THE (INSIDE(ER) EDITION)

Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:52:56 PM

So I was procrastinating and realized that not only have I never fly-logged on this account, I haven't written about a peculiar bit of tv programming I recently came across.

I was flipping though the onscreen programming guide late one night and came across the following lineup on NTV (a Newfoundland station).

The Inside (yes, that one)
The Insider
Inside Edition

This can't be a coincidence. I found it again the next week (I think it's Monday, or Sunday). Usually really early morning (1:30amET/3amNfld). But if it's not a coincidence, how do you explain a crime investigation show, followed by some entertaiment news show, followed by a news magazine.

Someone was having fun with the schedule.

(And on The Inside still airing after being cancelled last year, NTV is an independent station and tends to continue to air episodes after a series has been cancelled - not sure if they get the rights to whatever eps have aired and then just air them when they want to or if the get the rights to a certain number of eps and then just repeat whatever has been aired already to fill in the gap. They continued to show Firefly after it was cancelled, though late at night, and only the aired episodes. Just in case anyone was wondering if I was hallucinating the whole thing ).