ABC has reshuffled its Monday- and Wednesday-night schedules and has pulled
another weekly installment of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire off the air.
Starting March 4, ABC's Monday-night lineup will start with both originals and
repeats of sitcom My Wife and Kids at 8 p.m. EST/PST, followed by the
return of The Wayne Brady Show at 8:30 p.m.
New game/reality series The Chair is moving from Tuesdays to Mondays
at 9 p.m., and Once & Again is moving from Fridays at 10 p.m. to
Mondays at 10 p.m.
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Millionaire, which had been airing Mondays and Thursdays, will now
only air Thursdays.
ABC executives have said Millionaire may not regularly air next
season, possibly only as a sweeps special.
As for Wednesday nights, starting March 27, ABC is adding a pair of new
comedies to the night.
George Lopez, a comedy starring the L.A. radio personality and actor, will
join the schedule at 8:30 p.m., and a still-untitled comedy from producer/writer
Peter Tolan (The Larry Sanders Show) will air at 9:30 p.m. each
Wednesday.
George Lopez is produced by Bruce Helford (The Drew Carey Show)
and stars Lopez as a assembly-line worker at an airplane-parts factory.
The untitled comedy, starring Ivan Sergei (Jack & Jill) and Ed
Begley Jr., is the story of a new guy working at a Hollywood-based TV
network.
