Starring various Original language(s) English Running time 120 minutes+ First episode date 25 December 2006 Language English | Country of origin United States No. of seasons 20 Original network ABC Number of seasons 20 Genres Comedy, Anthology series | |
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Network American Broadcasting Company Similar The ABC Sunday Night Mo, NBC Saturday Night at t, TV's Bloopers & Practical, ABC Movie of the Week, Madman of the People | ||
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The ABC Monday Night Movie (styled ABC Monday Movie of the Week since 2004) is an anthology series on the ABC television network. It is part of ABC's Movie of the Week format. It began as an extension of The ABC Sunday Night Movie. Airing from 1981 until 2004 as a series, it has since run as a series of specials styled ABC Monday Movie of the Week.
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Origin
Airing movies on Monday nights was far more common during the time in which ABC held rights to Monday Night Football, which occupied four months of ABC's prime time schedule and required any scripted series on Monday night to be a midseason replacement. ABC transferred its Monday Night Football rights to ESPN in 2006, clearing the Monday night time slot for regular scripted programming. (ABC now has a similar strategy with the ABC Saturday Night Movie, which airs after the end of the Saturday Night Football college package.)