Your Ideal Primetime TV Weeknight Schedule

Cafe Society
1

Let’s give you the power to move all your favorite programs from whatever network they’re currently being mismanaged by to the night and hour of your choice from whatever starts your Prime Time until whenever it’s over.

This would be Your Channel so you wouldn’t even have to flip channels on that tiresome remote.

If you have to bring back dead shows that the fools cancelled before their time, in order to fill out the 20-25 hours in your weeknight slots, do it. Monday-Friday only. Let’s keep it real!

Fight the Power!

2

Shouldn’t this be in Cafe Society?

M: Top Gear, Monday Night Football, WWE Raw*
T: Firefly (never saw it, but I loved Serenity), Behind the Music
W: The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Tomorrow’s World
Th: The Riches, The Velvet Claw
F: Star Trek: TNG, Airwolf

*don’t hate!

3

Which nights are unimportant, but I’ll have four hours in my Prime Time each night.

Bones
House
Grey’s Anatomy
*TBD

Lie To Me
Mentalist
Medium
*TBD

Dexter
Good Wife
Weeds
Nurse Jackie
*TBD

Breaking Bad
Mad Men
24
Southland

Survivor
Nova
Sons of Anarchy
Fringe

*TBD = To Be Determined once the new schedules are out. No revivals or cancelled shows for me.

4

How I Met Your Mother
Big Bang Theory
Scrubs - New episodes
Scrubs - old episodes
TBD

House
Bones
TBD

So You Think You Can Dance (2 hr dancing show)
Iron Chef

SYTYCD (1 hr results show)
Law & Order SVU
Law & Order (original)

Fridays would have boring shows on so I’m encouraged to get my errands run

Saturday would have all-day marathons of various shows I love. Some would be guilty pleasures, like America’s Next Top Model, some would be shows from my youth (how cool would an all day Boy Meets World marathon be?), some would be shows-that-aren’t-on-the-air-anymore, like Pop-Up Video and Press Your Luck.

Sunday would be football or baseball (depending on the season), followed by my own version of Animation Domination.
Simpsons
Family Guy
Futurama
Daria
Ren & Stimpy
The Angry Beavers

5

Moved IMHO --> Cafe Society.

6

When you say “bring back dead shows”, do you mean I can make them create new episodes of the shows? Or will they just be reruns of existing episodes?

7

Be your own Network Executive. Since this is not apt to take place until we have to start paying by the minute, just treat it as a Fantasy Situation.

As for shows that should still be running with new episodes at least once a week,

I’d have to have

The Sopranos
Deadwood
The Unit
365/24 (the expanded 24)
Boston Legal
But be your own boss. Make TV matter.

8

Monday is comedy night:

Simpsons
Family Guy
Big Bang Theory
Seinfeld
Community
The Dick Van Dyke Show

Tuesday Dramas:
Life
Magnum PI
NCIS

Wed Sci-Fi:
Buffy
Firefly
V (the new one)
That’s all I got, I’ll go read a book Thu through Sun. :smiley:

9

Alright, Monday-Sunday 8-11. I know you said Monday through Friday, but since I’m the executive, I make the calls now. :smiley:

Monday: Dexter, House, 24

Tuesday: V, Firefly, Rome

Wednesday: New Amsterdam, Lost, Human Target

Thursday: The Office (with a new staff of writers), 30 Rock, Arrested Development, some new comedy show that I will greenlight later, and a one hour Jay Leno variety show (with Headlines)

Friday: Monk, Psych, Burn Notice

Saturday: A new Twlight Zone series, a new Outer Limits, and new episodes of MST3K

Sunday: Simpsons (ditto a new staff of writers), King of the Hill, Futurama, American Dad, Mission Hill, Home Movies. All new episodes.

Conan gets The Tonight Show at 11:35, Craig Ferguson afterwards at 12:35, and Jimmy Kimmel at 1:35. Various older sitcom reruns after that. On weekends, reruns of Carson’s Tonight Show will broadcast from 11:35 onward.

10

Like your style there, Justin Credible. Might even come over to your place some night for a break from my fare.

