Category: Continuity
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ABC’s Taking February By Storm
In February of 1999 something rather special happened on ABC. For the first time ever, Stephen King had written the screenplays for a mini-series called Storm Of The Century, and ABC was going to air it over three nights. King himself described the show as ‘a novel for television’, and regards it as the favourite…
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Closing Down
Not this blog. Here’s how BBC One closed down in 1979. And here’s the last ever closing down of the channel, explaining what will be happening through the night from the next day onwards.
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Let’s All Be There
Here’s a new earworm to burrow into your brain. How many shows can you name from the jumping?
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Schedule Spotlight: Fox Sundays 89-90
We’re going to skip CBS on Sundays in our schedule spotlight, because it’s just 60 Minutes, Murder She Wrote, and a movie. Fox on the other hand, is much more interesting. They began their Sunday evenings with Booker, a police procedural series co-created by Stephen J Cannell. It has a title sequence that manages to…
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Schedule Spotlight: ABC Sundays 89-90
This is the first in a returning series of posts looking at the 1989-90 US network prime time schedules, with an emphasis on sitcoms. To being, we’ll look at ABC on Sundays. Like CBS and NBC, ABC dedicated most of its evening to a movie from 9pm till 11pm. But the evening began at 7pm…
