Hooray For Sweeps

Hooray For Sweeps

February is a television sweeps month—when networks measure their audience to set local stations’ advertising rates—and that usually means extra-special programming for viewers. Highlights include:

The WB

Christopher Reeve embodies the Superman spirit once again in a special guest appearance on Smallville during February in an as-yet-undated episode. The event marks the first time Reeve, paralyzed in a horseback-riding accident, has appeared in a Superman-related series since he appeared in Superman IV in 1987.

Reeve will play a brilliant scientist, Swann, who has used his millions to fund research about the planet Krypton.

ABC

Dragnet, an updated version of the classic police drama, features two Los Angeles police detectives—seasoned veteran Joe Friday and newcomer Frank Smith—going against criminals ranging from street gangs to Hollywood movie moguls. The new series is scheduled to run Sundays from 10-11 p.m. ET.

PAX

Before I Say Goodbye, a world premiere thriller based on the Mary Higgins Clark novel of the same name, debuts Feb. 21 from 8-10 p.m. ET/PT. Sean Young stars in this suspenseful original drama that tells the story of a resilient woman desperate to find her husband’s killer.

FOX

The hit comedy Big Momma’s House, starring Martin Lawrence and Nia Long, makes its broadcast premiere from 8-10 p.m. ET/PT on Feb. 21.

Lawrence plays FBI agent Malcolm Turner sent to Georgia for surveillance on a young woman who may be an accomplice in a crime. He goes way undercover, donning a fat suit, wig, and a dress to impersonate Big Momma, the estranged grandmother of the young woman.

CBS

The 45th Annual Grammy Awards, with nominees including Bruce Springsteen, Nelly, Dixie Chicks, Ashanti, James Taylor, Alan Jackson, India.Arie, and Avril Lavigne, broadcasts live from Madison Square Garden in New York at 8 p.m. ET/PT Feb. 23.

NBC

In 1st to Die, a movie based on the best-selling novel by James Patterson, Tracy Pollan stars as Lindsay Boxer, a homicide inspector who teams with three other professional women—a medical examiner, journalist, and assistant district attorney—to catch a serial killer. Airs 8-11 p.m. ET on Feb. 23.

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