I typically try to limit my Scheduling Five-Spots to primetime first-run programming because that's where my ratings data is strongest, but there were a few big stories outside of that arena but still in the general "scheduling" arena this week, like the
overhaul of ABC daytime (including the cancellation of
One Life to Live and
All My Children) and
TNT's syndication deal for Hawaii Five-0 (whose dollar amount I've added to my "
List of Cable Syndication Deals" post). Here's your Scheduling Five-Spot for the week ending April 17, 2011:
The Office - NBC's been out of the "supersizing" game for almost four years now, but they're gettin' back in for the Steve Carell finale of
The Office. That episode will now be 50 minutes long (from 9/8c to 9:50/8:50c) and followed by a 40-minute episode of
Parks & Recreation. A regular-length
30 Rock caps off the evening at 10:30/9:30c. Don't expect it to mean much ratings-wise since it's part of such a huge
Office event, but I do observe that several supersized season 3 eps of
The Office were among the season's lowest-rated, including a 3.2 on 4/5/07 which was easily the season's low.