# Sunday Night Television
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 10, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861 "2006-03-10T18:28:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/1 "2006-03-10T18:28:49Z")
_The Sopranos_ or _Desperate Housewives_
_Big Love_ or _Grey’s Anatomy_
For me, ABC’s advertisers just lost a set of eyeballs.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/2 "2006-03-10T18:43:34Z")
Desperate Housewives, and neither. I don’t have HBO and when I did I never got into The Sopranos.
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### Author:  [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/3 "2006-03-10T18:48:16Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#):
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> _The Sopranos_ or _Desperate Housewives_
> _Big Love_ or _Grey’s Anatomy_
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> For me, ABC’s advertisers just lost a set of eyeballs.
With the Sopranos starting again (2 more days), I’ll DVR Desperate Housewives. Then watch Grey’s Anatomy at 10pm.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/4 "2006-03-10T18:53:20Z")
HBO here. I’ll TiVo Desperate Housewives.
The NPR reviewer talked about Sopranos and Big Love this morning. What a big tease he is!!!
Does everybody who has HBO get the multiple HBO’s? When we had cable, there was only one HBO, but DirecTV has eight. So if we miss Sunday night, we catch repeats later in the week.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/5 "2006-03-10T19:41:38Z")
Sunday? _Cold Case_, _Criminal Intent_, and then the _Simpsons_ and _Family Guy_ episodes we DVR’d earlier in the evening.
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/6 "2006-03-10T19:51:08Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#):
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> Sunday? _Cold Case_, _Criminal Intent_, and then the _Simpsons_ and _Family Guy_ episodes we DVR’d earlier in the evening.
And you call yourself a Jersey-ite. :dubious: Or is it because you live down the block from whomever it is Tony is modelled?
I was considering recording ABC for later in the week, but I really wouldn’t have time until the following weekend, at the earliest, to catch up.
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### Author:  [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/7 "2006-03-11T02:47:17Z")
Untamed World
Wild Kingdom
Wide World of Disney
The Beachcombers
… bedtime.
Wait, sorry, that was Sunday nights 30 years ago.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/8 "2006-03-11T04:04:03Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#):
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> _The Sopranos_ or _Desperate Housewives_
> _Big Love_ or _Grey’s Anatomy_
>
> For me, ABC’s advertisers just lost a set of eyeballs.
One nice thing about HBO (and other premium cable channels) is that they repeat their first-run shows later in the week, so you can catch The Sopranos if you miss it on Sunday. ABC doesn’t do that. (Although since all of the broadcast networks own basic cable channels, I don’t know why they don’t do the same thing. Surely they’d attract a few more viewers.)
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### Author:  [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/9 "2006-03-11T10:00:59Z")
I don’t have HBO, so for me it’s \*Law & Order: Criminal Intent \* and _Grey’s Anatomy_ (or _Crossing Jordan_).
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### Author:  [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/10 "2006-03-11T14:57:15Z")
with the Sopranos coming back after their 2-year vacation, Sunday night is now Soprano-centric… watch Soprano’s and DVR DH… watch Grey’s Anatomy and DVR the new show, unless it proves to be one you cannot wait another day to see, like the Sopranos.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/11 "2006-03-11T15:33:50Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#):
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> And you call yourself a Jersey-ite. :dubious: Or is it because you live down the block from whomever it is Tony is modelled?
Heh…it’s because of 1) having no desire to have HBO, and 2) when the show first came out, everyone I knew refused to STFU about it. It got to the point that I was sick of it without ever having seen it.
Of course, dere _is_ dis guy dat lives up da block…
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/12 "2006-03-11T15:34:19Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#):
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> Does everybody who has HBO get the multiple HBO’s? When we had cable, there was only one HBO, but DirecTV has eight. So if we miss Sunday night, we catch repeats later in the week.
I do, but I only get the main HBO staction in HiDef. Regular Def is OK as a back-up, but once you’ve gone HiDef, it’s hard to go back.
