The jerks spend an entire week promoting their new episode of Alias, including on their website and in the TV Guide, etc. only to change their minds at the last second, apparently, and put on a rerun. I understand the World Series is on, but once they've gone to the trouble of promoting the new episode, they should follow through with playing it. If they were so scared of the World Series possibly competing, they should've just scheduled a rerun for tonight regardless.
Watch what you say about my Sydney Bristow!!!! She rocks. I'm pissed too, but not as much as the wife.
Alias is a good show. The writing is a little fluffy but they try hard on continuity and pacing. ABC is pretty deceptive. Though it eliminates the dilemma of watching Game 7 or Alias...
That's true, which is why the folks at ABC, who you would think might know that there was a possibility of a Game Seven of the World Series tonight (I mean, surely someone at ABC/Disney is paying attention to the World Series. At the very least, someone from programming could've called someone with the Angels and asked if there was the possibility of a World Series Game Seven. ABC was still promoting the new episode earlier today.. .and continued to after the show was scheduled to start on their website), would simply have programmed a rerun for tonight from the get-go rather than spending an entire week promoting a new episode only to put on the rerun without explanation when the time for the show came around. I know that the Game Seven wasn't a sure thing, but planning for the possiblity might have been a better way to go than spending all that time and effort promoting a new episode that never came. Besides, how far in advance did advertisers know? How many make-goods are they going to have to giveaway because they promised a new episode tonight and instead played a rerun? How many campaigns were screwed up because ABC pulled a switcheroo at the last second? It's not as if ABC has such an excess of viewers that they can afford to simply tell untruths (as well as waste promotional time that could've been spent promoting shows that actually were new episodes). It's a network in chaos. I guess things like this are simply more evidence of that.
