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February 24, 2003
Roush Room: Ask Matt
by Matt Roush
Question: Do you agree with ABC's decision to air The Music Man on
the same weekend Daredevil opened and Jennifer Garner hosted Saturday
Night Live? Daredevil opened huge, with buzz about Elektra (Garner,
of course), and Jennifer hosted SNL, then on Sunday... no Alias? And
to make matters worse the next new episode is scheduled against the
Grammys! Don't you think it's another big mistake for ABC to waste
the buzz from Daredevil's big opening to translate into more viewers
for Alias? — Joe
Matt: Someday I expect J.J. Abrams will write a book cataloguing all
the indignities ABC visited upon Alias during its time on the air.
And it will have to be a fairly large volume. Just to name a few:
Airing an original episode of Alias opposite last year's Golden Globe
Awards, the night Jennifer Garner won; and of course the post-Super
Bowl debacle, when ABC couldn't get the pivotal episode on the air
until after 11 pm. This was just another colossal blunder. The
opening date of Daredevil was hardly a secret, and for ABC not to be
able to capitalize on that is simply shameful.
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