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NBC announces Fall premiere dates
Published Sunday, Jul 23 2006, 01:12 BST | By Neil Wilkes
A two-hour Deal Or No Deal will kick off NBC's Fall lineup in September, the network confirmed Friday.
The returning gameshow - airing twice weekly in the NBC schedule - will premiere on Monday, September 18, leading in to the much-anticipated debut of Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip. Heroes joins the lineup the following Monday, September 25.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - newly paired up at 9pm on Tuesdays - both premiere on September 19. Friday Night Lights follows on October 3.
A two-hour Biggest Loser leads into Kidnapped on Wednesday, September 20. That format is retained the following week before Biggest Loser settles into its regular, 9pm slot on October 4, the same night as the double-bill premiere of new comedy 20 Good Years. 30 Rock joins on October 11.
The entire Thursday night lineup - comedies My Name Is Earl and The Office, along with Deal Or No Deal and ER - premieres September 21.
Law & Order will begin its 17th season on Friday, September 22, while both Crossing Jordan and Las Vegas will be kept back until October 20.
The returning gameshow - airing twice weekly in the NBC schedule - will premiere on Monday, September 18, leading in to the much-anticipated debut of Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip. Heroes joins the lineup the following Monday, September 25.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - newly paired up at 9pm on Tuesdays - both premiere on September 19. Friday Night Lights follows on October 3.
A two-hour Biggest Loser leads into Kidnapped on Wednesday, September 20. That format is retained the following week before Biggest Loser settles into its regular, 9pm slot on October 4, the same night as the double-bill premiere of new comedy 20 Good Years. 30 Rock joins on October 11.
The entire Thursday night lineup - comedies My Name Is Earl and The Office, along with Deal Or No Deal and ER - premieres September 21.
Law & Order will begin its 17th season on Friday, September 22, while both Crossing Jordan and Las Vegas will be kept back until October 20.
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