You are the head of a rival network on Superbowl Sunday, what do you program?

Cafe Society
1

So it is Superbowl Sunday. The most-watched sporting event and most-watched show in the US. You are the head of a rival network. What do you program?

2

I would burn off something my network owned and had been judged as a stinker that didn’t deserve to air. Preferably something that was supposed to appeal to women, in the belief that women are less likely to watch the Super Bowl (an untrue belief, by the way. The Super Bowl is one of the few programs with roughly equal male and female viewership.)

However, given that most Super Bowls turn out to be lousy football games, I’d also schedule something much more interesting to run during the 2nd half, perhaps a rerun of one of my higher-rated shows.

3

I’d air a live Janet Jackson concert.

4

HA! That’s what I clikcked in to say!

5

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! :smiley:

I love you.
I couldn’t even tell you what channel the Superbowl is on- ABC?

I’d run Desperate Housewives (new, crazy episode)…assuming it’s a different network :wink:

6

Repeats.

Come on. Even the execs at the rival networks are watching the Super Bowl.

7

Blackadder (probably series IV)

Assuming that most people are watching the Superbowl, or other non-Superbowl networks, there won’t be enough watching my network to make a signifigant difference in profit if I showed something different. So I may as well show something I want to watch.

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I’d assume that anyone who was even the slightest bit interested in football or sports in general would be watching the game. Hence, I’d try to run something that had nothing at all to do with sports or football or that would largely appeal only to those people.

Granted, I don’t know exactly what that might be.

Probably something geeky, such as MST3K episodes or some scientific documentary. I know that there are many geeks who do like sports, but there are also many who do not.

9

Totally Naked Flintstones- a new and edgier update of the animated classic that pushes the envelope of Neanderthal sexuality and gender differences

Classic TV Reunion Grudgematch (from the producers of Celebrity Boxing): Golden Girls v. Designing Women- a no holds barred fight to the finish in butterscotch pudding- true Delta Burke and Dixie Carter are younger, but Betty White and Bea Arthur are mean as hell when you get them riled