Dancing With the Stars or American Idol? ABC said Sunday that its scheduling means you won’t have to choose. The dance contest will air at 8 p.m. Mondays and 9 p.m. Tuesdays, starting in March. The regular Tuesday slot for Fox’s American Idol will be 8 p.m. Tuesdays. "I think our fans would have been upset, Idol fans would have been upset if we had put them head to head," Steve McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment, told TV critics on their winter tour. ABC will announce the celebrity competitors on Good Morning America. But McPherson gave no date for the announcement and said the network is just halfway through the selection process. In a release, ABC said the show’s start date would be March 19. But ABC is likely to offer a March 18 preview, McPherson said. The show proved a major fall hit for ABC, which is owned by the Walt Disney Co. In other news: McPherson dismissed the Donald Trump-Rosie O’Donnell feud, which started on ABC’s The View. "To me, the entire thing is stupid," McPherson said. "It’s a publicity stunt for Trump."
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It is going to be interesting to see how it is going to do on Mondays against CBS’s comedies, Fox’s serial dramas and Heroes. On Tuesdays it will be killed by House, but I think it will do ok against NBC and CBS’s lineups. I am bummed by the move because I will have to DVR it downstairs (the smaller TV) because I am not going to move Heroes or HIMYM and 2.5 men in order to record DWTS.
