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Thursday
Night: 1999/2000
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ABC:
Thursday at 8:30pm (Half Hour Sitcom)
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Premise
The
story of Billie, a newly single woman romantically
involved with Aidan, a room service waiter more
than 10 years younger than her
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Where
Have We Seen This Before - Karen’s Song,
a short lived FOX series that starred Patty Duke
as a woman involved with a much younger man
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Familiar
Faces
None
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Our
Take
While it is true that NBC’s Thursday night lineup
has weakened recently, NBC still owns Thursday
night among younger viewers and CBS has an established
presence against older viewers with Diagnosis:
Murder
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Expect
to Hear
Ed: “She’s an older woman”
Aidan:
“Quit saying that. I keep picturing Janet
Reno”
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ABC:
Monday at 9:00pm (Hour Drama)
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Premise
This series focuses on the dramatic ups and downs
of a group of twentysomething friends in New York
City
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Thirtysomething
- The prequel
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Familiar
Faces
Rebecca
Gayheart (Earth 2)
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Our
Take
While this show has a great deal of positive buzz
associated with it and comes from Kevin Williamson,
the successful producer behind Dawson’s Creek
and the Scream movies, you can’t ignore
the challenges it faces in a 9pm Thursday time
slot
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Expect
to Hear
“In
generations past, the window into adulthood began
at eighteen...and now it’s thirty”
- Dawnie
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FOX:
Thursday at 8:00pm (Hour Drama)
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Premise
The
story of Sebastian Valmont, a high school student
that recently moved in with his father and new
step-sister Kathryn, the manipulative student
leader of a secret prep school society
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The
movie Cruel Intentions comes to Television
in this latest version of Dangerous Liaisons
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Familiar
Faces
None
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Our
Take
Fair
- Teens will love the controversial aspects of
this program although FOX is supposedly cutting
back on the subplot of a sexual relationship between
Sebastian and Kathryn
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Expect
to Hear
“I’ve
always wanted a brother but they were all sold
out at Bloomingdales”
- Kathryn
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FOX:
Thursday at 9:30pm (Half Hour Sitcom)
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Premise
Peter
Dragon is a hotshot producer trying to make his
way in the cut-throat world of the movie business
with the help of Wendy, a former child star turned
prostitute turned consultant
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Jay
Mohr played a similar type of character in the
movie Jerry Maguire
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Familiar
Faces
Movie
actors Jay Mohr and Ileana Douglas, Comedian Buddy
Hackett
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Our
Take
Although this program is in a difficult time slot,
it will gain a great deal of word-of-mouth and
attract viewers with its highly controversial
themes. Also, Action is an alternative
to Stark Raving Mad on NBC
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Expect
to Hear
“I’m
employee of the !@#$% Century”
- Peter
Dragon
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NBC:
Thursday at 9:30pm (Half Hour Sitcom)
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Premise
A
sitcom about Ian Stark a “demented” horror writer,
and his new agent, Henry McNeely, a nervous, highly
phobic man with a lifestyle vastly different from
Stark
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Stephen
King meets your typical neurotic sitcom character
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Familiar
Faces
Tony Shalhoub (Wings), Neil Patrick Harris
(Doogie Howser M.D.)
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Our
Take
Stark Raving Mad has arguably the best
time slot on Television. The key question
is whether or not it will live up to the time
slot
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Expect
to Hear
“I’m
trying to be less phobic and I’m afraid it’s not
going well”
- Henry
McNeely
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WB:
Thursday at 8:00pm (Hour Drama)
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Premise
Two
worlds collide when popular Brooke’s single father
becomes involved with the mother of Sam, a bright,
but insecure girl who runs in a different circle
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The
idea of cool kids merging with a family of the
not so cool kids was a subplot of Step by Step
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Familiar
Faces
None
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Our
Take
Although this program has some of the key ingredients
of a successful WB teen series, it is facing the
more controversial Manchester Prep
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Expect
to Hear
“They’re
like some bad Mariah Carey power ballad come to
life”
- Sam
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