieres of Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy followed by the series premiere of Big Shots, which doesn’t have much buzz. It’s strange that ABC would fill their best timeslot with one of their weakest shows.
CBS returns to its Thursday night lineup from two years ago: Survivor: China, which already [...]

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