ABC: "I reckon if we're gonna be playin' football together, we oughta start sharing our feelings together..."
In what is surely yet another symptom of the Chicken Soup-ing of the American soul, the L.A. Times takes note of the fact that ABC is swapping the testosterone-fueled night that was Monday Night Football with shows about romance.
“Wife Swap” is followed by “Emily’s Reasons Why Not,” with Heather Graham as a self-help publisher unlucky in love; John Stamos in “Jake in Progress”; and a Parisian edition of “The Bachelor.”
It’s a gamble, but clearly one that might work with the estrogen-rich demo that’s not being served elsewhere.
But here’s where – as usual – Hollywood’s TV folks go too far.
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