11

Monday: Chuck, Psych
Tuesday: House, Castle
Wednesday: Leverage, White Collar
Thursday: 24, Burn Notice
Friday: Eureka, Glee
Saturday: Movie Night! Rotate through a mix of genres, but always something good every week.
Sunday: How I Met Your Mother, Family Guy, American Dad, Archer, Mad Men

That’s from 8-10pm every weeknight. From 10 to 11 during the week, we would have the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, five nights a week instead of four, and live instead of recorded. Sticking to shows that currently exist keeps me from having to get my time machine going to get the cast, crew, and writers from Sports Night, The West Wing, Firefly, Boston Legal, and Babylon 5 back together.

Of course, I would then proceed to DVR that entire schedule and watch it after whatever live sporting events are on that evening, or when I get back from the bar, or the next day after work while I am making dinner, or whenever else I am generally free.

12

True dat. Heaven on Earth as we know it.

Thing is, we do pretty much that nowadays, since Thursday here is overrun with decent shows and Wednesday just plain sucks.

13

Definitely having to hit the wayback machine to fill this schedule; there’s not a whole lot of TV which I care to watch.

Monday

  • Top Gear
  • Monday Night Football

Tuesday

  • Futurama
  • Mythbusters
  • Dirty Jobs

Wednesday

  • Pushing Daisies
  • Leverage
  • White Collar

Thursday

  • Firefly
  • test pattern *
  • Castle

Friday

  • Star Trek: TNG
  • Stargate: SG-1
  • Battlestar Galactica
    • Thursdays from 8pm-9pm CT, my wife has the DVR monopolized by recording both “Supernatural” and “Fringe”. It doesn’t matter what I put on at that time…I’d never get to see it!
14

I guess it should be obvious that being a network programming type is no easy job. We couldn’t even please seven people with our requirements for “good TV” and we haven’t even scratched the surface of all that’s being offered.

Maybe some bold individual will set up a poll to see how many of our “must see” items would pass muster with other Dopers.

15

Night of the week doesn’t matter to me. Also, I’d have to resurrect dead shows, 'cause I don’t watch enough new TV.

  1. Breaking Bad, Damages, Lost, Mad Men

  2. Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Community, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

  3. The Sopranos, The Wire, The Shield, Deadwood

  4. Newsradio, The Larry Sanders Show, Mr. Show, Strangers With Candy, The Office (US), Curb Your Enthusiasm

  5. Top Chef, House, The Amazing Race, Dexter

16

House
Bones
Scrubs
Hill Street Blues
Northern Exposure
Lie to Me
Firefly
BSG
Farscape
…and I’m sure I’m forgetting something…

Oooh, ST:TNG! Yes.

And the Adult Swim Lineup would have only the GOOD stuff, and not the junk they’ve been replaying lately, yuck. And it’d be every night!
So…

Samurai Champloo
Cowboy Bebop
ATHF
Venture Brothers
Metalacolypse
Family Guy/American Dad

17

It’s probably a good thing I’m not in charge of the programming, or I’d sit around watching TV all week and have no life.
Monday
House
Chuck
The Big Bang Theory
Weeds
Psych

Tuesday
Firefly
Battlestar Galactica
Fringe
Eureka

Wednesday

Castle
Bones
The Mentalist
Burn Notice

Thursday

Dark Angel
Supernatural
Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles
True Blood

Friday

Star Trek - Deep Space 9
Heroes (with the writers from the 1st season)
Dollhouse
Merlin

18

My prime time 8-11pm

Monday:
House
24
Daily Show
Colbert Report
Tuesday:
Simpsons
Family Guy
Seinfeld
Arrested Development
Daily Show
Colbert Report

Wednesday:
V
Heroes
Daily Show
Colbert Report

Thursday:
Justice
X-Files (with Mulder and Scully)
Daily Show
Colbert Report

Friday:
Law & Order (with ADA one of the hot chicks, McCoy, Angie Harmond, Zombie Orbach, Detective Green, Ice-T, and Munch [My all time favorite L&O cast])
Iron Chef (original Japanese version with english dubbing)
Daily Show
Colbert Report