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TCA Tour ABC: Day 1; Nick@Nite September Highlights

ABC is up now at the TCA summer press tour and they have just announced their fall premiere dates! Here is your first look at them:

Friday, September 8
9:00-11:00 p.m. 20/20 (two-hour season premiere)

Tuesday, September 12
8:00-10:00 p.m. Dancing with the Stars (two-hour season premiere; two-hour episode also airs on Sept. 19)

Wednesday, September 13
8:00-9:00 p.m. Dancing with the Stars Results Show

Monday, September 18
8:00-9:00 p.m. Wife Swap

Thursday, September 21
9:00-10:00 p.m. Grey’s Anatomy
10:00-11:00 p.m. Six Degrees

Friday, September 22
8:00-9:00 p.m. Ugly Betty
9:00-10:00 p.m. Men in Trees

Sunday, September 24
7:00-9:00 p.m. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (two-hour season premiere)
9:00-10:00 p.m. Desperate Housewives
10:00-11:00 p.m. Brothers & Sisters

Tuesday, September 26
9:30-10:00 p.m. Help Me Help You
10:00-11:00 p.m. Boston Legal
Note: 90-minute Dancing with the Stars airs tonight and the next two weeks)

Sunday, October 1
7:00-8:00 p.m. America’s Funniest Home Videos

Monday, October 2
9:00-11:00 p.m. The Bachelor: Rome (two-hour season premiere)

Wednesday, October 4
9:00-10:00 p.m. Lost
10:00-11:00 p.m. The Nine

Thursday, October 5
8:00-8:30 p.m. Big Day
8:30-9:00 p.m. Notes From the Underbelly

Monday, October 9
10:00-11:00 p.m. What About Brian

Tuesday, October 17
9:00-9:30 p.m. The Knights of Prosperity

Wednesday, November 15
9:00-10:00 p.m. Day Break
Note: Lost will air for 6 straight weeks of new episodes in the fall before coming back in early February (or late January) for the rest of the season (16 additional episodes at least).

ABC, the first English language broadcast network to provide all regular primetime entertainment programming in Spanish via a combination of closed-captioning and dubbing, has increased the number of programs dubbed into Spanish, Stephen McPherson, president, ABC Entertainment has announced. Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Dancing with the Stars, George Lopez and Latino television phenomenon Ugly Betty will be dubbed into Spanish, with the remainder of the network’s regular primetime entertainment lineup available with Spanish language subtitles. In addition, select specials will also be dubbed into Spanish.
Spanish subtitled versions of the shows will be found on Closed Caption 2 channel (CC2), and viewers will be able to access the programs dubbed in Spanish via the SAP (Second Audio Program) option on their televisions. ABC was the first English language broadcast network to make such a large portion of its programming available in Spanish.
We will be back later if any other ABC news occurs at the press tour.

Nick@Nite in September will air its newest shows (Different World, NewsRadio) 7 days a week. A Different World will air every night at 10 p.m., while NewsRadio will air at 4 a.m. Nick@Nite will also encore the latest batch of Hi-Jinks episodes Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. They have A Different World Dwayne and Whitley marathon on Sept. 17 and one lucky viewer will get to choose the episodes for A Different World, Cosby Show, Roseanne, Fresh Prince on Sept. 23! For more on September, click here.