Just looked at the other networks. Fox is carrying the Presidential Address live at 8:00 PM (Eastern Time) and has allotted twenty minutes for it. My TiVo guide for the New York Fox affiliate, WNYW, has Prison Break starting at 8:20, 24 starting at 9:20, Fox 5 News at 10 starting at 10:20, a Seinfeld rerun at 11:20…then they have a very odd thing listed: A Simpsons episode starting at 11:50 PM. What's odd about that? It's listed as a ten-minute episode. Reruns of That '70s Show follow at Midnight and 12:30 AM.
Then we go over to KTTV, which is the Los Angeles Fox outlet. They have the Presidential Address from 5:00 to 5:20, followed by a ten-minute episode of King of the Hill. Then everything else after runs its usual length and starts on the hour or half-hour.
Are they really chopping an old Simpsons episode and a rerun of King of the Hill down to ten minutes apiece? Or do they just figure to join them in progress? Bizarre either way.
ABC's Monday night schedule, at least on my TiVo, shows no sign of including Bush's speech.
Neither does CBS's. The oddity here is that Two and a Half Men runs 31 minutes and then the show that follows — The New Adventures of Old Christine — is a 29-minute show starting at 9:31. I wish they'd stop doing this.