This just puts us back to where we were when \*Rome \*was showing. You Tivo DH, then watch it after _The Sopranos_ to edit out the commercials. No brainer.
I’ve not been able to get into GA. Don’t know why, but it just doesn’t do anything for me.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/13 "2006-03-11T15:44:36Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#):
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> Heh…it’s because of 1) having no desire to have HBO, and 2) when the show first came out, everyone I knew refused to STFU about it. It got to the point that I was sick of it without ever having seen it.
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> Of course, dere _is_ dis guy dat lives up da block…
But I was told Sopranos was required viewing, how did you get out of it. It was right on the Tax form.
Actually I added HBO back in just because the new season was starting. When the Season is done, HBO will go away again.
Jim
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### Author:  [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/14 "2006-03-11T15:48:32Z")
8:00 Simpsons
8:30 Nothing\*
9:00 Family Guy
9:30 American Dad (if it’s on, and not this lame-ass looking Free Ride show this week)\*
10:00 Grays Anatomy
11:00 The Boondocks
11:30 Bedtime.
From what I’ve seen of the earlier seasons of The Sopranos, it’s really not interesting to me. Oh, and I don’t want to pay for HBO.
\*Sometimes these will get filled by whatever’s on Discovery or the Food Network, if I don’t have chores to do before bed.
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### Author:  [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/15 "2006-03-11T16:04:29Z")
THIS Sunday?
[How WIlliam Shatner Changed the World](http://www.historychannel.com/thcsearch/thc_search.do?keywords=shatner&networkCode=THC&x=0&y=0)
On the History Channel.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/16 "2006-03-11T16:12:33Z")
Cold Case and Desperate Housewives is our Sunday indulgence.
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### Author:  [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/17 "2006-03-11T16:18:11Z")
> [@lawoot](#):
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> THIS Sunday?
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> [How WIlliam Shatner Changed the World](http://www.historychannel.com/thcsearch/thc_search.do?keywords=shatner&networkCode=THC&x=0&y=0)
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> On the History Channel.
Oh sweet! Throw my normal Sunday out the window (or else I’ll just tivo Shatner).
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/18 "2006-03-11T18:20:04Z")
> [@What Exit?](#):
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> When the Season is done, HBO will go away again.
What? Not hanging around for Deadwood and Entourage? The new season of Autopsy? 😉
Is this how the premium networks determine the success of a show? I wonder how many people do this.
I like what HBO does enough to stick with them all the time, but if/when the budget gets too tight, I’d probably drop it too.
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### Author:  [@Stinkum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinkum)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/19 "2006-03-11T20:05:12Z")
_Sopranos_ or _Deadwood_ and _Rome_ when they return. I was a huge SFU fan, so Sunday’s have always been HBO night. I like my whackings on Sunday in various eras. 😃
I have never seen an episode of _Desperate Housewives_ . . . ever. The premise of the show doesn’t interest me.
I get all the HBO channels (HBO, HBO2, HBO Signature, HBO Family, HBO Comedy, HBO Zone) in East as well as West. So I can see a show at 8 and again at 11 EST.
It is SO worth the extra piddling 15 bux a month. I don’t go to movies in theaters or go out at all, so this is my only entertainment besides books.
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### Author:  [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-night-television/347861/20 "2006-03-11T20:19:18Z")
> [@Dewey Finn](#):
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> One nice thing about HBO (and other premium cable channels) is that they repeat their first-run shows later in the week, so you can catch The Sopranos if you miss it on Sunday. ABC doesn’t do that. (Although since all of the broadcast networks own basic cable channels, I don’t know why they don’t do the same thing. Surely they’d attract a few more viewers.)
Syndication. ABC did this on ABC during the first season of Alias to try and build the audience, but it’s considered to be detrimental to syndication sales. The thinking is that if people have seen it twice or more on two networks, they won’t be interested in watching the syndication reruns.
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