Prison Break Season 1.5 Starts Tonight and Other TV Thoughts

TV Guide says some great things about the Monday Night lineup on FOX with two action-dramas that are sure to perk the numbers up a bit. 24 is the other one by the way. Prison Break was really a break out hit this season for FOX and unlike the other recent hit dramas on the network such as 24, House, or Bones. Prison Break did not need any help from American Karaoke. It truly stood on its own two feet. At the last People Choice Awards show it won for Best New Drama, and that says alot.

I say this One Two Punch is going to be making FOX a force to be dealt with on Monday Nights. I think ABC might feel the blow more so than NBC, although I expect The Peacock to sweat too. Meanwhile at the Eye (CBS); "King of Queens" and "How I Met Your Mother" have been weaker links in the Monday lineup in spite of Mother getting renewed for a second season. Both shows hold up but they have taken a few hits. Strongest Links on CBS Monday nights is the sitcom "Two and Half Men" and the crime drama CSI: Miami. I don't expect Prison Break to overtake Queens and Mother, but it should over take Wife Swap on ABC and it might just overtake "Deal or No Deal" on NBC.

That might be one reason why NBC is trying a Wednesday Night airing of DoND now that FOX's American Karaoke is not in direct competition in the 7/8 hour (its in the 8/9 hour and we shall see how ABC's Lost can hold up against the Ensemble/Results show which is the first half of the 8/9 hour week after week). Fridays are fine for DoND but the numbers a tad smaller than they are on Mondays. Tuesday airings are out of the question (Hello??? American Karaoke contestants performing ya know??? CBS's NCIS does not help either).

As Jim "JR" Ross of the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) likes to say; "Business is about to Pick Up."

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