Another big family steals the Walkers’ time slot
Aw, put down that remote. There’s no Brothers & Sisters on tonight. No new show, no repeat. Instead, ABC is showing The Sound of Music. All prime-time night, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Four hours of singing nuns and children. Would it kill them to give us re-runs?
How many commercials does it take to make a movie classic into a four-hour all-night event, anyway? And don’t people who want to spend that much time with The Sound of Music already own it on video or DVD? I guess this is counter-programming to football, and maybe re-running the Trapp family saga is an annual ABC ritual that I just haven’t been paying attention to. But it seems like an odd way to fill a whole Sunday night.
Now, if they could have the Walkers watching it, making comments during the showing or at the commercials, maybe playing some trivia games with the families from Desperate Housewives, for that I’d tune in. But no — as it stands, there are still two weeks between us and Walker get-togethers, with the show pre-empted next week and a new episode scheduled for January 13.
I suppose we could always program our own re-run nights, between the first-season DVD set and the ABC Full Episode Player — although I feel like I’m crossing a picket line now when I use that thing, since the proceeds from those ad-studded online episodes are a major sticking point in the writer’s guild negotiations. If you have no such qualms, you can watch “Home Front,” “36 Hours,” “Something New” and “Holy Matrimony!” instead of Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer this evening. And dream of the day when the “something new” will be a bright and shining episode of Brothers & Sisters.
Brothers and Sisters, ABC, scheduling
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