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Sunday
Night 2002/2003
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Net
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7:00pm
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7:30pm |
8:00pm |
8:30pm
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9:00pm
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9:30pm
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10:00pm
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ABC
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The Wonderful World of Disney
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Alias
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The
Practice
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CBS
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60 Minutes
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Becker
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CBS
Sunday Movie
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FOX
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Futurama
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Simpsons
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King of the Hill
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Malcolm/Middle
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NBC
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Dateline
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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WB
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Gilmore Girls: Beginnings
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Charmed
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Angel
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CBS:
Sunday at 8:00pm (Half-Hour Sitcom)
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Premise
Bram Shepherd is a womanizing, acclaimed author
who has never managed to live up to his early
success. Entering his life is Alice O’Connor,
an aspiring writer who also happens to be
the author’s previously unknown daughter
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An
unexpected child was a key plot point for
the series My Two Dads and the movie
Carbon Copy
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Familiar
Faces
Alfred Molina (Ladies Man), Traylor
Howard (Boston Common, Two Guys,
a Girl and a Pizza Place)
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Our
Take
Many years ago CBS did well with sitcoms on
Sunday night. However, that was then and Bram
and Alice is no All in the Family.
Also, why isn’t Becker anchoring the
hour? If CBS is concerned Becker only
worked Monday thanks to its time slot, this
entire sitcom block may be in trouble
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Expect
to Hear
"You’re
my daughter. I care about you - well, not
about you per se - I didn’t even know you,
but the idea of you."
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Bram Shepherd
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FOX:
Sunday at 7:30pm (Half-Hour Sitcom)
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Premise
Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s,
Oliver Beene tells the story of an
11-year-old boy trying to deal with a rather
eccentric family
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Malcolm
in the Middle meets The Wonder Years
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Familiar
Faces
Grant Shaud (Murphy Brown), Andrew
Lawrence (Brotherly Love), Wendy
Makkena (Sister Act)
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Our
Take
Oliver Beene is an odd fit at 7:30pm
between Futurama and The Simpsons.
If they would move it to 8:30pm (and King
of Hill back to 7:30pm), it might fit
in nicely as a lead-in to the compatible
Malcolm in the Middle
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Expect
to Hear
"Like
so many woman, my mom idealized Jackie Kennedy
- I mean, even to the point of fantasizing
she was her. But I knew my father, and he
was no Jack Kennedy."
-Oliver
Beene
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FOX:
Sunday at 9:30pm (Half-Hour Sitcom)
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Premise
14-year-old Mitch Grubb has aspirations
for doing something with his life. Unfortunately,
Mitch’s desires contradict with the underachieving
Grubb family view on life
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Malcolm
in the Middle meets Married…with
Children
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Familiar
Faces
Movie Actor Randy Quaid, Carol Kane (Taxi)
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Our
Take
The Grubbs is clearly the weakest
link in FOX’s Sunday night of sitcoms. This
is also the same hour that killed similar
low-brow comedies Nikki, Unhappily Ever
After and Men, Women, and Dogs
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Expect
to Hear
"Beautiful
girls - they have what they call options.
Now, you need a girl that’s backed into
a corner. That way, if it’s either you or
nothing, you’ve got a 50/50 shot."
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Mike Grubb
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NBC:
Sunday at 8:00pm (Hour Drama)
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Premise
In the second of two Sunday night series
set in the JFK era, we follow the dreams
of the Pryor family. 15-year-old Meg (who
just wants to dance on American Bandstand)
and her older brother are trying to follow
their own dreams despite the fact that they
clash with those of their father
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The
Craig T. Nelson series Call to Glory
also followed the dramatized lives of a
family set against the changing times of
the early 1960s
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Familiar
Faces
Tom Verica (Citizen Baines, State of
Grace, Providence), Gail O’Grady (NYPD
Blue)
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Our
Take
Younger audiences will be tuned to The
Simpsons and families to Disney.
The older audience may very well tune in
to this nostalgic program. The question
is whether or not these viewers are enough
to hold on to a show considering the demise
of older skewing Max Bickford last
year
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Expect
to Hear
"I
don’t want to be one of those people that
nothing ever happens to."
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Meg Pryor
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NBC:
Sunday at 10:00pm (Hour Drama)
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Premise
Boomtown will follow a different crime/story
each week told from numerous different perspectives
- ranging from the District Attorney to a
reporter to the beat cops to the detectives
and even to the paramedics
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The
movie Go! also told a story from different
points of view
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Familiar
Faces
Former “New Kid” Donnie Wahlberg, Mykelti
Williamson (The Fugitive), Jason Gedrick
(Falcone, Murder One, Iron Eagle),
Nina Garbiras (The Street, Leap Years)
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Our
Take
The show’s concept is very well executed in
the pilot. Add in the strong lead-in from
Law & Order: Criminal Intent as another
plus. However, can the producers manage to
continue to execute this very difficult concept
in the long run?
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Expect
to Hear
"London’s
got the Thames, Paris’s got the Seines, Vienna’s
got the Blue Danube, and L.A.’s got a concrete
drainage ditch."
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Mr. Fontaine
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