NBC Shuffles Fridays to Save 'Miss Match' It took only two weeks for NBC to realize that Alicia Silverstone looking for love was no match for Amber Tamblyn looking for God. After watching CBS' "Joan of Arcadia" crush Silverstone's "Miss Match" in consecutive weeks, NBC has juggled its Friday night schedule to give the dramedy some breathing room.For at least the next three weeks, NBC will move "Miss Match" from 8 to 9 p.m. ET. The move will allow the freshman romantic-comedy/legal-drama to face off against CBS' "JAG," rather than "Arcadia." Presumably the military series will provide less direct competition for the young female viewers NBC craves. This Friday (Oct. 10), NBC will fill the 8 p.m. slot with a repeat of Bravo's popular "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," which had some success as a repurposed NBC series during the summer. In the next two weeks, though, the 8 p.m. hour will go to "Dateline NBC," which had previously been airing at 9 p.m.The schedule will also change at 10 p.m. where NBC will replace the struggling "Boomtown" with repeats of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Boomtown is officially just going on a three week hiatus and will return to the NBC schedule, though not necessarily on Friday nights."Miss Match," from "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star, premiered to disappointing numbers and sunk even further in its second week. Last week, the Silverstone vehicle, among the network's most heavily promoted shows of the new season, was No. 79 in primetime with just over 5.9 million viewers (compared to "Joan of Arcadia" at No. 24 with nearly 12.5 million viewers). Those numbers, while unimpressive, were solidly down from the show's premiere episode, which drew over 7.6 million.
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