Brad gave you the haiku, now here's the whole schedule (base schedule C&P
from Variety, all caps new shows, all times ET):
MONDAY
8-10 P.M. — The Voice
10-11 P.M. — THE BRAVE--An Israeli import (Keshet, the same network from
which "Homeland" and "Rising Star" came from) gets Americanized as we
follow both the ops of the "DIA" led by Anne Heche and Special Ops forces
as they execute Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin's orders. It's got that
enviable "Voice" lead-in and Amy Goodman will just love this show <sarcasm>.
TUESDAY
8-9 P.M. — The Voice
9-9:30 P.M. — Superstore
9:30-10 P.M. — The Good Place
10-11 P.M. — Chicago Fire
Two struggling one-cam sitcoms being hammocked between "The Voice" and the
senior of the Dick Wolf Chicago shows--could work.
WEDNESDAY
8-9 P.M. — The Blacklist
9-10 P.M. — Law & Order: SVU
10-11 P.M. — Chicago P.D.
If NBC wanted to feature Megan Boone, I guess they could bring back the
"Women Crush Wednesdays" slogan.
THURSDAY
8-8:30 P.M. — WILL & GRACE--Eric and Debra and Sean and Megan are all back,
not to mention showrunners Max Mutchnick and David Kohan and director Jimmy
Burrows, in what is described as a an "exclusive 12-episode event." Which
means, I guess, that NBCU can still sell the series back into OTA
syndication in fall 2018 with 12 additional episodes in which everyone's
ten years older.
8:30-9 P.M. — Great News
And that's as much of a Must-See TV Thursday reboot as they're doing at
this time. I wonder if NBC will try to talk Tina Fey and Robert Carlock
into making "Great News" a multi-cam.
9-10 P.M. — This Is Us
10-11 P.M. — LAW & ORDER TRUE CRIME: THE MENENDEZ MURDERS--The attempt to
do a live trial version of the franchise was stolen by Fox, but Dick Wolf's
hardy perennial brand has its first new show in years with this eight-part
dramatization of the late 90s Beverly Hills murder case, with Edie Falco
starring, "L&O" franchise stalwart Rene Balcer writing and producing and
Prestige TV director Lesli Linka Glatter at the helm. And of course, that
theme song, that "tonk tonk" and the voice of Steven Zirnkilton in the
opening.
FRIDAY
8-9 P.M. — Blindspot
9-10 P.M. — Taken
10-11 P.M — Dateline NBC
"Blindspot" looks like it's on its last legs, "Taken"'s a cheap overseas
pickup and hey, it's "Dateline." Nothing to see here.
SATURDAY
8-10 P.M. —Dateline Saturday Night Mystery
10-11 P.M. — Saturday Night Live (encores)
The question here is whether NBC will call an audible and continue to air
"SNL" live in all time zones in the fall.
SUNDAY
7-8:20 P.M. — Football Night in America
8:20-11 P.M. — NBC Sunday Night Football
And Megyn Kelly's new magazine show after football season.
Notice that two of the three new shows are going to be 12-and-done and
eight-and-done, which means that in the winter and spring:
DRAMA:
REVERIE--College professor and former hostage negotiator Mara Kint (played
by Sarah Shai) saves people stuck in a virtual reality program where "you
can literally live your dreams" (ooh WEE ooh ooh). Dennis Haysbert is also
in it, from Spielberg's Amblin brand.
RISE--From Jason Katins ("Fatherhood," "Friday Night Lights") comes a drama
based on actual events about a teacher taking over the high school theater
department and saving the lives of the small working-class town it's in.
Sikula will be hate-watching this show. Rosie Perez and Marley Shelton's
also in it.
COMEDY:
A.P. BIO--A philosophy scholar is hired to teach advanced placement biology
in a high school (that's right, the geeks and nerds) and has no intention
of actually teaching the subject. Glenn Howerton of "Sunny/Philly" and
Patton Oswalt star, Lorne Michaels and Seth Meyers are attached to the
show, I guess it's a one-camera.
CHAMPIONS--Mindy Kalling drops on the doorstep of an unambitious gym owner
and his hot idiot brother his alleged teenaged son and hilarity ensues.
Outside of the pilot, Kaling's only writing and producing the series and I
assume it's one-camera.
ALTERNATIVE:
THE AWESOME SHOW--Chris Hardwick, who should be working as much as
Seacrest, adds to his schedule his second NBC show (after "The Wall"), a
roundup of technological and scientific advances, with Mark Burnett also
producing.
ELLEN'S GAME OF GAMES--The game segments from Ellen DeGeneres' talk show
get their own show. This is the first of two series that are not produced
by Universal Television, which tells you how much NBC is dedicated this
year to keeping things in-house.
GENIUS JUNIOR--It's Neil Patrick Harris hosting a game show with extremely
smart kids as contestants. It's from the British reality shop Shed Media.
THE HANDMADE PROJECT--Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman take a bunch of people
out into the woods to make things the way they used to (and as Offerman
does in his own shop) in this reality comp that says it will be heartwaming
and friendly (until the first contestant says in a confessional "I didn't
come here to make friends...").
Fox announces their schedule this afternoon, ABC tomorrow, CBS on Wednesday
and The CW on Thursday. In addition, there will be presentations or
parties from ESPN, UNI, Turner, Adult Swim (Drake performing) and TruTV
over the course of the week.
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