Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Obama variety half-hour

Tonight at 8 we've got a half hour of "Barack Obama: American Stories" ("all new" NBC helpfully explains), which supplants the usual Wednesday 8:00 lineup of Bones, Knight Rider and The New Adventures old Christine.

I haven't watched any of these shows and thus can't really comment on whether their fans will be upset that their TV watching schedules are being disrupted. I could imagine a die-hard Bones fan settling in to watch her show, and then being somewhat annoyed that it's been bumped for an Obama commercial. I'm interested to see what Obama does with the time to make any negatives from the show-bumps worth it. One of my colleagues suggests a sports montage with inspirational music, since everyone loves a sports montage. I think maybe a half-hour preview of the Harry Potter movie that was scheduled for this Christmas and then got moved back to next summer, if "brought to you by Barack Obama" would be a big winner.

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