Editing TGIF (TV programming block) (section)

=== Post-TGIF (2000–2002) ===
In September 2000, ABC relaunched its Friday sitcom block under the '''''Working Comedy''''' banner for the 2000–01 season: the block featured fading comedies ''[[Two Guys and a Girl]]'' and ''[[The Norm Show|Norm]]'', and freshman sitcoms ''[[The Trouble with Normal (TV series)|The Trouble with Normal]]'' and ''[[Madigan Men]]'', which underperformed. This lineup only lasted one year, with all four shows being cancelled by the end of the season (''The Trouble with Normal'' lasted only five episodes; its replacement, the found-humor filler ''[[Dot Comedy]]'', [[List of television series canceled after one episode|was pulled after only one]]). ABC then opted to run dramas and reality shows such as ''[[The Mole (American season 2)|The Mole]]'' (which only lasted three weeks); it would, however, bring back family-friendly fare to the night in June 2001 with a revived weekly version of ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' (which had been airing for the previous two years as a series of specials after a failed retool following the 1997 departure of original host [[Bob Saget]] under successors [[John Fugelsang]] and [[Daisy Fuentes]]), before eventually moving the show back to its former longtime Sunday timeslot for the 2003–04 season to accommodate the revived ''TGIF''. By then, Friday nights were the second-weakest night of the week for television viewership (behind Saturdays), with only a few shows receiving attention, such as CBS's ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'', which premiered on Friday (in contrast to the other major broadcast networks, CBS has maintained strong ratings for its Friday evening programming for the most part since then). This meant that for the first time since the 1988–89 television season, ABC promoted Friday night lineups in a standard fashion between 2001 and 2003.

In the summer of 2001, Disney acquired Fox Family from [[News Corporation (1980–2013)|News Corporation]] and [[Saban Entertainment]], renaming the channel ABC Family. Disney head [[Michael Eisner]] hoped to use ABC Family,  which became a sister network to ABC and Disney Channel with the purchase, to [[Repurposing (broadcasting)|repurpose]] ABC network shows. To meet that end, he decided to revive the ''TGIF'' block on ABC Family to create additional revenue for ABC's family sitcoms. This effort hit a roadblock due to the fact that ABC did not own the syndication rights to all of its programs. As such, the "new" ABC Family ''TGIF'' block, which debuted on March 1, 2002, consisted of the recently acquired dramedy ''[[State of Grace (TV series)|State of Grace]]'', in addition to reruns of ABC's ''[[According to Jim]]'' and, unusual for what was meant to be a sitcom block, repeats of the drama ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]''. Due to poor advertising sales, complaints from ABC affiliates, and show producers concerned that the new block would hurt syndication revenue, ABC Family's ''TGIF'' was pulled after a few short weeks.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/disneywar00stew|url-access=registration|quote=tgif.|title=DisneyWar|last=Stewart|first=James B.|date=2006-03-10|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9780743267090}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2002/tv/features/abc-family-plans-off-net-friday-block-1117861113/|title=ABC Family plans off-net Friday block|last=Grego|first=Melissa|date=2002-02-21|work=Variety|access-date=2017-03-08|archive-date=2017-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309065010/http://variety.com/2002/tv/features/abc-family-plans-off-net-friday-block-1117861113/|url-status=live}}</ref>