Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Diagnosis Murder Heads To Encore Suspense; Smallville Moved To Early Mornings On TNT
The good doctor is back! The Dick Van Dyke '90s drama Diagnosis Murder, where he played Dr. Sloan, has now started airing on Encore Suspense. The series started airing weeknights at 10pm as of yesterday. It is airing back-to-back with The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, which airs at 11pm. This is now the second Encore network airing TV series. The first of course is Encore Westerns which airs Marshall Dillon, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Have Gun Will Travel, Wagon Train, Laredo, and Lawman -- all weekdays from 2-8pm. Encore Westerns also airs Dead Man's Gun on weekends.
As for Diagnosis Murder, the series also stars Barry Van Dyke and Scott Baio. It was last seen on cable on The Hallmark Channel and previously also aired on PAX (and then on the later renamed ION Television). Hallmark Movie Channel recently aired the two-hour movies and two-part episodes, alongside Matlock and Murder, She Wrote, both of which still air on the network. Diagnosis Murder started on Encore Suspense with a New Year's Day marathon on Jan. 1.
After just three months, TNT has moved Smallville from weekdays at 12 noon to weekdays at 5am. This change started yesterday. The series began its run on TNT in October but it doesn't look like the ratings were that great. TNT will move up the two-hour block of Las Vegas to now 12-2pm instead of 1-3pm. TNT will now add a five-days-a-week slot for original series Leverage at 2pm leading into original series reruns of The Closer at 3pm. Supernatural will remain at 10am and 11am and the series will get a President's Day marathon on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 from 9am-7pm.
As for Smallville, there is no word on if and when it will get another time period, but as for now at least it is airing. 5am is better than no airing at all. Smallville replaces a Law & Order airing, but that remains airing in the overnight at 3am and 4am (in addition to its 4pm-7pm block). Smallville had previously been in syndication on ABC Family from 2004-07.
New sitcom Work It premieres tonight at 8:30/7:30c on ABC.
Sitcoms Airing Tonight
Tuesday, October 4
none scheduled
Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of October 3)
Tuesday, October 4
- Lea Thompson (Caroline in the City) - Catch Lea on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35pm on NBC.
- Queen Latifah (Living Single) - Queen Latifah appears on Late Night with Seth Meyers at 12:36am on NBC.
- Mila Kunis (Family Guy/That '70s Show) - Mila is a guest on The Late Late Show with James Corden at 12:37am on CBS.
- Rachel Bloom (Reboot) - Rachel will be on LIVE! with Kelly and Ryan, so check your listings.
- Beth Behrs (The Neighborhood/2 Broke Girls) and Max Greenfield (The Neighborhood/New Girl/Modern Men) - Beth and Max are guests on The Kelly Clarkson Show, so check your local lisitngs.
- Bobby Moynihan (Mr. Mayor/Me, Myself & I) - Bobby joins Drew at the news desk to tackle the latest headlines from the new trend of men in skirts to the science behind why kids love spooky and scary things so much and more on The Drew Barrymore Show, so check your local listings.
- Betty Gilpin (GLOW/Nurse Jackie) - Betty opens up to Drew about why she decided to be so candid about her battle with depression and feelings of less than in her new collection of essays, All the Women in My Brain: and Other Concerns, on The Drew Barrymore Show, so check your local listings.
- Jeremy Sisto (Suburgatory) - Jeremy will be on Rachael Ray, so check your local listings.
- Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster) - Soleil is cooking one her family’s favorites, short ribs, on Rachael Ray, so check your local listings.
- Skylar Astin (Ground Floor) - Skylar appears on The Talk on CBS at 2pm ET/1pm CT-PT.
- Niecy Nash-Betts (Scream Queens/Getting On/The Soul Man/Do Not Disturb/Reno 911!) - Niecy and her wife Jessica Betts are guests on Tamron Hall, so check your local listings.
- Tamera Mowry-Housley (Sister, Sister/Roommates) - Tamera talks about You Should Sit Down For This on CBS Mornings sometime between 7-9am and on Sherri, so check your local listings.
- Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat) - Constance talks about her new memoir Making a Scene on ABC's Good Morning America sometime between 7-9am and on ABC's GMA 3: What You Need to Know at 1pm. She chats with the ladies of The View on ABC at 11am ET/10am CT-PT.
- Joel McHale (Community/The Great Indoors) - Joel appears on Access Daily with Mario & Kit, so check your local listings.
- Asher Grodman (Ghosts) - Asher is a guest on PIX11 Morning News on WPIX in New York at 9:40am.
New on DVD/Blu-ray (June-October)
06/14 - Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Eleventh Season
06/14 - Hacks - Season One (Blu-ray) (DVD)
06/14 - Rutherford Falls - Season One (Blu-ray) (DVD)
06/21 - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - The Complete Season One / The Complete Season Two
07/19 - The Neighborhood - Season Four
07/19 - Reno 911! - The Hunt for QAnon (Blu-ray) (DVD)
07/26 - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - The Complete Season Three / The Complete Season Four
08/16 - And Just Like That... - The Complete First Season (Warner Bros. - Canada)
08/16 - South Park - The Complete Twenty-Fourth Season (Blu-ray) (DVD)
09/06 - Young Sheldon - The Complete Fifth Season (Blu-ray) (DVD)
09/20 - Kim's Convenience - The Complete Series
09/27 - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - The Complete Season Five / The Complete Season Six
10/04 - Mr. Mayor - The Complete Series (Blu-ray) (DVD)
10/04 - The Munsters - Marineland Carnival with The Munsters TV Cast
10/18 - Abbott Elementary - The Complete First Season
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