On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Run the special against "60 Minutes?" (Granted, different audiences, > but still...) Especially when they've been burning off "Brothers" and > "'Til Death" in that slot if the late national game ends in time for > "The O.T." to end at 7:30.
My guess is this: FOX had hoped that they could ask for the early game on Sunday, so they could start the special at 7:00 pm ET. Instead, stuck with an Arizona home game that forced them to take the late slot, they had to assume they couldn't get anything on until 8:00 pm, so they moved the special *after* the episode. Because instead of the regular three Seth shows that would follow, they would only have the one, they eliminated the joke. Going back to my original question: I don't think the networks know which time slots they're going to get in the first weekend (IIRC, the divisional late game goes to the Super Bowl broadcaster if it's CBS or FOX, and it's predetermined if it's NBC because the other network gets the late game for conference final Sunday).
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