Details of Primetime Pre-emptions (4/28/05)
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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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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.
http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|94963|1|,00.html
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Thanks! I'll miss Without a Trace, tho...........
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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.
I wonder how pissed the networks are at how this screws up their plans for sweeps.
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so, if NBC didn't show Joey, what is on the *cough*
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it has the correct episode name
Spoiler:
it has the correct episode name
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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.
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Originally Posted by Ben732
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.
I wonder how pissed the networks are at how this screws up their plans for sweeps.