Hell, I was watching the damn game when they switched over. I was ticked.

nebermind

Oh, right! Sorry, me dumb. I thought it was a matter of showing a game at all or not, like with the World Series and that extra game they sometimes do. I forgot about plain old game-running-long preempting. (My deep sports aversion makes all information around it trickle right out of my brain.)

OK then, maybe they could schedule one or two disposable shows (like reruns or infomercials) immediately after the game, that way if it ran long they could skip those and go straight to the good stuff?

Either that or cancel the evening news. C'mon, who needs to see Fox news?

OK then, maybe they could schedule one or two disposable shows (like reruns or infomercials) immediately after the game, that way if it ran long they could skip those and go straight to the good stuff?

Isn't that what they sort of did with Futurama?

I realized after I posted that they're already doing this - except the only problem is that the networks' idea of "disposable" programming and mine are almost polar opposites.

Right now, for day sports, national channels usually just shift, don't they? Which is why, in the autumn, 60 Minutes usually starts at 7:30 or so, but goes its full 60 minutes. And then the local news starts whenever the run of national programming ends.

I do think that FOX should go back to its older tradition of premiering new fall shows in November, AFTER the World Series is over. Because, guaranteed 2 consecutive weeks of preemption, possibly 3. All the in-game commercials in the world can't recover the lost momentum.

Since baseball isn't timed, the networks grab the whole evening (on the east coast), as long as they need it, and don't schedule anything after. And a good thing, too, since this year one playoff game concluded at 1:22am, and several others made it to midnight. Local preemption in my area is kind of -- well, baseball has NESN (cable) and a Friday night deal with the local UPN station; and the Celtics are on Fox Sports Network (cable). I think I've seen college basketball on the local FOX or UPN affiliate, but not recently.

How does the west coast deal with games that starts at, like, 4pm PST? It's primetime for me; but do the local affiliates plan on what they'll air after the game ends, or is that a network decision?

How does the west coast deal with games that starts at, like, 4pm PST? It's primetime for me; but do the local affiliates plan on what they'll air after the game ends, or is that a network decision?

Yeah, local affiliates out here just sort of run whatever they feel like running. For Fox, it's usually Simpsons and Malcom in the Middle reruns until it's time for the local news.

> Fandom could skew female because men might keep a low profile because they are universally painted as fat, thirty year old virgins living with their parents.

> Hey! They are also painted as thin, pale ...thirty year old virgins living with their parents.

That's really funny. Check out the responses I got when I e-mailed some friends about going to the Motor City Buffy-con.

"Ummm... no. I grew up an moved out of my parents basement."

"Look at it this way, if we go we'll be the only ones who have actually had sex with someone else in the room."

These are people who came over to my apartment every Tuesday for 5 years to watch Buffy, but who now watch American Idol. I think I've lost them to the dark side.

For the record, I do not live with my parents.

I find it interesting that we were pointing out that that was the stereotype and we're still getting defensive declarations.

t grin

t tangent

I know this is sappy and sentimental of me, but I just had to pop in here today since I delurked in here exactly a year ago today. That means it's also been exactly a year since the great Nilly Tour planning began.

Thanks for the ride, everyone.

t /tangent