Friday is one of those nights that very often gets away from people. They go out and do things, their weekend starts and they’re just not going to sit in front of the toob for anything too heavy.
A lot of shows over the years have either started in a Friday slot and miraculously survived or been moved there to die.
The one exception to that rule seems to be very quirky shows. Ghost Whisperer has been doing OK, or at least good enough to kick off it’s third season at 8 p.m. on CBS. That’s followed at 9 p.m. by the premiere of Moonlight, the new vampire in LA fighting crime series (which will hopefully quickly and decisively differentiate itself from comparisons to Angel, the last show with that brief plot description.) The CBS prime time block gets capped off by the fourth season premiere of Numb3rs, guest starring Val Kilmer.
Other networks are pretty thin on scripted shows for Friday. NBC gets around to a two-hour fifth season premiere for Las Vegas at 8 p.m. Everything else is news, game shows and filler. I remember when Friday was the bastion of family TV sitcoms. That time, apparently, is long gone.
The only other jam-packed slot on the dial this Friday is up on the Sci Fi Channel. Their block of Doctor Who, Flash Gordon and, now, the return of Stargate: Atlantis usually does pretty well. I know it’s what I usually watch or record. (Though Ghost Whisperer has gotten a lot better as it’s taken a slightly darker turn–I really didn’t care for it as much more than eye candy when it first premiered.)
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