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Article: A SUNDAY NIGHT APPOINTMENT WITH FOX
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 27, 1990
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It's Sunday evening and the rec room at MIT's Fiji frat
house is starting to fill up. But the guys are not playing poker or
tapping a keg of beer. They are watching TV.
Friday and Saturday are party nights, for sure, but Sunday is
"Simpsons" and "Married" night, when a couple dozen guys flock to
the room with the big TV to watch first a cartoon show that spoofs
the American family, then a sitcom that dumps on the American
family.
While the Big Three networks fiddle and diddle with midseason
replacement shows and realign schedules, Fox Television has
parlayed Sunday night into a programmer's fantasy; that is, a night
people stay home for.
They've created a back-to-back block of what ...