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Unless you're a National Football League fan like me, the idea of watching hours and hours of college players being selected one by one to potentially play for a team, is as boring as watching someone in fishing for bass. Well, it turns out there's an audience for both! No seriously, when ESPN began covering the NFL Draft in 1980, the network could have never anticipated that it would grow into a ratings draw.

Now, the draft has been supersized. In 2010, the NFL Draft will be three days long and in mostly in primetime. The 75th annual National Football League Draft will commence on Thursday, April 22 at 7:30 - 11 p.m.. That'll just cover round one. Rounds two and three continue on Friday, April 23 at 6:30 - 11 p.m., with the final four rounds dominating daytime on Saturday, April 24, from 9 a.m. to whenever it's over.

• USA has an NCIS marathon all night.
• At 8, CBS has Streisand: Live in Concert.
• FOX has two new episodes of Cops at 8, followed by a new America's Most Wanted.
• HGTV has a new Divine Design at 8.
• Disney has the movie Hatching Pete at 8.
• At 9, Lifetime has the movie Unstable.
• CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show at 9.
  
• Sci-Fi has the movie Carny at 9.
• Hallmark has the movie Chasing A Dream at 9.
• ESPN has the Lakers/Jazz game at 9.
• Also at 9: ESPN2 has coverage of the NFL Draft.
• At 10, CBS has a new 48 Hours Mystery.
• BBC America has a new Graham Norton Show at 10.
• At 11, FOX has a new Mad TV, then a new Talk Show with Spike Feresten.

Check your local TV listings for more.

Here are the weekly cable ratings, by number of viewers.

1. The Sopranos (HBO)
2. NFL Draft (ESPN)
3. WWE Monday Night RAW - 10pm (USA)
4. WWE Monday Night RAW - 9pm (USA)
5. Hannah Montana (Disney)
6. SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon)
7. Hannah Montana (Disney)
8. The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (Disney)
9. Hannah Montana (Disney)
10. NBA Playoffs (TNT)

It must be great to be rich and well-known. You can go completely out of your area of expertise and actually have professionals looking for your opinion.

That's what I thought of when I read this story about Curb Your Enthusiasm/Seinfeld creator Larry David. He's consulting with New York Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum and coach Eric Mangini about their draft choices. Turns out David is a big, big football fan, and called the Jets up last year to give them some advice. They didn't listen to him last year, but this year they're actually talking to him.

This could be a trend. I want to hear Rosie O'Donnell's advice on who the Red Sox should trade before the All-Star Game break, and I wonder if Andy Dick knows how well David Beckham is going to do in Los Angeles?

[via TV Tattle]

1. The Sopranos (HBO)
2. NFL Draft (ESPN
3. WWE Monday Night RAW - Mon, 10pm (USA)
4. WWE Monday Night RAW - Mon, 9pm (USA)
5. SpongeBob SquarePants - Saturday, 9:30am (Nickelodeon)
6. Fairly Odd Parents - Sunday, 10am (Nickelodeon)
7. Fairly Odd Parents - Saturday, 10am (Nickelodeon)
8. SpongeBob SquarePants - Sunday, 9:30am (Nickelodeon)
9. SpongeBob SquarePants - Saturday, 9am (Nickelodeon)
10. Fairly Odd Parents - Saturday, 10:30am (Nickelodeon)