Details of Primetime Pre-emptions (4/28/05)
 

From Zap2it:

ABC, which struggles mightily on Thursday nights and has scheduled a string of movies for sweeps, was first to announce it would go with news coverage. It's bumping the movie "Sweet Home Alabama" back one week in favor of 90 minutes of press conference coverage, followed by a 90-minute edition of "Primetime Live" in the Eastern and Central time zones. Viewers out West will see the movie "The Fast and the Furious" and a 60-minute "Primetime."

CBS, FOX and NBC will all cover the press conference from 8 to 9 p.m. The Eye network will bump its hits "Survivor: Palau" and "CSI" back an hour and drop "Without a Trace" in the eastern part of the country; out West, things will proceed as usual, with "Survivor" at 8 p.m. Pacific time, "CSI" at 9 and a "Without a Trace" rerun at 10.

FOX is pre-empting "The O.C." this week but will run two originals next Thursday (May 5), with the episode originally scheduled for this week at 8 p.m. and next week's episode at 9.

NBC, meanwhile, will boot "Joey" and "Will & Grace" (viewers out West will see repeats of both shows in their regular time periods) before returning to regular programming at 9 with "The Apprentice" and "ER." The network hasn't yet rescheduled the pre-empted comedies.

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Many thanks. I would have likely missed the second O.C. episode next week if not for the kind folks here in TV Talk. :)

Thanks! I'll miss Without a Trace, tho...........

Son of a bitch

Again, thanks for the above info--especially remembering us folks on the west coast. (Those inbetween--you're on your own! :shrug: )

NBC.com is now listing the episodes due to air tonight for Joey and Will & Grace with next Thursday's date (5/5/05.)

I wonder how pissed the networks are at how this screws up their plans for sweeps. :)

so, if NBC didn't show Joey, what is on the *cough* *cough*
it has the correct episode name

I think that every show that was pushed back until next week was shown on my local channels.

So I guess Tivo users will need to keep an eye out for the W/o A Trace episode, since when they do show it, the guide data will mark it as a repeat and might not pick it up depending on how your seas passes are set up.

Will have to look out for Joey. Thanks.

Missed ER because I chose to watch CSI instead.