The traditional first out of the box schedule from the leader in the money
demo with only three new series, with a lot being held for mid-season.
Here it is as listed by the Wrap, with new shows in all caps, all times ET:
MONDAY
8-10 p.m. — “The Voice”
10-11 p.m. — “BLUFF CITY LAW”--Jimmy Smits is back as a legal eagle in
Memphis guiding his tempestuous daughter (Caitlin McGee) through their
high-profile, ripped-from-the-headlines civil rights cases. In-house, with
former NBC chief Bob Greenblatt's ex-partner David Janollari.
TUESDAY
8-9 p.m. — “The Voice”--or maybe not, considering that on most of the weeks
of the prelims for the current spring cycle, "Ellen's Game of Games" was
airing in the time slot.
9-10 p.m. — “This Is Us”--Three-year renewal, don't frack it up, Fogelson.
10-11 p.m. — “New Amsterdam”
WEDNESDAY
8-9 p.m. — “Chicago Med”
9-10 p.m. — “Chicago Fire”
10-11 p.m. — “Chicago P.D.”
Dick Wolf Wednesday continues.
THURSDAY
8-8:30 p.m. — “Superstore”
8:30-9 p.m. — “PERFECT HARMONY”--Bradley Whitford is a music professor at
Princeton whose latest challenge is trying to make a small town church
choir sound, well there's the title. A one-camera sitcom from 20th-Century
Fox.
9-9:30 p.m. — “The Good Place”
9:30-10 p.m. — “SUNNYSIDE”--Kal Penn is a former NYC political powerhouse
down on his luck who finds possible redemption in teaching a group of
immigrants about American citizenship (Trump's gonna love this one). A
little reminiscent of the Britcom "Mind Your Language" (Americanized as
"What a Country!," starring, yes, Yakov Smirnoff), except that it probably
won't be as blatant on the stereotypes as those series were. Penn
co-created the one-camera in-house production, with Michael Schur involved.
10-11 p.m. — “Law & Order: SVU”
FRIDAY
8-9 p.m. — “The Blacklist”
9-11 p.m. — “Dateline NBC”
SATURDAY
8-10 p.m. — “Dateline Saturday Night Mystery”
10-11 p.m. – “Saturday Night Live” (encores)
With first-run "SNL" live in all time zones.
SUNDAY
7-8:20 p.m. — “Football Night in America”
8:20-11 p.m. — “NBC Sunday Night Football”
And a lot in the hamper for mid-season:
DRAMAS:
"COUNCIL OF DADS"--When a man discovers that he has a debilitating illness,
he calls upon a group of male friends, including his AA sponsor and his
doctor, to help him shoulder the burden of leading the family in the hopes
that death won't be debilitating. Based on a 2010 non-fiction book by
Bruce Feiler, Tom Everett Scott and Sarah Wayne Caillies are in the cast,
in-house with Jerry Bruckheimer (!).
'LINCOLN"--Based on the "Bone Collector" novels and films, Russell Hornsby
(who just lost a gig as "Proven Innocent" was cancelled) plays the title
disabled detective solving cases with hot NYPD officer Arielle Kebbel.
In-house with Sony and Israel's Keshet.
"ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST"--San Francisco computer coder Zoey
("Suburgatory"'s Jane Levy) can hear everyone's innermost thoughts and
desires through music, hence the title. Peter Gallagher, Mary Steenburgen
and Tony winner Carmen Cusack are also in the cast, from Lionsgate and
Universal Music Group (not affiliated with NBCU for years now), which means
only certain artists will be on Zoey's extraordinary playlist.
COMEDIES:
'INDEBTED"--The kids are grown up and Adam Pally and Abby Elliott are ready
to begin a new life. But oh oh, here comes Pally's parents as embodied by
Steven Weber and Fran Drescher to make sure wackiness is always ensuing.
Of course it's a multi-cam. From Sony.
"THE KENAN SHOW"--"SNL"'s MVP (and I think even Sikula will grudgingly
agree) Kenan Thompson stars in a one-camera family comedy that has Chris
Rock's involvement (and Lorne Michaels, although that is to be expected).
Its mid-season placement allows Thompson to continue on "SNL" (and he's
hosting the summer reality comp "Bring the Funny"). Of course it's
in-house.
"Blindspot" will also be mid-season in what has been already announced as
its last season.
In unscripted, Melissa McCarthy's replacing yo man Steve Harvey as host of
"Little Big Shots" (brought on undoubtedly by NBCU syndication dropping
Harvey's talk show for Kelly Clarkson's talk show), Nick Offerman and Amy
Poehler's artsy-craftsy reality comp "Making It" will have a condensed
holiday run and "The Wall" and "Hollywood Game Night" will be back this
summer along with the established "AGT" and "American Ninja Warrior" and
the new "Bring the Funny" and songwriter comp "Songland."
Fox is coming.
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