"Survivor," "Grey's Anatomy," "Office" make-ups rescheduled

Good news from stations that pre-empted programming for pointless weather updates. (And I say that with love to my readers in Chillicothe, and to reader Ryan who posted in the comments of the original story an argument in favor of blanketing the airwaves as though it had never occurred to anyone but him. Ryan, c'mon -- there are better ways to let the Amish in Jamesport know that severe weather is coming. We talked about them here.)

"The Office" will reair verrrry late tonight.

"CSI" will air tonight between Letterman and Ferguson; "Survivor" will air tonight after Ferguson. Now before you grouse, in my experience it's pretty rare that a show like "Survivor" that was only preempted for a few minutes at the end is allowed by the network to re-air in its entirety. (Then again, they were a pretty important few minutes!)

Finally, "Grey's" reairs 3 p.m. Saturday on KMBC-9.

Previously on TVB: "And the person eliminated from Survivor is ..." WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM

Comments

[John]

Supernatural is airing at 9:00 Saturday night.

[tlr]

I was pretty irked by Katie's interruption. She says, "we'll only be on for a few minutes" and then the babble for nearly an hour showing the same radar graphics and going to Matt who is chasing a storm. Give me a break. Just put the warning on the air. By carrying on for over an hour, people become immune to what they are saying and don't pay attention when they need to.

[Erin]

You can watch NBC and ABC shows online...with very limited commercials. That's how I watch my favorites every week!

[A Guy in LSMO]

KCTV and the others may think they are doing their viewers a service by staying on air repeating the same information for hours, but they are not. What happens in my house when they break in with weather coverage is this - we watch for a minute to see if it's something serious or just another round of them talking about a rain shower in St. Louis (okay, maybe a slight exaggeration, but not by a lot), and when it turns out to be nothing we watch something else and keep the weather radio close by just in case.

I have lived in several areas of the country, and the KC market is the only one I have seen do the wall-to-wall coverage when nothing is happening. Everywhere else the information is displayed on screen either with a scroll or a small weather map.