presidential address-related stories
Posted Sep 9th 2009 4:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 7, ESPN2 has more coverage of The U.S. Open.
- At 8, ABC, CBS, NBC, C-SPAN, and the news channels have the Presidential Address.
- FOX has the season premiere of So You Think You Can Dance at 8, followed by the series premiere of Glee.
- The CW has the two-hour season premiere of America's Next Top Model.
- Cartoon Network has a new Bobb'e Says at 8, then a new Dude, What Would Happen?
- At 9, ABC has a new Wipeout, then a new Primetime: Crime.
- NBC has a new America's Got Talent at 9.
- There's a new Leverage on TNT at 9, followed by a new Dark Blue.
- Discovery has a new Man vs. Wild at 9.
- BBC America has a new Gordon Ramsay's F Word at 9.
- Showtime has a new Inside the NFL at 9.
- Also at 9: Syfy has a new Ghost Hunters.
- At 10, Bravo has a new Top Chef: Las Vegas.
- MTV has a new episode of The Real World at 10.
- TBS has two new episodes of Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns at 10.
- Food Network has a new Dinner: Impossible at 10.
- At 11, ION repeats the premiere of Durham County.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Presidential Address, America's Next Top Model, Glee
Posted Mar 24th 2009 9:04AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: News, Industry, OpEd, Reality-Free

The networks have been getting their
collective panties in a bunch over Barack Obama's need to go on television every time gravity starts to effect the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
They claim it not only screws up their schedule, but it also costs them millions in advertising revenue. Normally, I'd say that anything that keeps more advertising from pouring out of my TV and infecting my eyeballs with its sludge of persuasion (brought to you by the makers of the Gelatin of Ignorance and the Gas of Shame) is a good thing, but they do have a point.
And unlike most TV talking heads, past and current White House Chiefs of Staff or people who donated half of their brain to science (that last one may be a redundancy), there are two sides to every story. So here's a breakdown of the lovers and the haters of the Barack Obama TV brewhaha.
Continue reading Barack Obama's Presidential addresses ... who loves ya, baby?
Posted Mar 21st 2009 9:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: News, Industry, Reality-Free

President Barack Obama wants to make another primetime address to the nation, but the networks are puking in their soup over it.
The White House has another address scheduled for Tuesday, and
the networks are raising holy hell over having to shift their schedules to make room for him.
Tuesday is a prime choice cut for the four major networks (five if you count the CW) and shows like
American Idol,
Bones and
The Biggest Loser are having to play musical chairs because of his address.
Continue reading Networks want Barack Obama to butt out
Posted Mar 19th 2009 5:01PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: News, Programming, Reality-Free

I get that there's a lot going on, and normally I don't have a problem with the President coming on television to tell us what's up, but I think Obama is looking to get his own weekly show on all four major networks. And I'm sure Fox is just thrilled that he's been picking Tuesday's at 8/7 Central to speak. If you're going to interrupt our regularly scheduled programming, why not do it during the biggest show on television? Gives you the best chance of pissing off the largest number of people who didn't know
you were going to be on instead of Ryan Seacrest.
Now with the NCAA playoffs also starting this week, there was a big question as to how the networks were going to respond. Fox's
American Idol is a live show, so it's not like it can just be moved around the schedule without some prep work being done. That said, once again
Idol will be shifting both of its episodes back a day to accommodate the Presidential Address. Let's take a look at how the networks are responding to this sweeps interruption.
Continue reading The Barack Obama Show returns to television next Tuesday