Why did NBC move The Office ...
Question: Why did NBC move
The Office so it now conflicts with
Grey's Anatomy? I guess putting
Scrubs after it might give that show the break it deserves. And now they put
Cane opposite
Boston Legal. I don't have TiVo, so I guess I have to dust off my VHS. Do they really want to weed out good (old) shows or jeopardize new ones? On another topic, what happened to
Shark?
Answer: The move of
The Office has nothing to do with giving
Scrubs a break. This is
Scrubs' final season, and nothing's going to make it a breakout hit. Actually, none of NBC's comedies on Thursday are runaway hits. The move probably has to do with giving
30 Rock a more protected slot at 8:30 pm/ET, between
My Name Is Earl and
The Office. The fact is that some good NBC comedy is going to have to go up against
Grey's Anatomy and
CSI, and
The Office is arguably better suited, thematically and content-wise, for the later time period. And
Cane vs.
Boston Legal? CBS had to put something there, having basically vamped with repeats all season long on Tuesdays after the fast flops of
Smith and
3 LBS last season. I'm assuming
Cane was developed as a 10 pm/ET show, and wherever it was scheduled, it would go against some hot drama. No show gets a free pass anymore. And what happened to
Shark? I'm not aware anything did — unless you mean the fact that it has moved from Thursdays to Sundays at 10 pm/ET, where it will stay in the fall.
