Look for a lot of changes in the television schedule come the New Year. NBC and Fox are shaking things up. It is making my head spin wondering if we have all of our TiVo bases covered... we had one 3-show conflict this fall... so I am hoping we avoid that with these latest changes... here is the day-by-day situation:
Monday
The fifth season of 24 beings Sunday, January 15th and moves to its usual Monday timeslot (9pm EST/8 pm MST) on the 16th
Prison Break returns on March 13th airing before 24 (8pm EST/7pm MST)
Tuesday
American Idol debuts on Jan. 17th (8pm EST/7pm MST)
Scrubs returns (hurray!) on Jan. 3rd with back-to-back episodes thru January (9pm EST/8pm EST)
Now this puts Scrubs up against Commander-In-Chief... so no problem, unless the next edition of The Amazing Race also airs in the same time slot (after the Family Edition, I am kind of hoping for a TAR break)... then we may have to .. gasp! ... watch live television!
Wednesday
American Idol Results Show on Jan. 18th (8pm/7pm) and rumored to be moving to a permanent "1 hour" long show... ugh, 58 minutes of Seacrest filler!
Thursday
NBC returns to 4 sitcoms for the first two hours of the night... Will & Grace leads off, followed by new entry Four Kings... then moving from Tuesday night... My Name Is Earl and The Office (now up against CSI)
This makes me happy... thanks to the Commander In Chief/Amazing Race conflict... we had only been able to watch episodes of Office and Earl that NBC has re-broadcast on another night... and I don't watch CSI... so hurray (well at least for me)!
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Now this all goes out the window come February when NBC airs the Winter Olympics from Turin, Italy!
Joey and The Apprentice (Trump, not Martha) will return post-Olympics, with Joey potentially joining Scrubs on Tuesdays.
And who knows what ABC & CBS has up their sleeves... if you watch anything else on NBC or Fox you might want to check out these two Zap2It articles:
'Earl' Heads to Thursdays, 'Scrubs' Back as NBC Shakes Up Schedule
'Idol' Stays Put, Lots More Moving for FOX Midseason
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