Do you mean they start the show halfway through? In which case, what the frack...?!
Here they just cancel all existing schedules till the Big! important game is over - we will get our shows, just not now, you know - some as-yet-to-be specified time in the future. I understand that it's a BIG game, a once or never thing for those who care about it and I don't usually whine but after two weeks of it I start getting a bit frayed around the edges, you know? Makes me tear my hair a bit. :o)