Tony Awards Telecast to Compete with Race Cars, Basketball & Another Tony

Playbill News: "Its competition includes ABC's reality series debut of 'Fast Cars & Superstars' (pitting NASCAR racers with celebrities) followed by Game 2 of the NBA Finals of Cleveland Cavaliers vs. San Antonio Spurs; the return of FOX's 'The Loop' (paired with 'The Simpsons' and 'Family Guy' repeats); and the second hour of NBC's 'Dateline' (with repeats of 'Friday Night Lights' and 'Law & Order: SVU'). The Broadway broadcast has at least a slight leg up (by starting an hour earlier) on perhaps the biggest adversary it faces: the series finale of HBO's Emmy-winning 'The Sopranos' (which it starts at 9 PM)."