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Posted on: 7/14/11 7:47 AM ET
Some of the shows we watch have been moved to another day of the week. My husband says it's because they've become less popular or more popular but can't remember which.

Does anyone know what the scheduling of the TV shows on the days of the week mean, and what the moving them to another day has on the life of the show? Example: The Good Wife got moved from Tuesday to Sunday.
  
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Posted on: 7/14/11 1:22 PM ET
Moving a show usually (or at least often) means its in trouble. THere are exceptions, of course. Seinfeld, for example. If the show is doing okay but seems to be suffering from a weak lead in, the show may be moved to stronger lead in to improve its chances to get an audience. This is what NBC did with Seinfeld in the '90s. When Cheers signed off, the network moved the minorly popular Seinfeld into the Cheers slot hoping the strong lead in and following shows would boost Seinfeld. It worked.

If a show is losing (or never got) the audience, but the show before it (the lead in) IS doing well, the network may move the under-performing show in an effort to promote another show it thinks will do better with a strong lead in. The inverse works too. If a popular show is in the 10pm (adult) time slot, a more "family friendly" show might be moved to get viewers to watch that show and the following show. NBC moved some shows around for a while to take advantage of the popularity of ER.

During big sport seasons, a strong show may be moved so it won't be subjected to pre-empting by a game running over (often happens on Sundays during football season).

Networks often move shows to find a slot that gives them success or they do it as a phase of shutting it down. Often, it is hard to tell which it is.
  
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Posted on: 7/14/11 2:22 PM ET
Friday nights is where you don't want your show (if you're involved in the making of it). "Blue Bloods" (Tom Selleck) seems to be doing OK on the night however. Someone in the industry said that a lot of science fiction is on that night, because they figure the people who would watch that aren't on dates or barhopping anyway and will be watching.

Networks have a Scheduling Department because they know that where a show is placed can make a difference in the viewership.

Personally I don't care where they place my shows, as long as they don't put three of them, or more, opposite each other.
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Posted on: 7/14/11 2:42 PM ET
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Friday nights is where you don't want your show (if you're involved in the making of it). "Blue Bloods" (Tom Selleck) seems to be doing OK on the night however. Someone in the industry said that a lot of science fiction is on that night, because they figure the people who would watch that aren't on dates or barhopping anyway and will be watching.

Heh. I remember when Fox had scheduled the X-Files on Friday nights in the 90's using that logic.
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Posted on: 7/14/11 3:43 PM ET
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Someone in the industry said that a lot of science fiction is on that night, because they figure the people who would watch that aren't on dates or barhopping anyway and will be watching.

I hate that Friday nights have nothing good. I'm a regular family person and most others that I know also stay home on Friday nights too. That's probably why Blue Bloods does well (well, I like it anyway).

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Personally I don't care where they place my shows, as long as they don't put three of them, or more, opposite each other.


With multiple DVRs here, I can get a little crazy about recording EVERYTHING I think I might ever watch - and then I usually end up sorting through the crap on Friday nights. lol But FiOS just upgraded our software and now we can watch any recorded show from any room with any kind of DVR or plain box. Love that! It used to be you could only watch what was recorded on the "shared DVR" from a basic box in another room. I think now I can jettison at least one DVR for a basic box and still be able to cover all my bases.

(I'm pathetic, aren't I?)
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Posted on: 7/14/11 6:16 PM ET
Just about everything I watch is "on Demand" so I seldom notice what day of the week the show first airs.
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Posted on: 7/14/11 7:10 PM ET
We don't have cable or the shows on demand machines, just a DVD recorder hooked up to regular TV.

I never thought about that though. The days of the week may not matter any more!

They could just be shuffling all the new shows around where the older popular shows used to be so the TV audiences might sit and watch the new show and get hooked, adding in another show to sit and watch or record.
  
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