ON THE DL

Say You Had To Program 24 Hours of TV

A late reshuffling of the deck leads us to something we’ve been wanting to do for quite a while. Our guest had to move the interview (Brian Stelter from the New York Times will be on next week, btw) because of the news of the DTV postponement.

In other words, we got bumped by Congress. Sonsabitches.

So, Nick and I do the show we talked about a few weeks ago. Programming an entire day of television!!!!

Now, there are rules – it’s not an exercise to pick our favorite 24-48 TV shows of all time. Rather, we are programming a day of television. Prime time shows in prime time slots, with some liberties. Overnight crapola where it bleongs, dinner-time syndications, cartoons, news, whatever. If you had control of a channel and could put anything on to make the best 24-hours of television without repeating shows, what would you pick?

Now, bear in mind this was talked about weeks ago, but we wanted to do it somewhat spontaneously. Therefore, not a lot of research went into this. So we clearly missed some great shows -- pictured left for example -- and some are added to the bottom of the list below that we didn’t talk about on the air. The list you have below is what we said while recording for documentary purposes. If we had more time, I would have found room for Muppet Show, A-Team, Saved by the Bell and Batman. I’m sure Nick would have swapped some as well, so that’s why we added the list at the bottom. (And why we’re not TV executives).

This was as fun as you’d imagine (note: if you don’t imagine this to be fun, you suck.) Try it yourself. We’ve given you a huge head start below.

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