See also Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Now I have to say, Thursday is the one I was most interested in. You’ve got “Friends” fans who’ve worked their whole schedules around leaving the night open, and what are they gonna do? A smart network will schedule their best stuff for this night. Let’s see what happens:
8:00-9:00
[ul]
[li]Extreme Makeover (ABC)[/li][li]Survivor: Vanuatu (CBS)[/li][li]North Shore(Fox; Starts in June; replaced in October by The OC)[/li][li]Joey / Will and Grace (NBC)[/li][li]WWE Smackdown (UPN)[/li][li]The Mountain (WB)[/li][/ul]
My choice: I’ll be flipping over to Comedy Central to catch the East Coast feed of “The Daily Show”. Yeah, I know I said in the other threads that I wasn’t going to include cable, but COME ON!
Nothing demonstrates the death of the sitcom like this hour of programming right here. There’s nothing on that I would want to watch. You’ve got three reality shows (including “Smackdown”), two new overwrought dramas (one of which is to be replaced by an existing overwrought drama), a formerly groundbreaking sitcom which someone I know now refers to as “the gay Amos ‘n’ Andy”, and the followup to a long-running hit that NBC hopes will be the next “Frasier”, but IMO, stands a much greater chance of being the next “AfterMAS*H”.
9:00-10:00
[ul]
[li]Life As We Know It (ABC)[/li][li]CSI (CBS)[/li][li]Tru Calling (Fox; starts in June)[/li][li]The Apprentice (NBC)[/li][li]WWE Smackdown (UPN)[/li][li]Studio 7 (WB)[/li][/ul]
My choice: I don’t know. I just don’t know. Maybe I’ll finally check out “Tru Calling”. Maybe I’ll discover a love of TV wrestling that somehow failed to emerge during puberty.
The sitcom’s been dead only an hour, and it’s already time to get to the cemetary to dance on its grave.
Otherwise, we’ve got teen drama on ABC (right after a makeover show and before a newsmagazine? Huh?), the loves and losses of game show contestants on the WB, or on NBC, that most inexplicable hit, “The Apprentice”. What’s with America? Don’t they get enough office politics at the office?!? Or are that many people jobless that watching someone at work qualifies as escapism now?
<Dr. Suess>
Wouldn’t you like CSI?
I would not, could not, no, not I!
We have some other CSI’s,
those in Miami or New York.
I’d rather gouge out both my eyes
with my new barbecue-ing fork!
</Dr. Suess>
10:00-11:00
[ul]
[li]Primetime Live (ABC)[/li][li]Without A Trace[/li][li]ER[/li][/ul]
My choice: “Without A Trace”. I guess. or watch the second run of “Daily Show” in case I was in the bathroom for one of the bits.
“Primetime Live” isn’t so bad as newsmagazines go, but both hosts are so cloying. And “ER”'s been dismal for at least two seasons now.
Do not speak to me of Thursday night, It is dead to me now.