Based on Dateline, the usual about new shows and times--the convolutions are due to CBS' half of Thursday Night Football:
MONDAY 8-8:30 PM — The Big Bang Theory 8:30-9 PM — YOUNG SHELDON (N) (Special One Time Preview Sept. 25) In which we learn how Sheldon Cooper became the geek we know and love every week on CBS, up to four times a day in syndication and God knows how many times a day on TBS. Jim Parsons narrates the one-camera (!) sitcom, Iain Armitage is young Sheldon and Laurie Metcalf's daughter Zoe Perry is also in the cast (a disheartening reminder for Chicagoans like me to remember that longtime Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble members now have grown children). Jon Favreau directed the pilot and Warners still owns 100%, like they do "Big Bang"--sorry CBS. 8:30-9 PM — 9JKL (Premieres Oct. 2) Surprisingly, the only multi-cam sitcom on the fall schedule (and what Pamela Fryman of "How I Met Your Mother" directing, it may be a "hybrid" show that shoots multi-cam except for special sequences and either brings in a studio audience to view the finished product and records their response or says the hell with it and brings in the laugh track man--"HIMYM" did both in its run). It's based on star Mark Fuerstein's actual life, where after his divorce he moved into the same building as his parents and in-laws and sat back waiting for the sniping to begin. Elliott Gould and Linda Lavin play the parents, of course. 9-9:30 PM — Kevin Can Wait 9:30-10 PM — ME, MYSELF & I This one-cam sitcom bounces back and forward in time to tell the story of one man as a teenager in the 90s, a middle-aged man today and an old fart in 2042. Bobby Moynihan's the lead as today, John Larroquette's the Moynihan of the future and characters from various points within are played by Sharon Lawrence, Brian Unger and Jaleel "Urkel" White, among others. 10-11 PM — Scorpion 8-8:30 PM — Kevin Can Wait (Starting Oct. 30) 8:30-9 PM — 9JKL 9-9:30 PM — ME, MYSELF & I (Starting Oct. 30) 9:30-10 PM — Superior Donuts (Starting Oct. 30) 10 -11 PM — Scorpion TUESDAY 8-9 PM — NCIS 9 -10 PM — Bull 10 -11:00 PM — NCIS: New Orleans WEDNESDAY 8-9 PM — Survivor 9-10 PM — SEAL TEAM David Boreanz in a military procedural whose subject is right in the title. 10-11 PM — Criminal Minds THURSDAY 8-11 PM, ET/ 5:00-8:00 PM, PT — NFL Thursday Night Football (Premieres Sept. 28) 8-8:30 PM — The Big Bang Theory (Starting Nov. 2) 8:30-9 PM — YOUNG SHELDON (Starting Nov. 2) 9-9:30 PM — Mom (Starting Nov. 2) 9:30-10 PM — Life in Pieces (Starting Nov. 2) 10-11 PM — S.W.A.T. (Starting Nov. 2) It wouldn't be a CBS fall schedule without a reboot, and here's one of the 70s cop show, controversial in its time for its heavy violence, about the special LA police unit. Shemar Moore takes over from Steve Forrest as Hondo--and don't forget that theme song! FRIDAY 8-9 PM — MacGyver 9-10 PM — Hawaii Five-0 10-11 PM –Blue Bloods SATURDAY 8-9 PM — Crimetime Saturday 9-10 PM — Crimetime Saturday 10-11 PM — 48 Hours SUNDAY 7-8 PM — 60 Minutes 8-9 PM — WISDOM OF THE CROWD You bought Jeremy Piven as a douchebag Hollywood agent. You even bought him as the pioneering owner of a British department store. But will you buy him as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who develops the ultimate crime-fighting apparatus, in the second adaptation of a format from the Israeli network Keshet on the fall schedule (along with NBC's "The Brave")? Monica Potter's also in the cast. 9-10 PM — NCIS: Los Angeles 10-11 PM — Madam Secretary The mid-season shows: INSTINCT--Alan Cumming plays a former CIA op called in by the NYPD to catch a serial killer in an adaptation of a James Patterson book that isn't even out yet. Khandi Alexander, who we haven't seen in a while, is also in the cast. BY THE BOOK--Now here's a multi-cam sitcom: Based on the book by A.J. Jacobs "The Year of LIving Biblically," it's about a newspaper movie critic who, after the loss of his best friend, tries to be a better man by following the exact dictates of the Bible. You know there's going to be "begat" jokes aplenty. Jay R. Ferguson, free after "The Real O'Neals" got cancelled, plays the critic--Camryn Manheim plays his mother, I assume, Johnny Galecki of "Big Bang Theory"'s the trophy producer. Only one network to go--take it, Brad. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
