Wednesday, May 17, 2000
More 'Millionaire' for fall
By John Kiesewetter
The Cincinnati Enquirer
ABC delivered its final answers Tuesday: More Millionaire, no more Sports Night, and no new NYPD Blue until January.
A fourth hour of the Regis Philbin's Who Wants to be a Millionaire will air at 8 p.m. Wednesdays this fall. The three Millionaires (Tuesday, Sunday, Thursday) are the top three shows this TV season.
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ABC'S FALL LINEUP
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Sunday: 7, Wonderful World of Disney; 9, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; 10, The Practice.
Monday: 8, 20/20; 9, Monday Night Football.
Tuesday: 8, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; 9, Dharma & Greg; 9:30, Geena; 10, Once and Again/NYPD Blue.
Wednesday: 8, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; 9, Drew Carey Show; 9:30, Spin City; 10, Gideon's Crossing.
Thursday: 8, Whose Line Is It Anyway?; 8:30, Whose Line Is It Anyway?; 9, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; 10, Primetime Thursday.
Friday: 8, Two Guys and a Girl; 8:30, People Who Fear People; 9, Norm; 9:30, Madigan Men; 10, 20/20.
Saturday: 8, movie.
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ABC, which also added three new comedies and one drama, announced Tuesday that Sela Ward's Once and Again and NYPD Blue again will share 10 p.m. Tuesdays next season. Once and Again will air there this fall, and move to 10 p.m. Mondays after the Monday Night Football season concludes.
Sports Night, the critically acclaimed comedy, was among the dozen series canceled by ABC. Producers are talking to HBO about picking it up.
“We have been approached and we're having preliminary conversations,” an HBO spokesman said Tuesday.
Also canceled were: The Hughleys, Then Came You, Making the Band, Talk to Me, Odd Man Out, Wasteland, Wonderland, Snoops, Oh Grow Up, Boy Meets World and It's Like, You Know.
With the loss of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch to WB, ABC has dropped the Friday kids' stuff and put a decidedly adult tone to the “TGIF” comedies with Norm and Two Guys and a Girl.
ABC also abandoned the 20/20 designation for Diane Sawyer's prime-time magazine, changing the title to Primetime Thursday as it moves from Wednesday to Thursday. It had been called Primetime Live from 1989 to 1998.
Of the four new series, three are produced and owned by Touchstone Television, a sister ABC company.
The new comedies:
• Geena (9:30 p.m. Thursday): Oscar-winner Geena Davis stars as a New York career woman who falls in love with a man (Peter Horton, thirtysomething) with a 6-year-old girl, an unpredictable 16-year-old boy and a hostile housekeeper.
• People Who Fear People (8:30 Friday): Paranoid pals Bob and Max (David Krumholtz, The Santa Clause; Brad Raider) are convinced our increasingly computerized world is conspiring against them. Jon Cryer (Partners) co-stars as their neighbor who likes to spy on them.
• Madigan Men (9:30 Friday): In his first TV series, Gabriel Byrne (End of Days, The Usual Suspects) stars as a divorced father who gets dating advice from his teen-age son (John Hensley). Co-starring Grant Shaud (Miles from Murphy Brown) and Roy Dotrice (TV's Beauty and the Beast).
The new drama:
• Gideon's Crossing (10 p.m. Wednesday): Andre Braugher (Homicide: Life on the Street) plays a compassionate yet demanding doctor in a medical drama from Paul Attanasio (Quiz Show, Homicide: Life on the Street).
ABC also announced that Damon Wayans, Joan Cusack and Denis Leary would star in midseason comedies.
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