VTN -- midseason changes

edited on 1/12/08.

I seem to be getting decent responses on my television network, so you know what that means? midseason changes... yes, the positive feedback of 2 is enough for me to get a swelled head. plus, with the current work stoppage in television, its nice to pretend..

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new programming:

wednesday: the first change is on wednesday, as the lineup is still pretty top notch, so i dont need too many changes. nip/tuck isnt holding its own on a night full of good tv, but i didnt want to put its replacement so late. so instead we will move smallville up an hour and slide in american gladiators in the 8pm slot. at first i didnt want any reality tv, but then nbc cast the silent assassin for their remake of american gladiators. this alone is enough of a reason to put this show on my network and bump a show i enjoy from its time slot. (WATCH IT! 1/21 ON NBC @ 8PM)

thursday: the next change is that weeds and californication get the boot, and chuck moves in to that time slot. second, since how i met your mother has replaced scrubs as the best comedy on network tv, they get switched. aside from that, the weekday prime time is good to go. entourage and nip tuck are on thin ice tho..

friday: on friday at 7pm we're going to add two shows from mojo hd. i dont know who even has mojo hd.. do you? ive never had it, but the planet hollywood resort and casino does, and they have some solid programming. first at 7pm will be pressure cook. its this chef who gets dropped off in some remote city and he has 3 days to make enough money to buy a flight back home. if he doesnt make enough money, he suffers some penalty in order to get his flight back. in the last episode i watched, if he didnt make enough money over his 3 days, his penalty was to eat 3 habanero peppers. 3! so he basically has to find a job at some restaurant and work kind of like an independent contractor and make his own "special" for the evening and then convince enough people to order that for their dinner so that he can make his cash to go home. pretty solid. and at 7:30, we're adding three sheets. which has to be the greatest food related tv show ive ever seen. this dude gets paid to go to random cities and show the rest of the world that cities drinking habits. yup. he travels the world and drinks. thats all that really needs to be said about that one.

weekends..
saturday: just like friday, saturday nights are days that nobody really wants to stay home for. plus you have sports to compete with during the day. in the mornings we'll have reruns of fridays cooking shows, like previously mentioned. and then in the afternoon we'll run reruns of seinfeld, friends, and the fresh prince of bel air. this way if there is no good game on, you can watch a quality rerun and still enjoy yourself. because lets face it, we've all gotten tired of that 42-3 blowout in what was supposed to be a good football game, but you keep watching because your only other alternative is infomercials. now lets go to saturday night. you know what you need for saturday night? a movie to get you pumped. that means there is only one solution: 80s movies! so every saturday at 5 and 7pm we play an 80s movie. we start saturday prime time early so that you can finish the second movie at 9 and still have time to go out.. so here are some 80s movies to take you well into the summer:

karate kid, fast times at ridgemont high, ferris bueller's day off, career opportunities (ok, that came out in 91, but its still awesome), top gun, war games, robocop, tron, short circuit, ghostbusters, teen wolf, back to the future, et, risky business, cocktail, all the right moves, and days of thunder (tom cruise made some great movies before he went crazy). tell me if you saw one of those movies on you'd change the channel. of course you wont. because those movies are awesome. im pumped just thinking about them.

sunday: sunday is the day where you need to recharge. you spend the morning hungover, and there is always the nfl, so we will again rerun the cooking shows in the mornings and run the big three of seinfeld friends and the fresh prince in the afternoon. then we hit primetime, just as you get over your hangover. now you want something that will entertain you for the rest of the evening so you can feel better about going to work the next morning. how do we accomplish that? black movie night. yup. the wood, baby boy, atl, belly, booty call, love and basketball, the best man, undercover brother, and any upcoming movie with lauren london. yup. i cant think of a better way to get me ready for monday again.

and now we have a weekend lineup that's as sweet as the cool evening breeze of anytown, USA.