You wouldn’t think that such a
thing would happen. But it seems that every so often, a network can just stop
caring about what it airs on their own network. It may not happen that much,
but it can be a thing that happens from time to time.
What’s a sign that a network
doesn’t care about their schedule? One is that they are airing the same thing
over more than one timeslot. Another is having a bunch of unusual specials all
airing at the same timeslot. If there are always reruns of shows, specifically
the same show, in one timeslot, then you know that they just don’t care
anymore.
What causes a network to give
up in some way about schedules? Well, part of it relates to cancellations,
whether they are owned up to right away or not. They might not have something
to replace it right away or at all. This has been a problem on CBS for some
seasons: not having the right number of sitcoms leaving an odd number and
leading them to show reruns of The Big Bang Theory in its place. You don’t
always see this as a problem, but that’s merely one example.
FOX is notorious for airing
things of little to no importance on Fridays from time to time. NBC once aired
tons of Dateline in place of shows that were pulled from the schedule. ABC has
taken to airing twice as much Shark Tank instead of finding a quick replacement
for 10 Days in the Valley. I don’t even know what PBS has used to fill the gaps
of Charlie Rose or Tavis Smiley. Those were different circumstances, though.
CBS can make weird choices, normally during May sweeps. As for the CW, they are
the best in terms of caring about their schedule and even if they don’t, they
will find something fairly quickly.
That’s about it for this post.
You’d have to pay attention to schedules on networks from time to time to see
when or if they gave up in some way relating to a certain part of their
schedule. It is hard to tell all the time when this happens, but it happens a
lot more than you would think.
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