ABC is turning to one of the cable networks in the Disney family to help fill out its summer programming slate.
Starting June 30, ABC will air same-week encores of the ABC Family series “Kyle XY,” a sci fi-tinged family drama about a teenage savant. The show premieres June 26 on the cable network.
ABC will air episodes of the show for at least four weeks, hoping for a win-win situation that can both raise awareness of “Kyle XY” for its corporate sibling and draw a few new viewers who aren’t inclined to watch reruns of “Hope & Faith,” the show “Kyle” is replacing on the schedule.
The show stars Matt Dallas as a teenager who is admitted to a youth detention center with no memory of who he is or where he’s been. A psychologist (Marguerite MacIntyre, “The Days,” “The Shield”) soon realizes that Kyle has a prodigious intellect but almost no awareness of how the world works. She brings him home to live with her family, which soon discovers he has some rather unique talents.
“Kyle XY” also stars Bruce Thomas (“Legally Blonde”), April Matson (“Quintuplets”) and Jean-Luc Bilodeau.
‘Big Brother’ to move to Sundays
Recognizing that few people watch TV on Saturdays – and hoping to train audiences for its fall schedule – CBS is making a change to its scheduling of “Big Brother” this summer.
The network has opted to move the weekend episode of “Big Brother” to Sunday night, breaking with the show’s long-standing Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday schedule. CBS has also shuffled around some of its other shows for the summer, adding a second encore of “How I Met Your Mother” on Monday nights next month and sending repeats of “NCIS” and “The Unit” to Fridays starting July 7.
The latter move will make room for the Tuesday episodes of “Big Brother,” which is mounting an all-star edition this year, and “Rock Star,” which debuts July 5 with a 90-minute episode. Both dramas will return to Tuesdays in the fall.
Moving “Big Brother: All-Stars” to Sunday also lets CBS set up its scheduling pattern for the coming season, which will feature a reality show (“The Amazing Race”) in the 8 p.m. ET timeslot, followed by “Cold Case” and “Without a Trace.” Reruns of the two crime dramas will air in their new timeslots starting July 16.
As for “How I Met Your Mother,” it will air at both 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. Mondays starting July 10.
Good news for ‘Entourage’
With the big ratings engine that is “The Sopranos” done for this year, HBO shed viewers with its summer lineup of original shows. There was encouraging news to be found, though, in the season premiere of “Entourage.” It began its third seasons Sunday with an audience of less than 3 million viewers, but that was a positive for “Entourage,” which for much of its first two seasons struggled to break 2 million viewers. The momentum from “Entourage” didn’t carry over to either of two new series unveiled Sunday. “Lucky Louie,””Dane Cook’s Tourgasm.
” brought in 1.1 million people.
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