Thursday Nights Most Competitive This Fall

NBC's My Name is Earl will run a close race with CBS's Survivor, perhaps edging it out on Thursday nights at 8 p.m. next season, if results from Phi Power's poll are borne out. The poll, conducted May 19-23, also shows that CBS's Without a Trace will do very well among older viewers (though sagging in younger viewers) against ABC's usually dominant Sunday schedule, Media Life writes. Across the networks, the new dramas seem to be more exciting to viewers than the comedies - however, no new show scored particularly well, according to the article. But that is to be expected, as the new programs are still unfamiliar and promotion had barely started when the poll was conducted.