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NBC Knows What It Wants: A Reality Show About 'Grease'

Connie Fisher, center, got her London
Connie Fisher, center, got her London "Sound of Music" gig through reality TV. Will the formula work here? (By Sang Tan -- Associated Press)
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"Grease: You're the One That I Want" is part of a new NBC Sunday lineup that also includes "The Apprentice," which will air immediately after the new reality series and which is being moved to Southern California in an effort to resuscitate its ratings.

In other scheduling moves announced yesterday by NBC, "Friday Night Lights" is moving from Tuesday.

To Wednesday. At 8.

No, it will never air on Friday -- get over it.

The new, ratings-starved, about-so-much-more-than-football drama will be followed by NBC's hit screaming-at-briefcases game show, "Deal or No Deal," leading into I-see-dead-people drama "Medium."

Taking the place of "Friday Night Lights" on Tuesday at 8 -- "Dateline NBC." It's one of three "Datelines" scheduled on NBC starting next calendar year; the other two are on Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 7.

And, if you were expecting NBC to move Aaron Sorkin's ratings-starved "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" out of the Monday 10 p.m. time slot to try out something else in the plum post-"Heroes" time slot . . . you'd be wrong. It's sticking, at least for the time being, though NBC noted it has on the bench two new drama series: "The Black Donnellys" from Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco ("Crash"), about four young working-class Irish brothers and their involvement in organized crime in New York City; and "Raines," from Graham Yost ("Boomtown"), starring Jeff Goldblum as an eccentric LAPD detective who talks to dead people.

And, take note, Mr. Sorkin -- both dramas are from NBC Universal Television Studios, unlike yours, which is hatched over at Warner Bros. TV.


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