Past/Present favorite shows on each network

ABC: Current: Lost
Previous: Twin Peaks

NBC: Current: My Name is Earl
Previous: Cheers

CBS: Current: Wow . . . . um, 60 minutes?
Previous: Dukes of Hazzard

Fox: Current: Prison Break
Previous: Married . . .With Children

The CW: Current: Smallville
Previous: Gilmore Girls

 

ABC
Current favorite: Monday Night Football, Lost
Past favorite: MNF, Boy Meets World

CBS
Current favorite: Criminal Minds, NCIS.
Past favorite: None.

NBC
Current favorite: Law & Order: CI
Past favorite: SNL, Will and Grace, Fresh Prince of Bel Air

FOX
Current favorite: None.
Past favorite: Simpsons, That 70s Show, Married With Children

WB/CW/UPN
Current favorite: None.
Past favorite: Charmed

ESPN
Current favorite: None.
Past favorite: Baseball Tonight

HBO
Current favorite: Sports docs
Past favorite: None

MTV
Current favorite: None
Past favorite: Real World

 

Don't really watch much network TV, but I'll give it a go.

ABC -- Current: N/A
Previous: MacGyver

NBC -- Current: Heroes
Previous: Get Smart

CBS -- Current: Late Show with David Letterman
Previous: The Twilight Zone

Fox -- Current: N/A
Previous: Arrested Development/Firefly

WB -- Current: N/A
Previous: Homeboys from Outer Space

ESPN -- Current: Soccer
Previous: Sumo Digest, featuring Jack Edwards

HBO -- N/A (don't get HBO)

MTV -- Current: N/A
Previous: Fear

Nickelodeon -- Current: Fairly OddParents
Previous: Are You Afraid of the Dark/Count Duckula

History Channel -- Current: The Universe
Previous: Band of Brothers

Food Network -- Current: Good Eats
Previous -- Iron Chef (the original)

Discovery Channel -- Current: Mythbusters
Previous -- Shark Week

 

ABC
Current: Lost
Past: Alias (before it sucked) is the only one I can think of at the moment

CBS
Current: 60 Minutes.
Past: Murder She Wrote (?)

NBC
Current: Friday Night Lights
Past: Seinfeld, West Wing, Cheers

FOX
Current: 24
Past: Simpsons (I know, it's still on, but after like 20 years it also qualifies as "past.")

WB/CW/UPN
Current favorite: ??
Past favorite: Gilmore Girls

ESPN
Current favorite: Sunday Night Baseball, College Football Gameday
Past favorite:

HBO (I'm combining w/Showtime, which they say is the new HBO)
Current favorite: Brotherhood, Weeds
Past favorite: The Wire

MTV
Current favorite: ... That's funny.
Past favorite: Didn't they used to show videos? Them, I guess.

 

What, only for that?

ABC
Present: I just realized that there is nothing on ABC that I want to watch. Legendary fail.
Past: Monday Night Football. Oh, wait. Non-sports? Alias, Vega$, MacGyver, China Beach, Karen Sisco, Spenser: For Hire, Whose Line Is It Anyway?

NBC
Present: Heroes, Poker After Dark.
Past: Miami Vice, Pretender, Profiler, Dark Skies, CHiPs (what?!? I was 10 years old and they had motorcycles!), Hill Street Blues.

CBS
Present: CSI, CSI Miami, The Unit.
Past: Magnum PI, MASH, Simon & Simon, Hawaii Five-0.

Fox
Present: 24.
Past: Animaniacs, X-Files, Sliders, 21 Jump Street.

UPN/WB/CW
Present: Nada.
Past: Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

MTV
Present: Dead. To. Me.
Past: Music videos. Remember them?

SciFi
Present: Battlestar Galactica.
Past: Nada. They've only had one good first-run series of their own making (but see next entry). All else is low-budget dreck city.

BBC America
Present: Robin Hood, Torchwood, MI:5 (aka Spooks), Top Gear, Doctor Who (gets listed here because it's BBC Wales, and if SciFi tried this on its own it would fuck it up), Graham Norton.
Past: Hell, I haven't bloody had it that long.

PS Hey, buckdub ... ABC nuked Monday Night Football a couple years ago. Maybe you were too busy trying to wear a groove in your Great American Baseball Box CDs to notice.

 

ABC
Present: nada
Past: Moonlighting

CBS
Present: How I Met Your Mother
Past: M*A*S*H (wait, was Dick Van Dyke on that network?)

NBC
Present: Office, The
Past: motherfucking Wings

Fox
Present: King of the Hill
Past: Futurama (Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Herman's Head get honorable mentions)

WB/UPN/CW
Present: butt nothing
Past: Mission Hill

MTV
Present: you've got to be suck my dick kidding me
Past: Friday Night Fights (not sure if this is what it was called, but back in the early 80s, they'd show a "champion" video and a "challenger" video, and people called in with their votes. Winning video defended the title the next week. I think The Reflex was the champion for like two months. It ruled (the concept, not Duran Asshole Duran's shitfail song)

ESPN
Present: Lacrosse matches on the U
Past: AWA wrestling (Larry "The Milkman" Milligan beats Col. DeBeers to the frozen turkey on the pole!)