What a dull, dull season. I can see seven shows ("Revolution," "New
Normal," all the Wednesday shows, and the two shows moved to Friday)
that I think will tank or need emergency resuscitation.

More time for reading, I guess.

--Dave Sikula

On May 13, 11:31 am, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> From Dateline (new shows all caps):
>
> *MONDAY*
>
> 8-10 p.m. – “The Voice”
>
> 10-11 p.m. – “REVOLUTION” --J.J. Abrams and Jon Favreau's what-if drama, in
> this case what if we lost all modern technology and were back in the days
> before the Industrial Revoluion.
>
> "Smash" returns mid-season.
>
> *TUESDAY*
>
> 8-9 p.m. –“The Voice”
>
> 9-9:30 p.m. – “GO ON”--The Matthew Perry one-camera sitcom about a talk
> radio host forced to go into therapy and determined not to learn anything
> from it--Julie White and Laura Benanti are in the supporting cast.
>
> 9:30-10 p.m. – “THE NEW NORMAL”--Ryan Murphy's attempt at a one-camera
> half-hour, about a gay couple who become surrogate parents--Ellen Barkin
> plays the baby mama's mama.
>
> 10-11 p.m. – “Parenthood”
>
> It's the first Tuesday night fall schedule in some time without "The
> Biggest Loser," but no indication it will return mid-season yet.
>
> *WEDNESDAY*
>
> 8-8:30 p.m. – “ANIMAL PRACTICE”--One-camera sitcom (with the pilot directed
> by the Russo brothers, the Jimmy Burrows of one-camera sitcoms) about a
> House-esque vet (played by Justin Kirk of "Weeds").
>
> 8:30-9 p.m. – “GUYS WITH KIDS”--Jimmy Fallon's multi-cam sitcom about
> immature dads (one of them played by Anthony Anderson), with Jamie Lynn
> "Meadow Soprano" SIgler and Tempest "Middle Cosby Kid" Bledsoe as the
> mothers.
>
> 9-10 p.m. – “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”
>
> 10-11 p.m. – “CHICAGO FIRE”--DIck Wolf's back and tonk tonking the Chicago
> Fire Department--it'll be filmed here in Chicago, with hot firemen Taylor
> Kinney and Jesse Spencer.
>
> *THURSDAY*
>
> 8-8:30 p.m. – “30 Rock” (last season)
>
> 8:30-9 p.m. – “Up All Night”
>
> 9-9:30 p.m. – “The Office”
>
> 9:30-10 p.m. – “Parks and Recreation”
>
> 10-11 p.m. – “Rock Center with Brian Williams” (surprise!)
>
> *FRIDAY*
>
> 8-8:30 p.m. – “Whitney”
>
> 8:30-9 p.m. – “Community” (whine, fanboiz, whine!)
>
> 9-10 p.m. – “Grimm”
>
> 10-11 p.m. – “Dateline NBC”
>
> *SATURDAY*
>
> Encore programming
>
> *SUNDAY* (Fall 2012)
>
> 7- 8:15 p.m. — “Football Night in America”
>
> 8:15-11:30 p.m. — “NBC Sunday Night Football”
>
> *SUNDAY* (Post-football/Winter 2013)
>
> 7-8 p.m. – “Dateline NBC”
>
> 8-9 p.m. – “Fashion Star” (it must be the non-traditional revenue NBC's
> getting from the sales of contestants' clothes at Macy's, Saks and H&M, not
> the ratings, for the renewal)
>
> 9-10 p.m. – “The Celebrity Apprentice” (back to a sensible hour length,
> unless the below tanks)
>
> 10-11 p.m. – “DO NO HARM”--A doc (played by Steven Pasquale from "Rescue
> Me") who has an alternate personality as a sociopath, Phylicia "Mrs. Cosby"
> Rashad is also in the cast.
>
> Fuller descriptions of new series, including mid-season sitcoms from Anne
> Heche, Bill Pullman (once again as the President) and Dane Cook "Sucks and
> You Know It," and the two mid-season dramas (one of them "Hannibal"):
>
> http://www.deadline.com/2012/05/nbcs-2012-13-fall-schedule-four-night...

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