NBC Makes Mid-Season Programming Moves

  • November 30, 2006
NBC is bracing itself for the mid-season, now that "Sunday Night Football" is ending and Fox's nuclear bomb "American Idol" is ready to detonate again. Starting in January, NBC will put in "The Apprentice" to do battle against another big network weapon, "Desperate Housewives" at 9 p.m. Also on the night, NBC will have a new reality show--"Grease: You're the One That I Want"--starting at 8 p.m., and "Crossing Jordan" at 10 p.m. NBC is also taking its fledgling and struggling "Friday Night Lights" out of the line of fire at 8 p.m. against "American Idol." A "Dateline NBC" will instead do battle. "Lights" will move to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays. A version of "Deal or No Deal" will then attempt to fend off "American Idol" in the Wednesday 9 p.m. time slot. "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"--which was rumored to be moving--will be staying put on Monday nights at 10 p.m.

--Wayne Friedman

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