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NBC will premiere its new schedule of
programs for the 2002-03 season
beginning September 23 through October 4.
Premiere week kicks off with a special 90-minute celebrity version of “Fear Factor” Monday, Sept. 23 (8-9:30 p.m. ET), spotlighting Natasha Henstridge ( “She Spies”), comedic illusionists Penn & Teller, Keshia Knight Pulliam (“The Cosby Show”), Matt Cedeńo (NBC’s “Days of Our Lives”), Gena Lee Nolin (“Baywatch”) and Barry Williams (“The Brady Bunch”), followed by a 90-minute season premiere of the hit drama “Crossing Jordan” – which finds Jordan (Jill Hennessy) tracking her mother’s killer in Los Angeles.
On Tuesday, Sept. 24, NBC celebrates the series premiere of the new comedy “In-Laws” (8-8:30 p.m. ET), followed by a second episode at a special time 8:30-9 p.m. (ET). (NBC’s veteran “Must See TV” favorite “Just Shoot Me” will move into its new timeslot the following Tuesday, Oct. 1 (8:30-9 p.m. ET). Then it’s the season’s first new episode of the Emmy Award-winning “Frasier” at 9-9:30 p.m. (ET) featuring Niles and Daphne’s wedding, followed by the series debut of the adventurous new comedy “Hidden Hills” (9:30-10 p.m. ET). “Dateline NBC” premieres at 10-11 p.m.(ET).
Two of NBC’s critically acclaimed, Wednesday-night dramas will debut on September 25 with the third-season return of “Ed” (8-9 p.m. ET) and a two-hour premiere of “The West Wing” (9-11 p.m. ET), which was nominated last week for 22 Emmy Awards. NBC’s classic “Law & Order” will launch the following week (Wednesday, Oct. 2, 10-11 p.m. ET).
America’s favorite night of television kicks off with the ninth-season premiere of “Friends” on Thursday, Sept. 26 (8-8:30 p.m. ET) as the top-rated comedy continues the laughs after the birth of Rachel’s (Jennifer Aniston) baby. TV’s favorite freshman comedy series, “Scrubs” (8:30-9 p.m. ET), begins its sophomore season on “Must-See” Thursdays. Emmy winner “Will & Grace” (9-9:30 p.m. ET) is followed by the series premiere of the new comedy “Good Morning Miami” (9:30-10 p.m. ET) and “ER’s” (10-11 p.m. ET) dramatic ninth-season premiere episode.
“Dateline NBC” telecasts a two-hour installment on Sept. 27 (8-10 p.m. ET) with the Friday-night season opener of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” at 10-11 p.m. (ET).
“Kiss the Girls” is the premiere theatrical event of this season’s
“Saturday Night Movie” presentation on Sept. 28 (8:30-11 p.m. ET).
“Dateline NBC” (7-8 p.m. ET) kicks off premiere night Sunday, Sept. 29 and
the evocative new drama “American Dreams” premieres at 8-9 p.m. (ET). “Law
& Order: Criminal Intent” (9-10 p.m. ET) returns for its second season,
followed by the series premiere of the innovative urban cop drama “Boomtown”
(10-11 p.m. ET) -- from the writer of “Speed” and the director of
“Uprising.”
“Third Watch” – recent winner of the prestigious George Foster Peabody
Award – makes its fourth-season premiere in the second week of the season,
Monday, Sept. 30 (9-10 p.m. ET) and “Providence” returns Friday, October 4
(8-9 p.m. ET).
Following are the new series premiere dates for NBC’s Fall 2002-03 season. All
times are Eastern Time (ET):
MONDAY, SEPT. 23
8-9:30 p.m. “Fear Factor” (regularly seen at 8-9 p.m. ET)
9:30-11 p.m. “Crossing Jordan” (regularly seen at 10-11 p.m. ET)
TUESDAY, SEPT. 24
8-8:30 p.m. “In-Laws”
8:30- 9 p.m. “In-Laws” (a special premiere night episode)
9-9:30 p.m. “Frasier”
9:30-10 p.m. “Hidden Hills”
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25
8-9 p.m. “Ed”
9-11 p.m. “The West Wing” (special two-hour premiere)
THURSDAY, SEPT. 26
8-8:30 p.m. “Friends”
8:30-9 p.m. “Scrubs”
9-9:30 p.m. “Will & Grace”
9:30-10 p.m. “Good Morning Miami”
10-11 p.m. “ER”
FRIDAY, SEPT. 27
8-10 p.m. “Dateline NBC” (special 2-hour premiere)
10-11 p.m. “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”
SATURDAY, SEPT. 28
8:30-9 p.m. “NBC Saturday Night Movie” – “Kiss the Girls”
SUNDAY, SEPT. 29
7-8 p.m. “Dateline NBC”
8-9 p.m. “American Dreams”
9-10 p.m. “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”
10-11 p.m. “Boomtown”
MONDAY, SEPT. 30
9-10 p.m. “Third Watch”
TUESDAY, OCT. 1
8:30-9 p.m. “Just Shoot Me”
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2
10-11 p.m. “Law & Order”
FRIDAY, OCT. 4
8-9 p.m. “Providence”
Information Courtesy of NBC
