Who will win the 8PM, Friday battle in Fall 2005?

BERNIE MAC/MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE (FOX) VS. SUPERNANNY (ABC) VS. DATELINE (NBC) VS. GHOST WHISPERER (CBS)

SCOOP CBS failed last year with a girl who talks to someone we can’t see, so this year, the network is scheduling a show about…a girl who talks to someone we can’t see. The Eye’s decision to replace Joan of Arcadia with Ghost Whisperer is ”so weird,” says a competitor, that…

VERDICT …ABC should have no problem cleaning up with Supernanny. ”NBC’s decision to move Dateline to 8 p.m. gave some of the other nets a chance to collect an audience,” says the competitor. Speaking of apparitions, let’s pay our final respects to Bernie Mac and Malcolm, which will meet their makers now that they’ve been exiled to this Siberia of a time slot.