Sunday night television seems to ebb and flow as the years pass by. As a child I can remember it being one of my favorite nights, primarily due to The Wonderful World of Disney, although I was rarely able to watch because Sunday also happened to be “over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother’s house we go” day.
This season, especially after the new year, has returned Sunday night to a must-watch night, albeit on different networks. The networks, who were apparently in an especially evil mood as they laid out their programming grids for midseason moves, have made Sunday night a living hell for anybody who wants to watch good TV. If you are a fan of Brothers and Sisters, Rome, and my favorite, Battlestar Galactica, you’ve probably been wondering how you were going to feed your need for these three excellent shows without resorting to the rerun run-around. Fans of Desperate Housewives obviously have a no-brainer, since it’s up against The Donald Trump Self-Congratulatory Gravity Defying Combover Hair Hour.
Never fear, True Believers, for help is here! Help, of course, in the form of the current “we need to air every program at least twice to give everybody a chance to watch it” syndrome, which is entirely caused by the network programmers’ aforementioned evil moods. This schedule will also give your DVR/VCR a nice cardio workout.
- Brothers and Sisters drops at 10:00 (usually 10:01), so go ahead and watch it then.
Alternate: watch B&S when it is rebroadcast on Friday night (unless you do the SciFi Friday thing, but that’s a whole different scheduling problem). - Battlestar Galactica airs at 10:00 on SciFi and is rebroadcast at midnight. Catch the second showing.
Bonus: this gives you a chance to check out the new Dresden Files at 11:00. - Rome is an easy one, thanks to multi-channel HBO (yay, HBO!). You can catch the newest episode at 1:00 a.m. on HBO2.
Obviously, households with multiple ReplayTVs needn’t worry about any of this. 
