This can't be right.

According to Media News:

-Yesterday’s Losers:
Friday Night Lights (NBC)

Over at NBC, the news remains bleak at 8 p.m., with week three of Friday Night Lights sinking further, with a mere 4.0/ 6 in the overnights (#4), 6.61 million viewers (#4) and a 2.7/ 7 among adults 18-49 (#4).

Yet according to Media Life...

Brighter night for
'Friday Night Lights'

Last week NBC gave “Friday Night Lights,” its struggling new drama, a symbolic vote of confidence, ordering several more scripts for the series. While short of a full season order, the gesture indicated that NBC will stand behind the series for a bit in hopes that its audience will build.

However, unless “Lights” continues to build and pushes over a 3.0, it seems likely the show will be relocated in the not-so-distant future. Friday night is a good possibility for the show, perhaps swapping with strong new game show “1 vs 100” or being replaced by midseason returner “Crossing Jordan,” whose timeslot still hasn’t been determined.

NBC has remained aggressive in promoting the show, which got very good reviews, on new shows like “Sunday Night Football” and its Monday dramas.

Meanwhile, back at Media News,

Over at the CW, Gilmore Girls remains down but not out at a 3.8/ 6 in the overnights (#5), 4.77 million viewers (#5) and a 2.0/ 5 among adults 18-49 (#5) at 8 p.m.

-Keep a Positive Eye On:
Veronica Mars (UPN)

Veronica Mars followed with a more distant 2.1/ 3 in the overnights, 3.22 million viewers and a 1.4/ 4 among adults 18-49 at 9 p.m. But before anyone starts panicking, former UPN time period occupant Sex, Love & Secrets was considerably worse on the year-ago evening at a 1.2/ 2 in the overnights, 1.57 million viewers and a 0.7/ 2 among adults 18-49. The year-ago performance for Veronica Mars (on UPN, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005) was a 2.7/ 4 in the overnights, 3.03 million viewers and a 1.3/ 3 among adults 18-49. Do the math, and that’s an increase of 190,000 viewers and 8 percent among adults 18-49. Veronica Mars also posted a season high among adults 18-34 (1.8/ 5), with its second best performance in adults 18-34, adults 18-49 and women 18-49. And week-to-week, Veronica was up by as much as 20 percent demographically. Yes, Veronica Mars fans -- you heard me right!

So, to review.

One show I like-Friday Night Lights-is either a loser, or the lights have just gotten a little bit brighter, depending on who you trust. Though ironically, I hated the way the last episode ended-it was one of those "oh please tell me they're not going there...oh fuck! They are!" moments.

One show I'd be perfectly happy to see cancelled before the end of its season-Gilmore Girls-is down.

And Veronica Mars gets some positive news after an episode that was, while more uneven than the one last week that restored my faith, still better than it's been in a while.

It isn't supposed to work like this. The shows I like are supposed to lose, and the shows I've turned against are supposed to go up. On Tuesday nights, only the always-watchable Boston Legal is supposed to be solid.

Either I'm going to get an acceptance letter from a publisher today or I should run right out and play the lottery.