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TV’s Freakishly Full “Big Dance” Card
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Even Jack Bauer would have trouble keeping his wits about him during this action-packed hour.
It all goes down at 9 tonight. That’s when the NCAA basketball final (aka the final step in “The Big Dance”) takes on “Dancing with the Stars” in a head-to-head, mano-a-mambo showdown.
That’s right, TV fans, it’s dunks versus dips. Traveling calls versus quick-steps. Jim “Washington Generals” Nantz versus Tom “Harlem Globetrotters” Bergeron in the ultimate one-on-one contest of ad-libbing play-by-play guys.
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What’s a redblooded American TV-viewer to do? Watch Florida-Ohio State live, and take a chance that Tivo will accidentally erase some priceless footage of Billy Ray Cyrus falling off the “Dancing” stage and fatally goring himself on Leeeeeza Gibbon’s enormous teeth? Or stick with “Dancing” (which starts at 8 p.m.) and miss seeing the first half of the game as it happens? Not to mention all those “typical” Atlanta scenes as CBS goes in-and-out of commercial breaks (the Serf has been parading up and down Peachtree Street in a hoop skirt with a giant “Hey, Y’all!” sign since Saturday, hoping to catch the eye of some gullible Yankee cameraman).
As a Paid TV-Watching Professional, I’m not sure how to handle tonight’s jampacked dance card. (Usually, I’d ask my Big Boss for advice. Why just last Monday night, she managed to watch “24,” Tivo “Dancing with the Stars” and e-mail me all at the same time. So she’s clearly good in a crisis. But she’s also a, uh, enthusiastic Florida grad, and I’m afraid if I even raise the possibility of skipping the game for “Dancing,” I’ll disappear into a Gator Chomp, never to be seen or heard from again.)
Only one thing’s for danged sure: “24” is plumb out of luck at 9 tonight. Who knows why Fox didn’t decide to pull it for dead air, or, worse, an original episode of “The War At Home” … The unfortunate truth is that Jack Bauer’s just going to have to bite the head off a terrorist, download top-secret Kremlin blueprints to his iPod and force the mighty Mississippi to change direction with his piercing blue-eyed stare without us for one week.
We’ve got something much more important to watch.
Just don’t ask us what that is yet.
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By Priscilla
April 2, 2007 8:37 AM | Link to this
The basketball game monday night will be dancing with the STARS.
By black boots
April 2, 2007 9:30 AM | Link to this
Are you kidding? 24.
By Jamie
April 2, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this
I don’t get a choice in the above poll…my answer would be neither, guess it will be deal or no deal for me. I like basketball but have no cares about wins or loses and cannot stand the dancing shows….I would much rather be able to watch Two & 1/2 Men and all the regular Monday Night shows….
By Jamie
April 2, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this
I don’t get a choice in the above poll so will add…NEITHER. Like basketball but don’t care who wins enough to watch it, and do not like Dancing at all. Would rather be able to watch the regular CBS lineup of shows!
By E
April 2, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this
Thank God for Tivo! Sports over Dancing anyday
By cl
April 2, 2007 10:38 AM | Link to this
I have a date every Monday at 9:00 with Mr. Bauer. I will watch the dancing from 8:00-9:00, except when it trashes down with Mz Mills, at which point, I’ll turn to a Daily Show rerun for 5 minutes.
By methinks
April 2, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this
“24” from 9-10. tip off for the game won’t even occur until 9:21 or 27 and by that time jack bauer will have already save 1/2 the free world. the score on the game might be 6-4 by the time 10 p.m. rolls around. i will have missed barely a thing in the game. as for ‘dancing’…you’ve GOTTA be kidding.
By methinks
April 2, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this
“24” from 9-10. tip off for the game won’t even occur until 9:21 or 27 and by that time jack bauer will have already saved 1/2 the free world. the score on the game might be 6-4 by the time 10 p.m. rolls around. i will have missed barely a thing in the game. as for ‘dancing’…you’ve GOTTA be kidding.
By Big Al
April 2, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this
Where is the choice of “neither” in your poll? Both options suck.
By brooksdawgs
April 2, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this
Actually I think you may have gotten your title wrong here. Like the others who have posted I will be watching 24 with TIVO on the Basketball game. By the time 24 goes off, I will be able to watch the game with fast forward and be caught up in 10 minutes. As the others have said Dancing, no way.
By Big Trouble
April 2, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this
Agreed. The Hour of Bauer from 9-10, then maybe most of the game…
By SpinDoctor5
April 2, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this
Am I the only one watching the “I Love New York” Season Finale?!?!?!?
By Becky
April 2, 2007 2:54 PM | Link to this
I’ll watch “Dancing…” with my daughter until she goes to bed and then I’ll probably watch some of the Final 4 game with my husband so that I can sound “fairly” intelligent at work tomorrow when it’s be discussed!!
By Roger
April 2, 2007 3:19 PM | Link to this
PA-Leaz! WWE is on Monday night at 9! Jack Bauer is a p@ssy!
By Cheryl
April 2, 2007 3:23 PM | Link to this
“24” ALL THE WAY! Then the game but Dancing w/Stars sucks this season..And to Roger…..I would love to see YOU tell Jack Bauer that he’s a p***!!!!!!!! You’d get your butt kicked in less than a minute!