ABC will be returning next year with a whopping 10 new series. We will get to all of those series later today once the video previews are made available, and I’ll just say the one I’m most excited about is actually the country-music drama, but only because Connie Britton is involved. For now, we’ll just briefly go through the new schedule for next year.
MONDAY
8:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars” / “The Bachelor”
10:00 p.m.“Castle”
Nothing has changed here. “Dancing with the Stars” in the Fall,” followed by “The Bachelor” in the Spring.
TUESDAY
8:00 p.m.“Dancing with the Stars the Results Show”
9:00 p.m.“Happy Endings”
9:30 p.m.“Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23”
10:00 p.m.“Private Practice”
In January:
8:00 p.m.“How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)”
8:30 p.m.“The Family Tools”
This is the exciting night, because ABC finally had the good sense to pair their thematically similar comedies, “Happy Endings” and “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23″ together. That’s an awesome hour of comedy. The one problem? They’re going up against “New Girl” and the “Mindy Kaling Project” on Fox, which probably means they’re going to get squashed. It also means a lot of DVR juggling, and for a lot of us — especially once “Justified,” “Sons of Anarchy,” “Parenthood,” and “Southland” return — Tuesdays are going to be a scheduling sh*tshow.
Two new sitcoms will replace the “Dancing with the Stars” result show in January. I’m kind of hoping that the two new sitcoms will be terrible so I won’t have to bother watching them.
WEDNESDAY
8:00 p.m.“The Middle”
8:30 p.m.“Suburgatory”
9:00 p.m.“Modern Family”
9:30 p.m.“The Neighbors”
10:00 p.m.“Nashville”
Two new changes here: A new sitcom at 9:30, and “Nashville” takes “Revenge’s” slot. More on “Nashville” and “The Neighbors” later today.
THURSDAY
8:00 p.m.“Last Resort”
9:00 p.m.“Grey’s Anatomy”
10:00 p.m.“Scandal”
“Last Resort” is new, and Shonda Rhimes “Scandal” is returning. It’s basically a three-hour block of fairly high-rated television that nobody I know actually watches.
FRIDAY
8:00 p.m.“Shark Tank”
9:00 p.m.“Primetime: What Would You Do?”
10:00 p.m.“20/20”
Don’t care. Don’t care. Don’t care.
In November:
8:00 p.m.“Last Man Standing”
8:30 p.m.“Malibu Country”
9:00 p.m.“Shark Tank”
10:00 p.m.“Primetime: What Would You Do?”
HaHa! Tim Allen’s show got moved to Friday, along with Reba McEntire’s new show, for what ABC is calling it’s new TGIF block. That’s they’re way of trying to make Tim Allen feel better about the fact that nobody is going to watch his show now.
SATURDAY
8:00 p.m.“Saturday Night College Football”
Go Razorbacks (or insert your own Top 10 Ranked Alma Mater).
SUNDAY:
7:00 p.m.“America’s Funniest Home Videos”
8:00 p.m.“Once Upon a Time”
9:00 p.m.“Revenge”
10:00 p.m.“666 Park Avenue”
23 years for “American’s Funniest Home Videos.” That’s painful. “Revenge” is more suitable to Sunday night and, bonus, easier to ignore on a night that’s already full of top-notch programming. “666 Park Avenue” is the new drama, in which Terry O’Quinn plays the Devil or something. I’m sure it will be terrible.
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Such a shame. I was just starting to really get in to New Girl.
If I’m reading this right, I now have to find that fine line between showing both remorse and joy while telling my wife that Body of Proof isn’t coming back.
Women…
Thank goodness for dvrs.
Shouldn’t the results show help as a lead in?
Scandal is a surprisingly good show. I’d probably never watch it if my wife didn’t get into it, but it’s definitely worth watching.
Scandal started out meh but the last two episodes have been pretty insane. Glad it got a pick-up.
I don’t know, I sort of want to see Terry O’Quinn play the devil. Say what you will about Lost, but Locke was a BAMF.
Word.
Bite your tongue about America’s Funniest Home Videos. It’s a treasure!
I see TV shows more as discrete packages of entertainment. For me a show doesn’t air at a particular time, it is simply made available at that certain time. I watch only what I want to watch when I want to watch it, so I am completely unaffected by the lead-in concept. What network a show airs on is completely irrelevant to me unless it’s a channel I don’t currently have.
People with this mindset will erode the TV status quo as it’s been for the last 60+ years. iTunes and Netflix comprehend this and have shifted to be in just the right place for this increasing number of people who want their entertainment on their own terms and are willing to subscribe to services that allow them to do just that.
I’m like you, DW. But, apparently, the vast majority of the TV-viewing public — or at least of Nielsen families — watch TV the old fashioned way (live and without remote control), which is why lead-ins and pairing of thematically similar shows are still things. While almost 45% of households have at least one DVR, most people continue to watch TV live — which quite frankly baffles me.
So, GCB is gone?
Cancelled. It didn’t help that no one I know knew what that stood for and didn’t care to research it either.
Did you just say “Go Razorbacks?!?!”
Low blow man.
If it weren’t for Terry O’quinn, they’d have no hope AT ALL of getting me to tune into their network. So they’ve got two DVR’d episodes to catch me, then I can safely cut ABC loose for the year.
Confused: did you mean to say that ABC’s Thursday lineup is: “…basically a three-hour block of fairly high-rated television that nobody I know actually watches.”??
Or did you mean that other networks have a Thursday night block that’s “fairly” high-rated?
B/c if you’re talking about ABC, then how can a NEW show that no one’s seen and another show that’s full of horribly schlocky, trite speech-making every other minute (looking at you ‘Scandal’) be high-rated? It’s stupid and awful.
Sunday at 9pm. Don’t say Revenge. Don’t say Revenge…
that’s it, I’m outta here. [slams door]
Did ABC run over your dog or something, Dustin?