The Good News... and The Bad News
The Good News
Fox has just announced that they will, after all, air the final four episodes of Arrested Development. The network will telecast these final four half-hours back-to-back from 8:00pm - 10:00pm on Friday, February 10. In case you hadn't noticed, February 10 falls right in the middle of the February sweep period. Networks usually air their best and brightest during sweeps periods, don't they? So this must be a good sign, right? Well, before you answer that...
The Bad News
February 10 is also the date of the opening ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics on NBC. Translation: everybody will be watching NBC on February 10... and the other networks know this, so they run what they consider to be "low priority" programming opposite the Olympics. Therefore, this is one of the rare cases in which a program being slottted within a sweep is not a compliment.
Hey, at least we get to see the final four episodes without having to wait for the season-3 DVD release.
Thanks for the three years of Arrested, Fox. And here's hoping that Arrested's replacement, Skating with Celebrities, falls flat on its face. Yes, the pun was intended; sorry about that.
Hey, Showtime and ABC... we're still waiting to hear from you. Don't let us down.
Fox has just announced that they will, after all, air the final four episodes of Arrested Development. The network will telecast these final four half-hours back-to-back from 8:00pm - 10:00pm on Friday, February 10. In case you hadn't noticed, February 10 falls right in the middle of the February sweep period. Networks usually air their best and brightest during sweeps periods, don't they? So this must be a good sign, right? Well, before you answer that...
The Bad News
February 10 is also the date of the opening ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics on NBC. Translation: everybody will be watching NBC on February 10... and the other networks know this, so they run what they consider to be "low priority" programming opposite the Olympics. Therefore, this is one of the rare cases in which a program being slottted within a sweep is not a compliment.
Hey, at least we get to see the final four episodes without having to wait for the season-3 DVD release.
Thanks for the three years of Arrested, Fox. And here's hoping that Arrested's replacement, Skating with Celebrities, falls flat on its face. Yes, the pun was intended; sorry about that.
Hey, Showtime and ABC... we're still waiting to hear from you. Don't let us down.
posted by TV Boy at 5:10 PM
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