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What Do NBC and The CW Have in Common?

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milwaukee_dave

This might not come as a complete shock to you, but I was thinking this evening about the impact "The Jay Leno Show" has had on NBC's primetime landscape. To my surprise, NBC offers the same number of hours of first-run, scripted fair -- 7 Hours -- as The CW on a typical week this fall.

Monday nights -- Both have 2 Hours

Tuesday nights -- NBC has none, while The CW has 2 Hours

Wednesday nights -- NBC has 2 Hours, while The CW has none

Thursday nights -- Both have 2 Hours

Friday nights -- Both have 1 Hour

NBC fills its Saturday night schedule with a mishmash of repeats and Sunday nights are programmed with football. The CW, of course, doesn't program Saturday or Sunday nights.

Both nets had originally planned to have 8 Hours of scripted fare this fall, and hold the distinction of axing a series quickly in the season: NBC for "Southland" (axed before airing a single second-season episode and now heading over to TNT) and The CW for "TBL: The Beautiful Life." NBC filled the "Southland" slot with "Dateline," while The CW appears to be filling the "TBL" slot with an assortment of repeats.

In any case, it's amazing a network like NBC -- with its prestige and history -- would be showing such a paltry number of scripted shows, compared to even a couple of years ago.
 
I was thinking the answer to your question was: "They both broadcast unwatchable junk so I don't watch either."

Do I win?
 
landtuna said:
I was thinking the answer to your question was: "They both broadcast unwatchable junk so I don't watch either."

Do I win?
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In my book you do because that was going to be my answer too! ;D
 
If the original poster was looking strictly at scripted show then things like Today and the Tonight Show wouldn't get counted in his total. I was confused when he said they don't program Tuesday because according to TVguide.com there is a 2 hr showing of the Biggest Loser next week.
 
They're both destroying the country??

(one by broadcasting teens having a three-way and the other by having a former
Vice President of the United States running around like an idiot in a sitcom?)
 
FreddyE1977 said:
They're both destroying the country??

(one by broadcasting teens having a three-way and the other by having a former
Vice President of the United States running around like an idiot in a sitcom?)
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The blame for the former-VP-in-a-sitcom would seem to belong to the former VP rather than the empty suits at the lets-throw-it-against-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks network.
 
Daytime

easttxtv said:
I was going to say....
Neither have much daytime programming at all?
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Well, Days Of Our Lives is the only daytime drama to increase its ratings in 2009 and has been rumored to be renewed through 2012.
 
I'm surprised that Jay Leno makes fun of only NBC and not the CW. Doesn't the latter have lower ratings than the former?
 
What they have in commom? The same answer as most already mentioned, they both are on the bootom of the ratings, their programming sucks and this makes them both The Biggest loser.
 
philosofy said:
If the original poster was looking strictly at scripted show then things like Today and the Tonight Show wouldn't get counted in his total. I was confused when he said they don't program Tuesday because according to TVguide.com there is a 2 hr showing of the Biggest Loser next week.
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"The Biggest Loser" is not a scripted show; rather, it's a reality show. The point of my initial post was to spotlight how these two networks have the same number of scripted shows in primetime each week. NBC, of course, programs their primetime schedule (and other dayparts) with more hours each week than The CW. But it's interesting how a once-mighty network like NBC has this similarity with a network infant like The CW.

I love everyone's answers!
 
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