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THURSDAY,NOV.15,2001
Nov.17 at 11:30 am Nov.16 at 7:05 pm
FOOTBALL - THE ZONE
Beginning two hours prior to kick off be sure to stop by The Zone presented by Coca-Cola and 96.5 the Buzz. Merchandise, Big Jay and Baby Jay, 96.5 the Buzz personalities, interactive games, music and much more!
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
FRESHMEN!
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Come see Jaytawk Women's Basketball vs. Grambling State University at Allen Fieldhouse at 7:05 pm.
Be sure to wear your class of 2005 T-shirt that you received during orientation to the KU vs. Iowa State football game and get into the game for free! Seating is located in the North Bowl and student section
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TICKETS
Check out our new 8 ticket flex pack, which allows you to use your tickets for any game and in any quantity. So you and a friend can go to four games together or eight of you can go to one game. Don't miss out on your chance to experience the excitement!
WEATHER FORECAST
TODAY
TOMORROW
72 49 Partly cloudy with clearing tonight.
7247
Sunny with clearing continuing during the night.
SATURDAY
Partly cloudy during the day with continued cloudiness at night.
GONGFARMER
BY RANDY REIGER
'Scrubs' to try out risky time slot
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Zach Braff, star of NBC's new comedy. Scrubs, will likely have his biggest audience ever during a one-time airing tonight after Friends. It's an episode he thinks is particularly good.
So why is he dreading the night?
He doesn't want Scrubs to disappear like Jesse, Union Square, The Single Guy or Cursed.
The comfortable half hour on NBC's "must-see TV" night
Not that anyone misses those sorry sitcoms.
sorry sitcom.
The time slot's current regular occupant, Inside Schwartz, hasn't been seen in a few weeks, replaced by reruns of other sitcoms, although it's too early to send out a search party.
between Friends and the popular 9 p.m. comedy, currently Will & Grace, is generally considered the best time slot in television to launch a new show.
Only the 9:30 slot before ER rivals it.
NBC has always considered Scrubs a more promising new comedy than Inside Schwartz. But the network was afraid to give Scrubs the Thursday opening this fall for fear that viewers would simply assume the show was bad.
Think about that. The best time slot in television - and viewers are conditioned to expect some of the worst shows.
What a waste.
Tim Brooks, a Lifetime network executive who wrote The Complete Directory to PrimeTime Network and Cable TV Shows, said the arrogance of success made NBC believe it could fool viewers.
"They take a program that is
marginal and put it there and hope the viewers won't notice." Brooks said. "That doesn't happen very often. Viewers do notice."
note. The "hammock" strategy of placing a weak show between two strong ones is actually a time-honored approach for television networks.
In the late 1970s, for example, ABC scheduled Laverne and Shirley on Tuesday night between Happy Days and Three's Company. Laverne and Shirley wasn't very good, but ABC bet — correctly — that viewers wouldn't change channels and eventually would become accustomed to the show, Brooks said.
That worked when a viewer had to get up from the couch and walk over to the TV to change channels.
channels. It's much riskier when change takes only the twitch of a finger on a remote control.
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Q-tip
5 Apples and pears
10 Sudden pain
14 With 3D Stanford city
15 Light on one's feet
16 Slay
17 Alaskan island
18 Shorten planks
19 Keen on
20 Raconteur
23 ___ Paulo, Brazil
24 Static
25 Team up again
25 Matures
30 Attack
32 New Haven scholar
33 Verdi opera
35 Original basis for Windows
38 Liv of "Persona"
41 Polish anew
43 Deceptive:pref.
44 Max of "Barney Miller"
46 Chow down
47 Extinct birds
49 Commits to memory
52 Ripped apart
54 More chilly
56 Israel's weapon
57 Bill Evans or Horace Silver
62 PBS science program
64 Claws
65 Brummell or Bridge
66 From the top
67 Pyle or Ford
68 Rendered fat
69 Dried up
70 Eyeglasses, for short
71 Osprey's cousin
DOWN
1 Mineral springs
2 Steam engine inventor
3 See 14A
4 Ludlum's "The"
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Identity"
5 Guerrilla
6 Convex moldings
7 Deceive
8 Carrier to Tel
Aviv-Jaffa
9 Stitchers
10 Hit the slopes
11 Toy army man
12 Knot-tying site
13 Flower
21 Distant
22 Paper quantities
22 Go angling
27 Stay on in the army
28 Ailments
29 Dock-making equipment
31 Rani's garment
34 "Come Back,
Little Sheba" dramatist
36 Son of Judah
37 Stage layouts
39 Charged lepton
40 Total
Soulutions to yesterday's puzzle
51 Fit for cultivation
52 Albacores and bluefins
53 Poisonous gas
55 Baby's complainy
58 Seniors' org.
59 Calendar period
60 Deserve
61 Ill-mannered
63 Wonderment
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