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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevelabny" data-source="post: 2621188" data-attributes="member: 9298">every year, the network with rights to the baseball playoffs is going to lose its Tuesday-Thursday and weekend  slots for a month, and monday and friday for a few weeks.there is no way around it. So there is no "better time slot" for Bones or any other show. In October, baseball is scheduled to be on almost every night if every series goes the distance.if the network waits until November to air the new shows, it has already lost the potential audience to shows on other networks. Instead they choose to start the shows in September, attempt to hook you, and hope you come back in November.  This IS the better move.I just watched this week's Reunion (I like the gimmick) and it actually said it would return in November (and gave an exact date) This is smart. In past years, the network tries to squeeze in new episodes to non-baseball days (when a series doesn't play all its games, there do wind up being nights with no baseball)  Squeezing new episodes onto nights with no baseball is a bad move, as it leaves the audience guessing when new episodes are on. This is one of the things that helped kill Firefly.A better question would be... is the ratings boost from baseball worth the damage it does to new shows trying to build an audience? I think the answer is yes, as long the shows are good, and the marketing is done right.</blockquote>