Bumps, on the air

• Replaces in the TV lineup
• Denies air to?
• Interrupts, as a TV broadcast
• Makes a shutout bid
• Anticipates Forster (initially) to be included in homework, and Eliot similarly
• Interrupts, as a broadcast
• Seizes before someone else can
• Appropriates

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vb. (en-third-person singular of: preempt )