Well, um, never mind

On Wednesday, I told you that ABC would air its new sitcom "Notes from the Underbelly" on Thursdays at 9 and 9:30 p.m.

Never mind.

That information was correct when I wrote it in Wednesday's column. But it has changed since then.

"Notes" will still premiere next Thursday (April 12) at 9 p.m. on Ch. 4, but the following week, it will move to Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.

The show hasn't even debuted, and it's already had five time slots. At various times, ABC has announced it would air Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m.; Thursdays at 9 and 9:30 p.m.; and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.

Is it any wonder I'm so confused so much of the time?

A SECOND ATTEMPT to make "Six Degrees" work has failed. There won't be another.

After yanking the show out of the Thursdays-at-9 p.m. time slot last fall, ABC put it on Fridays at 8 p.m. a couple of weeks ago ... and not much of anybody watched. So it's been, ahem, deep-"Six"ed.

Repeats of "Wife Swap" will air Fridays at 8 p.m. for the next few weeks. Or so ABC is saying right now.

"7th HEAVEN" is going off the air. Again. Only this time, it's for real.

Or so say the folks at The CW, who made the mistake of bringing the show back for a little-watched 11th season after their predecessors at The WB bid the show farewell in what was supposed to be the series finale last May.

The second — and, presumably, final — finale will air this May.

ASK NOT FOR WHOM the bell tolls — it tolls for "Wedding Bells." Production on the hugely disappointing Fox series has been shut down after seven episodes.

For the time being, at least, it will continue to play out the string on Fridays at 8 p.m. with its three remaining episodes. But this misbegotten show about three sisters running a wedding palace will soon disappear.

It's the second-straight Fox failure for producer/writer David E. Kelley, whose successes range from "Boston Legal" to "Ally McBeal," "Picket Fences" to "Chicago Hope." His last series for the network, "Girls Club," was canceled after two episodes in 2002. (Kelley has had a lot of big successes and a lot of big flops: CBS's "The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire" lasted five episodes in 2003; ABC's "Snoops" limped through 10 episodes in 1999; NBC's "Law Firm" lasted seven episodes in 2005).

The weird thing is that Fox originally picked up a show titled "The Wedding Album," which never made it on the air. So the network turned to Kelley, who reworked a failed pilot he had at ABC a couple of years ago to become "Wedding Bells."

The "Wedding Album" pilot was sent to critics, and it was better than any episode of "Wedding Bells."

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