Over this past week the basic networks have gone out and previewed what they will be offering in the fall. This is so advertisers can buy ad space “up front” before the shows air or something to that effect. Head over to wikipedia for when things are airing and for show i didn’t list.
Sunday
This as usual has The Simpsons, 60 Minutes, Once Upon a Time and football airing but there are a couple of shakeups on Sunday. First off CBS has moved Amazing Race from Sunday to Friday and has replaced it with a political drama Madam Secretary, about a female Secretary of State, balancing home life with international diplomacy. CBS also moved CSI to Sunday at 10 with a new CSI spinoff CSI:Cyber coming in January. FOX it seems has turned the clock back and are going to be airing live action comedies on Sunday nights. along side The Simpsons and Family Guy. Fox’s biggest hit from this past season Brooklyn Nine-Nine will air after Simpsons and a new show Mulaney, it seems a lot like Seinfeld that could be a good thing but it could also be a bad thing, it will air after Family Guy. ABC has keep mostly the same schedule but they have added one show that look like it has potential and a crime drama. The show that has potential is Galavant, it is a fairy tale-themed musical comedy with music by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater. It might end up like Smash but the premise Galavant trying to find his happily ever after seems to have promise. Galavant will air in the break between halves of the Once Upon a Time season.
Monday
CBS will begin the fall with moving Big Bang Theory to Monday nights (as Thursday Night Football will be aired for 8 weeks on CBS) after those 8 weeks 2 Broke Girls returns and Mom will follow. The new show Scorpion looks interesting as it is a drama inspired by the story of Walter O’Brien, a genius who recruits other geniuses to help solve problems of the world. FOX has Gotham, the show is basically an origin story for everyone involved in the world of Batman, hopefully it will last for at least a season. It will be followed by Sleepy Hollow. The CW has a show that is based on a telenovela from Venezuela, Jane the Virgin sounds like it could be a fun show a hard-working, religious young Latina is accidentally inseminated by her doctor at an examine and the biological donor just happens to be Jane’s boss. NBC has another season of The Voice.
Tuesday
ABC has pushed back SHIELD to 9 pm and will try a comedy block before it. Both shows seem disappointing Selfie (a Pygmalion-esque story about a girl who is obsessed with her digital life) and Manhattan Love Story (about a couple and the questions they are actually thinking about from the moment they meet) During the break in SHIELD’s season there will be a show about the formation of SHIELD with Agent Carter. It will be intersting to see how SHIELD Is being reformed and how Peggy Carter help establish it. CW has The Flash set in the same world as Arrow. CBS has a night with shows under the NCSI banner. Fox has a new reality show called Utopia, followed by New Girl and Mindy. NBC has Voice results followed by an hour of comedies (Marry Me and About a Boy). Marry Me is about a couple that messes up their first proposal so they try to have the perfect one or something.
Wednesday
Not many new shows tonight. ABC is still trying to figure what to put before and after Modern Family. They move Goldbergs from Tuesday night to before and have a new show Black-ish that will follow. CBS has a new show about stalkers (Stalker) along with the 29th and 30th seasons of Survivor (I hope that this show comes to an end soon). Fox has Hell’s Kitchen and a remake of a Catalan show Red Band Society, a dark dramedy focused on a group of teenagers living together as patients in a hospital’s pediatric ward. NBC pulls out a single Mom Cop show Mysteries of Laura.
Thursday
I noted earlier CBS begins with 8 weeks of Thursday night Football, after this is over Big Bang returns to 8pm followed by The Millers and the final season of Two and a Half Men. This will be followed by The McCarthys, a show about a tight-knit Boston family who are long involved in high school sports. ABC has given Shonda Rhimes Thursday nights. Fox will air a reworking of ITV’s Broadchurch as Gracepoint it’s a 10 episode run and they say that it will be different from the UK version. NBC’s Thursday night will no longer be Must See TV, they start the night with Biggest Loser followed by a hour of comedy (Bad Judge and A to Z) until Feburary when The Blacklist will take the 9pm slot. Bad Judge is a judicial comedy, the judge does lots of crazy things but this all changes when she meets a 8 year old who’s parents she put behind bars. A to Z is a romantic comedy about two people who have nothing in common falling in love. Parks and Rec will start up in like February as well although there is no indication as to where and what time.
Friday
The last day of the week and once again there is not much change Amazing Race moves from Sunday and it on at 8. ABC has a new comedy about a Mexican-American family living together under one roof. NBC has Constantine based on the characters appearing in the Hellblazer comic book, it will be a more faithful adaptation than the 2005 movie.
The season as a whole there are a lot of new shows about women and many of them focus on minorities. In fact one of the mid-season shows Fresh off the Boat will be an Asian American show. From the trailers that I’ve seen there will be a couple of good shows but I doubt many of the new comedies will stick around for very long.
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