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-Monday, March 10:
8:00pm The Bachelor: Where Are They Now? Special
9:00pm October Road
10:00pm October Road (season finale)

- 20/20 will air Friday, March 7, 14, 21 and 28 now as well at 9PM instead of Desperate Housewives repeats (comment-why did they wait till after the sweeps; yes Mushu I know, Monkeys )

- Effective Thursday, March 27, 2008 Grey's Anatomy will return its 9:00 PM ET/PT time period, in order to bring viewers up-to-speed, repeats will air prior to the return of new episodes on Thursday, April 24, 2008 (comment- gee the Friday airings pretty much covered the season; how much catching up can there be)

-Saturday Movies from 8-11p (unless noted):

March 22, 2008: Annual 10 Commandments from 7:00-11:44 PM ET/PT
March 29, 2008: "Seabiscuit"
April 5, 2008: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
April 12, 2008: “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
April 19, 2008: “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”

May Sweep Saturday 8-11pm Movies:
(All Network Television Premieres)

Saturday, April 26: ABC Special Presentation - "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (Harry Potter for the month of April)
Saturday, May 3: The Wonderful World of Disney - "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" (ties in to the sequel movie release)
Saturday, May 17: ABC Saturday Movie of the Week "Hitch"
(I believe May 10 is an NBA playoff game in primetime)

Various Notes:
Monday, March 31:
8:00pm “Dancing with the Stars”
9:36pm “The Bachelor”

Barbara Walters Special - "Live To Be 150...Can You Do It?" will air on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 from 10-11pm ET/PT

Sunday, April 27
7-9pm Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (two-hour episode)

Few Season Finales:

-Oprah’s Big Give will move to 8:00 PM ET/PT on Sundays, April 13 and 20, 2008, giving Extreme Makeover: Home Edition a two-week break.
The season finale of Oprah’s Big Give is April 20, 2008 at 8p.

- “America’s Funniest Home Videos” - Friday, May 16, 2008 from 8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT
- “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” - Sunday, May 18, 2008 Part I will air at 7:00 PM ET/PT and Part II will air in the regularly scheduled 8:00 PM ET/PT slot.

Sunday, May 18: 9-11pm "Desperate Housewives"
Monday, May 19: 8:00pm-9:02pm "Dancing with the Stars" Final Performance
Tuesday, May 20: 9:00pm-11:00pm "Dancing with the Stars" Grand Finale

Other:

The 2008 Scripps National Spelling Championship will air on a Friday this year. Friday, May 30, 2008 from 8-10pm.

Friday, June 20: 8-11pm The 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards

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April 5, 2008: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
April 12, 2008: “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
April 19, 2008: “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”

May Sweep Saturday 8-11pm Movies:
(All Network Television Premieres)

Saturday, April 26: ABC Special Presentation - "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (Harry Potter for the month of April)
Saturday, May 3: The Wonderful World of Disney - "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" (ties in to the sequel movie release)

These are all great movies, but since ABC has no plans for originals on Fridays (aside from 20/20), I would have slotted them on Fridays. Family movies have been doing great there (Santa Clause 2, Polar Express, etc), and these are the types of movies that would perform well on Fridays. I think there value is diminished on Saturdays, as we've seen by the underwhelming numbers of War of the Worlds and Miracle recently on Saturdays.

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Sunday, April 27
7-9pm Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (two-hour episode)

Few Season Finales:

-Oprah’s Big Give will move to 8:00 PM ET/PT on Sundays, April 13 and 20, 2008, giving Extreme Makeover: Home Edition a two-week break.
The season finale of Oprah’s Big Give is April 20, 2008 at 8p.

I expect Oprah to continue building on Sundays, so this is a good move to give EM:HE a little breather.

However, I really don't like the 2-hr EM:HE episodes being wasted in the 7pm - 9pm timeslot. As we've seen before, 2-hr EM:HE episodes work much more effectively in the 8pm - 10pm timeslot, whereas the 7pm hour of a 2-hr episode usually does not better than a regular airing of AFV. I don't get this move.

They should put the movies on Fridays.

I hate this things

8:00pm “Dancing with the Stars”
9:36 pm “The Bachelor”

This also doesn't say where WMC's 3 new episodes will go, or where Eli Stone will finish its run, though I guess unless they say otherwise, I'd assume it would stay on Thursdays, even with the Grey's reruns...

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Tuesday, May 20: 9:00pm-11:00pm "Dancing with the Stars" Grand Finale

Is this the first season with a 3-hr DWTS finale? This may be overdoing it a bit...

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Tuesday, May 20: 9:00pm-11:00pm "Dancing with the Stars" Grand Finale

Is this the first season with a 3-hr DWTS finale? This may be overdoing it a bit...

Thats only 2 hours.

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Tuesday, May 20: 9:00pm-11:00pm "Dancing with the Stars" Grand Finale

So the grand finale of Dancing with the Stars will be in direct competition with American Idol for at least an hour. Battle of the Titans -- it should be interesting to see how they each fare...

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Tuesday, May 20: 9:00pm-11:00pm "Dancing with the Stars" Grand Finale

So the grand finale of Dancing with the Stars will be in direct competition with American Idol for at least an hour. Battle of the Titans -- it should be interesting to see how they each fare...

Never mind -- it looks like AI that night is only an hour from 8pm - 9pm, with the final 2 performing, while DWTS final performance and results will start at 9pm, and will be opposite Hell's Kitchen.

Some Updates:
- Lost will remain Thursdays at 9:00PM (not Grey's Anatomy repeats, as previously announced) with repeats starting March 27 (at least March 27 and April 3, that is). Lost's pre-strike finale is next week (March 20).

April 17 will likely have repeats of Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy return in time for the new episodes starting April 24.

- America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat will air Friday, April 4 at 8:00pm leading into the return of Duel at 9:00pm. 10 episodes have been ordered for Duel.

- Last two Desperate Housewives episodes that aired will reair Thursday, April 10 at 8:00pm and 9:00pm, just in time for the return on Sunday, April 13.

- According to Jim returns to the lineup on Tuesday, April 15 airing Tuesdays at 8:00pm and 8:30pm, replacing Just for Laughs.

When is Primetime coming back?

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When is Primetime coming back?

Primetime is simple filler for ABC. It will likely go off air til summer. However, ABC may want to consider burning off the remaining eps of Men in Trees in the summer or back on Fridays at 8 and simply moving Primetime to Wed. at 10.

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When is Primetime coming back?

Tuesday 3.25.08 at 10:00pm according to my skeds.

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Originally posted by lopez:
When is Primetime coming back?

Tuesday 3.25.08 at 10:00pm according to my skeds.

Yes! I can't wait

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Originally posted by Justin:

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Originally posted by lopez:
When is Primetime coming back?

Tuesday 3.25.08 at 10:00pm according to my skeds.

Yes! I can't wait

And its lead in is Dancing With the Stars, so we should see very nice numbers, too.

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Originally posted by Justin:

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Originally posted by lopez:
When is Primetime coming back?

Tuesday 3.25.08 at 10:00pm according to my skeds.

Yes! I can't wait

And its lead in is Dancing With the Stars, so we should see very nice numbers, too.

I hope so!

It was pulling 3.0 with a lead in of 1.2